Chapter 92 — Chapter 92

ORS 92.010 Definitions for ORS 92.010 to 92.192. As used in ORS 92.010 to 92.192, unless the context requires otherwise

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ORS 92.012 Compliance with ORS 92.010 to 92.192 required. No land may be subdivided or partitioned except in accordance with ORS 92.010 to 92.192. [1973 c.696 §2; 1975 c.643 §24]

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ORS 92.014 Approval of city or county required for specified divisions of land. (1) A person may not create a street or road for the purpose of subdividing or partitioning an area or tract of land without the approval of the city or county having jurisdiction over the area or tract of land to be subdivided or partitioned

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ORS 92.016 Sale or negotiation to sell lot or parcel prior to approval of tentative plan. (1) No person shall sell any lot in any subdivision with respect to which approval is required by any ordinance or regulation adopted under ORS 92.044 and 92.048 until such approval is obtained. No person shall negotiate to sell any lot in a subdivision until a tentative plan has been approved

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ORS 92.017 Lawfully created units of land; judgments relocating property lines. (1) A lawfully created lot or parcel remains a discrete lot or parcel unless the lot or parcel lines are vacated or the lot or parcel is further divided as provided by law

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ORS 92.018 Remedy for purchase of unlawfully established unit of land; exceptions. (1) If a person buys a unit of land that is not a lawfully established unit of land, the person may bring an individual action against the seller in an appropriate court to recover damages or to obtain equitable relief. The court shall award reasonable attorney fees to the prevailing party in an action under this section

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ORS 92.020 [Repealed by 1955 c.756 §5 (92.025 enacted in lieu of 92.020 and 92.030)]

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ORS 92.025 Prohibition of sale of lot or parcel prior to recordation of plat; waiver. (1) A person may not sell a lot in a subdivision or a parcel in a partition until the plat of the subdivision or partition has been acknowledged and recorded with the recording officer of the county in which the lot or parcel is situated

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ORS 92.027 Deed reference to creation of unit of land. A person who conveys or contracts to convey fee title to a lot or parcel, or another unit of land resulting from a lien foreclosure or foreclosure of a recorded contract for the sale of real property, created or established on or after January 1, 2008, must include in the deed or other instrument conveying or contracting to convey fee title

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ORS 92.030 [Repealed by 1955 c.756 §5 (92.025 enacted in lieu of 92.020 and 92.030)]

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ORS 92.031 Middle housing land division; conditions of approval. (1) As used in this section, “middle housing land division” means a partition or subdivision of a lot or parcel on which the development of middle housing is allowed under ORS 197A.420 (2) or (3) or 197A.421

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ORS 92.040 Application for approval of subdivision or partition; tentative plan; applicability of local government laws. (1) Before a plat of any subdivision or partition subject to review under ORS 92.044 may be made and recorded, the person proposing the subdivision or partition or authorized agent or representative of the person shall make an application in writing to the county or city having jurisdiction under ORS 92.042 for approval of the proposed subdivision or partition in accordance with procedures established by the applicable ordinance or regulation adopted under ORS 92.044. Each such application shall be accompanied by a tentative plan showing the general design of the proposed subdivision or partition. No plat for any proposed subdivision or partition may be considered for approval by a city or county until the tentative plan for the proposed subdivision or partition has been approved by the city or county. Approval of the tentative plan shall not constitute final acceptance of the plat of the proposed subdivision or partition for recording. However, approval by a city or county of such tentative plan shall be binding upon the city or county for the purposes of the preparation of the subdivision or partition plat, and the city or county may require only such changes in the subdivision or partition plat as are necessary for compliance with the terms of its approval of the tentative plan for the proposed subdivision or partition

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ORS 92.042 Governing body having jurisdiction to approve plans, maps or plats. (1) Land within six miles outside of the corporate limits of a city is under the jurisdiction of the city for the purpose of giving approval of plans, maps and plats of subdivisions and partitions under ORS 92.040 and 227.110. However, unless otherwise provided in an urban growth area management agreement jointly adopted by a city and county to establish procedures for regulating land use outside the city limits and within an urban growth boundary acknowledged under ORS 197.251, when the governing body of a county has adopted ordinances or regulations for subdivision and partition control as required by ORS 92.044, land in the county within the six-mile limit shall be under the jurisdiction of the county for those purposes

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ORS 92.044 Adoption of standards and procedures governing approval of plats and plans; delegation; fees. (1)(a) The governing body of a county or a city shall, by regulation or ordinance, adopt standards and procedures, in addition to those otherwise provided by law, governing, in the area over which the county or the city has jurisdiction under ORS 92.042, the submission and approval of tentative plans and plats of subdivisions and tentative plans and plats of partitions

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ORS 92.046 Adoption of regulations governing approval of partitioning of land; delegation; fees. (1) The governing body of a county or a city may, as provided in ORS 92.048, when reasonably necessary to accomplish the orderly development of the land within the jurisdiction of such county or city under ORS 92.042 and to promote the public health, safety and general welfare of the county or city, adopt regulations or ordinances governing approval, by the county or city of proposed partitions. Such regulations or ordinances shall be applicable throughout the area over which the county or city has jurisdiction under ORS 92.042, or over any portion thereof. Such ordinances or regulations may specify the classifications of such partitions which require approval under this section and may establish standards and procedures governing the approval of tentative plans for such partitions. The standards may include all, or less than all, of the same requirements as are provided or authorized for subdivisions under ORS 92.010 to 92.192 and may provide for different standards and procedures for different classifications of such partitions so long as the standards are no more stringent than are imposed by the city or county in connection with subdivisions

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ORS 92.048 Procedure for adoption of regulations under ORS 92.044 and 92.046. The procedure for adoption of any ordinance or regulation under ORS 92.044 and 92.046 is as follows

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ORS 92.050 Requirements of survey and plat of subdivision and partition. (1) A person shall not submit a plat of a subdivision or partition for record, until all the requirements of ORS 209.250 and the plat requirements of the subdivision or partition have been met

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ORS 92.055 Requirements for unsurveyed and unmonumented parcels on plats. (1) A parcel larger than 10 acres that is created outside an urban growth boundary is not required to be surveyed and monumented and shall comply with the following

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ORS 92.060 Marking subdivision, partition or condominium plats with monuments; types of monuments; property line adjustment. (1) The initial point, also known as the point of beginning, of a plat must be on the exterior boundary of the plat and must be marked with a monument that is either galvanized iron pipe or an iron or steel rod. If galvanized iron pipe is used, the pipe may not be less than three-quarter inch inside diameter and 30 inches long. If an iron or steel rod is used, the rod may not be less than five-eighths of an inch in least dimension and 30 inches long. The location of the monument shall be with reference by survey to a section corner, one-quarter corner, one-sixteenth corner, Donation Land Claim corner or to a monumented lot corner or boundary corner of a recorded subdivision, partition or condominium plat. When setting a required monument is impracticable under the circumstances, the county surveyor may authorize the setting of another type of monument

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ORS 92.065 Monumenting certain subdivision corners after recording plat; bond, cash deposit or other security. (1) Except for exterior monuments described in ORS 92.060 (5), if the remaining corners of a subdivision are to be monumented on or before a specified date after the recording of the plat of the subdivision, the person subdividing the land described in the subdivision plat shall furnish to the county surveyor, prior to approval of the subdivision plat by the county surveyor, a bond, cash deposit, irrevocable letter of credit issued by an insured institution as defined in ORS 706.008 or other security, as required at the option of the city or county, in an amount equal to 120 percent of the estimated cost of performing the work for the remaining monumentation

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ORS 92.070 Surveyor’s certificates; procedure for recording monumented corners on plat previously recorded; reestablishing certain monuments. (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, a subdivision or partition plat designating the location of land in a county in the State of Oregon, offered for record, must include on the face of the plat a surveyor’s certificate, together with the seal and signature of the surveyor having surveyed the land represented on the plat, to the effect that the surveyor has correctly surveyed and marked with proper monuments the lands as represented and has placed a proper monument as provided in ORS 92.060 indicating the initial point of the plat and its location in accordance with ORS 92.060 (1) and accurately describing by metes or bounds, or other description as approved by the county surveyor, the tract of land upon which the lots and blocks or parcels are laid out

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ORS 92.075 Declaration required to subdivide or partition property; contents. (1) In order to subdivide or partition any property, the declarant shall include on the face of the subdivision or partition plat, if a partition plat is required, a declaration, taken before a notary public or other person authorized by law to administer oaths, stating that the declarant has caused the subdivision or partition plat to be prepared and the property subdivided or partitioned in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. Any dedication of land to public purposes or any public or private easements created, or any other restriction made, shall be stated in the declaration

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ORS 92.080 Preparation of plat. Notwithstanding ORS 205.232 and 205.234, all plats subdividing or partitioning land in a county in this state, dedications of streets or roads or public parks and squares and other writings made a part of the subdivision or partition plats offered for record in a county in this state must be made on material that is 18 inches by 24 inches in size with an additional three-inch binding edge on the left side when required by the county clerk or the county surveyor, that is suitable for binding and copying purposes, and that has the characteristics of strength and permanency required by the county clerk and county surveyor. All signatures on the original subdivision or partition plat must be in archival quality black ink. The subdivision or partition plat must be of a scale required by the county surveyor. The lettering of the approvals, the declaration, the surveyor’s certificate and all other information must be of a size or type to be clearly legible, but the information may not come nearer an edge of the sheet than one inch. The subdivision or partition plat may be placed on as many sheets as necessary, but a face sheet and an index page must be included for subdivision or partition plats placed upon three or more sheets. [Amended by 1955 c.756 §12; 1973 c.696 §15; 1985 c.582 §1; 1989 c.772 §12; 1991 c.763 §14; 1993 c.321 §6; 1993 c.702 §5; 1997 c.489 §5; 1999 c.710 §3; 2005 c.399 §10]

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ORS 92.090 Approval of subdivision plat names; requisites for approval of tentative subdivision or partition plan or plat. (1) Subdivision plat names shall be subject to the approval of the county surveyor or, in the case where there is no county surveyor, the county assessor. No tentative subdivision plan or subdivision plat of a subdivision shall be approved which bears a name similar to or pronounced the same as the name of any other subdivision in the same county, unless the land platted is contiguous to and platted by the same party that platted the subdivision bearing that name or unless the party files and records the consent of the party that platted the contiguous subdivision bearing that name. All subdivision plats must continue the lot numbers and, if used, the block numbers of the subdivision plat of the same name last filed. On or after January 1, 1992, any subdivision submitted for final approval shall not use block numbers or letters unless such subdivision is a continued phase of a previously recorded subdivision, bearing the same name, that has previously used block numbers or letters

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ORS 92.095 Payment of taxes, interest or penalties before subdivision or partition plat recorded. (1) A subdivision or partition plat may not be recorded unless all ad valorem taxes have been paid, including additional taxes, interest and penalties imposed on land disqualified for any special assessment and all special assessments, fees or other charges required by law to be placed upon the tax roll that have become a lien upon the land or that will become a lien during the tax year

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ORS 92.097 Employment of registered engineer by private developer; government standards and fees. (1) A city, county or special district may not prohibit the employment by a developer of a registered engineer to design or supervise the installation of the improvements of streets, water and sewer lines or other public improvements that are to be installed in conjunction with the development of land using private funds

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ORS 92.100 Approval of plat by city or county surveyor; procedures; approval by county assessor and county governing body; fees. (1)(a) Except as provided in subsection (4) of this section, before a subdivision or partition plat that covers land within the corporate limits of a city may be recorded, the county surveyor must approve the plat

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ORS 92.102 [1997 c.586 §11; repealed by 2003 c.454 §81 and 2003 c.621 §49]

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ORS 92.103 Notice to district of tentative plan. (1) Prior to approving a tentative plan for a proposed plat of a proposed subdivision or partition that is subject to review under ORS 92.044, and that is located in whole or in part within the boundaries, an easement or a right of way of an irrigation district, drainage district, water control district or water improvement district, a city or a county shall submit notice of the tentative plan to the district

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ORS 92.104 District to report boundary locations. (1) For the purposes of providing cities and counties with the necessary information to fulfill the requirements of ORS 92.103, each irrigation district, drainage district, water control district and water improvement district shall submit a report detailing the locations of the district boundaries, district facilities and any easements and rights of way held by the district to each city and county in which any part of the district is located

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ORS 92.105 Time limit for final action by city or county on tentative plan. The governing body of a city or county or its designate is subject to the provisions of ORS 215.427 or 227.178 in taking final action on an application for approval of a tentative plan for a subdivision or partition located within an acknowledged urban growth boundary. [1981 c.884 §2; 1983 c.827 §51; 1989 c.772 §16]

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ORS 92.110 [Amended by 1955 c.756 §15; 1973 c.351 §1; 1989 c.772 §25; repealed by 1993 c.702 §10]

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ORS 92.120 Recording plats; filing copies; preservation of records. (1) The plat of a subdivision described in ORS 92.050, when made and approved as required and offered for record in the records of the county where the described land is situated, must be recorded by the county recording officer upon the payment of the fees provided by law. The fact of recording and the date of recording must be entered on the plat and the plat must be indexed in the deed records by owner name and subdivision

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ORS 92.122 [1987 c.649 §13; 1989 c.772 §18; 1991 c.763 §30; repealed by 1995 c.382 §11]

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ORS 92.130 Additional tracings transferred to county surveyor; replacing lost or destroyed records. Any additional tracings of subdivision or partition plats as mentioned in ORS 92.120 other than the one copy filed with the county surveyor shall be transferred to the county surveyor who then shall keep them well bound and safeguarded as required by law. If the original subdivision or partition plat or copy thereof is lost, destroyed, mutilated or missing from the county records, the county surveyor shall make a copy thereof, and file it in the proper office of record. Each such copy made by the county surveyor pursuant to this section shall bear a certificate of the surveyor that it was made in compliance with this section, and that it is a true copy of the original record. [Amended by 1955 c.756 §17; 1989 c.772 §19]

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ORS 92.140 Indexing of plats. (1) All subdivision and partition plats shall be indexed in the recording indices of the county. The declarations to such plats shall also be indexed in the indices of Records of Deeds for the county. When the subdivision and partition plats are so recorded and indexed, they shall be the legal record of all subdivision and partition plats

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ORS 92.150 Construction of donations marked on plat. Every donation or grant to the public, including streets and alleys, or to any individual, religious society, corporation or body politic, marked or noted as such on the subdivision or partition plat wherein the donation or grant was made, shall be considered a general warranty to the donee or grantee for the use of the donee or grantee for the purposes intended by the donor or grantor. [Amended by 1955 c.756 §19; 1989 c.772 §21]

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ORS 92.160 Notice to Real Estate Commissioner of receipt of subdivision plat. If the comprehensive plan and land use regulations of a city or county have not been acknowledged under ORS 197.251, the city engineer, city surveyor or county surveyor shall immediately notify the Real Estate Commissioner in writing of receipt for approval of any subdivision plat pursuant to ORS 92.100 (1). The notification shall include a general description of the land with the number of lots and total acreage covered by the subdivision plat and the names of the persons submitting the subdivision plat for approval. [1965 c.584 §2; 1983 c.570 §6a; 1989 c.772 §22]

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ORS 92.170 Amending recorded plat; affidavit of correction; fees. (1) Any plat of a subdivision or partition filed and recorded under the provisions of ORS 92.010 to 92.192 may be amended by an affidavit of correction

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ORS 92.175 Methods by which certain land may be provided for public purposes. (1) Land for property dedicated for public purposes may be provided to the city or county having jurisdiction over the land by any of the following methods

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ORS 92.176 Validation of unit of land not lawfully established. (1) A county or city may approve an application to validate a unit of land that was created by a sale that did not comply with the applicable criteria for creation of a unit of land if the unit of land

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ORS 92.177 Creation of parcel by less than all owners of lawfully established unit of land. When a unit of land was sold before January 1, 2007, but was not a lawfully established unit of land, the governing body of the city or county or its designee shall consider and may approve an application for the creation of a parcel pursuant to ORS 92.176, notwithstanding that less than all of the owners of the existing lawfully established unit of land have applied for the approval. [1993 c.436 §2; 1995 c.595 §14; 2007 c.866 §6]

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ORS 92.178 Creation of parcel previously approved but not acted upon. (1) The governing body of a county may approve an application requesting formation of one parcel if the county issued a land use decision approving the parcel prior to January 1, 1994, and

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ORS 92.179 Liability for costs of relocating utility facilities. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person who subdivides or partitions real property shall be liable for the reasonable and necessary costs of continuing utility service to structures on the property being subdivided or partitioned if the subdividing or partitioning causes utility lines to be moved or service to be interrupted, unless the person subdividing or partitioning the real property grants an easement to the utility service provider to accommodate continuing utility service to the structures. [1997 c.523 §2]

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ORS 92.180 Authority to review replats. (1) Each agency or body authorized to approve subdivision or partition plats under ORS 92.040 shall have the same review and approval authority over any proposed replat of a recorded plat

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ORS 92.185 Reconfiguration of lots or parcels and public easements; vacation; notice; utility easements. The act of replatting shall allow the reconfiguration of lots or parcels and public easements within a recorded plat. Except as provided in subsection (5) of this section, upon approval by the reviewing agency or body as defined in ORS 92.180, replats will act to vacate the platted lots or parcels and easements within the replat area with the following conditions

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ORS 92.190 Effect of replat; operation of other statutes; use of alternate procedures. (1) The replat of a portion of a recorded plat shall not act to vacate any recorded covenants or restrictions

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ORS 92.192 Property line adjustment; zoning ordinances; size of unit of land. (1) As used in this section

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ORS 92.205 Policy. (1) The Legislative Assembly finds that many subdivisions for which plats have been approved and recorded have not been developed and that many such subdivisions were approved prior to the adoption of a comprehensive plan, zoning regulations and ordinances and modern subdivision control standards by the jurisdiction within which the lands described in the subdivision plats are situated

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ORS 92.210 [1963 c.624 §3; 1965 c.584 §3; repealed by 1973 c.421 §52]

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