Title 44, Forestry and Forest Products

To provide the people of the State of Oregon with renewable commercial forest resources that promote community stability and sound conservation practices, the Legislative Assembly finds that it is necessary and desirable to authorize the creation of community forest authorities h…

The governing body of a municipality may create a community forest authority under ORS 530.606. An authority may issue obligations on behalf of the municipality creating the authority to finance community forestlands. An authority may not be created or maintained for a purpose ot…

(1) Upon the written request of three individuals or upon its own motion, the governing body of a municipality may create a community forest authority for the purpose of financing community forestlands. (2) The governing body of a municipality may create a community forest author…

(1) The governing body of a municipality that creates a community forest authority under ORS 530.606 shall appoint a board of directors containing not fewer than five nor more than 11 directors to manage and control the authority. At least one-third of the directors must represen…

A community forest authority created under ORS 530.606 does not have the power or authority to levy taxes. [2005 c.500 §6] Note: See note under 530.600.

Except as otherwise provided in ORS 530.610, a community forest authority shall have the power necessary to accomplish the purpose of financing community forestlands under ORS 530.600 to 530.628, including the power to: (1) Sue and be sued in its own name. (2) Enter into agreemen…

(1) To accomplish its purposes, a community forest authority created under ORS 530.606 may issue revenue bonds or other revenue obligations payable from the revenues derived from the repayment of loans to nonprofit corporations whose purpose is to own and operate community forest…

A community forest authority created under ORS 530.606 may borrow from banks, investment banks or other lenders sums of money on terms that the board deems necessary or advisable. An authority may also issue, sell and assume bond anticipation notes or the equivalent that bear a d…

Revenue bonds and other revenue obligations of a community forest authority created under ORS 530.606 are not a general obligation of the municipality nor a charge upon the tax revenues of the municipality. [2005 c.500 §10] Note: See note under 530.600.

The board of directors of a community forest authority created under ORS 530.606 shall establish loan repayment terms and other charges at least adequate to pay the principal of and interest on the obligations of the authority as the same become due, including payments to a speci…

(1) The powers and responsibilities provided in ORS 530.600 to 530.628 may be exercised and discharged by two or more community forest authorities acting jointly to effectuate the purposes of ORS 530.600 to 530.628. In addition, one or more community forest authorities may author…

(1) A community forest authority created under ORS 530.606 is deemed a municipal corporation performing a public function. An authority, all assets owned by the authority, the income earned by those assets and the interest earned by revenue bonds or other revenue obligations issu…

The earnings of a community forest authority created under ORS 530.606 in excess of the amount required for the retirement of indebtedness or the accomplishment of the purposes of ORS 530.600 to 530.628 shall not inure to the benefit of a person or body other than the municipalit…

(1) ORS 530.600 to 530.628 contain complete authority for the organization of a community forest authority and for the issuance and sale of revenue bonds, including refunding revenue bonds, and other revenue obligations. (2) ORS chapters 198, 279A, 279B and 294 do not apply to th…

(1) Except for violations arising from activities under contract with the State Board of Forestry or the State Forestry Department, and subject to ORS 153.022, violation of any rule or order adopted pursuant to ORS 530.050 is a Class A violation. (2) Multiple violations of any ru…

For purposes of ORS 532.010 to 532.140, unless the context or subject matter otherwise requires: (1) “Booming equipment” includes boom sticks. (2) “Brand” means an identifying mark upon forest products or booming equipment, as provided by rule and regulation of the State Forester…

(1) Except as provided in ORS 532.030, every person who puts into any of the waters of this state, ships on any motor vehicle or railroad any forest products, or uses any booming equipment as a part of an operation in securing, rafting or floating forest products, shall have a ma…

In view of the different conditions obtaining in the logging industry of this state between the parts of the state lying respectively east and west of the crest of the Cascade Mountains, forest products may be put into the waters of this state or shipped on railroads or motor veh…

All forest products and booming equipment having impressed thereupon a registered brand as provided in ORS 532.010 to 532.140 are presumed to belong to the person appearing on the records in the office of the State Forester as the owner of the brand. However, all forest products …

(1) Every person selecting a brand, before using it, shall make application for its registration in the office of the State Forester by depositing therein an impression stamped on a designated form, together with, in duplicate, a written statement duly signed and verified by the …

Every person desiring to use a catch brand as an identifying mark upon forest products or booming equipment purchased or lawfully acquired by the person from another shall, before using it, make application for its registration in the office of the State Forester in the manner pr…

A copy of brand registration certified by the State Forester or the deputy of the State Forester as a true copy and in good standing shall be received in all the courts of this state as evidence of the due and proper registration of the mark or brand and of its ownership.

Every mark or brand registered under ORS 532.010 to 532.140 shall be assignable in law. The State Forester, upon payment of the fee mentioned in ORS 532.110 and presentation to the State Forester, in duplicate, of an assignment, duly executed and acknowledged by the owner, transf…

The State Forester, upon the petition of the owner of a registered mark or brand, may cause the registration thereof to be canceled, and in the event of such cancellation, the mark or brand shall be open to registration by any person subsequently applying therefor.

(1) The State Forester shall, each five-year period after October 1, 1951, notify the owners of all log marks or brands then of record in Oregon to renew them. Upon receipt of the fee provided for in ORS 532.110, the State Forester shall give a renewal certificate, which shall gi…

The fees to be paid to the State Forester are as follows: (1) For filing an application to register a mark or brand and registering the same, including the certificate, $20. (2) For filing an application for an assignment of a registered mark or brand and registering such assignm…

All fees collected by the State Forester under ORS 532.010 to 532.140 shall be paid into the State Treasury, credited to the State Forestry Department Account and available for expenses associated with ORS 532.010 to 532.140. [Amended by 1957 c.459 §5; 1961 c.253 §3; 1967 c.34 §6…

(1) No person, unless permitted to do so under ORS 532.030, shall: (a) Put into any of the waters of this state or ship on any railroad or motor vehicle any forest products, or use any booming equipment as a part of the operation of the person in securing, rafting or floating for…

No person, with an intent to injure or defraud the owner, shall: (1) Falsely make, forge or counterfeit a mark or brand registered as provided in ORS 532.010 to 532.140 and use it in marking or branding forest products or booming equipment. (2) Cut out, destroy, alter, deface or …

(1) Violation of any of the provisions of ORS 532.130 is a Class B misdemeanor. (2) Violation of any of the provisions of ORS 532.140 is a Class C felony. [Subsection (3) enacted as 1957 c.668 §22; 1983 c.89 §16; 1987 c.320 §238; 1993 c.47 §3; 2011 c.597 §224] CHAPTERS 533 TO 535…