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2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 565 - Fairs and Exhibits › Section 565.480 - Director powers and duties.

(1) The state fair director employed by the State Fair Council under ORS 565.470 shall be entrusted with the day-to-day carrying out of fairground business operations and the operation of fairground properties and facilities.
(2) The state fair director may contract for law enforcement or security services for fairground properties and facilities, including but not limited to law enforcement and security services during the Oregon State Fair.
(3) In addition to any other duties, functions or powers, the state fair director may:
(a) Establish charges and fees, including but not limited to charges and fees for admission to, and lease or rental of, fairground properties and facilities;
(b) Conduct or authorize events, exhibitions and all manner of business at fairground properties and facilities consistent with the mission and purposes of the State Fair Council; and
(c) Do all other things the director considers proper in the conducting of the annual Oregon State Fair or the operation of fairground properties and facilities as an exposition center.
(4) The state fair director may delegate any duty, function or power of the director to a subordinate employee except the duties, functions and powers of the director under ORS 565.539. [2013 c.492 §6]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 565 - Fairs and Exhibits › Section 565.515 - Businesses that may be licensed; when other license may be required.

The state fair director may authorize the conducting of any lawful business at fairground properties and facilities. A business operating on fairground properties or facilities under authorization from the state fair director is not required to obtain a local business license for the operation. However, nothing in this section shall interfere with the laws of this state requiring a license for the operation of a restaurant or requiring a license to be obtained from the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission for the sale or distribution of alcoholic liquors. [Formerly 565.130; 2021 c.351 §285]
Note:
565.515 was made a part of ORS chapter 565 by legislative action but was not added to any smaller series therein. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 565 - Fairs and Exhibits › Section 565.539 - Council finances.

(1) Moneys received by the State Fair Council must be promptly deposited in accordance with ORS 295.001 to 295.108 into an account established by the council.
(2) The council may invest any moneys the council receives. Except as provided in subsection (3) of this section, investments that the council makes are:
(a) Limited to investments described in ORS 294.035;
(b) Subject to the investment maturity date limitations described in ORS 294.135; and
(c) Subject to the conduct prohibitions listed in ORS 294.145.
(3) In addition to or in lieu of investments described in subsection (2) of this section, the council may invest in the investment pool described in ORS 294.805. For purposes of ORS 294.805 to 294.895, the state fair director is a local government official.
(4) Except as provided in this subsection, the state fair director shall provide to each meeting of the council a financial report that includes, but need not be limited to, a summary of account and investment activity, and copies of any account or investment statements received from a bank, investment firm or other source since the previous report was provided. The council may waive the financial report requirement if the council is meeting less than 30 days after a meeting to which the state fair director provided a financial report. [2013 c.492 §9; 2019 c.587 §47]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 565 - Fairs and Exhibits › Section 565.545 - Profit and loss reports; triggering of appraisal.

(1) If the conducting of the Oregon State Fair, the carrying out of fairground business operations and the operation, maintenance or repair of fairground properties and facilities by the State Fair Council results in a net profit for the fiscal year, the council shall use any moneys in excess of scheduled expenditures and reasonable reserves only for deposit into depository or investment accounts designated for fairground business operations or for other purposes authorized under ORS 565.451 to 565.575.
(2) The council shall include information regarding the fiscal year net profit or loss from the conducting of the Oregon State Fair, the carrying out of fairground business operations and the operation of fairground properties and facilities in the annual report made under ORS 565.555. The report shall include the amounts for each use made of any net profit moneys.
(3) If the total balance of depository or investment accounts described in subsection (1) of this section exceeds $50 million, the council shall notify the Oregon Department of Administrative Services. Upon receiving notice from the council under this subsection, the department shall cause an appraisal to be made of the sale and long-term lease values of fairground properties and facilities owned by the department. The department shall also determine the payment schedule and outstanding amount of any obligations that have been incurred by state agencies for the purpose of paying for the construction, repair or remodeling of fairground properties and facilities owned by the department, including but not limited to any amounts owing in payment of revenue bonds or lottery bonds issued for the construction, repair or remodeling of the properties and facilities. The department shall provide the appraisal and obligation information to the council. The council shall include information regarding the balance of the depository and investment accounts described in subsection (1) of this section and the properties and facilities appraisal obligation information provided by the department in the annual report submitted by the council under ORS 565.555. [2013 c.492 §10; 2016 c.118 §7; 2017 c.485 §3]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 565 - Fairs and Exhibits › Section 565.555 - Budget; audits; activities reporting.

(1) The State Fair Council shall adopt a budget on a biennial basis using classifications of expenditures and revenues required by generally accepted accounting principles applicable to governmental entities. The budget is not subject to review and approval by the Legislative Assembly or to modification by the Legislative Assembly or the Emergency Board. The budget is not subject to any expenditure limit or to an allotment process. All moneys received or collected by the council are available for use as provided under this chapter at the discretion of the council.
(2) Prior to adopting or modifying a biennial budget, the council shall make the proposed budget, the adopted budget for the biennium then in progress and a financial report for the completed months of the biennium then in progress available for public review on a website maintained by the council for Oregon State Fair purposes. The council shall hold at least one regularly scheduled public meeting at which the public may comment on the proposed budget or modification. The council shall adopt a budget or budget modification at a regularly scheduled public meeting that is subsequent to the meeting at which the council allows public comment on the proposed budget or modification.
(3) The council shall submit to periodic audits by the Secretary of State. The council may retain a public accounting firm to annually examine and attest to the financial operations of the council. The council shall include the results of any public accounting in the annual report submitted to the Legislative Assembly under subsection (4) of this section.
(4) The council shall file an annual report with the Governor, a committee or interim committee of the Legislative Assembly dealing with economic development, the Legislative Fiscal Office and the Oregon Department of Administrative Services regarding the activities of the council, including but not limited to the conducting of the Oregon State Fair, the carrying out of fairground business operations and the operation of fairground properties and facilities as an exposition center and the resulting revenues and expenses. [2013 c.492 §11]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 565 - Fairs and Exhibits › Section 565.565 - Unauthorized entry to fairgrounds; penalty.

A person who gains or attempts to gain unauthorized entry to the Oregon State Fair or to an event held at fairground properties or facilities without paying a required admission fee commits a Class D violation. In addition to any enforcement officers specifically identified in ORS 153.005, the state fair director and other employees of the State Fair Council may issue citations for violations of this section. [2013 c.492 §12]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 565 - Fairs and Exhibits › Section 565.575 - Oregon State Fair location; use of fairground buildings and facilities.

(1) The Oregon State Fair shall be conducted on the state property, located in the City of Salem, historically devoted to Oregon State Fair purposes. The fairground properties and facilities described in this section must be dedicated for the conducting of the Oregon State Fair and for the operation of the properties and facilities by the State Fair Council as an exposition center.
(2) The Oregon Department of Administrative Services may obtain or receive, by donation, exchange or purchase, properties and improvements adjacent to the fairground properties and facilities that the department, after consultation with the council, considers beneficial for the conducting of the Oregon State Fair and the use of the properties and facilities and, subject to the terms of any agreement described in ORS 565.495, may conduct or approve the construction, repair or remodeling of improvements, properties and facilities as the department considers necessary or expedient for the conducting of the Oregon State Fair, the operation of fairground properties and facilities as an exposition center or other council activities. [2013 c.492 §13; 2017 c.485 §4]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 565 - Fairs and Exhibits › Section 565.580 - Armory on state fairgrounds.

(1) Notwithstanding ORS 565.495, the State Fair Council and the General Staff of the Oregon National Guard may enter into a mutual agreement for the use, by the council and the General Staff, of an armory building and appurtenant grounds at a location on fairground property and for the General Staff to exercise control over the armory and grounds for the period that such armory and grounds are used for military purposes. When such armory and grounds are no longer used for military purposes, the control over them shall revert to the council.
(2) For purposes of this section, "control" does not include the power to sell, lease, mortgage or in any other way encumber an armory or grounds described under subsection (1) of this section. [Formerly 565.150]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 565 - Fairs and Exhibits › Section 565.610 - Conducting business on or near grounds of fair or society.

(1) A person may not set up any shop, booth, wagon or other vehicle for the sale of spirituous or other liquors, cigars, provisions or other articles of traffic, or sell or otherwise dispose of any liquors, cigars, goods, wares, merchandise, meals, lunch or any article of traffic whatever on any grounds owned or occupied by a county fair board or any county or district society formed for the promotion and encouragement of agriculture, stock growing or horticulture, or within one-half mile of such grounds, without having paid the county fair board or such society the license for the privilege, or obtained the written consent of the county fair board or of the president and secretary of such society.
(2) Nothing in this section shall restrain any person except during fairs or exhibitions or other public events or meetings on the grounds of any county fair board or of such societies, and for two days prior and two days subsequent thereto. This section does not extend to any person regularly and continuously carrying on business within one-half mile of the premises mentioned. [Amended by 1953 c.675 §12; 1969 c.239 §5; 1973 c.537 §8; 1977 c.55 §28; 2005 c.22 §385; 2005 c.777 §42; 2013 c.492 §16]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 565 - Fairs and Exhibits › Section 565.620 - Admission to grounds of fair or society except through special gates prohibited.

A person may not gain admission, or attempt to gain admission, to the grounds owned or occupied by a county fair board or any society mentioned in ORS 565.610 during their annual fairs, exhibitions, public events or meetings except through the special gates kept by the county fair board or society for that purpose. [Amended by 1953 c.675 §12; 1969 c.239 §6; 1973 c.537 §9; 2005 c.777 §43; 2013 c.492 §17]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 565 - Fairs and Exhibits › Section 565.630 - Regulation of public events; penalty.

Any county fair board and every society mentioned in ORS 565.610 may regulate its prices of admission, licenses and all matters pertaining to the conduct of its annual fairs, exhibitions or other public events or meetings. The penalty for violation of its rules and regulations is a Class D violation. [Amended by 1953 c.675 §12; 1969 c.239 §7; 1973 c.537 §10; 2005 c.777 §44; 2011 c.597 §90a; 2013 c.492 §18]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 565 - Fairs and Exhibits › Section 565.640 - Peace officers; authority; power of arrest.

The peace officers of a county fair board or of a society mentioned in ORS 565.610, during the continuance of each annual fair or other public event or meeting, and for three days prior and two days subsequent thereto, on the grounds owned or occupied by the county fair board or society for fairs, exhibitions or other public events or meetings, shall have all the authority of a deputy sheriff and may make arrests for violations of the provisions of ORS 565.610 to 565.650 or other laws of this state, or the rules or regulations of the fair board or society. [Amended by 1953 c.675 §12; 1969 c.239 §8; 1973 c.537 §11; 2005 c.777 §45; 2013 c.492 §19]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 565 - Fairs and Exhibits › Section 565.875 - Conducting of or participation in rodeos.

(1) A person may conduct or participate in rodeos in this state. State law may not be applied in a manner that affords the conducting of or participation in rodeos less favorable treatment than for other organized exhibitions or events. A local ordinance or state agency rule may not prohibit the conducting of or participation in rodeos in this state. This subsection does not prohibit the application of any law, ordinance or rule regulating the time, manner or place for conducting a rodeo in the same manner that the law, ordinance or rule is applied for other events.
(2) A rodeo promoter may establish fees, rules, policies and procedures for events of the rodeo, including but not limited to rules, policies and procedures regarding participant qualifications. [2013 c.616 §1]
Note:
565.875 was enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but was not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 565 or any series therein by legislative action. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 566 - Extension and Field Work; Rural Rehabilitation › Section 566.210 - Agricultural institutes; rules.

(1) Oregon State University may hold institutes for the instruction of citizens of this state in the various branches of agriculture at such times and at such places as the governing board of the university may direct. The governing board shall adopt standards as it deems proper for organizing and conducting the institutes, and shall employ an agent or agents to perform such work in connection therewith as it deems best.
(2) The course of instruction at the institutes shall be so arranged as to present to those in attendance results of the most recent investigations in theoretical and practical agriculture. [Amended by 2015 c.767 §182]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 566 - Extension and Field Work; Rural Rehabilitation › Section 566.220 - Extension and field work by Oregon State University.

Oregon State University may engage in, conduct and encourage educational extension, demonstration and field work in all or any of the several counties of the state, the same to include agriculture, horticulture, dairying, domestic science and other industries. It shall be conducted by means of instruction in the established schools of the state and by itinerant schools, farmers’ institutes, local clubs, demonstration trains, exhibits at state, county and other fairs and expositions, and otherwise in such manner as may from time to time be deemed expedient by the university.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 566 - Extension and Field Work; Rural Rehabilitation › Section 566.235 - Master Gardening Program.

The Oregon State University Extension Service shall enhance its education program for urban and suburban landowners through the Master Gardening Program. The purpose of the program is to teach urban and suburban landowners proper conservation measures as those measures relate to homes, gardens and general urban and suburban nonpoint pollution problems. [1997 c.471 §1]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 566 - Extension and Field Work; Rural Rehabilitation › Section 566.310 - Definition for ORS 566.310 to 566.360.

As used in ORS 566.310 to 566.360, "secretary" means the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States. [Formerly 414.040 and then 414.810; 1995 c.152 §1; 2003 c.253 §25]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 566 - Extension and Field Work; Rural Rehabilitation › Section 566.320 - Application to federal government for return of trust assets of dissolved Oregon Rural Rehabilitation Corporation.

The Department of State Lands hereby is designated as the state agency of the State of Oregon to make application to and receive from the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States, or any other proper federal official, pursuant and subject to the provisions of Public Law 499, 81st Congress, approved May 3, 1950, the trust assets, either funds or property, held by the United States as trustee in behalf of the Oregon Rural Rehabilitation Corporation. [Formerly 414.050 and then 414.820]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 566 - Extension and Field Work; Rural Rehabilitation › Section 566.330 - Authority to enter into agreements with Secretary of Agriculture to administer trust assets.

The Department of State Lands is authorized to enter into agreements with the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States pursuant to section 2(f), Public Law 499, 81st Congress, upon such terms and conditions and for such periods of time as may be mutually agreeable, authorizing the secretary to accept, administer, expend and use in the State of Oregon all or any part of such trust assets for carrying out the purposes of Titles I and II of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, in accordance with the applicable provisions of Title IV thereof, as now or hereafter amended, and to do all things necessary to effectuate and carry out the purposes of such agreements. [Formerly 414.060 and then 414.830; 1995 c.152 §2]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 566 - Extension and Field Work; Rural Rehabilitation › Section 566.340 - Administration of trust assets.

Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the funds and proceeds of the trust assets that are not authorized to be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States under the provisions of ORS 566.330 shall be received by the Department of State Lands and by it deposited in the State Treasury in an account, separate and distinct from the General Fund. Interest earned by the account shall be credited to the account. Moneys in the account are continuously appropriated to the Housing and Community Services Department and may be expended or obligated by the Housing and Community Services Department for the purposes of ORS 566.330 or for agriculture workforce housing permissible under the charter of the now dissolved Oregon Rural Rehabilitation Corporation. [Formerly 414.070 and then 414.840; 1989 c.966 §63; 1995 c.152 §3; 2003 c.253 §26; 2005 c.755 §47; 2013 c.750 §30]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 566 - Extension and Field Work; Rural Rehabilitation › Section 566.350 - General authority of Housing and Community Services Department in administering law; delegation of authority to Secretary of Agriculture.

(1) The Housing and Community Services Department may:
(a) Collect, compromise, adjust or cancel claims and obligations arising out of or administered under ORS 566.310 to 566.360 or under any mortgage, lease, contract or agreement entered into or administered pursuant to ORS 566.310 to 566.360, and, to the extent the department considers necessary and advisable, pursue the same to final collection in any court having jurisdiction.
(b) At any execution, foreclosure or other sale, bid for the purchase of, or otherwise acquire, property upon which the department has a lien by reason of a judgment or execution or property that is pledged, mortgaged or conveyed or that otherwise secures any loan or other indebtedness owing to or acquired by the department under ORS 566.310 to 566.360.
(c) Accept title to any property purchased or acquired under this subsection and:
(A) Operate or lease such property for the period the department deems necessary to protect the investment in the property; and
(B) Sell or otherwise dispose of such property in a manner consistent with the provisions of ORS 566.310 to 566.360.
(2) The authority granted in this section may be delegated to the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States with respect to funds or assets authorized to be administered and used by the secretary under agreements entered into pursuant to ORS 566.330. [Formerly 414.080 and then 414.850; 1995 c.152 §4; 2003 c.14 §352]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 566 - Extension and Field Work; Rural Rehabilitation › Section 566.360 - Nonliability of United States and Secretary of Agriculture.

The United States and the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States shall be held free from liability by virtue of the transfer of the assets to the Department of State Lands pursuant to ORS 566.310 to 566.360. [Formerly 414.090 and then 414.860; 1995 c.152 §5]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 567 - Experiment Stations › Section 567.005 - Greenhouse facilities for seed potato testing; management.

Oregon State University is authorized to construct such greenhouse facilities as may be necessary for testing seed potatoes for diseases, experimentation on insect control methods and materials, research on potato disease problems and for the development and testing of special varieties and strains of potatoes. The greenhouse facilities shall be under the control and management of the experiment station. [Amended by 2009 c.762 §86; 2015 c.767 §183]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 567 - Experiment Stations › Section 567.010 - Disposition of moneys for greenhouse facilities.

A separate account in the General Fund is established for the purposes described in ORS 567.005. Moneys in the account are continuously appropriated to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for distribution to Oregon State University for the purposes described in ORS 567.005. [Amended by 2005 c.755 §48; 2009 c.762 §87; 2015 c.767 §184]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 567 - Experiment Stations › Section 567.015 - Cost of operation paid by growers.

The cost of operation of the greenhouse facilities described in ORS 567.005 for testing seed potatoes of individual growers shall be paid by the growers in such proportionate amounts as shall be agreed upon as being equitable and just considering the service rendered. The amount paid shall be deposited in the account established in ORS 567.010 and used to pay the cost of operation of such facilities. [Amended by 2005 c.755 §49]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 567 - Experiment Stations › Section 567.020 - Greenhouse facilities under control of experiment station when not in use.

During any portion of any year when the facilities or any part thereof are not being used for the purposes specified in ORS 567.005, they may be used by Oregon State University under the control and management of the experiment station for such purposes as may be deemed most advantageous to the university and to Oregon agricultural development.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 567 - Experiment Stations › Section 567.205 - Dry lands experiment station established; location.

(1) In order to investigate and demonstrate the conditions under which useful plants may be grown on dry, arid or nonirrigated lands of this state and to determine the kinds of plants best adapted for growth on these lands, there is established in the manner provided for in ORS 567.205 to 567.240, an experiment station in this state for such purpose.
(2) The experiment station shall be located on such part of dry, arid or nonirrigated lands of this state as shall be selected by Oregon State University acting in cooperation with a representative of the United States Department of Agriculture. [Amended by 2015 c.767 §185]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 567 - Experiment Stations › Section 567.215 - Duties of those in charge of station; experiments.

Those having the experimental farm in charge shall:
(1) Secure seeds, from this and other countries of the world, of plants that are thought suitable for growth on dry lands, and observe and record the growth, yield and composition of the plants grown from seeds so secured.
(2) Investigate and determine the methods of soil treatment by which the soil water is best conserved.
(3) Investigate the possibilities of grazing on dry lands which have been seeded to different crops.
(4) Undertake such other experiments and demonstrations as are deemed advisable, having in view the reclamation of the dry or arid lands of the state.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 567 - Experiment Stations › Section 567.220 - Annual report.

Oregon State University shall cause to be prepared and published full and complete annual reports of the work undertaken and accomplished by the station, and an edition of such number of copies as the university shall determine shall be published annually and distributed free of charge. The cost of such publication and distribution shall be deemed a part of the general expense of the station. [Amended by 2015 c.767 §187]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 567 - Experiment Stations › Section 567.230 - County court may acquire site for station.

The county court of the county in which the experimental station may be located may acquire by purchase or lease sufficient suitable land to be selected by Oregon State University, acting in cooperation with a representative of the United States Department of Agriculture. In case the land is acquired by purchase, the purchase price shall be paid from the general funds of the county upon the order of the county court by a warrant, in the manner in which other claims against the county are paid. In case the site for the station is acquired by lease, the lease shall be made in favor of the State of Oregon for such term of years and upon such conditions as shall be required by Oregon State University, and the rent shall be paid out of the county treasury of the county in which the station is located by warrant drawn upon the county treasury by an order of the county court. [Amended by 2015 c.767 §188]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 567 - Experiment Stations › Section 567.235 - County court may acquire buildings and other improvements.

The county court of the county in which the station is located is authorized and directed to place upon the land acquired as provided in ORS 567.230 such buildings and other improvements, including a well, as may be required by Oregon State University. The expenses incurred thereby shall be paid in the manner provided by ORS 567.230 for payment of the purchase price or rent of the land. [Amended by 2015 c.767 §189]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 567 - Experiment Stations › Section 567.240 - County court may sell property of station upon discontinuance; disposition of proceeds.

In the event the station is discontinued, the property acquired under ORS 567.230 and 567.235, including land and improvements thereon as well as the improvements placed upon leased land, may be sold by the county court in such manner and upon such terms and conditions as the county court at a regular term thereof may determine. The proceeds arising from such sale shall be returned to the general fund of the county.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 567 - Experiment Stations › Section 567.325 - Cooperation with federal government.

Oregon State University may cooperate in work in any special field of the experiment station with the federal government or any department, bureau, or office thereof, and may enter into any necessary agreement therefor with said government, department, bureau or office. [Amended by 2015 c.767 §190]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 567 - Experiment Stations › Section 567.330 - Biennial report.

Oregon State University shall cause to be prepared and published at least once every two years full and complete reports of the work undertaken and accomplished by the station. The reports shall be distributed free of charge. The cost of such publication and distribution shall be deemed part of the general expenses of the station. [Amended by 2015 c.767 §191]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 567 - Experiment Stations › Section 567.355 - Work east of Cascade Mountains.

The director of the Oregon experiment stations may conduct experimental and demonstration work in counties east of the Cascade Mountains for the purpose of securing and demonstrating more profitable wheat varieties, more profitable crops on lands now producing wheat and suitable grasses for grazing lands. Such work shall be conducted through grain and forage crop nurseries and by such means as the director deems proper.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 567 - Experiment Stations › Section 567.360 - Crop rotation experiments and demonstrations in Umatilla County.

The director of the Oregon experiment stations may conduct in Umatilla County crop rotation experimental and demonstration work for the purpose of establishing a profitable cropping system that will reduce the summer fallow acreage, decrease the present size of the farm unit necessary to make a living and stabilize land values.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 567 - Experiment Stations › Section 567.405 - Harney County experiment station established.

In order to investigate and demonstrate methods for improving agricultural and livestock conditions in the range areas in southeastern Oregon, an agricultural experiment station is established and shall be located in Harney County in such place as may be selected by Oregon State University. [Amended by 2015 c.767 §192]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 567 - Experiment Stations › Section 567.430 - Biennial report.

Oregon State University shall cause to be prepared and published at least once every two years a full and completed report of the work undertaken and accomplished by the Harney County station. The reports shall be distributed free of charge and the cost of such publication and distribution shall be deemed a part of the general expense of the station. [Amended by 2015 c.767 §194]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 567 - Experiment Stations › Section 567.435 - Cooperation with federal, state or county government, or individuals.

The director of the Oregon agricultural experiment station may cooperate in the special work of the Harney County station with any federal, state or county government or individual and may, for that purpose, enter into necessary agreements with any department, division, branch, bureau or office thereof, or with individuals.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 567 - Experiment Stations › Section 567.455 - Mid-Columbia experiment station established.

To study and carry on investigations in horticultural, pathological and other agricultural problems as affects the interests of this state, there is established an agricultural experimental area in Hood River and Wasco Counties to be operated as the Mid-Columbia Experiment Station under the control and management of Oregon State University through the Agricultural Experiment Station of Oregon State University. [Amended by 1953 c.449 §5; 2015 c.767 §195]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 567 - Experiment Stations › Section 567.475 - Biennial report.

Oregon State University shall cause to be prepared and published once every two years a full and complete report of the work accomplished by the station. The report shall be distributed free of charge. The cost of such publication and distribution shall be deemed a part of the general expense of the station. [Amended by 2015 c.767 §196]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 567 - Experiment Stations › Section 567.480 - Cooperation with United States Department of Agriculture.

Oregon State University may cooperate in the special work of the station with the United States Department of Agriculture or any office or bureau thereof, and may enter into any agreement therefor with said department, bureau or office. [Amended by 2015 c.767 §197]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 567 - Experiment Stations › Section 567.515 - Biennial report.

Oregon State University shall cause to be prepared and published at least once every two years a full and complete report of the work undertaken and accomplished by the station. The reports shall be distributed free of charge. The cost of such publication and distribution shall be deemed a part of the general expenses of the station. [Amended by 2015 c.767 §200]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 567 - Experiment Stations › Section 567.520 - Cooperation with federal government.

Oregon State University may cooperate in work in any special field of the station with the federal government or any department, bureau or office thereof, and may enter into any necessary agreement therefor with said government, department, bureau or office. [Amended by 2015 c.767 §201]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 567 - Experiment Stations › Section 567.575 - Disposition of revenues.

All revenues derived from the land and experiment station not necessarily used in connection with the experiment station may be used by Oregon State University in the improvement of the property referred to in this section and ORS 567.580 in repairing structures thereon, for the use and benefit of the experiment station generally and for conducting agricultural experiments in eastern Oregon and not otherwise. [Amended by 2015 c.767 §202]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 568 - Soil and Water Conservation; Agricultural Water Management › Section 568.210 - Definitions for ORS 568.210 to 568.808 and 568.900 to 568.933.

As used in ORS 568.210 to 568.808 and 568.900 to 568.933, unless the context requires otherwise:
(1) "Agency of this state" means any public body as defined in ORS 174.109.
(2) "Department" means the State Department of Agriculture.
(3) "Director" means one of the members of the local governing body of a district elected or appointed in accordance with the provisions of ORS 568.210 to 568.808 and 568.900 to 568.933.
(4) "District" means a soil and water conservation district.
(5) "Due notice" means notice published at least twice, with an interval of at least seven days between the two publication dates, in a newspaper or other publication of general circulation within the appropriate area, or if no such publication of general circulation is available, by posting at a reasonable number of conspicuous places within the appropriate area, such posting to include, where possible, posting at public places where it may be customary to post notices concerning county or municipal affairs generally. At any hearing held pursuant to such notice, at the time and place designated in such notice, adjournment may be made from time to time without the necessity of renewing such notice for such adjourned dates.
(6) "Elector" means an individual qualified to vote under section 2, Article II, Oregon Constitution.
(7) "Government" or "governmental" means the government of the United States, and any subdivision, agency or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of the government of the United States, and any public body as defined in ORS 174.109.
(8) "Land" or "acres of land" includes land owned by any of the parties enumerated in subsection (10) of this section.
(9) "Land occupier" or "occupiers of land" includes any person who is in possession of any land lying within a district, whether as lessee, renter or tenant.
(10) "Landowner" includes any person or public body as defined in ORS 174.109 shown by records of the county to be the owner of land or having such land under contract to purchase, lying within a district.
(11) "Long-range program" means a long-range plan for the conservation and development of the renewable natural resources of a district.
(12) "Nominating petition" means a petition filed under ORS 568.520 to nominate candidates for director.
(13) "Petition" means a petition filed under ORS 568.300 (1) for the creation of a district.
(14) "State" means the State of Oregon.
(15) "United States" or "agencies of the United States" includes the United States of America, the United States Natural Resources Conservation Service, or its successor agency, and any other agency or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of the United States of America. [Amended by 1963 c.90 §1; 1969 c.610 §1; 1973 c.656 §1; 1981 c.92 §6; 1981 c.918 §6; 1983 c.83 §105; 1985 c.637 §3; 1997 c.249 §183; 2003 c.802 §144]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 568 - Soil and Water Conservation; Agricultural Water Management › Section 568.225 - Policy.

(1) In recognition of the ever-increasing demands on the renewable natural resources of the state and of the need to conserve, protect and develop such resources, it is hereby declared to be the policy of the Legislative Assembly to provide for the conservation of the renewable natural resources of the state and thereby to conserve and develop natural resources, control and prevent soil erosion, control floods, conserve and develop water resources and water quality, prevent impairment of dams and reservoirs, assist in maintaining the navigability of rivers and harbors, preserve wildlife, conserve natural beauty, promote recreational development, promote collaborative conservation efforts to protect and enhance healthy watershed functions, assist in the development of renewable energy and energy efficiency resources, protect the tax base, protect public lands and protect and promote the health, safety and general welfare of the people of this state.
(2) It is further the policy of the Legislative Assembly to authorize soil and water conservation districts established under ORS 568.210 to 568.808 and 568.900 to 568.933 to participate in effectuating the policy set forth in subsection (1) of this section and for such purposes to cooperate with landowners, land occupiers, natural resource organizations, natural resource users, local governments as defined in ORS 174.116 and with agencies of the government of this state and of the United States in projects, programs and activities calculated to accelerate such policies. In effectuating the policy set forth in subsection (1) of this section, the soil and water conservation districts also shall strive to achieve the goal set forth in ORS 468B.155. [1971 c.147 §2; 1989 c.833 §63; 2003 c.802 §145; 2009 c.220 §2]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 568 - Soil and Water Conservation; Agricultural Water Management › Section 568.300 - Petition for formation of district; contents; consolidation of petitions.

(1) Any 25 or more landowners or the owners of more than 70 percent of the acres of land lying within the limits of the territory proposed to be organized into a district may file a petition with the State Department of Agriculture asking that a soil and water conservation district be formed to function in the territory described in the petition. Such petition shall set forth:
(a) The proposed name of the district.
(b) That there is need, in the interest of the general welfare, for a soil and water conservation district to function in the territory described in the petition.
(c) A description of the territory proposed to be organized as a district. A description is sufficient if generally accurate and need not be given by metes and bounds or by legal subdivision.
(d) A request that the department duly define the boundaries for the district, that a referendum be held within the territory so defined on the question of the formation of a district in such territory, and that the department determine that a district be formed.
(2) If more than one petition is filed covering parts of the same territory, the department may consolidate all or any such petitions. [Amended by 1981 c.92 §7; 2009 c.220 §3]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 568 - Soil and Water Conservation; Agricultural Water Management › Section 568.310 - Notice of hearing; questions considered.

Within 60 days after a petition described in ORS 568.300 is filed with the State Department of Agriculture, the department shall give notice of and hold a public hearing:
(1) Upon the question of the desirability and necessity, in the interest of the general welfare, of the creation of the district.
(2) Upon the question of the appropriate boundaries to be assigned to the district.
(3) Upon the propriety of the petition and other proceedings taken under ORS 568.210 to 568.808 and 568.900 to 568.933.
(4) Upon all questions relevant to such inquiries. [Amended by 1981 c.92 §8; 2009 c.220 §4]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 568 - Soil and Water Conservation; Agricultural Water Management › Section 568.320 - Right to be heard; subsequent notice and hearings.

(1) All owners of land and electors within the limits of the territory described in the petition for formation of a district, owners of lands and electors within any territory considered for addition to the described territory, and all other interested parties, shall have the right to attend the public hearing described in ORS 568.310 and to be heard.
(2) If it appears upon the hearing that it may be desirable to include within the proposed district territory outside of the area within which due notice of the hearing has been given, the hearing shall be adjourned. Due notice of further hearing shall then be given throughout the entire area considered for inclusion in the district and such further hearing held. [Amended by 2009 c.220 §5]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 568 - Soil and Water Conservation; Agricultural Water Management › Section 568.330 - Determination of need for district; factors considered in determination; territory need not be contiguous.

(1) After the hearing under ORS 568.310, if the State Department of Agriculture determines upon the facts presented at the hearing and upon such other relevant facts and information as may be available, that there is need, in the interest of the general welfare, for a soil and water conservation district to function in the territory considered at the hearing, the department shall make and record the determination and define the boundaries of the district.
(2) In making the determination and defining the boundaries, the department shall give due weight and consideration to:
(a) The topography of the area considered and of the state.
(b) The composition of the soils.
(c) The distribution of erosion.
(d) The prevailing land-use practices.
(e) The desirability and necessity of including within the boundaries the particular lands under consideration and the benefits those lands may receive from being included within district boundaries.
(f) The relation of the proposed area to existing watersheds and agricultural regions and to other soil and water conservation districts already formed or proposed for formation.
(g) Such other physical, geographical, and economic factors as are relevant.
(3) The territory to be included within district boundaries need not be contiguous. [Amended by 1981 c.92 §9; 2009 c.220 §6]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 568 - Soil and Water Conservation; Agricultural Water Management › Section 568.340 - Determination to not form district; subsequent petitions may be filed.

(1) If the State Department of Agriculture determines after the hearing and after due consideration of the relevant facts that a soil and water conservation district in the territory is not administratively practicable or that there is no need for a soil and water conservation district to function in the territory considered at the hearing, the department shall make and record the determination and deny the petition.
(2) After one year has expired from the date of the denial of the petition, subsequent petitions covering the same or substantially the same territory may be filed as provided in ORS 568.300 and new hearings be held and determinations made. [Amended by 1981 c.92 §10; 2009 c.220 §7]