Oregon Statutes - Chapter 517 - Mining and Mining Claims - Section 517.240 - Failure of coowner to contribute; notice.

Upon failure of any coowner of any mine to contribute that coowner’s proportion of expenditures required in assessment work, or to perform or pay for such proportion, the coowners who performed or caused to be performed the labor or assessment work, may, at the expiration of the year for which the assessment work was performed, give the delinquent coowner notice that the assessment work for that year has been performed, stating by whom performed, the amount of work performed and the dates between which it was performed; together with a statement of the amount due from the delinquent coowner for the delinquent coowner’s proportion of the work, and requiring the delinquent coowner, within 90 days from the date of service of the notice, to pay to the coowners who performed or caused to be performed such work, the delinquent coowner’s proportion. The notice shall further state that if the delinquent coowner fails or refuses to contribute the proportion due for the work, the interest of the delinquent coowner in the mine will become the property of the coowners who performed or caused to be performed the assessment work.

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