Oregon Statutes - Chapter 780 - Improvement and Use of Navigable Streams

• 780.010   Stream improvement authorized; channel obstruction prohibited.
  Any person, association, or corporation may enter upon the channel or bed of any and all rivers and watercourses, navigable or susceptible of being made...
• 780.020   Entry on riparian lands authorized; liability.
  All persons, associations and corporations engaging in improvement of the navigation of any river or watercourse, as authorized in ORS 780.010, may enter upon the...
• 780.030   Channels improved are highways free to navigation.
  All channels of rivers and watercourses made navigable or the navigation of which is improved, as contemplated by ORS 780.010, shall be public highways, and...
• 780.040   When landowner may construct wharf.
  (1) The owner of any land lying upon any navigable stream or other like water, and within the corporate limits of any incorporated town or...
• 780.050   Municipality or port may regulate construction of certain structures beyond low-water mark.
  The corporate authorities of the town wherein a wharf, dock, pier, moorage or similar structure is proposed to be constructed, or the commission of any...
• 780.060   Construction not to interfere with oyster production.
  Nothing in this chapter authorizes the construction of a wharf, dock, pier, moorage or similar structure at any place where its construction and operation will...

Last modified: August 7, 2008