Oregon Statutes - Chapter 836 - Airports and Landing Fields

• 836.005   Definitions.
  When used in the laws of this state relating to aviation, unless the context otherwise provides: (1) “Air navigation facility” means any facility other than...
• 836.010   Availability of services of department.
  The Director of the Oregon Department of Aviation may, insofar as is reasonably possible, make available the Oregon Department of Aviation’s engineering and other technical...
• 836.015   Financial assistance by director.
  The Director of the Oregon Department of Aviation as authorized by the State Aviation Board may render financial assistance by grant or loan, or both,...
• 836.020   Department as municipal agent.
  The Oregon Department of Aviation shall, upon request, act as agent of any municipality or municipalities acting jointly, in accepting, receiving, receipting for and disbursing...
• 836.025   Establishment of airports and air navigation facilities by department.
  (1) The Oregon Department of Aviation may, on behalf of and in the name of the state, out of moneys made available for such purposes,...
• 836.030   Disposal of property.
  The Oregon Department of Aviation as authorized by the State Aviation Board may by sale, lease, or otherwise, dispose of any property mentioned in ORS...
• 836.035   Effect of statute on airport zoning.
  ORS 836.005 to 836.120, 836.200, 836.205, 836.215, 836.220 and 836.240 do not limit any right, power or authority of the state or a municipality to...
• 836.040   Joint exercise of power.
  The Oregon Department of Aviation may exercise any powers granted by ORS 836.025 to 836.050 jointly with any municipalities or agencies of the state government,...
• 836.045   Condemnation by department.
  In the condemnation of property authorized by ORS 836.025, the Oregon Department of Aviation as authorized by the State Aviation Board shall proceed in the...
• 836.050   Condemnation of railroad or public utility property.
  (1) No operating property of any public utility, as defined in ORS 757.005, or any telecommunications carrier as defined in ORS 133.721, shall be condemned...
• 836.055   Commercial concessions at state airports.
  (1) In operating an airport or air navigation facility owned or controlled by the state the Oregon Department of Aviation as authorized by the State...
• 836.060   Operation of state airports by private persons.
  (1) The Oregon Department of Aviation as authorized by the State Aviation Board may by contract, lease or other arrangement, upon a consideration fixed by...
• 836.065   Liens of state for repairs, improvements or services to personal property.
  To enforce the payment of any charges for repairs to, or improvements, or storage or care of any personal property made or furnished by the...
• 836.070   Use of federal and other moneys.
  The Oregon Department of Aviation as authorized by the State Aviation Board may accept, receive, receipt for, disburse and expend federal moneys, and other moneys,...
• 836.072   Use of moneys from increase in taxes; rules.
  (1) Moneys from the increases in taxes by the amendments to ORS 319.020 by sections 1 and 3, chapter 1037, Oregon Laws 1999, shall be...
• 836.075   State airway system.
  The Oregon Department of Aviation as authorized by the State Aviation Board may designate, design and establish, expand or modify a state airway system which...
• 836.080   Exemptions from ORS 836.085 to 836.120.
  (1) The provisions of ORS 836.085 to 836.120 do not apply to airports owned or operated by the United States. (2) The Oregon Department of...
• 836.085   Approval of airport sites; fee.
  Except as provided in ORS 836.080, the Oregon Department of Aviation as authorized by the State Aviation Board shall provide for the approval of proposed...
• 836.090   Application for site approval; rules.
  Subject to the rules of procedure adopted by the State Aviation Board providing for such approvals, any municipality or person desiring or planning to construct...
• 836.095   Approval criteria and conditions.
  (1) The Oregon Department of Aviation shall with reasonable dispatch grant approval of a proposed airport site if it is satisfied that the site is...
• 836.100   Revocation of approval.
  The Oregon Department of Aviation may, after notice and opportunity for hearing to holders of certificates of airport site approval under ORS 836.095, revoke such...
• 836.105   Licensing of airports; fees; rules.
  Except as provided in ORS 836.080, the Oregon Department of Aviation is authorized to provide for the licensing of airports and the annual renewal of...
• 836.110   Revocation of license; refusal of renewal.
  The Oregon Department of Aviation may, after notice and opportunity for hearing to the licensee, revoke any airport license or renewal thereof, or refuse to...
• 836.115   Public hearing regarding site or license; transcripts.
  In connection with the grant of approval of a proposed airport site or the issuance of an airport license under ORS 836.085 to 836.110, the...
• 836.120   Unlicensed airport operation prohibited.
  Except as provided in ORS 836.080, no person, municipality or officer or employee thereof, shall operate an airport without an appropriate license for such, as...
• 836.200   Authority to establish airports.
  All municipalities of this state, separately or jointly or in cooperation with the federal government or state, may acquire, establish, construct, expand or lease, control,...
• 836.205   Acquisition of lands declared to be for public purpose.
  All lands heretofore or hereafter acquired, owned, leased, controlled or occupied by municipalities, for the purposes specified in ORS 836.200 are declared to be acquired,...
• 836.210   Delegation of authority to develop and maintain airports; regulations for charges, fees and tolls.
  Municipalities of this state which establish airports, or which acquire, lease or set apart real property for such purposes, may: (1) Delegate the authority for...
• 836.215   Municipal acquisition of property for airports.
  Private property, or any interest therein of whatever kind, and an easement for the operation of aircraft and all operations incidental thereto, to and from...
• 836.220   Source of airport funds.
  The purchase price or compensation for real or other property acquired in accordance with ORS 836.215 and the cost and expenses for the development, improvement,...
• 836.230   Use of funds from operation.
  The officials of any municipality acquiring, establishing, developing, operating, maintaining or controlling an airport under authority of ORS 836.200 may use for such purposes funds...
• 836.240   Authorization to budget and levy taxes.
  Any municipality acting under authority of ORS 836.200 may provide in its annual budget and tax levy an amount of money necessary for the maintenance...
• 836.245   Authority as supplemental.
  The authority conferred by ORS 836.200, 836.205, 836.215, 836.220 and 836.240 is in addition and supplemental to the authority conferred by any other law. [Formerly
• 836.250   Acquisition by municipality of real property contiguous to airport; subsequent use or disposition; financing acquisition or use.
  (1) In addition to the authority conferred upon them by any other law, any municipality of this state acquiring, establishing, developing, operating, maintaining or controlling...
• 836.300   [Formerly 492.520; 1995 c.285 §10; repealed by 1997 c.859 §14]
• 836.305   [Formerly 492.530; 1995 c.285 §11; repealed by 1997 c.859 §14]
• 836.310   [Formerly 492.540; repealed by 1997 c.859 §14]
• 836.315   [Formerly 492.550; repealed by 1997 c.859 §14]
• 836.320   [Formerly 492.560; repealed by 1997 c.859 §14]
• 836.325   [Formerly 492.570; repealed by 1997 c.859 §14]
• 836.330   [Formerly 492.580; repealed by 1997 c.859 §14]
• 836.335   [Formerly 492.590; repealed by 1997 c.859 §14]
• 836.340   Procedure for relocation of public utility property.
  (1) No airport zoning regulations adopted under authority of ORS 836.600 to 836.630 shall require the alteration or relocation of the operating property of any...
• 836.345   [Formerly 492.610; repealed by 1997 c.859 §14]
• 836.350   [Formerly 492.629; repealed by 1997 c.859 §14]
• 836.355   [Formerly 492.630; repealed by 1997 c.859 §14]
• 836.360   [Formerly 492.640; repealed by 1997 c.859 §14]
• 836.365   [Formerly 492.650; repealed by 1997 c.859 §14]
• 836.370   [Formerly 492.660; repealed by 1997 c.859 §14]
• 836.375   [Formerly 492.670; repealed by 1997 c.859 §14]
• 836.380   [Formerly 492.680; repealed by 1997 c.859 §14]
• 836.385   [Formerly 492.690; repealed by 1997 c.859 §14]
• 836.390   [Formerly 492.700; repealed by 1997 c.859 §14]
• 836.395   [Formerly 492.710; repealed by 1997 c.859 §14]
• 836.400   [Formerly 492.510; repealed by 1997 c.859 §14]
• 836.410   Permanent closure of public use airport; rules.
   At least 180 days before permanent closure of a public use airport, as defined by the Oregon Department of Aviation by rule, a person responsible...
• 836.500   Marks and lights on structures or obstructions; acquisition of right or easement.
  Every municipality which develops or operates an airport may acquire the right or easement for a term of years or perpetually, to place and maintain...
• 836.505   Designation of landing places on public lands; rules governing user.
  (1) Landing places for aircraft may from time to time be designated, set apart and marked by the Oregon Department of Aviation or other public...
• 836.510   Use of certain ocean beaches as landing fields.
  Except as permitted under ORS 836.520, no person shall use for a landing field for aircraft any part of the Oregon shore of the Pacific...
• 836.515   Petition to set aside shore as landing field.
  Any person, municipality or municipal corporation desiring to use for a landing field for aircraft any part of the Oregon shore of the Pacific Ocean...
• 836.520   Action on petition; order setting aside area for landing field; user permits; revocation of order or permit.
  The State Aviation Board shall give due consideration to each petition submitted under ORS 836.515, and may in its discretion order a public hearing in...
• 836.525   Enforcement of ORS 836.510 and 836.520.
  The law enforcing agencies authorized to enforce the laws of the state with respect to the rules of the road and the regulation of motor...
• 836.530   Rules and standards; orders; appeals.
  (1) In addition to any other rulemaking authority, the Director of the Oregon Department of Aviation may adopt rules: (a) To define physical hazards to...
• 836.600   Policy.
  In recognition of the importance of the network of airports to the economy of the state and the safety and recreation of its citizens, the...
• 836.605   Definitions for ORS 836.600 to 836.630.
  As used in ORS 836.600 to 836.630: (1) “Aircraft” means helicopters and airplanes but not hot air balloons or ultralights. (2) “Airports” means the strip...
• 836.608   Airport operation as matter of state concern; local planning documents to recognize airport location; limitations on use; expansion of facility.
  (1) The continued operation and vitality of airports registered, licensed or otherwise recognized by the Department of Transportation on December 31, 1994, is a matter...
• 836.610   Local government land use plans and regulations to accommodate airport zones and uses; funding; rules.
  (1) Local governments shall amend their comprehensive plan and land use regulations consistent with the rules for airports adopted by the Land Conservation and Development...
• 836.612   Approval or expansion of land use activities subject to prior court decisions.
  Nothing in ORS 836.608 or 836.616 is intended to allow the approval or expansion of a land use activity inside the boundaries of an airport...
• 836.615   [1995 c.285 §5; repealed by 1997 c.859 §4 (836.616 enacted in lieu of 836.615)]
• 836.616   Rules for airport uses and activities.
  (1) Following consultation with the Oregon Department of Aviation, the Land Conservation and Development Commission shall adopt rules for uses and activities allowed within the...
• 836.619   State compatibility and safety standards for land uses near airports; rules.
  Following consultation with the Oregon Department of Aviation, the Land Conservation and Development Commission shall adopt rules establishing compatibility and safety standards for uses of...
• 836.620   [1995 c.285 §6; repealed by 1997 c.859 §7 (836.619 enacted in lieu of 836.620)]
• 836.623   Local compatibility and safety requirements more stringent than state requirements; criteria; water impoundments; report to federal agency; application to certain activities.
  (1) A local government may adopt land use compatibility and safety requirements that are more stringent than the minimum required by Land Conservation and Development...
• 836.625   Application to airport uses of land use limitations in farm use zones; effect on tax assessment.
  (1) The limitations on uses made of land in exclusive farm use zones described in ORS 215.213 and 215.283 do not apply to the provisions...
• 836.630   Siting of new airports to comply with land use laws; limitation on rules.
  (1) Nothing in ORS 836.600 to 836.625 shall be interpreted to allow the siting of a new airport except as provided in ORS chapters 197...
• 836.635   [1995 c.285 §9; repealed by 1997 c.859 §14]
• 836.640   Definitions for ORS 836.640 and 836.642.
  As used in this section and ORS 836.642: (1) “Customary and usual aviation-related activity” includes activities described in ORS 836.616 (2) and includes activities that...
• 836.642   Program for through the fence operations; rules.
  (1) The Oregon Department of Aviation shall establish a pilot program at up to three rural airports to encourage development of through the fence operations...

Last modified: August 7, 2008