Oregon Statutes - Chapter 275 - County Lands

• 275.010   [Repealed by 1983 c.327 §16]
• 275.020   Form and effect of conveyance to county.
  All real or personal estate conveyed by any form of conveyance, and duly acknowledged and recorded, to the inhabitants of any county, or to the...
• 275.025   [Repealed by 1983 c.537 §7]
• 275.027   Adverse possession of county lands.
  The rights of any county to public lands are not extinguished by adverse possession. No title or property rights to public lands shall be acquired...
• 275.030   Sale of real estate not in use for county purposes.
  (1) Except as otherwise provided by statute, the county governing body may, whenever it deems it to the best interest of the county so to...
• 275.040   Conveyance pursuant to ORS 275.030.
  The conveyance transferring the real estate sold pursuant to ORS 275.030 to the purchaser thereof shall contain the date of the order authorizing such sale...
• 275.050   [Repealed by 1983 c.537 §7]
• 275.060   Authority to exchange lands offered for sale and not sold.
  (1) Except as otherwise provided by statute, the governing body of a county may exchange county land of any character, which has first been offered...
• 275.070   Sale or donation to United States, state or government corporation; procedure.
  Any county governing body may grant an option to purchase, contract to sell and convey, or donate to the United States or State of Oregon...
• 275.080   Sale of county lands for public water supply purposes; procedure; title to land and timber.
  (1) The governing body of a county may sell in the manner provided for sale of county land under ORS 275.120, 275.140 to 275.160 and...
• 275.088   Sale to certain county officers or employees of real property acquired by foreclosure of tax lien; disposition of real property or proceeds of sale of real property acquired by ineligible purchaser.
  (1) As used in this section: (a) “Actual conflict of interest” has the meaning given that term under ORS 244.020. (b) “Bona fide purchaser” means...
• 275.090   Powers of county as to lands acquired on foreclosure of tax liens, or by exchange, devise or gift.
  The governing body of each county shall have the following powers and duties with respect to all lands acquired by the county by foreclosure of...
• 275.100   [Repealed by 2005 c.243 §33]
• 275.105   Acquisition by county of 90 percent of the lots in a plat for taxes and purchase of remaining lots; vacation of whole plat.
  If any county has bid in and acquired for taxes and has received a deed for not less than 90 percent of the number of...
• 275.110   Order to sell certain county lands; exception.
  (1) When the governing body of a county considers it to be for the best interests of the county to sell any real property acquired...
• 275.120   Sheriff’s notice of sale.
  (1) Upon receipt of a certified copy of the order referred to in ORS 275.110, the sheriff shall publish a notice of the sale of...
• 275.130   Claims of municipal corporations against the land to be filed prior to sale.
  Prior to the date set for the sale of property as indicated in the notice of sale required under ORS 275.120, a municipal corporation may...
• 275.140   Time and place of sale.
  All sales shall be made in the county in which the land is situated between the hours of 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., and may...
• 275.150   Certificate of sale.
  At the time of sale, the sheriff shall give to each purchaser a certificate containing a particular description of the property sold, the whole purchase...
• 275.160   Sale return.
  Upon the close of such sale, the sheriff shall make due return to the governing body of the county of the proceedings of the sheriff...
• 275.170   [Amended by 1991 c.249 §21; repealed by 1997 c.805 §7]
• 275.180   Sale to record owner or contract purchaser of property; conditions.
  (1) The governing body of a county may at any time, without the publication of any notice, sell and convey by deed to the record...
• 275.188   Definitions for ORS 275.110 to 275.250.
  (1) As used in ORS 275.110 to 275.250, “purchase agreement” means a purchase money mortgage, a purchase money trust deed, a land sale contract or...
• 275.190   Cash or installment sale; rights and liabilities of installment purchaser.
  (1) Sales made under ORS 275.110 to 275.250 must be to the highest and best bidder: (a) For cash; or (b) For not less than...
• 275.200   Sale of land not sold by sheriff.
  (1) When the governing body of a county enters an order under ORS 275.110 directing the sheriff to sell real property acquired in any manner...
• 275.210   Filing of purchase agreement; assignment.
  (1) A purchase agreement made pursuant to ORS 275.190 or 275.200 must be filed with the clerk, accountant or secretary, as the case may be,...
• 275.220   Procedure upon default or breach under land sale contract.
  (1) In case of breach of condition or other default in performance of a land sale contract made pursuant to ORS 275.190 or 275.200, the...
• 275.225   Sale of county land by private sale; conditions; notice; terms.
  (1) Notwithstanding ORS 275.110 to 275.220, the governing body of a county may authorize the sale of county land by private sale as provided in...
• 275.230   [1989 c.558 §1; repealed by 2005 c.243 §33]
• 275.240   Taxation of county lands sold under purchase agreement.
  Land sold under a purchase agreement in accordance with ORS 275.190 (1) is subject to taxation to the same extent as other privately owned real...
• 275.250   Notice to county assessor of sale or resale.
  Upon any sale or resale as provided in ORS 275.110 to 275.220, the governing body of the county shall notify the county assessor thereof. [Amended...
• 275.260   Lands acquired by county on tax foreclosure exempt from taxes of other taxing districts.
  No claim shall ever be allowed against the county in favor of any municipal corporation, school district, road district or other taxing district for taxes...
• 275.270   [Repealed by 1969 c.595 §17]
• 275.275   Distribution of proceeds.
  (1)(a) The proceeds arising under ORS 275.090 to 275.290 and 275.296 to 275.310 must be applied: (A) First, to refund the county general fund for...
• 275.280   [Repealed by 1969 c.595 §17]
• 275.285   [1963 c.606 §6; repealed by 1969 c.595 §17]
• 275.290   Sale or lease of timber on county lands.
  (1) In any instrument of conveyance or agreement for conveyance of timber upon lands acquired by any county by foreclosure of delinquent tax liens or...
• 275.294   Sale or lease of right to prospect for and remove minerals or oil and gas from county lands.
  (1) Nothing contained in this chapter shall prohibit the governing body of a county, whenever it appears to the best interest of the county, from...
• 275.296   Validation of certain conveyances prior to August 3, 1955.
  All leases and conveyances granting the right to explore or prospect for minerals or oil and gas and for the mining and removal of the...
• 275.298   Sale of minerals or mineral rights; preferential right of holder of interest less than fee.
  (1) In any sale hereafter made under ORS 275.110 to 275.250 of minerals or mineral rights heretofore reserved to a county where such minerals or...
• 275.300   Sale of mineral or other interest in county lands less than fee; conditions and regulations; bond.
  In any conveyance or agreement for conveyance of any minerals, or other interest, less than the whole fee, in any lands acquired by any county...
• 275.310   Partition of land in which county has acquired interest.
  Any county which has acquired or shall acquire an undivided interest in real property by foreclosure of delinquent tax liens, shall have the benefit of...
• 275.312   Conveyance by county of reserved or excepted mineral rights.
  Notwithstanding any other law, in any county where the surface rights to tax-foreclosed lands have been conveyed and the mineral rights on such lands have...
• 275.314   Contents of application; investigation and hearing.
  Each application presented to the governing body of the county under ORS 275.312 must be accompanied by evidence satisfactory to the governing body of the...
• 275.316   Notice of hearing; findings; execution of conveyance.
  (1) The county clerk shall give notice of the time and place of the hearing scheduled under ORS 275.314 by publication in a newspaper of...
• 275.318   Sale or lease of land located in industrial use zone; Industrial Development Revolving Fund; use of proceeds of sale.
  (1) When the governing body of a county sells or leases real property acquired in any manner by the county, if that property is located...
• 275.320   Designation of county forests, parks and recreational areas.
  The governing body of a county may, by order, designate as county forests, public parks or recreational areas any real property heretofore or hereafter acquired...
• 275.330   Conveyance of county forests, parks or recreational areas; agreements to manage timber.
  (1) Upon the entry of an order by the governing body of a county setting aside the real property for county forest, public park or...
• 275.335   Exchanging land within county forest; reserving rights of way.
  (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of ORS 275.330 or 275.340, the governing body of a county may provide for the exchange of land within a designated...
• 275.340   Sale or lease of forest products, minerals or oil and gas from county forestland.
  Nothing contained in ORS 275.320 and 275.330 shall prohibit the county governing body from selling the timber and other forest products or from leasing the...
• 275.350   [Repealed by 1981 c.126 §6]
• 275.360   Recording orders of county.
  Certified copies of all orders of the governing bodies of the several counties made under ORS 275.320 to 275.340 affecting the title or status of...
• 275.370   Validation of conveyances prior to January 1, 1941.
  All deeds and conveyances of the governing bodies of the several counties executed and delivered prior to January 1, 1941, conveying real property theretofore set...
• 275.390   [Repealed by 1981 c.126 §6]
• 275.400   [Repealed by 1981 c.126 §6]
• 275.410   [Repealed by 1981 c.126 §6]
• 275.420   [Repealed by 1981 c.126 §6]
• 275.430   [Repealed by 1981 c.126 §6]
• 275.440   [Repealed by 1981 c.126 §6]
• 275.990   [Repealed by 1981 c.126 §6]

Last modified: August 7, 2008