Oregon Statutes - Chapter 374 - Control of Access to Public Highways

• 374.005   Policy and purpose of ORS 374.005 to 374.095.
  (1) The kind, character and volume of traffic now moving over public highways, the speed at which such traffic moves, the prime and essential factors...
• 374.010   “Throughway” defined.
  As used in ORS 374.005 to 374.095, “throughway” means a highway or street especially designed for through traffic, over, from or to which owners or...
• 374.015   Department of Transportation to establish and maintain throughways; highways to be designated throughways.
  (1) The Department of Transportation, in addition to and without restricting, limiting or repealing any powers and authority which it now has, may lay out,...
• 374.020   Interference with railroad facilities prohibited.
  No throughway shall be established upon or across the tracks, yards, station grounds or other operating properties of any common carrier railroad, or upon or...
• 374.025   Change from throughway to highway.
  Any state highway or section thereof which has been located, established, designated and constructed as a throughway may, in whole or in part, be changed...
• 374.030   Separation of throughways into separate roadways; ingress and egress.
  (1) The Department of Transportation may so design a throughway and so regulate, restrict or prohibit access thereto and use thereof as to best serve...
• 374.035   Acquisition of real property; effect of resolution.
  (1) The Department of Transportation may, in the name of the state, acquire by agreement, donation or exercise of the power of eminent domain, fee...
• 374.040   Acquisition of land not immediately needed.
  Whenever it becomes necessary to acquire any real property for use in connection with the location, relocation, construction, reconstruction, improvement and maintenance of any throughway...
• 374.045   Payment for land acquired.
  The Department of Transportation may pay the cost incident to the acquisition of real property or any interest therein for the establishment, location and relocation...
• 374.050   Parties bringing eminent domain proceedings.
  In case an agreement provided for in ORS 374.080 has been entered into, proceedings in eminent domain for the acquisition of real property or any...
• 374.055   Evidentiary purposes of improvement plan.
  In any proceeding in eminent domain evidence of the entire plan of improvement is admissible for the purpose of determining: (1) Value of property taken....
• 374.060   Power of Department of Transportation as to intersecting streets and roads.
  The Department of Transportation, with the official approval of municipal authorities of cities with respect to city streets and with the official approval of the...
• 374.065   Intersection of throughways and county roads.
  (1) The Department of Transportation shall provide for the intersection of throughways by county roads running into or across throughways. (2) Any county road may...
• 374.070   Throughways in cities; intersecting streets.
  (1) Should any portion or section of a throughway be within the corporate limits of a city, provision shall be made for access thereto from...
• 374.075   Cooperation of municipal and county authorities with Department of Transportation.
  The municipal authorities of cities and the county court or board of county commissioners of any county may do anything or all things necessary to...
• 374.080   Agreements with federal government, counties and cities.
  The Department of Transportation may enter into cooperative agreements with the federal government and with any county or city for the location, adoption, construction and...
• 374.085   Severance by throughway of agricultural land.
  Wherever by the location, relocation, establishment and construction or reconstruction of a throughway under ORS 374.005 to 374.095 real property, title to which is held...
• 374.090   Destruction by throughway of access to agricultural property.
  Whenever a throughway is located, relocated, constructed or reconstructed through or over farm or agricultural property and thereby all reasonable ingress and egress have been...
• 374.095   Utility roads where access to abutting property affected.
  If under ORS 374.005 to 374.095 any existing highway or section of existing highway is converted into a throughway, by reason thereof real properties then...
• 374.205   [Repealed by 1967 c.497 §7]
• 374.210   [Repealed by 1967 c.497 §7]
• 374.215   [Repealed by 1967 c.497 §7]
• 374.220   [Amended by 1957 c.459 §3; repealed by 1967 c.497 §7]
• 374.225   [Repealed by 1967 c.497 §7]
• 374.230   [Repealed by 1967 c.497 §7]
• 374.235   [Repealed by 1967 c.497 §7]
• 374.240   [Repealed by 1967 c.497 §7]
• 374.245   [Repealed by 1967 c.497 §7]
• 374.250   [Repealed by 1967 c.497 §7]
• 374.255   [Repealed by 1967 c.497 §7]
• 374.260   [Repealed by 1967 c.497 §7]
• 374.265   [Renumbered 374.335]
• 374.270   [Renumbered 374.340]
• 374.305   Necessity of permission to build on rights of way.
  (1) No person, firm or corporation may place, build or construct on the right of way of any state highway or county road, any approach...
• 374.307   Removal or repair of installation constructed without permission.
  (1) If any person, firm or corporation builds or constructs on the right of way of any state highway or county road any approach road...
• 374.310   Rules and regulations; permits.
  (1) The Department of Transportation with respect to state highways and the county court or board of county commissioners with respect to county roads shall...
• 374.312   Rules regarding permits for approach roads; intergovernmental agreements.
  (1) The Department of Transportation shall adopt rules governing the process of application for and issuance of permits for approach roads to highways by owners...
• 374.313   Claim for relief after closure of approach road; mediation; rules; appraisal.
  (1) If the Department of Transportation closes an approach road for which a permit was issued under ORS 374.310 or that was allowed by law...
• 374.315   Construction under permits; maintenance after construction.
  All construction under the permits issued under ORS 374.310 shall be under the supervision of the granting authority and at the expense of the applicant....
• 374.320   Removal or repair of installation on right of way at expense of applicant.
  (1) Upon failure of the applicant to construct or maintain the particular approach road, facility, thing or appurtenance in accordance with the rules and regulations...
• 374.325   Effect of ORS 374.305 to 374.325.
  Nothing in ORS 374.305 to 374.325 shall: (1) Limit or affect any of the powers granted to, or duties imposed upon, the county courts or...
• 374.330   Prior status preserved.
  (1) Nothing in ORS 374.305, 374.310 and 374.325, as such sections were amended by chapter 323, Oregon Laws 1957, shall be deemed to affect any...
• 374.335   Driving certain motor vehicles across public highway not deemed operation thereon.
  Where any private road crosses or is crossed by a public highway the driving of a motor vehicle across the public highway or upon the...
• 374.340   Cattle crossings under public road.
  Any person owning, using or occupying lands on both sides of any public road is entitled to the privilege of making a crossing under the...
• 374.345   Rules regarding turning onto state highway from approach road.
  The Department of Transportation shall adopt rules regulating the procedures and circumstances under which the department may restrict turning movements onto a state highway from...
• 374.350   Process for appeal of decisions regarding access to highways.
  The Department of Transportation shall establish a process through which persons affected by decisions of the department regarding access to highways may appeal the decisions....
• 374.405   Access rights of property abutting on state highways.
  No rights in or to any state highway, including what is known as right of access, shall accrue to any real property abutting upon any...
• 374.410   Department of Transportation to prescribe access rights of abutting property.
  In connection with any acquisition of real property for right of way of any state highway, the Department of Transportation shall prescribe and define the...
• 374.415   Action to prevent entering or leaving state highways in manner not authorized.
  The Department of Transportation may commence and prosecute to final determination any suit, action or proceeding in the name of the state by and through...
• 374.420   County throughways; rights of abutting property owners.
  (1) The county court or board of county commissioners may acquire by purchase, agreement, donation or exercise of the power of eminent domain, fee title...
• 374.425   County court to prescribe access rights of abutting property.
  In connection with the acquisition of real property for right of way for a throughway described in ORS 374.420, the county court or board of...
• 374.430   Action to prevent entering or leaving county roads in unauthorized manner.
  The county court or board of county commissioners may commence and prosecute to final determination any suit, action or proceeding which in its judgment is...
• 374.990   Penalty for violation of ORS 374.305 or of regulation adopted under ORS 374.310.
  In addition to the liability for expenses under ORS 374.307 and 374.320, violation of ORS 374.305 or of any rule or regulation adopted under ORS...

Last modified: August 7, 2008