Oregon Statutes - Chapter 452 - Vector and Weed Control

• 452.010   Definitions for ORS 452.010 and 452.020 to 452.300.
  As used in this section and ORS 452.020 to 452.300, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) “County court” includes board of county commissioners. (2) “District”...
• 452.020   Formation of district.
  One or more districts may be formed in any county. The entire county may be included within a district or any portion of the entire...
• 452.030   [Repealed by 1971 c.727 §203]
• 452.040   [Repealed by 1971 c.727 §203]
• 452.050   [Amended by 1959 c.600 §3; repealed by 1971 c.727 §203]
• 452.060   [Repealed by 1959 c.600 §4]
• 452.061   [1959 c.600 §3a; repealed by 1971 c.727 §191]
• 452.070   Substantial compliance suffices.
  No defect in the contents of the petition or notice or proceedings shall vitiate the validity of the proceedings, if the petition contains a sufficient...
• 452.075   [1963 c.255 §2; repealed by 1971 c.727 §203]
• 452.080   Board of trustees; district name change.
  (1) After an order is entered forming a district, the county court of the county in which the district is situated shall forthwith appoint a...
• 452.090   Filling vacancies; removal.
  (1) A vacancy in an office of district trustee shall be filled by appointment by the county court. The appointee shall serve the balance of...
• 452.100   Meetings of board.
  (1) The board of trustees shall provide for the time and place of holding and the manner of calling its meetings, and may establish rules...
• 452.110   Powers of the board; contracts.
  The board of trustees of a control district may: (1) Take all necessary and proper steps and measures for the prevention, control or eradication of...
• 452.120   Duties of county court.
  The county court shall: (1) Call special meetings of the board of the district for the purposes of investigation and supervision of its affairs. At...
• 452.130   Payment for cost of vector control; exception.
  All work performed under ORS 452.110 shall be paid for by the control district, except when a contract authorized under ORS 452.110 (8) provides otherwise....
• 452.140   Pesticide use; consent of State Fish and Wildlife Commission.
  The board of trustees of a district: (1) May not apply pesticides to waters in the district that are frequented by waterfowl or that contain...
• 452.145   Limitation on predatory animal control.
  Notwithstanding ORS 452.110: (1) A vector control district shall not exercise the authority granted by ORS 452.110 relating to the control or eradication of predatory...
• 452.150   [Repealed by 1959 c.600 §9 (452.151 enacted in lieu of 452.150)]
• 452.151   Technical advice.
  The board may request technical advice and information from the Oregon State University Agricultural Experiment Station and the Department of Human Services regarding methods and...
• 452.153   Budget; taxing authority; rate limitation.
  (1) The board of trustees of any district, annually as provided in this section, may levy a tax on all the property in the district...
• 452.157   Collection of levy under ORS 452.153; deposit; disbursement; levy as lien.
  (1) Taxes levied under ORS 452.153 shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as county taxes are collected and, when...
• 452.158   Filing boundary change with county assessor and Department of Revenue.
  For purposes of ad valorem taxation, a boundary change must be filed in final approved form with the county assessor and the Department of Revenue...
• 452.160   Budget estimates; rate limitation; levy; deposit and disbursement; levy as supplement to levy under ORS 452.153.
  (1) In addition to or in lieu of the tax levy provided for by ORS 452.153, the board of trustees of any district may, at...
• 452.170   Deposit and disbursement of moneys collected.
  All money received from taxes collected for the use of any control district under ORS 452.160 shall be paid to the county treasurer of the...
• 452.180   [1963 c.255 §3; repealed by 1971 c.727 §203]
• 452.210   County contracts with cities, vector control districts or other counties on vector control.
  Any county court may contract with any incorporated city, any vector control district, or with the county court of any other county on any matter...
• 452.220   [Amended by 1959 c.600 §14; repealed by 1983 c.537 §7]
• 452.230   Rights under contract.
  The officers and agents of such other county, vector control district or municipality acting by authority of such contract shall have the same right of...
• 452.240   Powers of county regarding vector control.
  Any county court may: (1) Take all necessary or proper steps and measures for the prevention, control or eradication of public health vectors using integrated...
• 452.245   Pesticide use; consent of State Fish and Wildlife Commission.
  In exercising its powers under ORS 452.210 to 452.250, a county court: (1) May not order the application of pesticides to waters in the county...
• 452.250   Interference prohibited.
  No person shall knowingly or willfully hinder or interfere with or prevent the exercise of any powers conferred under ORS 452.230 to 452.250 or do...
• 452.300   Department of Human Services vector control program.
  (1) The Department of Human Services shall maintain a program of public health vector control, which program shall include, but not be limited to: (a)...
• 452.310   [1953 c.666 §2; repealed by 1957 c.450 §13]
• 452.320   [1953 c.666 §1; repealed by 1957 c.450 §13]
• 452.330   [1953 c.666 §3; repealed by 1957 c.450 §13]
• 452.340   [1953 c.666 §5; repealed by 1957 c.450 §13]
• 452.350   [1953 c.666 §6; repealed by 1957 c.450 §13]
• 452.360   [1953 c.666 §7; repealed by 1957 c.450 §13]
• 452.370   [1953 c.666 §8; repealed by 1957 c.450 §13]
• 452.380   [1953 c.666 §9; repealed by 1957 c.450 §13]
• 452.390   [1953 c.666 §10; repealed by 1957 c.450 §13]
• 452.400   [1953 c.666 §11; repealed by 1957 c.450 §13]
• 452.410   [1953 c.666 §12; repealed by 1957 c.450 §13]
• 452.420   [1953 c.666 §4; repealed by 1957 c.450 §13]
• 452.510   Definitions for ORS 452.510 to 452.590.
  As used in ORS 452.510 to 452.590: (1) “Department” means the State Department of Agriculture or any of its authorized representatives. (2) “Ragweed” means the...
• 452.520   Ragweed plants declared public nuisances.
  In the exercise of the police power of the State of Oregon for the purpose of protecting the health and welfare of the people of...
• 452.530   Administration and enforcement; dissemination of information.
  (1) Notwithstanding any other provisions of law the department shall administer and enforce the provisions of ORS 452.510 to 452.590. (2) The department may make...
• 452.540   Access to land within control area; interference with department prohibited.
  (1) Any authorized officer, employee or inspector of the department in carrying out the provisions of ORS 452.510 to 452.590, shall have access to the...
• 452.550   Action by department in detecting, controlling and destroying ragweed.
  The department shall detect, control and destroy ragweed in the ragweed control area and as otherwise provided for in ORS 452.510 to 452.590, and may:...
• 452.560   Destruction and control of ragweed on lands owned by public bodies; failure to act; remedy.
  (1) Within the ragweed control area, all public bodies including but not limited to federal and state agencies, board of county commissioners or county courts,...
• 452.570   Detection, control and destruction of ragweed outside control area.
  The department may, in its discretion, detect, control and destroy ragweed and carry out the provisions of ORS 452.510 to 452.590 on any land located...
• 452.580   Disposition of moneys collected or received by department.
  All charges, fees, costs or other moneys collected or received by the department, resulting from the operation or enforcement of ORS 452.510 to 452.590, shall...
• 452.590   Injunction proceedings; jurisdiction; suits and actions by department.
  The circuit court is vested with jurisdiction to restrain any violations, or threatened violations, or to issue any order necessary for the department in carrying...
• 452.610   Definitions for ORS 452.610 to 452.630.
  As used in ORS 452.610 to 452.630 and 452.990 (2), unless the context requires otherwise: (1) “Department” means the State Department of Agriculture. (2) “Person”...
• 452.615   Policy; tansy ragwort as nuisance.
  In recognition of the imminent and continuous menace to livestock, wildlife, land and agricultural products of this state, and in recognition of the widespread infestations...
• 452.620   Authority of department; rules.
  The State Department of Agriculture shall administer and enforce the provisions of ORS 452.610 to 452.630 and 452.990 (2), and in furtherance thereof is authorized:...
• 452.625   Authority of Oregon State University.
  In addition to the authority of the State Department of Agriculture provided in ORS 452.610 to 452.630 and 452.990 (2), Oregon State University is authorized...
• 452.630   Cooperation with department; court suit.
  (1) No person shall fail to cooperate with the State Department of Agriculture in the administration or enforcement of ORS 452.610 to 452.630 and 452.990...
• 452.990   Penalties.
  (1) Violation of ORS 452.250 is a Class C misdemeanor. (2) Subject to ORS 153.022, failure to comply with any provision of ORS 452.610 to...

Last modified: August 7, 2008