Oregon Statutes - Chapter 783 - Liabilities and Offenses Connected With Shipping and Navigation; Shipbreaking; Ballast Water

783.010 Claims for which liens accorded.
Every boat or vessel used in navigating the water of this state or constructed in this state is liable and subject to a lien: (1)...
783.020 Lien priority.
(1) The classes of claims specified in ORS 783.010 shall have priority according to the order in which they are enumerated. (2) The liens under...
783.030 Right to proceed against boat or vessel directly.
Any person having a demand as mentioned in ORS 783.010, instead of proceeding for recovery thereof against the master, owner, agent or consignee of the...
783.040 Complaint; jurisdiction and venue.
Any person wishing to commence an action against a boat or vessel shall file the complaint against such boat or vessel by name with the...
783.050 Issuance of warrant for seizure of boat or vessel.
Whenever the complaint is filed, the clerk shall issue a warrant thereon, commanding the sheriff to seize the boat or vessel mentioned in the complaint,...
783.060 Procedure after return of warrant.
Upon the return of any warrant issued as prescribed in ORS 783.050, proceeding shall be had in the circuit court against the boat or vessel...
783.070 Persons authorized to appear for boat or vessel; answer.
The master, owner, agent or consignee of the boat or vessel may appear on behalf of the boat or vessel and answer the complaint.
783.080 Judgment by default; proceedings on issue of fact.
If in any action commenced under ORS 783.030 and 783.040 the master, owner, agent or consignee does not appear and answer the complaint, the plaintiff...
783.090 Discharge of boat or vessel on giving of undertaking.
If the master, owner, agent or consignee, before final judgment in any action commenced in pursuance of ORS 783.030 and 783.040, enters into an undertaking...
783.100 Return of deposit; disposition of balance.
If judgment is for the defendant, any deposit in lieu of an undertaking shall be returned to the person making the same; or if a...
783.110 Order for sale on judgment.
If judgment is rendered against any boat or vessel in favor of the plaintiff, the court shall make an order directed to the sheriff, commanding...
783.120 Judgment on undertaking; issuance of execution.
If an undertaking with surety was given according to ORS 783.090 and judgment rendered in favor of the plaintiff, a judgment shall also be rendered...
783.130 Bill of sale of boat or vessel; effect of previous liens.
When any boat or vessel is sold in pursuance of ORS 783.110 to 783.160, the officer making the sale shall execute to the purchaser a...
783.140 Rights of other lien claimants.
Any other person having or claiming a lien against any boat or vessel in pursuance of ORS 783.010 may, at any time after the sale...
783.150 Distribution of proceeds of sale.
In the distribution of the proceeds of sale, claims of a prior class shall be paid entire before any payment shall be made upon claims...
783.160 Sale of appurtenances for fractional share of boat or vessel.
If it appears to the court in which the action is pending, or the judge thereof, that the liens against the boat or vessel can...
783.170 Limitation of actions.
All actions against a boat or vessel under ORS 783.010 to 783.160 shall be commenced within one year after the cause of action has accrued....
783.310 Destruction or injury of property by watercraft; liability of tortfeasor and employer; lien on vessel.
If any person in control of any watercraft conducts or navigates the watercraft intentionally or negligently so as to destroy or injure the property of...
783.320 Injuries to persons or property ashore; liability in damages; venue.
The owner or owners of any boat or vessel which, when navigating the waters of this state or when within the waters of this state,...
783.330 Attachment against vessel; motion and undertaking.
The person so injured may at the time of filing the complaint, or at any time subsequent thereto, cause an attachment to issue against the...
783.340 Redelivery of attached vessel.
The sheriff shall redeliver the vessel attached to the owner or master thereof upon the owner or master delivering to the sheriff an undertaking, with...
783.350 Nonresident owners; service; judgment; designation.
If the owner of the vessel is nonresident of and not within Oregon, service of the summons and complaint shall be made upon the master...
783.360 Priority of attachment.
The attachment provided for in ORS 783.330 shall have priority over any mortgage upon the vessel and over any liens thereon not of a maritime...
783.400 Shipbreaking; shipwrecks; ship repair; definitions.
(1) As used in this section: (a) �Dry dock� means a graving dock or a floating dry dock. (b) �Floating dry dock� means a vessel...
783.510 Enticement of seamen to desert or leave ship.
No person shall entice, persuade or by any means attempt to persuade, any seaman to desert from, or without permission of the officer then in...
783.520 Harboring and secretion of seamen.
No person shall knowingly and with manifest intention to deprive the owner or master of any ship or vessel of the services of any seaman,...
783.530 Receipt of compensation from seaman for furnishing employment.
No person shall demand or receive, either directly or indirectly, from any seaman or apprentice, or from any person seeking employment as a seaman or...
783.540 [Repealed by 1953 c.113 §2]
783.550 Unauthorized boarding of nonpassenger vessel.
No person not acting in an official capacity shall board or attempt to board any ship or other vessel on the Willamette or Columbia River,...
783.560 Arrest of officers and seamen for debt prohibited.
No officer or seaman of a seagoing vessel or ship shall be arrested or imprisoned for debt. No officer shall execute a process of arrest...
783.570 Enforcement officer in Portland and Astoria.
The mayor and common council of the cities of Portland and Astoria, severally shall appoint or designate a person or officer to see that ORS...
783.580 Tugboat operator refusing to tow; discrimination in charges.
Any tugboat towing for hire in any of the waters of this state is a common carrier for the business of towing vessels. No master...
783.590 Lowering of smokestacks of vessels navigating upper Willamette.
Any person or corporation operating any steamboat or other watercraft upon the Willamette River above the City of Portland, shall so construct the smokestacks upon...
783.600 [Amended by 2001 c.722 §8; renumbered 783.620 in 2001]
783.610 Offenses relating to buoys and beacons; disposition of fines.
(1) No person shall moor any vessel of any kind or any name, or any boat, skiff, barge, scow, raft, or part of a raft,...
783.620 Discharge of ballast in navigable waters.
Except as provided in ORS 783.635, a person may not discharge the ballast of any vessel into the navigable portions or channels of any of...
783.625 Definitions for ORS 783.625 to 783.640.
As used in ORS 783.625 to 783.640, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) �Ballast water� means any water used to manipulate the trim and stability...
783.630 Application; exclusions.
(1) ORS 783.625 to 783.640 apply to all vessels carrying ballast water into the waters of this state from a voyage, except a vessel that:...
783.635 Discharge of ballast water prohibited; exemption.
(1) Except as authorized by this section, the discharge of ballast water in the waters of this state is prohibited. (2) An owner or operator...
783.640 Reporting of ballast water management.
(1) Owners or operators of vessels regulated under ORS 783.625 to 783.640 must report ballast water management information to the Department of Environmental Quality: (a)...
783.990 Penalties.
(1) Violation of ORS 783.510 is punishable, upon conviction, in a justice or circuit court, by a fine of not less than $50 nor more...
783.992 Civil penalties.
(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, the Director of the Department of Environmental Quality may impose a civil penalty on the...

Last modified: August 7, 2008