2011 Oregon Revised Statutes
ORS Volume 17, Chapters 756 - 838
ORS Chapter 772
772.510 Right of entry and condemnation by pipeline companies.


OR Rev Stat § 772.510 (through Leg Sess 2011) What's This?

(1) Any pipeline company that is a common carrier and that is regulated as to its rates or practices by the United States or any agency thereof, may enter in the manner provided by ORS 35.220 upon lands within this state outside the boundaries of incorporated cities.

(2) This right may be exercised for the purpose of examining, surveying and locating a route for any pipeline, but it shall not be done so as to create unnecessary damage.

(3) These pipeline companies may appropriate and condemn such lands, or easements thereon or thereover, in such width as is reasonably necessary to accomplish their pipeline company purposes, by proceedings for condemnation as prescribed by ORS chapter 35. [Amended by 1971 c.655 243; 1989 c.821 2; 2003 c.477 12]

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