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2015 Oregon Revised Statutes
Volume : 07 - Public Facilities, Finance
Chapter 274 - Submersible and Submerged Lands
Section 274.490 - Settlement of conflicting preferential rights.
OR Rev Stat § 274.490 (2015) What's This?
Settlers within the meander line of any meandered lake have the first preferential right, and the Department of State Lands shall, so far as practicable, work out the various preferential rights by securing to each, all the lands which would be most advantageously used by such several persons. In case of conflict, the department shall give the parties a reasonable time in which to agree, and if they cannot agree, the department shall decide the matter and make conveyances as it considers equitable, and its decision in the matter shall be final. The department shall fix the time within which such preferential rights shall be exercised.
[Amended by 1967 c.421 §138]
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