Oregon Statutes 366.332 – Definitions for ORS 366.332 and 366.333
As used in this section and ORS § 366.333:
Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 366.332
- City: includes any incorporated village or town. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
- Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
(1) ‘Real property’ includes any right, title or interest in real property.
(2) ‘Utility’ means any corporation, including municipal or quasi-municipal corporation, company, individual, association of individuals, lessee, trustee or receiver, that owns, operates, manages or controls all or part of any plant or equipment in this state, whether or not such plant or equipment or part thereof is wholly within or outside any city, which plant or equipment is used, directly or indirectly:
(a) For the conveyance of telegraph or telephone messages, with or without wires;
(b) For the transportation of water, gas or petroleum products by pipelines;
(c) For the production, transmission, delivery or furnishing of heat, light, water, power, electricity or electrical impulses; or
(d) For the transmission and delivery of television pictures and sound by cables. [1965 c.382 § 2]