Oregon Statutes 366.340 – Acquisition of real property generally
The Department of Transportation may acquire by purchase, agreement, donation or by exercise of the power of eminent domain real property, or any right or interest therein, including any easement or right of access, deemed necessary for:
Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 366.340
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Department: means the Department of Transportation. See Oregon Statutes 366.005
- Highway: means every public way, road, street, thoroughfare and place, including bridges, viaducts and other structures within the boundaries of this state, open, used or intended for use of the general public for vehicles or vehicular traffic as a matter of right. See Oregon Statutes 366.005
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
- State highway: means any road or highway designated as such by law or by the Oregon Transportation Commission pursuant to law and includes both primary and secondary state highways. See Oregon Statutes 366.005
(1) Construction of shops, equipment sheds, office buildings, maintenance sites, patrolmen accommodations, snow fences, quarry sites, gravel pits, storage sites, stock pile sites, weighing stations and broadcasting stations.
(2) Appropriation, acquisition or manufacture of road-building materials, approach or hauling roads, connecting roads, frontage road, highway drainage and drainage tunnels.
(3) Maintenance of an unobstructed view of any state highway so as to provide for the safety of the traveling public.
(4) Any other use or purpose deemed necessary for carrying out the purposes of this Act.
(5) Elimination or prevention of hazardous or undesirable points of entry from adjacent property to state highways. [Amended by 1953 c.252 § 2]
[Amended by 1957 c.392 § 1; 1963 c.601 § 2; renumbered 390.110]
[Amended by 1959 c.611 § 3; 1963 c.601 § 3; renumbered 390.160]
[Renumbered 390.210]