Terms Used In Oregon Statutes > Chapter 523 > Creation and Powers

• City: includes any incorporated village or town. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
• District: means a geothermal heating district formed under this chapter. See Oregon Statutes 523.010
• Geothermal heat: means heat derived from geothermal resources. See Oregon Statutes 523.010
• Geothermal resources: means the natural heat of the earth, the energy, in whatever form, below the surface of the earth present in, resulting from, or created by, or which may be extracted from, the natural heat, and all minerals in solution or other products obtained from naturally heated fluids, brines, associated gases, and steam, in whatever form, found below the surface of the earth, exclusive of oil, hydrocarbon gas, helium or other hydrocarbon substances, but including, specifically:

  (a) All products of geothermal processes, embracing indigenous steam, hot water and hot brines;

  (b) Steam and other gases, hot water and hot brines resulting from water, gas or other fluids artificially introduced into geothermal formations;

  (c) Heat or other associated energy found in geothermal formation; and

  (d) Any by-product derived from them. See Oregon Statutes 523.010

• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Owner: means the holder of the record title to real property or the vendee under a land sale contract, if there is such a contract. See Oregon Statutes 523.010
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.