OAR 629-041-0505: Definitions

(1) The definitions set forth in ORS 477.001 and OAR 629-041-0005 shall apply to 629-041-0500 to 629-041-0575, unless the context otherwise requires. (2) The following words and phrases, when used in OAR 629-041-0500 to 629-041-0575, shall mean the following, unless the context otherwise requires: (a) "Channel" means the water course through which a stream flows at ordinary low flow. (b) "Line of ordinary high water" means the line on the bank or shore to which the high water level of a body of water ordinarily rises annually in season. (c) "Line of ordinary low water" means the line on the bank or shore to which the low water level of a body of water ordinarily recedes annually in season. (d) "Ocean shore" means the land lying between extreme low tide of the Pacific Ocean and the line of vegetation as established and described by ORS 390.770. (e) The words "east," "north," "south" and "west" mean a straight line in or close to the cardinal direction indicated and which is along lines of the cadastral survey of public lands. (f) The words "easterly," "northerly," "southerly" and "westerly", and modifications thereof, mean a straight and/or a curved line in the general direction indicated and which is along an identified feature.