ORS 537.334: Findings.
Edition: 2025 EditionEffective: 2026-01-01Last verified: 2026-09-07
The people of the State of Oregon find and declare that: (1) Public uses are beneficial uses. (2) The recognition of an in-stream water right under ORS 537.336 to 537.348 shall not diminish the public’s rights in the ownership and control of the waters of this state or the public trust therein. The establishment of an in-stream water right under the provisions of ORS 537.332 to 537.360 shall not take away or impair any permitted, certificated or decreed right to any waters or to the use of any waters vested prior to the date the in-stream water right is established pursuant to the provisions of ORS 537.332 to 537.360. [1987 c.859 §3]
Administrative rules citing this section
- OAR 340-056-0015: Policy — authority
- OAR 340-056-0100: Definitions — authority
- OAR 340-056-0200: Selection of Receiving Waters for Instream Water Rights Application — implements
- OAR 340-056-0200: Selection of Receiving Waters for Instream Water Rights Application — authority
- OAR 340-056-0300: Instream Water Rights Evaluation and Application Procedures — implements
- OAR 340-056-0300: Instream Water Rights Evaluation and Application Procedures — authority
- OAR 340-056-0320: Periodic Review of Instream Water Rights — implements
- OAR 340-056-0320: Periodic Review of Instream Water Rights — authority
- OAR 340-056-0400: Flow Determination Methodology — implements
- OAR 340-056-0400: Flow Determination Methodology — authority
- OAR 690-013-0005: Introduction — implements
- OAR 690-013-0010: Definitions — implements
- OAR 690-013-0030: Eligibility to Petition — implements
- OAR 690-013-0050: Individual Applications — implements
- OAR 690-013-0070: Interim Transfers — implements
- OAR 690-013-0100: District Petitions — implements
- OAR 690-013-0110: Requests for Additional Information — implements
- OAR 690-013-0150: District Shall Certify Petition — implements
- OAR 690-013-0310: Processing of Petition — implements
- OAR 690-013-0350: Field Verification of the Petition and Map — implements
- OAR 690-077-0000: Purpose — implements
- OAR 690-077-0010: Definitions — implements
- OAR 690-077-0019: State Agency Instream Water Right Applications: Process for Instream Water Right Certificate Requests — implements
- OAR 690-077-0019: State Agency Instream Water Right Applications: Process for Instream Water Right Certificate Requests — authority
- OAR 690-077-0020: State Agency Instream Water Right Applications: Application Requirements — implements
- OAR 690-077-0027: Application Processing: Completeness Review — implements
- OAR 690-077-0029: Application Processing: Initial Review — implements
- OAR 690-077-0031: Application Processing: Public Notice and Comments — implements
- OAR 690-077-0033: Application Processing: Public Interest Presumption — implements
- OAR 690-077-0037: Application Processing: Public Interest Review — implements
- OAR 690-077-0039: Application Processing: Proposed Final Order — implements
- OAR 690-077-0043: Application Processing: Protests and Conduct of Contested Case; Final Orders on Default when No Protest Filed — implements
- OAR 690-077-0047: Application Processing: Final Orders — implements
- OAR 690-077-0048: Application Processing: Final Public Interest Determination — implements
- OAR 690-077-0049: Application Processing: Statement of Findings — implements
- OAR 690-077-0051: Application Processing: Contested Case Hearing on Final Order that Modifies Proposed Final Order — implements
- OAR 690-077-0052: Application Processing: Time Requirements — implements
- OAR 690-077-0053: Application Processing: Issuance of Instream Water Right Certificate — implements
- OAR 690-077-0054: Conversion of Minimum Perennial Streamflows to Instream Water Rights — implements
- OAR 690-077-0065: Instream Transfers and Leases: General Provisions — implements
- OAR 690-077-0065: Instream Transfers and Leases: General Provisions — authority
- OAR 690-077-0076: Application for an Instream Lease — implements
- OAR 690-077-0077: Processing an Instream Lease Application — authority
- OAR 690-077-0079: Split Season Use Instream Leasing — implements
- OAR 690-077-0105: Application for Expedited Instream Lease Renewal — authority
- OAR 690-077-0110: Processing an Application for Instream Lease Renewal — authority
This rule cites
- ORS 537.336 — resolved
- 537.348 — resolved
- ORS 537.332 — resolved
- 537.360 — resolved
Cited by
No inbound citations found.
Official source: https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors537.html