ORS 540.621: Cancellation of abandoned water right upon request of owner.
Edition: 2025 EditionEffective: 2026-01-01Last verified: 2026-09-07
Whenever the owner of a perfected and developed water right certifies under oath to the Water Resources Commission that the water right has been abandoned by the owner and that the owner desires cancellation thereof, the commission shall enter an order canceling the water right. Effective upon the date of the entering of such order, the water which was the subject of use under the water right shall revert to the public and become again the subject of appropriation in the manner provided by law, subject to existing priorities. [1955 c.670 §1; 1979 c.67 §5; 1985 c.673 §96]
Administrative rules citing this section
- 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 690-017-0005: Introduction — implements
- OAR 690-017-0010: Definitions — implements
- OAR 690-017-0100: Cancellation Authorized by Record Owner — implements
- OAR 690-017-0200: Watermaster Affidavit of Inability to Appropriate or Beneficially Use Water — implements
- OAR 690-017-0300: Notice of Watermaster Affidavit to Record Owner — implements
- OAR 690-017-0400: Cancellation Initiated by Department — implements
- OAR 690-017-0600: Protest of Cancellation/Statement of Intent to Rebut Presumption of Forfeiture — implements
- OAR 690-017-0700: Cancellation Hearing — implements
- OAR 690-017-0800: Grounds for and Manner of Rebutting a Presumption of Forfeiture — implements
- OAR 690-017-0900: Time Period of Non-Use — implements
- OAR 690-320-0070: Primary and Supplemental Rights — implements
- OAR 690-330-0040: Primary and Supplemental Rights — implements
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