ORS 540.641: Protest of cancellation; procedure.
Edition: 2025 EditionEffective: 2026-01-01Last verified: 2026-09-07
(1) If the legal owner or the occupant receiving notice as provided in ORS 540.631 fails to protest the proposed cancellation of the water right within the 60-day period prescribed in the notice, the Water Resources Commission may enter an order canceling the water right. (2) If the legal owner or the occupant receiving notice as provided in ORS 540.631 files a protest against the proposed cancellation of the water right the provisions of ORS 536.076 and 536.077 and the rules adopted thereunder apply. The commission shall cause written notice of the hearing to be given at least 10 days prior to the hearing to the person protesting the cancellation of the water right and to any other person who in the opinion of the commission is an interested party to the proceeding. (3) After a hearing the commission shall enter an order canceling the water right, canceling in part or modifying the water right, or declaring that the water right shall not be canceled or modified. [1955 c.670 §3; 1975 c.581 §26c; 1983 c.807 §3; 1985 c.673 §98; 2025 c.575 §23]
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
This rule cites
- ORS 540.631 — resolved
- ORS 536.076 — resolved
- 536.077 — resolved
Cited by
- ORS 274.040: Sale or lease of submersible lands; easements; occupation of submerged and submersible lands for water works.
- ORS 536.050: Fees; rules; refunds; waiver and reduction of certain fees.
- ORS 540.650: Issuance of new water right certificate for water rights not canceled.
- ORS 540.670: Effect of cancellation of primary water right on supplemental right; change from supplemental to primary right; priority date.
Official source: https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors540.html