Oregon Statutes 274.705 – Definitions for ORS 274.705 to 274.860
As used in ORS § 274.705 to 274.860, unless the context requires otherwise:
Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 274.705
- Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
- Land: includes water, water rights, easements of every nature and all appurtenances to land. See Oregon Statutes 274.005
- Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
- Material: includes gravel, rock, sand and silt, but does not include hard minerals subject to ORS § 274. See Oregon Statutes 274.005
(1) ‘Development’ includes geophysical activity, drilling, platform construction, pipeline construction, operation of onshore support facilities and any other activities undertaken following the discovery of oil, gas or sulfur, the principal purpose of which is to prepare for the ultimate production of the oil, gas or sulfur.
(2) ‘Exploration’ means any activity the principal purpose of which is to define, characterize or evaluate oil, gas or sulfur resources for possible commercial development or production.
(3) ‘Filled lands’ includes submerged and submersible lands reclaimed artificially through raising such lands above the highest probable elevation of the tides to form dry land, by placement of a fill or deposit of earth, rock, sand or other solid imperishable material.
(4) ‘Gas’ means all natural gas and all other fluid hydrocarbons not defined as oil in subsection (6) of this section, including condensate originally in the gaseous phase in the reservoir.
(5) ‘Lease’ means an oil, gas and sulfur lease issued pursuant to ORS § 274.705 to 274.860.
(6) ‘Oil’ means crude petroleum oil and all other hydrocarbons, regardless of gravity, which are produced in liquid form by ordinary production methods, but does not include liquid hydrocarbons that were originally in a gaseous phase in the reservoir.
(7) ‘Person,’ in addition to the meanings defined by ORS § 174.100, includes quasi-public corporations, political subdivisions and governmental agencies and instrumentalities.
(8) ‘Production’ means any activity the principal purpose of which is to engage in, monitor or conduct operations or maintenance related to the active extraction and transportation of oil, gas or sulfur from tidal submerged lands.
(9) ‘Structure’ means any construction works, including but not limited to derricks, pipelines, lines for the transmission and distribution of electricity, telephone lines, wharves, piers, slips, warehouses and units designed to act as groins, jetties, seawalls, breakwaters or bulkheads.
(10) ‘Territorial sea’ has the meaning given that term in ORS § 196.405.
(11) ‘Tidal submerged lands’ means lands lying below the line of mean low tide in the beds of all tidal waters within the boundaries of this state as heretofore or hereafter established. [1961 c.619 § 1; 1967 c.421 § 158; 2019 c.14 § 2]