Bill Text: OR HB2016 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

Oregon House Bill 2016 (Prior Session Legislation)

OR State Legislature page for HB2016

Bill Title: Relating to limiting liability of landowner allowing access to land for specified purposes.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Failed) 2013-07-08 - In committee upon adjournment. [HB2016 Detail]

Download: Oregon-2013-HB2016-Introduced.html



     77th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2013 Regular Session

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LC 3666

                         House Bill 2016

Sponsored by Representative BERGER, Senator JOHNSON;
  Representatives BAILEY, BENTZ, BOONE

                             SUMMARY

The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.

  Modifies definition of 'recreational purposes' for purpose of
limiting liability of landowner that allows access to land for
recreational purposes.

                        A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to limiting liability of landowner allowing access to
  land for specified purposes; amending ORS 105.672.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
  SECTION 1. ORS 105.672 is amended to read:
  105.672. As used in ORS 105.672 to 105.696:
  (1) 'Charge':
  (a) Means the admission price or fee requested or expected by
an owner in return for granting permission for a person to enter
or go upon the owner's land.
  (b) Does not mean any amount received from a public body in
return for granting permission for the public to enter or go upon
the owner's land.
  (c) Does not include the fee for a winter recreation parking
permit or any other parking fee of $15 or less per day.
  (2) 'Harvest' has that meaning given in ORS 164.813.
  (3) 'Land' includes all real property, whether publicly or
privately owned.
  (4) 'Owner' means the possessor of any interest in any land,
such as the holder of a fee title, a tenant, a lessee, an
occupant, the holder of an easement, the holder of a right of way
or a person in possession of the land.
  (5) 'Recreational purposes' includes, but is not limited to,
outdoor activities such as hunting, fishing, swimming, boating,
camping, picnicking, hiking, nature study, outdoor educational
activities, waterskiing, winter sports, viewing or enjoying
historical, archaeological, scenic or scientific sites { + ,
noncommercial aviation activities + } or volunteering for any
public purpose project.
  (6) 'Special forest products' has that meaning given in ORS
164.813.
  (7) 'Woodcutting' means the cutting or removal of wood from
land by an individual who has obtained permission from the owner
of the land to cut or remove wood.
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