ORS § 477.085

Current through 2024 Regular Session legislation
Section 477.085 - Liability for cost of protecting land within a forest protection district

Any person who willfully or negligently sets a fire or causes a fire to be set for which efforts to control or extinguish the fire in order to protect forestland within a forest protection district from fire are exerted by the forester or any forest protective association or agency under contract or agreement with the State Board of Forestry is liable for the actual costs incurred by the forester, association or agency in such efforts. The costs shall be recovered from the person liable therefor in the same manner as costs recovered under ORS 477.068.

ORS 477.085

1965 c.428 §7; 1967 c.429 §2; 1997 c.274 §3a; 1999 c.355 §4