271.150 Vacation records to be filed; costs. A certified copy of the ordinance vacating any street or
plat area and any map, plat or other record in regard thereto which may be required or provided for by
law, shall be filed for record with the county clerk. The petitioner for such vacation shall bear the
recording cost and the cost of preparing and filing the certified copy of the ordinance and map. A certified
copy of any such ordinance shall be filed with the county assessor and county surveyor.
271.160 Vacations for purposes of rededication. No street shall be vacated upon the petition of any
person when it is proposed to replat or rededicate all or part of any street in lieu of the original unless
such petition is accompanied by a plat showing the proposed manner of replatting or rededicating. If the
proposed manner of replatting or rededicating or any modification thereof which may subsequently be
made meets with the approval of the city governing body, it shall require a suitable guarantee to be given
for the carrying out of such replatting or rededication or may make any vacation conditional or to take
effect only upon the consummation of such replatting or rededication.
271.170 Nature and operation of statutes. The provisions of ORS 271.080 to 271.160 are
alternative to the provisions of the charter of any incorporated city and nothing contained in those statutes
shall in anywise affect or impair the charter or other provisions of such cities for the preservation of
public access to and from transportation terminals and navigable waters.
271.180 Vacations in municipalities included in port districts; petition; power of common
council; vacating street along railroad easement. To the end that adequate facilities for terminal
trackage, structures and the instrumentalities of commerce and transportation may be provided in cities
and towns located within or forming a part of any port district organized as a municipal corporation in this
state, the governing body of such cities and towns, upon the petition of any such port, or corporation
empowered to own or operate a railroad, steamship or other transportation terminal, or railroad company
entering or operating within such city or town, or owner of property abutting any such terminal, may:
(1) Authorize any port commission, dock commission, common carrier, railroad company or terminal
company to occupy, by any structure, trackage or machinery facilitating or necessary to travel,
transportation or distribution, any street or public property, or parts thereof, within such city or town,
upon such reasonable terms and conditions as the city or town may impose.
(2) Vacate the whole or any part of any street, alley, common or public place, with such restrictions
and upon such conditions as the city governing body may deem reasonable and for the public good.
(3) If any railroad company owns or has an exclusive easement upon a definite strip within or along
any public street, alley, common or public place, and if the city governing body determines such action to
be to the advantage of the public, vacate the street area between the strip so occupied by the railroad
company and one property line opposite thereto, condition that the railroad company dedicates for street
purposes such portion of such exclusive strip occupied by it as the city governing body may determine
upon, and moves its tracks and facilities therefrom onto the street area so vacated. The right and title of
the railroad company in the vacated area shall be of the same character as previously owned by it in the
exclusive strip which it is required by the city governing body to surrender and dedicate to street
purposes.
271.190 Consent of owners of adjoining property; other required approval. No vacation of all or
part of a street, alley, common or public place shall take place under ORS 271.180 unless the consent of
the persons owning the property immediately adjoining that part of the street or alley to be vacated is
obtained thereto in writing and filed with the auditor or clerk of the city or town. No vacation shall be
made of any street, alley, public place or part thereof, if within 5,000 feet of the harbor or pierhead line of
the port, unless the port commission, or other bodies having jurisdiction over docks and wharves in the
port district involved, approves the proposed vacation in writing.