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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3436
Sponsored by Representative CATE
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.The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability
standards.
Digest: The Act bars a city from making a property owner pay to cut down a tree on public
property or to fix a sidewalk for damage from such a tree. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7).
Prohibits a city from requiring a property owner to pay for the removal of a tree from public
property or repairs to a public sidewalk damaged by a tree on public property.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to costs associated with trees on public property; and prescribing an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. Notwithstanding the city’s charter, or any other provision of law, a city may
not require a property owner to:
(1) Remove, or pay for the removal of, a tree or other natural growth from public prop-
erty; or
(2) Repair, or pay for repairs to, a public sidewalk damaged by a tree or other natural
growth on public property.
SECTION 2.This 2025 Act takes effect on the 91st day after the date on which the 2025
regular session of the Eighty-third Legislative Assembly adjourns sine die.
NOTE:Matter in boldfaced type in an amended section is new; matter [italic and bracketed] is existing law to be omitted.
New sections are in boldfaced type.
LC 3733