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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 479
Sponsored by Senator MEEK (Presession filed.)
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: This Act says that DEQ may not find that a sewer is available to a property unless it
is less than 200 feet from the property. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.0).
Prohibits the Department of Environmental Quality from determining, for purposes of issuing a
sewage disposal construction permit, that a community or area-wide sewerage system is available
unless the sewerage system is within 200 feet of the property to be served.
Sunsets January 2, 2031.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to sewage disposal system permits; and prescribing an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. For purposes of ORS 454.655 (4), the Department of Environmental Quality
may not determine that a community or area-wide sewerage system is available unless the
sewerage system is within 200 feet of the property to be served.
SECTION 2.Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2031.
SECTION 3.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.
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