Report of the Oregon Conservation Commission to the Governor ..., Issue 5The Commission, 1912 - Natural resources |
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Page 127 - Failure on the part of any paid fire warden to comply with the duties prescribed by this act shall be a misdemeanor, and punishable by a fine of not less than twenty dollars...
Page 132 - Sec. 4. Any person, ditch company, or ditch owner, who may deem himself injured, or discriminated against, by any such order or regulation of such superintendent of irrigation, shall have the right to appeal from the same to the state engineer, by filing with the state engineer a copy of the order or regulation complained of, and a statement of the manner in which the same injuriously affects the petitioner's interest. The state engineer shall, after due notice, hear whatever testimony may be brought...
Page 128 - Sec. 3. Any person who violates any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction, shall be subject to a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25), nor more than one hundred dollars ($100) or be confined in the county jail for any period not exceeding thirty days for each offense.
Page 128 - Any person who violates any of the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500...
Page 125 - The members of said board shall receive no compensation for their services, except their actual and necessary traveling expenses, to be paid out of the state library fund.
Page 136 - ... entered of record in its office, an order determining and establishing the several priorities of right to the use of waters of said stream...
Page 126 - ... conditions; take such action as is authorized by law to prevent and extinguish forest, brush, and grass fires; enforce all laws pertaining to forest and brush-covered land, and prosecute for any violation of such laws; co-operate with land owners...
Page 130 - ... in executing the laws thereof, the payment of which is not specifically provided for, the President of the United States is authorized to allow the payment thereof, under the special taxation of the District or Circuit Court of the District in which the said services have been or shall be rendered, to be paid from the appropriation for defraying the expenses of the Judiciary.
Page 131 - Subject to existing rights, all waters within the State may be appropriated for beneficial use. as herein provided, and not otherwise; but nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to take away or impair the vested right of any person, firm, corporation, or association, to any water.
Page 132 - There shall be constituted a board of control, to be composed of the State engineer and superintendents of the water divisions, which shall, under such regulations as may be prescribed by law, have the supervision of the waters of the State and of their appropriation, distribution, and diversion and of the various officers connected therewith. Its decisions to be subject to review by the courts of the State.