Oregon Revised Statutes Chapter 92 § 92.050 — Requirements of survey and plat of subdivision and partition
Oregon Revised Statutes Chapter 92 ·
Oregon Code § 92.050·Enacted ·Last updated March 01, 2026
Statute Text
Requirements of survey and plat of subdivision and partition.
(1) A person shall not submit a
plat of a subdivision or partition for record, until all the requirements of
ORS 209.250 and the plat requirements of the subdivision or partition have been
met.
(2) The survey
for the plat of the subdivision or partition shall be done in a manner to
achieve sufficient accuracy that measurements may be taken between monuments
within one-tenth of a foot or one ten-thousandth of the distance shown on the
subdivision or partition plat, whichever is greater.
(3) The survey
and plat of the subdivision or partition shall be made by a registered
professional land surveyor.
(4) The plat of
the subdivision or partition shall be of sufficient scale and lettering size,
approved by the county surveyor, so that:
(a) The survey
and mathematical information and all other details are clearly and legibly
shown on the plat.
(b) Each lot or
parcel is numbered consecutively.
(c) The lengths
and courses of the boundaries of each lot or parcel are shown on the plat.
(d) Each street
is named and shown on the plat.
(5) The locations
and descriptions of all monuments found or set must be carefully recorded upon
all plats and the proper courses and distances of all boundary lines,
conforming to the surveyors certificate, must be shown.
(6) The location,
dimensions and purpose of all recorded and proposed public and private
easements must be shown on the subdivision or partition plat along with the
county clerks recording reference if the easement has been recorded by the
county clerk. Private easements become effective upon the recording of the
plat.
(7) The area of
each lot or parcel must be shown on the subdivision or partition plat.
(8) In addition
to showing bearings in degrees, minutes and seconds and distances in feet and
hundredths of a foot, the following curve information must be shown on the
subdivision or partition plat either on the face of the map or in a separate
table:
(a) Arc length;
(b) Chord length;
(c) Chord
bearing;
(d) Radius; and
(e) Central
angle.
(9) A city or
county may not require that a final subdivision, condominium or partition plat
show graphically or by notation on the final plat any information or
requirement that is or may be subject to administrative change or variance by a
city or county or any other information unless authorized by the county
surveyor. [Amended by 1955 c.756 §10; 1983 c.309 §3; 1989 c.772 §8; 1991 c.763 §10;
1993 c.702 §3; 1995 c.382 §4; 1997 c.489 §2; 1999 c.1018 §1; 2005 c.399 §5]
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Key Points
01Part of Oregon statutory law
02Referenced as Oregon Code § 92.050
03Subject to legislative amendments
04Consult a licensed attorney for application to specific cases
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