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AGENDA REQUEST & STAFF REPORT
For Board Business Meeting of February 24, 2010
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DATE: February 10, 2010
FROM: Roger Olson Road Department 322-7120
TITLE OF AGENDA ITEM:
Consideration of Signature of Order 2010-014, An Order Continuing Deschutes County as a Weed
Control District
PUBLIC HEARING ON THIS DATE? None Required
BACKGROUND AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS:
The Board of County Commissioners signed an order on March 28, 2002 declaring Deschutes County
a Weed Control District for the purpose of destroying noxious weeds and preventing the seeding and
spread of weeds declared by the Board to be noxious.
The 2009 Oregon Legislature renumbered the statutes governing noxious weed control. This Order
updates the Oregon Revised Statue references to reflect this change. This Order also directs the Weed
Inspector to publish a notice describing the District and naming the weeds to be destroyed and
prevented from producing seed within the District.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
This Order will not change the amount of funding needed to implement the weed program.
RECOMMENDATION & ACTION REQUESTED:
Staff Recommends adoption of Order 2010-014, An Order Continuing Deschutes County as a Weed
Control District
ATTENDANCE: Roger Olson, Dan Sherwin
DISTRIBUTION OF DOCUMENTS:
BOCC , Road Department
REVIEWED
LEGAL COUNSEL
For Recording Stamp Only
BEFORE THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON
An Order Continuing Deschutes County as a
Weed Control District
* ORDER NO. 2010-014
*
WHEREAS, pursuant to ORS 570.515 and Order No. 2002-037 the Board of County
Commissioners declared Deschutes County a Weed Control District; and
WHEREAS, the Oregon Legislature renumbered pertinent provisions of ORS 570.500 to
570.600 and 570.990 to 570.995 as ORS 569.350 to 569.495 and 569.990 to 569.995, respectively;
and
WHEREAS, the Board has been and continues to be authorized to declare certain weeds and
plants noxious for the purposes of ORS 570.500 to 570.600 and now ORS 569.350 to 569.495; and
WHEREAS, the Board is authorized to appoint one or more weed inspectors to carry out the
purposes of ORS 569.350 to 569.495 and to take such other actions as authorized and appropriate to
eradicate noxious weeds on private and public property; now therefore,
THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON,
HEREBY ORDERS as follows:
Section 1. That Deschutes County, as described in ORS 201.090 has been since March 28,
2002 and shall continue to be a Weed Control District for the purpose of destroying noxious weeds
and of preventing the seeding and spread of such other weeds and plants as a governing body may,
for the purposes of ORS 569.350 to 569.495, declare noxious. The name of the District shall be the
"Deschutes County Weed Control District."
Section 2. The Board hereby appoints the Deschutes County Road Department Director as
the County Weed Inspector to carry out the actions authorized and required pursuant to ORS 569.350
to 569.495.
Section 3. The Weed Inspector shall publish the Notice, marked Exhibit A, attached hereto
and by this reference incorporated herein, describing the District and naming the weeds to be
destroyed and to be prevented from producing seed within the District. This Notice shall be publishes
in The Bulletin once each week for two consecutive weeks. The Weed Inspector is authorized and
directed to enforce the provisions of ORS 569.350 to 569.495 immediately after the last publication
and this Notice.
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Section 4. Pursuant to ORS 569.400, the County Weed Inspector and such assistants as the
Weed Inspector may employ, may enter upon land or premises and do any act authorized by this
order, and is further authorized to file with the County Clerk an itemized statement of expenses
necessarily incurred, including the wages of the Weed Inspector, in accordance with ORS 569.400.
Section 5. Deschutes County Clerk is hereby authorized and directed to have printed a
sufficient number of copies of ORS 569.445 and 569.450 and deliver such copies upon request to
owners or operators of machinery described in ORS 569.445 and 569.450.
Section 6. Except as otherwise provided herein, the Weed Control District established by the
Board in 2002 is and shall continue in full force and effect. Nothing contained in this Order shall be
construed as terminating or rendering invalid Order No. 2002-037 or any actions, proceedings or
decisions brought or made pursuant to Order No. 2002-037.
Section 7. This order becomes effective on , 2010.
Dated this day of February, 2010
ATTEST:
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
DENNIS R. LUKE, CHAIR
ALAN UNGER, VICE -CHAIR
Recording Secretary TAMMY BANEY, COMMISSIONER
Page 2 of 2 ORDER 2010-014
EXHIBIT A
NOTICE
FORMATION OF DESCHUTES COUNTY WEED CONTROL DISTRICT
The Board of County Commissioners' of Deschutes County, Oregon ("Board") has
declared that Deschutes County, described in ORS 201.090, to be a Weed Control
District. The district shall be known as the "Deschutes County Weed Control District."
The following described weeds are declared to be noxious weeds and plants, and such
weeds are to be destroyed, and prevented from producing seeds within the District:
Common Name
African rue
Buffalobur
common houndstongue
dyer's woad
false brome
hydrilla
leafy spurge
meadow knapweed
Mediterranean sage
medusahead rye
musk thistle
orange hawkweed
perennial pepperweed
purple loosestrife
rush skeletonweed
Russian knapweed
Scotch thistle
squarrose knapweed
sulfur cinquefoil
saltcedar tamarix
tansy ragwort
whitetop; hoary cress
wild carrot
yellow starthistle
Canada Thistle
dalmation toadflax
diffuse knapweed
kochia (annual)
myrtle spurge
poison hemlock
Page 1 of 2 — Exhibit A to Order No. 2010-014
Botanical Name
Peganum harmala
Solanum rostratum
Cynoglossum officinale
Isatis tinctoria
Brachypodium sylvaticum
Hydrilla verticillata
Euphorbia esula
Centaurea pratensis
Salvia aethiopis
Taeniatherum caputmedusae
Carduus nutans
Hieracium aurantiacum
Lepidium latifolium
Lythrum salicaria
Chondrilla juncea
Acroptilon repens
Onopordum acanthium
Centaurea virgata
Potentilla recta
Tamarix ramosissima
Senecio jacobaea
Lepidium draba
Daucus carota
Centaurea solstitialis
Cirsium arvense
Linaria dalmatica
Centaurea diffusa
Kochia scoparia
Euphorbia myrsinites
Conium maculatum
puncturevine
Russian thistle
Scotch broom
spotted knapweed
yellow toadflax or "butter and eggs"
yellow flag iris
bur buttercup
bull thistle
cheat grass (Downy brome)
common mullein
dodder
field bindweed
filaree redstem
horseweed
poverty sumpweed
quackgrass
South American waterweed
spiny cocklebur
St Johnswort
sweet clover(s) -Only on Right of Ways
Western Water -hemlock
Tribulus terrestris
Salsola spp.
Cytisus scoparius
Centaurea biedersteinii
Linaria vulgaris
Iris pseudacorus
Ranunculus testiculatus
Cirsium vulgare
Bromus tectorum
Verbascum thapsus
Cuscuta spp.
Convolvulus arvensis
Erodium cicutarium
Conyza Canadensis
Iva axillaries
Agropyron repens
Elodea densa
Xanthium spinosum
Hypericum perforatum
Melilotus officinalis
Cicuta douglasii
The Board has appointed a County Weed Inspector who has the power to enforce ORS
569.350 to 569.495 including the right to enter upon land or premises and destroy
noxious weeds or control them in such manner as will destroy all seeds of such noxious
weeds. The County Weed Inspector is authorized to place liens upon real property to
recoup the expenses (including the wages of the Weed inspector) necessarily incurred in
the destruction of noxious weeds.
Every person, firm or corporation owning or occupying land within Deschutes County
shall destroy or prevent the seeding on such land any noxious weeds within the meaning
of ORS 569.350 to 569.495 or declared to be noxious by the Board no weed declared
noxious shall be permitted (to produce seed) by the owner or occupier of land.
Publication: THE BULLETIN
, 2010
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
FOR DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON
DENNIS R. LUKE, Chair
Page 2 of 2 — Exhibit A to Order No. 2010-014