OAR 736-021-0020. Statutory Authority

This division is adopted pursuant to: (1) ORS 390.050, which authorizes the director and the director's designees to enforce park and ocean shore state recreation area rules by citation authority; and (2) ORS 390.635 and 390.660, which grant the Oregon State Parks and Recreation Commission the following: (a) Complete jurisdiction and authority to administer as state recreation areas, all ocean shore areas owned by the state and all other public easements or other rights of access that the state holds on the ocean shore; (b) Authority to protect and maintain such areas in a manner that will contribute to the general welfare of the public and the natural and cultural resources thereon; and (c) Authority to make regulations and provisions as it deems necessary for the use and administration of such areas.