ORS 381.720 Real property

A commission may finance, refinance, acquire or otherwise assume control of, by purchase, lease, donation or other means, real property or personal property, structures, property rights, franchises, easements or other property interests, whether situated within the State of Oregon or the State of Washington, as the board deems necessary or incidental to the purposes of the commission.

The commission may exercise the power of eminent domain to acquire by condemnation any property, structures, property rights, franchises, easements or other property interests situated within the State of Oregon or the State of Washington as the board deems necessary or incidental to the purposes of the commission, subject to the applicable laws described in ORS 381.745 (3). Property owned or held by a state or a local government may not be taken by the commission without the prior consent of the state or local government.