Since the formation of this country, the law has allowed a right of action allowing a court to resolve a property-line dispute between neighboring property owners. If two neighbors dispute the proper location of the boundary between their parcels, the law gives them the right to seek a decision from the court as to the correct boundary line. This bill requires state and local planning agencies and departments to recognize and honor a court judgment that establishes a boundary line and resolves a dispute between two neighbors. While this seems obvious, the bill was necessary because the Multnomah County Planning Department, unfazed by centuries of settled law and both the federal and state Constitutions, decided that a judgment entered by a local trial court judge in a property line lawsuit that changed the boundaries between two parcels resulted in both parcels becoming “illegal”. The legislature made it clear that a judge’s decision should be respected.