Oregon Statutes - Chapter 8 - Court Officers and District Attorneys

• 8.010   [Amended by 1953 c.382 §4; 1969 c.198 §36; 1983 c.763 §28; renumbered 8.155]
• 8.020   [Amended by 1965 c.225 §1; 1981 c.126 §1; 1981 s.s.1 c.3 §23; repealed by 1983 c.77 §1]
• 8.030   [Repealed by 1983 c.77 §1]
• 8.060   [Formerly 2.350; repealed by 1971 c.193 §30]
• 8.070   [1965 c.328 §1; 1975 c.260 §1; 1977 c.594 §1; repealed by 1981 s.s.1 c.3 §141]
• 8.075   [1977 c.594 §3; repealed by 1981 s.s.1 c.3 §141]
• 8.100   Authority of Judicial Department to require fingerprints.
  For the purpose of requesting a state or nationwide criminal records check under ORS 181.534, the Judicial Department may require the fingerprints of a person...
• 8.110   State Court Administrator; appointment; term; duties.
  (1) The office of State Court Administrator is established. (2) The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court shall appoint after conferring with and seeking the...
• 8.120   Duties as court administrator for Supreme Court and Court of Appeals; delegation.
  (1) The State Court Administrator shall, for the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals: (a) Act as court administrator for the court. (b) Keep the...
• 8.125   Duties to assist Chief Justice and other courts.
  The State Court Administrator shall, to the extent directed by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: (1) Assist the Chief Justice in exercising administrative...
• 8.130   Fees payable to State Treasurer.
  Unless otherwise provided by law, all fees and other moneys collected by the State Court Administrator shall be paid to the State Treasurer promptly, and...
• 8.140   [Amended by 1971 c.193 §4; repealed by 1981 s.s. c.1 §25]
• 8.150   Appointment and compensation of employees.
  The State Court Administrator, with the approval of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, may appoint and shall fix the compensation of employees to...
• 8.155   Bailiffs of higher courts.
  (1) Bailiffs for the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals shall be appointed under a personnel plan established by the Chief Justice of the...
• 8.160   Administrator and staff not to engage in private practice of law.
  The State Court Administrator and employees of the administrator shall not engage in the private practice of law. [Amended by 1953 c.382 §4; 1971 c.193...
• 8.170   Status of court officers and employees.
  Officers and employees of the Supreme Court, Court of Appeals and Oregon Tax Court, and employees of the State Court Administrator, who are appointed under...
• 8.172   [1995 c.658 §146; repealed by 2001 c.823 §24 (1.204 enacted in lieu of 8.172)]
• 8.185   Trial court administrator for judicial district.
  Unless otherwise ordered by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, there shall be a trial court administrator for each judicial district described in ORS...
• 8.195   Appointment of trial court administrators; removal.
  (1) Subject to applicable provisions of a personnel plan established by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, a person to serve as trial court...
• 8.205   [1981 s.s. c.3 §10; 1995 c.658 §19; repealed by 1997 c.801 §131]
• 8.210   [Repealed by 1973 c.781 §4]
• 8.215   [1981 s.s. c.3 §11; 1995 c.658 §20a; 1995 c.781 §19; repealed by 1997 c.801 §131]
• 8.220   [Repealed by 1973 c.781 §4]
• 8.225   Duties of trial court administrator; delegation; transcript coordinator.
  (1) The trial court administrator for a judicial district has the duties, powers and functions prescribed by law or by rules of the circuit courts...
• 8.235   Trial court administrators as state employees.
  Trial court administrators appointed under ORS 8.195 and other nonjudicial officers and employees of the circuit courts who are appointed under a personnel plan established...
• 8.245   Trial court administrators and other personnel not to engage in private practice of law.
  Trial court administrators appointed under ORS 8.195 and other nonjudicial officers and employees of the circuit courts who are appointed under a personnel plan established...
• 8.255   Agreement between state and county to provide services with county employees; payment to county; supervision of employees.
  (1) The State Court Administrator, on behalf of the state, and the governing body of a county, on behalf of the county, may enter into...
• 8.260   [1953 c.34 §6; repealed by 1959 c.552 §16]
• 8.270   Collective bargaining rights of court administrators and staff.
  All officers and employees of the courts of this state who are referred to in ORS 8.170 and 8.235 are subject to collective bargaining to...
• 8.310   [Amended by 1965 c.369 §1; 1967 c.229 §1; 1971 c.565 §2; 1981 c.126 §2; repealed by 1981 s.s. c.3 §141]
• 8.320   [Amended by 1971 c.565 §3; repealed by 1981 s.s. c.3 §141]
• 8.330   [Repealed by 1981 s.s. c.3 §141]
• 8.340   Reporter’s duties.
  (1) It is the duty of each official reporter of the circuit court, justice court or municipal court to attend the court for which the...
• 8.350   Transcript of testimony.
  When a report of the proceedings, or any part thereof, has been made in any case as provided in ORS 8.340, if the court or...
• 8.360   Certified report as prima facie correct; reading as deposition; proceedings where reporter has ceased to be official reporter.
  (1) The report of the official reporter, when transcribed and certified to as being a correct transcript of the notes or audio records of the...
• 8.370   [Amended by 1953 c.566 §2; repealed by 1959 c.445 §1]
• 8.372   [Formerly part of 8.381; repealed by 1981 s.s. c.3 §141]
• 8.375   [Formerly part of 8.381; repealed by 1981 s.s. c.3 §141]
• 8.377   [Formerly part of 8.381; 1981 c.759 §9; repealed by 1981 s.s. c.3 §141]
• 8.379   [Formerly part of 8.381; 1971 c.144 §1; 1971 c.390 §1; repealed by 1981 s.s. c.3 §141]
• 8.380   [Amended by 1953 c.550 §22; 1957 c.666 §1; 1957 c.713 §15; 1959 c.509 §1; repealed by 1961 c.447 §1]
• 8.381   [1961 c.447 §3; 1965 c.369 §2; 1967 c.532 §6; 1967 c.533 §16; parts renumbered 8.372, 8.375, 8.377, 8.379, 8.383, 8.385 and 8.387]
• 8.383   [Formerly part of 8.381; 1981 c.759 §10; repealed by 1981 s.s. c.3 §141]
• 8.385   [Formerly part of 8.381; repealed by 1981 s.s. c.3 §141]
• 8.387   [Formerly part of 8.381; 1971 c.777 §6; 1975 c.430 §1; repealed by 1981 s.s. c.3 §141]
• 8.390   [Amended by 1953 c.550 §22; 1961 c.447 §2; repealed by 1981 s.s. c.3 §141]
• 8.395   [1967 c.273 §1; repealed by 1981 s.s. c.3 §141]
• 8.400   [Amended by 1953 c.550 §22; repealed by 1981 s.s. c.3 §141]
• 8.410   [Repealed by 1981 s.s. c.3 §141]
• 8.415   Definitions for ORS 8.415 to 8.455.
  As used in ORS 8.415 to 8.455, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) “Administrator” means the State Court Administrator. (2) “Advisory committee” means the Certified...
• 8.420   Qualifications and certification of shorthand reporters.
  (1) The State Court Administrator shall verify the qualifications of shorthand reporters to be certified and shall issue the certificate of shorthand reporter to qualified...
• 8.430   Certification speed requirements.
  (1) Except as provided by policy established by the State Court Administrator each applicant for certification as a shorthand reporter shall satisfy the following shorthand...
• 8.435   Certificate of certified shorthand reporter; prohibition on use of title “certified shorthand reporter” unless certified.
  (1) The certificate of certified shorthand reporter shall be granted to any person who meets the requirements of ORS 8.415 to 8.455 and policies of...
• 8.440   Grounds for revocation, suspension or refusal to issue certificate.
  (1) The State Court Administrator may: (a) Revoke, suspend or refuse to issue any certificate described in ORS 8.415 to 8.455 or policies of the...
• 8.445   Fees.
  (1) The State Court Administrator shall establish a fee schedule for fees authorized by ORS 8.415 to 8.455, as follows: (a) Not to exceed $100...
• 8.450   Disposition of fees and other revenues.
  All fees, moneys and other revenues received or collected under ORS 8.415 to 8.455 shall be paid into the account established in ORS 45.294, and...
• 8.455   Advisory committee, membership; terms.
  (1) There is created a Certified Shorthand Reporters Advisory Committee consisting of seven members appointed by the State Court Administrator as follows: (a) Four members...
• 8.510   [Amended by 1953 c.566 §2; 1957 c.706 §1; 1963 c.494 §1; 1981 c.215 §9; repealed by 1981 s.s c.3 §141]
• 8.610   Election and term of office.
  A district attorney for each county shall be elected by the electors of the county, at the general election or, if applicable, at the election...
• 8.620   Filing certificate of election.
  A person elected to the office of district attorney must, before entering upon the office, qualify by filing with the Secretary of State the certificate...
• 8.630   Qualifications; general powers and duties.
  A person elected district attorney must, at the time of election, have been admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of Oregon. District attorneys shall...
• 8.640   Filling vacancies in office.
  When a vacancy occurs in the office of district attorney, the Governor must appoint some suitable person to fill the vacancy until the next election...
• 8.650   District attorney as public prosecutor.
  The district attorney in each county is the public prosecutor therein and has the authority to appear and prosecute violations of the charter and ordinances...
• 8.660   Attending court and prosecuting offenses.
  (1) The district attorney shall attend the terms of all courts having jurisdiction of public offenses within the district attorney’s county, and, except as otherwise...
• 8.665   Prosecuting violations.
  Upon the issuance of a citation by any person authorized to issue citations for violations, a district attorney shall prosecute the case if it appears...
• 8.670   Proceedings before magistrates and grand jury.
  The district attorney shall institute proceedings before magistrates for the arrest of persons charged with or reasonably suspected of public offenses, when the district attorney...
• 8.675   Priority given to administration of laws relating to public assistance and enforcement of support.
  In the performance of official duties, unless otherwise specifically required by law and except for criminal and juvenile proceedings, the district attorney shall give priority...
• 8.680   Prosecuting and collecting penalties and forfeitures; prosecuting and defending for state.
  The district attorney shall prosecute for all penalties and forfeitures to the state that may be incurred in the county of the district attorney, and...
• 8.685   Assisting juvenile court; right to appear.
  (1) The district attorney shall, upon request of the juvenile court, appear in the juvenile court to assist the court in any matter within its...
• 8.690   Advising and representing county officers and employees.
  Upon request of a county officer, the district attorney and deputies of the district attorney shall advise the county court and other county officers on...
• 8.700   Register to be kept.
  The district attorney must keep a register of official business, in which the district attorney shall make a note of every action, suit or proceeding...
• 8.710   Disqualification; appointment of special district attorney.
  If a district attorney fails to attend any court at which the district attorney is required to be, or is related to the accused by...
• 8.720   Receiving private fee in criminal action; acting as attorney in civil action involving same controversy.
  A district attorney shall not receive any fee or reward from any private person for services in any criminal action, nor during the pendency of...
• 8.725   [1957 c.645 §2; 1959 c.539 §1; 1961 c.586 §3; repealed by 1965 c.633 §4]
• 8.726   District attorneys and deputies prohibited from engaging in private practice of law; exception.
  (1) Except as authorized by subsection (2) of this section, district attorneys and deputy district attorneys may not engage in the private practice of law....
• 8.730   Partner prosecuting or defending certain cases.
  It is not lawful for any district attorney who has a law partner to allow that partner to prosecute or defend divorce cases or to...
• 8.740   [Amended by 1953 c.652 §6; 1957 c.490 §1; 1959 c.539 §2; 1961 c.586 §2; repealed by 1967 c.556 §5]
• 8.750   [Repealed by 1959 c.432 §62 (8.685 enacted in lieu of 8.750)]
• 8.760   Deputies may be authorized and paid by county.
  The county court or board of county commissioners may empower the district attorney to appoint one or more deputy district attorneys whose compensation shall be...
• 8.770   [Repealed by 1961 c.586 §6]
• 8.780   Appointment of deputies; qualifications; duties.
  A district attorney shall appoint deputies. A deputy district attorney shall have the same qualifications as the district attorney, and subject to the direction of...
• 8.790   Compensation of district attorney and deputies limited to salaries.
  No salary, fees, percentage or compensation of any kind shall be allowed, paid to or received by any district attorney or deputy district attorney except...
• 8.795   [1957 c.645 §3; 1959 c.539 §3; 1961 c.586 §6a; repealed by 1965 c.633 §4]
• 8.800   [1953 c.652 §6; 1957 c.645 §1; 1959 c.539 §4; 1961 c.586 §1; repealed by 1965 c.633 §4]
• 8.801   [1965 c.633 §1; 1967 c.597 §1; 1969 c.320 §1; repealed by 1971 c.711 §6]
• 8.810   [Repealed by 1967 c.111 §7]
• 8.820   [Repealed by 1967 c.111 §7]
• 8.830   Additional compensation from county for district attorney and deputies paid by state.
  Whenever, in the judgment of any county court or board of county commissioners, the salaries paid by the state to the district attorney, or to...
• 8.840   [Repealed by 1953 c.652 §6]
• 8.850   Offices, supplies and stenographic assistance for district attorneys and deputies.
  Each county shall provide the district attorney and any deputies for such county with such office space, facilities, supplies and stenographic assistance as is necessary...
• 8.852   Salary plan for district attorneys.
  The district attorneys of the various counties shall be paid monthly salaries as adopted in the salary plan provided for in ORS 240.240 (2), to...

Last modified: August 7, 2008