Oregon Statutes - Chapter 203 - County Governing Bodies; County Home Rule

• 203.010   General powers of county as body politic and corporate.
  Each county is a body politic and corporate for the following purposes: (1) To sue and be sued; (2) To purchase and hold for the...
• 203.015   Power of county to contract for purchase or lease of real or personal property.
  (1) A county may enter into a contract for the purchase or for the lease with option to purchase of real or personal property when:...
• 203.020   [Repealed by 1979 c.492 §1]
• 203.030   Definition for ORS 203.030 to 203.075.
  As used in ORS 203.030 to 203.075, “governing body” means the representative body vested with legislative power by statute or charter. [1973 c.282 §1]
• 203.035   Power of county governing body or electors over matters of county concern.
  (1) Subject to subsection (3) of this section, the governing body or the electors of a county may by ordinance exercise authority within the county...
• 203.040   Applicability of ordinances inside city.
  Except by consent of the governing body or the electors of a city and except in cities not regularly operating as such through elected governmental...
• 203.045   Procedure for adopting ordinance; exception by charter or certain statutes.
  (1) This section does not apply to a county that prescribes by charter the manner of adopting ordinances for the county or to an ordinance...
• 203.050   [1973 c.282 §5; 1975 c.736 §2; repealed by 1979 c.190 §431]
• 203.055   Referral of revenue related ordinance.
  Any ordinance, adopted by a county governing body under ORS 203.035 and imposing, or providing an exemption from, taxation shall receive the approval of the...
• 203.060   Judicial review and invalidation of ordinances.
  Ordinances adopted under ORS 203.030 to 203.075 shall be subject to judicial review and invalidation on account of unreasonableness, procedural error in adoption, or conflict...
• 203.065   Penalties; remedies; enforcement; status of nuisance declared by ordinance; disposition of fines.
  (1) Subject to ORS 153.025, violation of an ordinance adopted by a county governing body under ORS 203.030 to 203.075 is a Class A violation....
• 203.075   Payment of assessments in installments; applicable law.
  When a county governing body orders the construction of a local improvement and levies an assessment for all or part of the cost of the...
• 203.077   Camping by homeless on public property; local governments required to develop policy for removal of camps.
  All municipalities and counties shall: (1) Develop a policy that recognizes the social nature of the problem of homeless individuals camping on public property. (2)...
• 203.079   Required elements of local government policies on camping by homeless.
  (1) A policy developed pursuant to ORS 203.077 shall include, but is not limited to, the following: (a) Prior to removing homeless individuals from an...
• 203.081   Sites not subject to ORS 203.077 to 203.081.
  As used in ORS 203.077 to 203.081, “camping site” does not include: (1) Public property that is a day use recreational area. (2) Public property...
• 203.082   Camping by homeless on property of religious institutions; required elements of policies of local governments and religious institutions.
  (1) Any political subdivision in this state may allow churches, synagogues and similar religious institutions to offer overnight camping space on institution property to homeless...
• 203.085   County election dates; procedures for emergency elections.
  (1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, no election on a county measure or for a county office shall be held on...
• 203.090   State preemption of local laws relating to private security providers.
  The provisions of ORS 181.620, 181.870 to 181.887 and 181.991 preempt any laws of the political subdivisions of this state relating to the regulation of...
• 203.110   [Amended by 1971 c.88 §6; repealed by 1981 c.140 §2 (203.111 enacted in lieu of 203.110)]
• 203.111   County governing body; legislative authority; quorum.
  Unless otherwise provided by county charter, a county court shall be the governing body and shall exercise general legislative authority over all matters of county...
• 203.113   [1981 c.529 §2; 1983 c.827 §46; repealed by 1987 c.793 §2]
• 203.115   Statutory power to set fees limited to once annually.
  A county governing body shall not change the amount of a fee it has set pursuant to statute within one year after setting that fee....
• 203.120   [Amended by 1959 c.532 §1; 1963 c.31 §1; 1973 c.494 §1; 1981 c.153 §55; repealed by 1981 c.140 §5]
• 203.121   [1965 c.419 §2; 1969 c.516 §1; renumbered 203.145]
• 203.122   [1959 c.139 §1; 1965 c.432 §1; repealed by 1981 c.41 §3]
• 203.123   [1969 c.511 §3; 1971 c.743 §345; repealed by 1981 c.41 §3]
• 203.124   [1959 c.649 §§1,2,3; repealed by 1981 c.41 §3]
• 203.125   [Repealed by 1981 c.41 §3]
• 203.127   [1973 c.487 §§1,2,3,4; 1975 c.239 §4; repealed by 1981 c.41 §3]
• 203.130   [Amended by 1955 c.273 §1; repealed by 1981 c.41 §3]
• 203.132   Inclusion of property outside county or in city in county assessment for local improvement.
  (1) The governing body of a county may include property located outside the county or within a city as part of the property to be...
• 203.135   Exercise of eminent domain power by county governing body for road, park and other public purposes.
  In addition to any other powers granted to a county under state law or county charter, a county governing body may exercise the power of...
• 203.140   [Amended by 1963 c.9 §3; repealed by 1981 c.41 §3]
• 203.145   Appointment of legal counsel for county governing body; authority of counsel; compensation.
  (1) As used in this section, “board” means board of county commissioners, county court or county governing body of a county, as the case may...
• 203.148   Public Land Corner Preservation Fund; fees for recording.
  (1) The county governing body may establish by ordinance a fund to be known as the Public Land Corner Preservation Fund. Moneys in the Public...
• 203.150   [Repealed by 1981 c.41 §3]
• 203.160   [Repealed by 1981 c.41 §3]
• 203.170   [Amended by 1953 c.477 §7; 1957 c.49 §1; repealed by 1981 c.41 §3]
• 203.180   [Repealed by 1953 c.306 §18]
• 203.190   [Repealed by 1981 c.41 §3]
• 203.200   [Repealed by 1979 c.772 §17]
• 203.210   [Amended by 1953 c.306 §17; repealed by 1971 c.88 §8]
• 203.219   [1953 c.477 §1; repealed by 1971 c.88 §8]
• 203.220   [1953 c.477 §3; repealed by 1971 c.88 §8]
• 203.223   [1959 c.174 §1; repealed by 1971 c.88 §8]
• 203.224   [1959 c.174 §4; repealed by 1981 c.41 §3]
• 203.226   [1963 c.386 §1; repealed by 1971 c.88 §8]
• 203.228   [1963 c.386 §3; repealed by 1981 c.41 §3]
• 203.230   Abolishing office of county judge and establishing board of county commissioners in noncharter county; referral of order; operative date.
  (1) The county court of any county which has not adopted a county charter pursuant to ORS 203.710 to 203.770, and in which the county...
• 203.240   Organization, powers and duties of board.
  (1) A board of county commissioners shall: (a) Have the powers and duties and be otherwise subject to the laws applicable to county courts sitting...
• 203.310   [Repealed by 1959 c.527 §11]
• 203.320   [Repealed by 1959 c.527 §11]
• 203.330   [Repealed by 1959 c.527 §11]
• 203.340   [Repealed by 1959 c.527 §11]
• 203.350   [Repealed by 1959 c.527 §11]
• 203.360   [Repealed by 1959 c.527 §11]
• 203.370   [Repealed by 1959 c.527 §11]
• 203.380   [Repealed by 1959 c.527 §11]
• 203.390   [Repealed by 1959 c.527 §11]
• 203.400   [Repealed by 1959 c.527 §11]
• 203.410   [Repealed by 1959 c.527 §11]
• 203.420   [Repealed by 1959 c.527 §11]
• 203.430   [Repealed by 1959 c.527 §11]
• 203.440   [Repealed by 1959 c.527 §11]
• 203.450   [Repealed by 1959 c.527 §11]
• 203.460   [Repealed by 1959 c.527 §11]
• 203.470   [Repealed by 1959 c.527 §11]
• 203.480   [Repealed by 1959 c.527 §11]
• 203.490   [Repealed by 1959 c.527 §11]
• 203.500   [Repealed by 1959 c.527 §11]
• 203.510   [Repealed by 1959 c.527 §11]
• 203.520   [Repealed by 1959 c.527 §11]
• 203.530   [Repealed by 1959 c.527 §11]
• 203.540   [Repealed by 1959 c.527 §11]
• 203.550   [Repealed by 1959 c.527 §11]
• 203.710   Performance of functions by officers designated by county law; definition.
  (1) The designation of county officers to perform functions under ORS 203.710 to 203.770 extends to those officers who, under a county charter or legislation...
• 203.720   Electors of county may adopt, amend, revise or repeal county charter; certain provisions, deemed matters of county concern, to prevail over state law.
  The electors of any county, by majority vote of such electors voting thereon at any legally called election, may adopt, amend, revise or repeal a...
• 203.725   County charter amendment; single subject; separate submission to electors.
  (1) A proposed amendment to a county charter, whether proposed by the county governing body or by the people of the county in the exercise...
• 203.730   Charter committee appointed after filing of resolution or petition; sufficiency of petition; notice to persons entitled to make appointments to committee.
  (1) A county charter may be proposed by a committee appointed after the filing with the county clerk of: (a) A resolution requesting appointment of...
• 203.740   Charter committee and members; appointment, qualifications, vacancies, terms, organization, meetings.
  (1) Within 60 days after the county clerk finds that a petition for the appointment of a committee is sufficient, or within 60 days after...
• 203.750   County funds for charter committee; committee staff; county officials to cooperate.
  (1) Notwithstanding ORS 294.305 to 294.565, if the county court is notified of the sufficiency of a petition requesting the appointment of a committee, or...
• 203.760   Submission of proposed charter, after public hearing, to electors; approval of conflicting charters.
  (1) The committee shall submit its proposed charter to the county clerk not later than the 90th day before the election at which the proposed...
• 203.770   Copies of charters and amendments, revisions and repeals thereof; location and judicial notice of.
  (1) Duplicate certificates shall be made, setting forth the county charter adopted and a statement of its ratification, signed by the officers or members of...
• 203.780   [1959 c.527 §9; 1963 c.290 §1; 1975 c.766 §2b; repealed by 1979 c.190 §431]
• 203.790   [1959 c.527 §10; repealed by 1979 c.190 §431]
• 203.810   Offenses under county law; jurisdiction; prosecutions.
  (1) As used in this section: (a) “County law” means a county charter adopted pursuant to ORS 203.710 to 203.770 and legislation passed by a...

Last modified: August 7, 2008