ORS 204.005

Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Graves v. Arnado (1989)

Most recently applied in Bialostosky v. Cummings (April 2022)

Subsection (2) enacted as 1953 c.477 §2; subsection (3) enacted as 1959 c.174 §3; 1959 c.628 §1; 1961 c.571 §3; subsection (4) enacted as 1963 c.386 §2; 1965 c.221 §21; 1969 c.5…

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(1) The following county officers shall be elected at the primary election or general election, as provided in ORS 249.088:

(a) A sheriff.

(b) A county clerk.

(d) A county treasurer.

(e) A county commissioner to succeed any commissioner whose term of office expires the following January.

(f) In any county where there is a vacancy from any cause in the office of county commissioner, an additional commissioner to fill the vacancy.

(2) Unless an adopted county charter or a county ordinance provides otherwise, the governing body of a county shall appoint a county surveyor.

Official source: Oregon State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Oregon statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.