Any person interested under a deed, will, written contract or other writing constituting a contract, or whose rights, status or other legal relations are affected by a constitution, statute, municipal charter, ordinance, contract or franchise may have determined any question of construction or validity arising under any such instrument, constitution, statute, municipal charter, ordinance, contract or franchise and obtain a declaration of rights, status or other legal relations thereunder.
ORS 28.020
Known as the Uniform Declaratory Judgments Act
The act spans §§ 28–28 (27 sections).
Applied in 33 court decisions — leading case Couey v. Atkins (2015)
Most recently applied in 346 Or. App. 668 - Advocates for School Trust Lands v. State of Oregon (January 2026)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Oregon State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Oregon statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.