The Supreme Court may answer questions of law certified to it by the Supreme Court of the United States, a Court of Appeals of the United States, a United States District Court, a panel of the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel Service or the highest appellate court or the intermediate appellate court of any other state, when requested by the certifying court if there are involved in any proceedings before it questions of law of this state which may be determinative of the cause then pending in the certifying court and as to which it appears to the certifying court there is no controlling precedent in the decisions of the Supreme Court and the intermediate appellate courts of this state.
ORS 28.200
Known as the Uniform Declaratory Judgments Act
The act spans §§ 28–28 (27 sections).
Applied in 58 court decisions — leading case Western Helicopter Services, Inc. v. Rogerson Aircraft Corp. (1991)
Most recently applied in Bonner v. American Golf Corp. of California (October 2024)
1983 c.103 §1; 1995 c.197 §1
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.