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ORS 469.040

Known as the Oregon Residential Energy Conservation Act

The act spans §§ 469–469 (299 sections).

Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Friends of Parrett Mountain v. Northwest Natural Gas Co. (2003)

Most recently applied in Friends of the Columbia Gorge v. Energy Facility Siting Council (August 2019)

1975 c.606 §5; 1985 c.593 §1; 1993 c.496 §3; 1995 c.551 §4; 1999 c.934 §6; 1999 c.1043 §10; 2003 c.186 §3; 2017 c.314 §1

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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.

(1) The State Department of Energy shall be under the supervision of the Director of the State Department of Energy, who shall:

(a) Supervise the day-to-day functions of the State Department of Energy;

(b) Supervise and facilitate the work and research on energy facility siting applications at the direction of the Energy Facility Siting Council;

(c) Hire, assign, reassign and coordinate personnel of the State Department of Energy, prescribe their duties and fix their compensation, subject to the State Personnel Relations Law; and

(d) Adopt rules and issue orders to carry out the duties of the director and the State Department of Energy in accordance with ORS chapter 183 and the policy stated in ORS 469.010.

(2) The director may delegate to any officer or employee the exercise and discharge in the director’s name of any power, duty or function of whatever character vested in the director by law. The official act of any person acting in the director’s name and by the director’s authority shall be considered an official act of the director.

(3) The director shall be appointed by the Governor, subject to confirmation by the Senate in the manner provided by ORS 171.562 and 171.565.

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