Chapter 408 — Chapter 408

ORS 408.395 Condemnation of property for Oregon Veterans’ Home. For the purpose of exercising the powers conferred by ORS 408.390, any incorporated city may bring and maintain any suit or action for the appropriation, condemnation or taking of real property within or without its corporate limits, in fee simple or otherwise, including riparian rights, rights of way and other easements. The city may proceed to have such property appropriated and the compensation therefor determined and paid, in the manner provided by law for exercising of the power of eminent domain by municipal corporations. [Formerly 408.530]

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ORS 408.410 Appointment of county service officer; duties; annual budget requirement. (1) The county governing body in each county may appoint a service officer who shall give aid and assistance to any veteran, the spouse or dependents of the veteran or the survivors of the veteran, in applying for all benefits and aid to which they are entitled by federal, state or local laws, rules and regulations. The county governing body shall fix the compensation of the service officer, provide the service officer with an office and the necessary equipment therefor in the same manner as provided for any other county officer. If a county governing body appoints a service officer, the governing body shall also provide in the annual budget for expenditure of moneys sufficient to enable the county to employ the service officer, to properly maintain the office provided for the service officer and to pay the costs incurred by the service officer in providing assistance to veterans, spouses and dependents of veterans or survivors of veterans

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ORS 408.420 Recording discharge papers. Each county clerk shall maintain in the office a special book in which the county clerk shall, upon request, record the final discharge of any veteran. A recording fee may not be collected when the veteran requesting the record is an actual resident of the county or was a resident at the time of entrance into the service of the United States. In all other cases a legal fee shall be charged. There shall be kept in connection with the record an alphabetical index referring to the name of the veteran whose name appears in each discharge paper so recorded. Books that are necessary for the recording of the discharge papers shall be paid for by the several counties in the manner provided for paying other claims against the county. [Amended by 2009 c.500 §§2,2a]

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ORS 408.425 Inspection of discharge papers. (1) Each county clerk who receives a request to inspect veteran discharge papers that are recorded under ORS 408.420 shall produce the recorded discharge papers for inspection if

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ORS 408.430 Free services to veterans rendered by court administrator or county clerk. The county clerk or a court clerk or court administrator shall administer all oaths required in matters of pensions, certify pension vouchers, affix the seal of the court whenever required, and make and prepare copies of any documents of record in the office and certify thereto any matter required by veterans seeking benefits from any agency or department of the State of Oregon or federal government, without any charge, fee or compensation. [Amended by 1993 c.223 §9]

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ORS 408.440 Land of enlisted person exempt from foreclosure and judicial sale during war. No suit or action shall be commenced or maintained, during the period provided for in this section, to foreclose any mortgage upon real property, or to collect the debt secured thereby, if the land covered by the mortgage is owned, wholly or in part, by an enlisted person in the Army or Navy of the United States, who enlisted therein in the volunteer forces or who enlisted in the National Guard of the United States and of the State of Oregon and the organization of the enlisted person was called into the service of the United States. The lands of any such soldier or sailor shall be exempt from judicial sale for the satisfaction of any judgment during the period provided for in this section. This moratorium shall extend only during the period of actual service in the army or navy forces of the United States, and in no case shall begin prior to the day on which the Congress of the United States declares war, nor continue after 60 days subsequent to the conclusion of such war. All statutes of limitation in effect in this state shall be suspended during the period described in this section, as to such mortgages, debts and judgments

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ORS 408.450 Duty to pay fees during military duty. No person in the military or naval service of the United States, or any auxiliary corps thereof, while exercising any privilege in this state by virtue of having paid an annual license or privilege fee to any state board or commission for the right to practice a profession or engage in a trade, shall lose such privilege because of failure to pay any such fee for any subsequent year during the period the person is in such service, unless dishonorably discharged therefrom. Upon being discharged from such service under honorable conditions and upon written application within 60 days of such discharge, every such person shall be restored to former status with respect to any such privilege without the necessity of paying the then current license fee

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ORS 408.460 Certain claims payable out of General Fund. Lawful claims payable from the Memorial Fund, 116th Engineers, or the fund entitled Unclaimed Back Pay Due Second Oregon Volunteers, shall be paid, upon approval of the Adjutant General, from the General Fund

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ORS 408.470 Persons entitled to interment in Spanish War Veterans’ plot. All honorably discharged soldiers, sailors and marines who served in the forces of the United States during the Spanish War or Philippine Insurrection at any time between April 23, 1898, and July 4, 1902, who are now deceased or may hereafter die in Oregon or who being residents of Oregon die outside of Oregon, may be interred in the burial plot established pursuant to sections 1 to 3, chapter 72, Oregon Laws 1911

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ORS 408.480 [Repealed by 2015 c.531 §1]

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ORS 408.485 Findings related to health care. The Legislative Assembly finds that

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ORS 408.490 Purchase of United States flags for placement on veterans’ graves. The county court or board of county commissioners of each county is authorized annually to budget and pay such amount of money as it may deem reasonable for the purpose of purchasing flags of the United States for placement, by any nationally chartered organization or organizations of war veterans, annually on or prior to Memorial Day, upon the graves of deceased war veterans of the United States who are interred within the county. [1953 c.355 §1]

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ORS 408.495 Employed veteran time off for Veterans Day. (1) An employer shall provide an employee who is a veteran as defined in ORS 408.225 with paid or unpaid time off for Veterans Day if

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ORS 408.497 Preference in private employment. (1) As used in this section, “service” and “uniformed service” have the meanings given those terms in ORS 659A.082

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ORS 408.500 Oregon Veterans’ Emergency Financial Assistance Program; rules. (1) The Oregon Veterans’ Emergency Financial Assistance Program is created

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ORS 408.503 Department website relating to benefits; reports to Legislative Assembly. (1) The Department of Veterans’ Affairs shall establish a website that allows members of the public to request information about veterans’ benefits and services and enter contact information

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ORS 408.504 Link on agency websites. An agency, as defined in ORS 183.310, shall include on the agency’s website a link to the website established by the Department of Veterans’ Affairs under ORS 408.503. [2009 c.851 §2]

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ORS 408.505 Agencies to make available and provide information to veterans. (1) As used in this section, “agency” has the meaning given that term in ORS 183.310

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ORS 408.506 Agencies to partner with Oregon Military Department to provide reintegration services. The Department of Human Services, the Department of Transportation, the Housing and Community Services Department, the Employment Department, the Department of Justice, the Judicial Department, public universities listed in ORS 352.002, the Bureau of Labor and Industries, the Office of Community Colleges and Workforce Development and the Department of Veterans’ Affairs shall partner with the Oregon Military Department to provide reintegration services for veterans throughout this state through regional strategies. [2011 c.19 §1; 2013 c.768 §142; 2015 c.366 §86; 2015 c.767 §173]

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ORS 408.507 Information to be provided by establishments operated to provide food to needy persons. (1) The Department of Veterans’ Affairs and the Oregon Military Department shall make available to establishments operated to provide food to indigent or needy persons information on how to contact the Department of Veterans’ Affairs and the reintegration team within the Oregon Military Department to request information about veterans’ benefits and services

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ORS 408.510 [Amended by 1993 c.795 §8; renumbered 408.390 in 1999]

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ORS 408.511 Services for incarcerated veterans. (1) As used in this section

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ORS 408.515 Information to be included with certain documents related to real property. (1) Except as provided in subsection (3) of this section, a person who sends or serves a document listed in subsection (2) of this section shall include the following information with the document

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ORS 408.518 Agencies’ use of summary of benefits letter to determine eligibility. When determining an applicant’s eligibility for benefits or services that are offered by or through a state agency, the state agency may use a summary of benefits letter from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. [2025 c.269 §1]

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ORS 408.520 [Renumbered 408.393 in 1999]

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ORS 408.530 [Renumbered 408.395 in 1999]

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ORS 408.540 Use of buildings by veterans’ organizations. All buildings acquired or constructed by county courts pursuant to chapter 595, Oregon Laws 1947, shall be made available for the use of any veterans’ organizations and their auxiliaries located in the city, town or community where any such building is located

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ORS 408.550 [Repealed by 1961 c.454 §213]

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ORS 408.560 Use of public buildings for meetings of veterans’ and auxiliary organizations. In counties where there is no armory belonging to or under control of state authority, the county courts or boards of county commissioners, upon written application of the commander or president of any organized unit of war veterans or its auxiliary, shall allow its unit organized in such county, free of cost, to occupy a portion of the courthouse or any other public building, when such occupancy does not materially interfere with occupancy of the building for the original purposes for which it was intended. [Amended by 1961 c.454 §210]

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ORS 408.570 Commitment of veterans with mental illness to United States veterans facility. When a veteran who has been adjudged under ORS 426.130 to be a person with mental illness is eligible for treatment in a United States veterans facility and commitment is necessary for the proper care and treatment of such veteran, the Oregon Health Authority or community mental health program director, as provided under ORS 426.060, may, upon receipt of a certificate of eligibility from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, assign the person to the United States Department of Veterans Affairs for care, custody and treatment in a United States veterans facility. Upon admission to any such facility, the veteran shall be subject to the rules and regulations of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs and provisions of ORS 426.060 to 426.395 and related rules and regulations of the Oregon Health Authority. The chief officer of such facility shall be vested with the same powers exercised by superintendents of state hospitals for persons with mental illness within this state with reference to the retention, transfer, trial visit or discharge of the veteran so assigned. The commitment of a veteran to a veterans facility within this state by a court of another state under a similar provision of law has the same force and effect as if the veteran was committed to a veterans facility within that other state. [Amended by 1975 c.690 §26; 1991 c.67 §100; 2007 c.70 §160; 2009 c.595 §238; 2013 c.360 §13]

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ORS 408.580 Transfer of veterans from state to federal hospitals. Upon receipt of a certificate of eligibility and available facilities, the Oregon Health Authority may cause to be transferred any veteran from any facility to which the veteran has been assigned to a United States veterans facility. No veteran under sentence by any court, or committed by any court after having been charged with any crime and found guilty except for insanity, may be transferred without an order of such court authorizing the transfer. Whenever any veteran, not a convict, has been committed by order of a court and is transferred as provided in this section, the order of commitment shall be held to apply to the facility to which the veteran is transferred as to any other facility to which the veteran could be assigned or transferred under ORS 426.060. [Amended by 1975 c.690 §27; 2009 c.595 §239; 2017 c.634 §18]

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ORS 408.590 [Repealed by 1963 c.540 §8]

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ORS 408.710 Indigent veteran defined; effect of property ownership. (1) As used in ORS 408.710 to 408.740, “indigent veteran” means any veteran who is without means of procuring the necessities of life

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ORS 408.720 County may finance activities of veterans’ service officer; county general funds. (1) The governing body of a county may set apart in the county treasury a special fund for the purpose of financing the employment and the activities of the service officer appointed under ORS 408.410. If an unobligated balance remains in the special fund at the end of a fiscal year, the unobligated balance may be carried forward to the next fiscal year and expended for the purposes described in this subsection

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ORS 408.730 Procedure when indigent veterans are cared for by veterans organizations. (1) The commander or executive head of any veterans organization organized under a charter issued by an Act of Congress, proposing to undertake the relief provided for under ORS 408.720, shall file with the county clerk of the county in which the veterans organization may be situated, the names of its commander or executive head and its relief committee, if any. The commander or executive head shall also file a notice in writing that such veterans organization will undertake the relief of the indigent veterans provided for under ORS 408.720, and by the fourth Monday in January of each year shall file with the county clerk a similar notice, and render and file a detailed statement of the relief furnished during the preceding year, including the amount thereof, the names of the persons to whom furnished and on whose recommendation, and such other facts and suggestions as are deemed material

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ORS 408.740 Appointment and duties of county veterans’ relief officer. The relief fund may be disbursed by an officer to be appointed by the county court or board of county commissioners. The commanders or executive heads of the various veterans organizations shall constitute an advisory board to consult and advise with the court or board relative to administration and disbursement of the fund. Such officer shall investigate all requests for relief, and no warrant shall be paid from the fund except upon the order of such officer. The officer shall give such bond as may be required and approved by the court or board, and may be removed at any time by the court or board. If any vacancy occurs in such office, the court or board shall appoint a successor to such officer. Such officer shall be paid a salary from funds of the county other than the relief fund, to be fixed by the court or board, and audited and paid in the manner that county officers are paid, as provided by law

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ORS 408.750 [Repealed by 2015 c.531 §1]

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ORS 408.850 Annual report on veterans’ housing programs. On or before December 1 of each year, the Department of Veterans’ Affairs and the Housing and Community Services Department shall jointly submit a written report on veterans’ housing programs to the interim House committee related to veterans. The report must describe

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