Title 19, Miscellaneous Matters Related to Government and Public Affairs

August 25 of each year is designated as Oregon Adoption Day. [2025 c.114 §1]

October 9 of each year is designated as Oregon Youth Suicide Awareness Day. [2025 c.324 §1]

November 14 of each year is designated as Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day. [2025 c.367 §1]

The month of April of each year is designated as Oregon Native Plant Appreciation Month. [2025 c.368 §1]

February of each year is designated as Oregon Truffle Month. [2025 c.369 §1]

March 21 of each year is designated as Nowruz Day. [2025 c.394 §1] _______________

The Legislative Assembly or the Secretary of State, whichever is applicable, shall consider the following criteria when apportioning the state into congressional and legislative districts: (1) Each district, as nearly as practicable, shall: (a) Be contiguous; (b) Be of equal popu…

(1) When apportioning the state into congressional or legislative districts, the Legislative Assembly shall hold at least 10 public hearings at locations throughout the state prior to proposing a reapportionment plan. (2) In addition to the hearings required under subsection (1) …

The Secretary of State shall adopt rules the secretary considers necessary in carrying out the secretary’s reapportionment duties under ORS 188.010 to 188.305 and section 6, Article IV of the Oregon Constitution. [Formerly 188.015] CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS

One Representative to the Congress of the United States shall be elected in each congressional district at the general election every two years. [Formerly 250.300]

(1) If a vacancy in election or office of Representative in Congress or United States Senator occurs before the 61st day before the general election, the Governor shall call a special election to fill that vacancy. (2) If a vacancy in election or office of United States Senator o…

(1) As used in this section: (a) “Elector” has the meaning given that term in ORS 247.002. (b) “Legislatively adopted reapportionment plan” means a plan for the reapportionment of congressional districts that has passed the Legislative Assembly and that is signed, or allowed to b…

The State of Oregon is portioned into six congressional districts composed, respectively, of the following counties or parts thereof: (1) First District: Clatsop County; Columbia County; that portion of Multnomah County lying within blocks 3000, 3001, 3002, 3003, 3004, 3005, 3006…

(1) First District: That portion of Coos County lying within blocks 1033, 1034, 1035, 1049, 1050, 1051, 1052, 2005, 2006, 2016 and 2040 of census tract 103; blocks 1000, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027, 2028, 2029, 2030, 2031, 2032, 2033, 2034, 2035, 2036, 2037, 2038, 2039, 2040, 20…

The 30 senatorial districts are as follows: ______________________________________________________________________________ Senate District House District Number Numbers 1 1 & 2 2 3 & 4 3 5 & 6 4 7 & 8 5 9 & 10 6 11 & 12 7 13 & 14 8 15 & 16 9 17 & 18 10 19 & 20 11 21 & 22 12 23 & …

As used in ORS 190.003 to 190.130, “unit of local government” includes a county, city, district or other public corporation, commission, authority or entity organized and existing under statute or city or county charter. [1967 c.550 §2]

In the interest of furthering economy and efficiency in local government, intergovernmental cooperation is declared a matter of statewide concern. The provisions of ORS 190.003 to 190.130 shall be liberally construed. [1967 c.550 §3]

A unit of local government may enter into a written agreement with any other unit or units of local government for the performance of any or all functions and activities that a party to the agreement, its officers or agencies, have authority to perform. The agreement may provide …

(1) An agreement under ORS 190.010 shall specify the functions or activities to be performed and by what means they shall be performed. Where applicable, the agreement shall provide for: (a) The apportionment among the parties to the agreement of the responsibility for providing …

(1) When an agreement under ORS 190.010 has been entered into, the unit of local government, consolidated department, intergovernmental entity or administrative officer designated therein to perform specified functions or activities is vested with all powers, rights and duties re…

(1) An intergovernmental entity created by a written agreement pursuant to ORS 190.010 may apply for or otherwise seek to obtain any benefits of any kind from any public or private entity that any unit of local government, or American Indian tribe, that is a party to the written …

(1) An intergovernmental group may impose and collect reasonable fees based on market prices or competitive bids for geographic data that have commercial value and are an entire formula, pattern, compilation, program, device, method, technique, process, database or system develop…

(1) If any agreement entered into under ORS 190.010 to 190.030 or 190.110 between or among units of local government includes changes in service responsibility, that agreement shall set forth any changes in tax coordination resulting from the change in service responsibility. (2)…

(1) An intergovernmental entity created by an intergovernmental agreement under ORS 190.010 may, according to the terms of the agreement: (a) Issue revenue bonds under ORS chapter 287A or enter into financing agreements authorized under ORS 271.390 to accomplish the public purpos…

(1) Before a county enters into an intergovernmental agreement creating an intergovernmental entity to operate, maintain, repair and modernize transportation facilities, the county shall obtain approval of the terms and conditions of the agreement from the governing bodies of a m…

(1) Prior to the effective date of an intergovernmental agreement creating an intergovernmental entity, each of the parties to the intergovernmental agreement shall enact an ordinance ratifying the creation of the intergovernmental entity. An ordinance enacted under this subsecti…

(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, an intergovernmental entity created to operate, maintain, repair and modernize transportation facilities and that qualifies as a designated recipient of funding for transit operations from the Federal Transit Administration may issue…

(1) The board of directors of an intergovernmental entity described in ORS 190.088 shall perform all of the following: (a) Before the entity may impose ad valorem property taxes, establish one or more transit advisory councils representative of each zone in which ad valorem prope…

(1) In performing a duty imposed upon it, in exercising a power conferred upon it or in administering a policy or program delegated to it, a unit of local government or a state agency of this state may cooperate for any lawful purpose, by agreement or otherwise, with a unit of lo…

A public body as defined in ORS 174.109 may enter into an agreement with the United States to perform security functions at a military installation or facility in the United States and to receive payment for performing the functions. [2003 c.6 §1] Note: 190.112 was enacted into l…

(1) A state agency that enters into an agreement under ORS 190.110, 190.420 or 190.485 on or after August 16, 1999, or an agreement under ORS 190.112 or under ORS 660.334 shall submit a summary of the agreement to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services within the 30-day…

(1) The Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall keep an index of summaries of agreements into which state agencies enter under ORS 190.110, 190.112, 190.420, 190.485 or 660.334. The department shall include in the index the information provided by state agencies under …

(1) A unit of local government established to deliver water may enter into a written agreement with any other such unit or units of local government for the performance of specified activities by a joint board of control composed of the district managers of the parties to the agr…

The authority granted by ORS 190.125 is in addition to any other authority and powers possessed by units of local government established to deliver water and does not increase or expand the authority or the powers of such units of local government relating to water rights or wate…

(1) Districts that may enter into agreements with the United States, or any agency or instrumentality thereof, under the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1002), are: (a) People’s utility districts organized under ORS chapter 261. (b) Domestic w…

(1) The Legislative Assembly recognizes the need for intergovernmental cooperation between the state governmental agencies located in the various regions of the state and the local governmental agencies which provide the state agencies necessary services such as: (a) Fire and pol…

(1) The Oregon Department of Administrative Services is authorized to pay out of the General Fund, to the extent that moneys are available therefor, its proportionate share of the cost of development and coordination of intergovernmental studies and plans prepared by tax supporte…

Persons who are recipients, beneficiaries or trainees in work training, work study and work experience programs authorized by the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 (United States Public Law 88-452), as amended; persons who are volunteers under section 603 of that Act; and persons …

(1) Subject to rules prescribed by the Oregon Department of Administrative Services, any state agency as defined in ORS 291.002 may, upon request, furnish to the federal government or a city, county, district or other municipal corporation or political subdivision in Oregon the s…

Upon request of the federal government or a city, county, district or other municipal corporation or political subdivision in Oregon, the Oregon Department of Administrative Services may provide centralized accounting, data processing, data recording and storing and other similar…

(1) Notwithstanding any provision of law governing the confidentiality or disclosure of information, a state agency may enter into an interagency agreement with another state agency to disclose to the other state agency a business name, address, telephone number or state-generate…

(1) Pursuant to ORS 190.010, 190.020 and 190.085, counties may establish, by agreement ratified by the governing body of each county as provided in ORS 190.085, an intergovernmental corrections entity for the purposes of: (a) Making application under ORS 423.525 to provide local …

(1) As used in this section, “P.L. 280 jurisdiction” means the authority granted to this state over specific criminal and civil matters in a federally recognized Indian tribe located in this state, under Public Law 280, codified at 18 U.S.C. 1162 and 25 U.S.C. 1321, and pursuant …

As used in ORS 190.410 to 190.440, “public agency” includes: (1) Any county, city, special district or other public corporation, commission, authority or entity organized and existing under laws of this state, or any other state, or under the city or county charter of any county …

(1) Any power or powers, privileges or authority exercised or capable of exercise by a public agency in this state may be exercised and enjoyed jointly with any public agency in another state to the extent that the laws of the other state permit such joint exercise or enjoyment. …