Title 18, Executive Branch; Organization

(1) Unless otherwise prohibited by law, agencies may use alternative means of dispute resolution in rulemaking proceedings, contested case proceedings, judicial proceedings in which the agency is a party, and any other decision-making process in which conflicts may arise. The alt…

A housing cost impact statement shall be prepared upon the proposal for adoption or repeal of any rule or any amendment to an existing rule by: (1) The Oregon Housing Stability Council; (2) A building codes division of the Department of Consumer and Business Services or any board…

(1) A housing cost impact statement is an estimate of the effect of a proposed rule or ordinance on the cost of development of a 6,000 square foot parcel and the construction of a 1,200 square foot detached single family dwelling on that parcel. The Housing and Community Services…

(1) Notwithstanding ORS 183.335 (12), 183.400 (4) or any other provision of law, the failure to prepare a housing cost impact statement shall not affect the validity or effective date of any rule or ordinance or any amendment to a rule or ordinance. (2) If a rule or ordinance or …

If the statement of cost of compliance effect on small businesses required by ORS 183.335 (2)(b)(E) shows that a rule has a significant adverse effect upon small business, to the extent consistent with the public health and safety purpose of the rule, the agency shall reduce the …

(1) The Office of Administrative Hearings is established within the Employment Department. The office shall be managed by the chief administrative law judge appointed under ORS 183.610. The office shall make administrative law judges available to agencies under ORS 183.605 to 183…

(1)(a) The Governor shall appoint a person to serve as chief administrative law judge for the Office of Administrative Hearings. The appointment of the chief administrative law judge is subject to confirmation by the Senate in the manner prescribed in ORS 171.562 and 171.565. (b)…

(1) An administrative law judge employed by or contracting with the chief administrative law judge shall conduct hearings on behalf of agencies as assigned by the chief administrative law judge. An administrative law judge shall be impartial in the performance of the administrati…

(1) The chief administrative law judge for the Office of Administrative Hearings may contract for the services of persons to act as administrative law judges. (2) Contract administrative law judges shall meet the same qualifications as administrative law judges regularly employed…

(1) In assigning an administrative law judge to conduct hearings on behalf of an agency, the chief administrative law judge shall, whenever practicable, assign an administrative law judge that has expertise in the legal issues or general subject matter of the proceeding. (2) Notw…

(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, all contested case hearings conducted by administrative law judges assigned from the Office of Administrative Hearings must be conducted pursuant to the model rules of procedure prepared by the Attorney General under ORS 1…

(1) Except as provided in this section, all agencies must use administrative law judges assigned from the Office of Administrative Hearings established under ORS 183.605 to conduct contested case hearings, without regard to whether those hearings are subject to the procedural req…

(1) Upon request of an agency, the chief administrative law judge for the Office of Administrative Hearings may assign administrative law judges from the office to conduct contested case proceedings on behalf of agencies that are exempted from mandatory use of administrative law …

(1) After assignment of an administrative law judge from the Office of Administrative Hearings to conduct a hearing on behalf of an agency, the chief administrative law judge shall assign a different administrative law judge for the hearing upon receiving a written request from a…

(1) In any contested case hearing conducted by an administrative law judge assigned from the Office of Administrative Hearings, the administrative law judge shall prepare and serve on the agency and all parties to the hearing a form of order, including recommended findings of fac…

The chief administrative law judge for the Office of Administrative Hearings shall establish a schedule of fees for services rendered by administrative law judges assigned from the office. The fee charged shall be in an amount calculated to recover the cost of providing the admin…

(1) The Office of Administrative Hearings Operating Account is created within the General Fund. The account shall consist of moneys paid into the account under ORS 183.655. Moneys credited to the account are continuously appropriated to the chief administrative law judge for the …

The chief administrative law judge for the Office of Administrative Hearings shall estimate in advance the expenses that the office will incur during each biennium and shall notify each agency required to use the office’s services of the agency’s share of the anticipated expenses…

Subject to the provisions of the State Personnel Relations Law, the chief administrative law judge for the Office of Administrative Hearings may adopt rules to: (1) Organize and manage the Office of Administrative Hearings established under ORS 183.605. (2) Facilitate the perform…

ORS 183.605 to 183.690 do not limit in any way the ability of any agency to use alternative dispute resolution, including mediation or arbitration, to resolve disputes without conducting a contested case hearing or without requesting assignment of an administrative law judge from…

(1) The chief administrative law judge for the Office of Administrative Hearings, working in coordination with the Attorney General, shall design and implement a standards and training program for administrative law judges employed by the office and for persons seeking to be empl…

(1) An administrative law judge assigned from the Office of Administrative Hearings who is presiding in a contested case proceeding and who receives an ex parte communication described in subsections (3) and (4) of this section shall place in the record of the pending matter: (a)…

(1) The Office of Administrative Hearings Oversight Committee is created. The committee consists of nine members, as follows: (a) The President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall appoint four legislators to the committee. Two shall be Senators app…

(1) As used in this section and ORS 183.702, “permit” means an individual and particularized license, permit, certificate, approval, registration or similar form of permission required by law to pursue any activity specified in this section, for which an agency must weigh informa…

(1) At the time a person applies for a permit specified in ORS 183.700, the issuing agency shall offer a document to that applicant that specifies the criteria and procedures for evaluating a permit application. (2) The agencies specified in ORS 183.700 must document in writing t…

(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an agency that issues licenses that must be renewed on an annual basis under the laws administered by the agency also may offer those licenses with terms of two, three, four or five years. Notwithstanding any other provision of law,…

As used in ORS 183.710 to 183.730, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) “Interim committee” means a committee of the Legislative Assembly that is scheduled to meet when the Legislative Assembly is not in session and that has subject-matter jurisdiction over the state agency…

If a state agency adopts, amends or repeals a rule, the Secretary of State shall electronically submit a copy of the adopted, amended or repealed rule to the Legislative Counsel within 10 days after the agency files the rule in the office of the Secretary of State as provided in …

(1) The Legislative Counsel may review, or shall review at the direction of the Legislative Counsel Committee, a proposed rule or an adopted rule of a state agency. (2) The Legislative Counsel may review an adopted rule of a state agency upon the written request of any person aff…

(1)(a) If the Legislative Counsel determines under ORS 183.720 (3) that a proposed or adopted rule is not within the intent and scope of the enabling legislation purporting to authorize the rule’s adoption, or that the rule is not constitutional, and the Legislative Counsel has p…

(1) As soon as is practicable after the end of each odd-numbered year regular legislative session, the Legislative Counsel shall develop a list of state agencies with areas of responsibility that are primarily within the subject-matter jurisdiction of interim committees of the Le…

(1) As used in this section, “public record” has the meaning given that term in ORS 192.311. (2) The Oregon Sunshine Committee shall include in the plan or schedule for review established under ORS 192.511 an adopted rule of a state agency upon the written request of any person a…

(1) Except as otherwise provided by law, an agency may only impose a civil penalty as provided in this section. (2) A civil penalty imposed under this section shall become due and payable 10 days after the order imposing the civil penalty becomes final by operation of law or on a…

(1) Every state agency shall prepare its public writings in language that is as clear and simple as possible. (2) As used in this section: (a) “Public writing” means any rule, form, license or notice prepared by a state agency. (b) “State agency” means any officer, board, commiss…

The Oregon Department of Administrative Services is created. The purpose of the Oregon Department of Administrative Services is to improve the efficient and effective use of state resources by providing: (1) Government infrastructure services that can best be provided centrally, …

(1) The Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall be under the supervision and control of a director, who shall be responsible for the functions of the department. The Governor may, however, assume the office of director of the department whenever and for whatever time t…

(1) The Director of the Oregon Department of Administrative Services, with the approval of the Governor, shall organize and reorganize the department in the manner the director considers necessary to conduct the work of the department properly. (2) The functions of the department…

(1) With the approval of the Governor, the director may appoint a deputy director who shall serve at the pleasure of the director, not be subject to the State Personnel Relations Law, and have full authority to act for the director, subject to the control of the director. The app…

The Oregon Department of Administrative Services, with the approval of the Governor, may: (1) Adopt reasonable rules and regulations that are necessary or proper for the administration of the laws that the department is charged with administering; and (2) Adopt by rule uniform po…

The Oregon Department of Administrative Services may provide on a reimbursable basis administrative and other services, as agreed upon, to a state agency as defined in ORS 291.002. [1969 c.597 §268; 1987 c.320 §143; 1995 c.551 §9; 1999 c.59 §41; 2009 c.595 §164; 2013 c.656 §11; 2…

(1) The Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall issue state corrections population forecasts including, but not limited to, expected populations of prisons and jails and community corrections caseloads, to be used by: (a) The Department of Corrections in preparing budg…

(1) As used in this section: (a) “Executive department” has the meaning given that term in ORS 174.112. (b) “State government” has the meaning given that term in ORS 174.111. (2) It is the policy of this state that internal audit activities within state government be coordinated …

(1) As used in this section, “qualified entity” means an entity of the executive department, as defined in ORS 174.112, that contracts with, or that is a party to an interagency agreement with, the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for the purpose of receiving human re…

(1) As used in this section: (a) “Executive department” has the meaning given that term in ORS 174.112. (b) “Small entity” means an agency or department that has a staff of fewer than 50 full-time equivalent employees. (2) The Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall de…

(1) As used in ORS 184.400 to 184.408: (a) “Incremental baseball tax revenues” means: (A) The Oregon personal income tax revenues that are generated from the Oregon personal income tax liabilities shown on the income tax returns filed by the members of a professional athletic tea…

The Legislative Assembly finds and declares that the construction of a major league stadium and the location of a Major League Baseball franchise in Portland will bring jobs and economic development to Oregon and will benefit Oregon workers and businesses. [2003 c.808 §1a]

(1) The Director of the Oregon Department of Administrative Services, with the approval of the State Treasurer, may enter into one or more agreements on behalf of the State of Oregon to grant the incremental baseball tax revenues for a period of not more than 30 years. The grant …

The Director of the Oregon Department of Administrative Services may not execute a grant agreement authorized by ORS 184.404 until the director has determined that: (1) The City of Portland has made a written request to the director to execute and deliver the grant agreement; (2)…

The Major League Stadium Grant Fund is established in the State Treasury, separate and distinct from the General Fund. Amounts in the fund are continuously appropriated to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for the purpose of making the grants required by the grant …

For purposes of this section and ORS 184.423, “sustainability” means using, developing and protecting resources in a manner that enables people to meet current needs and provides that future generations can also meet future needs, from the joint perspective of environmental, econ…