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ORS Chapter 260 — Campaign Finance Regulation;

ORS 260.550. Use of term incumbent. (1) No person shall describe a candidate as the incumbent in the office to which the candidate seeks nomination or election in any material, statement or publication supporting the election of the candidate, with knowledge or with reckless disregard that the description is a false statement of material fact. (2) For purposes of this section, a candidate shall be considered an incumbent if the candidate: (a) Was elected to the identical office in the most recent election to fill that office and is serving and has served continuously in that office from the beginning of the term to which the candidate was elected; or (b) Was appointed to the identical office after the most recent election to fill that office and is serving and has served continuously in that office from the date of appointment. (3) If district boundaries have changed since the previous election or the appointment, a candidate shall be considered an incumbent if the candidate: (a) Was elected to an office of the same name as the office to which the candidate seeks nomination or election at the most recent election to fill that office and is serving and has served continuously in that office from the beginning of the term to which the candidate was elected; or (b) Was appointed to an office of the same name as the office to which the candidate seeks nomination or election after the most recent election to fill that office and is serving and has served continuously in that office from the date of appointment. (4) This section does not apply to any words or statements required by law to be included in any statement produced by a filing officer or listed on a ballot.
ORS Chapter 260 — Campaign Finance Regulation;

ORS 260.552. [Formerly
ORS Chapter 260 — Campaign Finance Regulation;

ORS 260.555. IV of the Oregon Constitution, or any rule adopted by the Secretary of State related to section 1b, Article IV of the Oregon Constitution, petition sheets or circulator training, registration or certification, committed by a person obtaining signatures on the chief petitioners petition or prospective petition or a contractor or subcontractor, as defined in ORS 260.563, the violation by the person obtaining signatures or the contractor or subcontractor is conclusively considered a violation by the chief petitioner. (2) A chief petitioner is not liable under subsection (1) of this section if the chief petitioner notifies the Secretary of State in writing not later than one business day after the chief petitioner obtains knowledge of a potential violation. The notice shall state: (a) That a potential violation has occurred; (b) The nature of the potential violation; and (c) All specific information known to the chief petitioner regarding the potential violation. (3) If a statewide initiative or referendum petition has more than one chief petitioner, each chief petitioner who has knowledge or should have had knowledge may be held liable under subsection (1) of this section. (4)(a) Subsection (1)(a) of this section does not apply to a violation of law that is subject to criminal penalty. (b) A chief petitioner may not be held criminally liable under subsection (1)(b) of this section solely based on a violation committed by a person obtaining signatures on the chief petitioners petition or prospective petition or by a contractor or subcontractor.
ORS Chapter 260 — Campaign Finance Regulation;

ORS 260.556. Secretary of State prohibited from counting petition signatures obtained by certain persons. The Secretary of State may not include in a count under ORS 250.045 (3) or 250.105 or ORS chapter 249 for purposes of determining whether an initiative, referendum or recall petition or a prospective petition for a state measure to be initiated contains the required number of signatures of electors, any signatures obtained by a person who the secretary determines, during the five-year period prior to the date the signatures were obtained: (1) Has been convicted for a criminal offense involving fraud, forgery or identification theft in any state; (2) Has had a civil penalty imposed under ORS 260.995 for a violation of ORS 250.048 or 260.262; or (3) Has had a civil or criminal penalty imposed for violation of a statute subject to a criminal penalty under ORS 260.993.
ORS Chapter 260 — Campaign Finance Regulation;

ORS 260.558. Payment for signing or not signing initiative, referendum or recall petition; sale or purchase of signature sheets. (1) It is unlawful to offer, pay or provide money or other valuable consideration to another person to sign or refrain from signing an initiative, referendum or recall petition, and for the other person to accept or agree to accept money or other valuable consideration for signing or refraining to sign an initiative, referendum or recall petition. (2) It is unlawful to sell, offer to sell, purchase or offer to purchase, for money or other valuable consideration, any signature sheet of an initiative, referendum or recall petition or any other portion of the petition used to gather signatures. (3) This section applies only to signatures, signature sheets or other portions of an initiative, referendum or recall petition to be submitted to the filing officer for the purpose of verifying whether the petition contains the required number of signatures of electors.
ORS Chapter 260 — Campaign Finance Regulation;

ORS 260.561. Liability of certain chief petitioners for violations committed by persons obtaining signatures on petition; exceptions. (1)(a) If a chief petitioner of a statewide initiative or referendum petition has knowledge of a violation of any provision of Oregon Revised Statutes, of any rule adopted by the Secretary of State under ORS chapters 246 to 260 related to the circulation of a statewide initiative or referendum petition or section 1b, Article IV of the Oregon Constitution, committed by a person obtaining signatures on the chief petitioners petition or prospective petition, the violation by the person obtaining signatures is conclusively considered a violation by the chief petitioner. (b) If a chief petitioner of a statewide initiative or referendum petition has knowledge or should have had knowledge of a violation of ORS 250.048, 260.262,
ORS Chapter 260 — Campaign Finance Regulation;

ORS 260.563. Liability of contractor obtaining signatures on petition for violations committed by subcontractor; exceptions. (1) As used in this section: (a) Contractor means a person who contracts on predetermined terms with a chief petitioner, or a person acting on behalf of a chief petitioner, of an initiative or referendum petition or a prospective petition for a state measure to be initiated for the purpose of obtaining signatures on the petition or prospective petition. (b) Subcontractor means a person who contracts on predetermined terms with a contractor for the purpose of obtaining signatures on an initiative or referendum petition or a prospective petition for a state measure to be initiated and who has no direct contractual relationship with a chief petitioner or other person acting on behalf of a chief petitioner. (2) If a contractor has knowledge or should have had knowledge of a violation of ORS 250.048, 260.555, 260.558, 260.567, 260.575, 260.665 or 260.715 (1) or section 1b, Article IV of the Oregon Constitution, or any rule adopted by the Secretary of State related to section 1b, Article IV of the Oregon Constitution, petition sheets or circulator training, registration or certification, by a subcontractor, the violation by the subcontractor is conclusively considered a violation by the contractor. (3) A contractor is not liable under subsection (2) of this section if the contractor notifies the Secretary of State in writing not later than one business day after the contractor obtains knowledge of a potential violation. The notice shall state: (a) That a potential violation has occurred; (b) The nature of the potential violation; and (c) All specific information known to the contractor regarding the potential violation. (4) A contractor may not be held criminally liable under this section solely based on a violation committed by a subcontractor.
ORS Chapter 260 — Campaign Finance Regulation;

ORS 260.567. Alteration of information on petition signature sheet; exceptions. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, a person other than the person who signed the signature sheet of an initiative, referendum, recall or candidate nominating petition, a prospective petition for a state measure to be initiated or a certificate of nomination may not write, alter, correct, clarify or obscure on the signature sheet any information about the person who signed the signature sheet. (2) A person other than the person who signed the signature sheet may: (a) Alter, correct, clarify or obscure on the signature sheet any information about the person who signed the signature sheet if the line on which the signature appears is subsequently initialed by the person who signed the signature sheet; or (b) Write, alter, correct, clarify or obscure on the signature sheet any information about the person who signed the signature sheet if the person who signed the signature sheet is a person with a disability and requests assistance in writing, altering, correcting, clarifying or obscuring on the signature sheet any information about the person. (3) As used in this section: (a) Information about the person who signed the signature sheet means any information regarding the person who signed the signature sheet of an initiative, referendum, recall or candidate nominating petition, a prospective petition for a state measure to be initiated or a certificate of nomination, in addition to the signature of the person, that is required or requested to be supplied on a signature sheet of an initiative, referendum, recall or candidate nominating petition, a prospective petition or a certificate of nomination. (b) The person who signed the signature sheet means the person whose signature will be submitted for verification under ORS chapter 249 or ORS 250.045 (3), 250.105, 250.215, 250.315 or 255.175 for the purpose of determining whether the petition, prospective petition or certificate contains the required number of signatures of electors.
ORS Chapter 260 — Campaign Finance Regulation;

ORS 260.569. Payment based on signatures obtained on nominating petition or voter registration card. A person may not pay or receive money or another thing of value based on the number of: (1) Signatures a person obtains for purposes of nominating a candidate for elective public office; or (2) Signed voter registration cards a person collects.
ORS Chapter 260 — Campaign Finance Regulation;

ORS 260.575. Use of threats and intimidation for purpose of extorting money. No person, for any consideration, shall: (1) Offer, propose, threaten or attempt to sell, hinder or delay any part of an initiative, referendum or recall petition. (2) Offer, propose or threaten to desist from beginning, promoting, circulating, or soliciting signatures to, any initiative, referendum or recall petition. (3) Offer, propose, attempt or threaten in any manner to use an initiative, referendum or recall petition or any power of promotion or opposition concerning such petition for extortion, blackmail or private intimidation of any person. [Formerly 254.580]
ORS Chapter 260 — Campaign Finance Regulation;

ORS 260.585. [Formerly 254.600; repealed by 1985 c.732 7 and 1985 c.808 82]
ORS Chapter 260 — Campaign Finance Regulation;

ORS 260.605. [Formerly
ORS Chapter 260 — Campaign Finance Regulation;

ORS 260.620. [Repealed by 1957 c.644 28]
ORS Chapter 260 — Campaign Finance Regulation;

ORS 260.625. [Formerly
ORS Chapter 260 — Campaign Finance Regulation;

ORS 260.635. Bets and wagers on election results. (1) No candidate shall make or become party to a bet of anything of pecuniary value on any event or contingency relating to a pending election. No candidate shall provide money or other thing of value to be used by any person in betting upon the results of a pending election. (2) No person, to influence the result of any election, shall make a bet of anything of pecuniary value on the result of a pending election, or on any event relating to it. [Formerly 260.482]
ORS Chapter 260 — Campaign Finance Regulation;

ORS 260.645. Illegal acts relating to voting machines or vote tally systems. (1) No person shall: (a) Tamper with or injure or attempt to injure any voting machine or vote tally system to be used or being used in an election. (b) Tamper with any voting machine or vote tally system that has been used in an election except in performance of election duties. (c) Prevent or attempt to prevent the correct operation of any voting machine or vote tally system. (2) An unauthorized person shall not make or possess a key to a voting machine or vote tally system to be used or being used in an election. (3) Neither the Secretary of State nor any officer or employee of any county, city or district using a voting machine or vote tally system, shall solicit or accept any compensation, other than amounts paid by the governmental unit, in connection with the sale, lease or use of the voting machine or vote tally system. (4) As used in this section, voting machine and vote tally system have the meaning given those terms in ORS 246.012.
ORS Chapter 260 — Campaign Finance Regulation;

ORS 260.655. [Formerly
ORS Chapter 260 — Campaign Finance Regulation;

ORS 260.665. Undue influence to affect registration, voting, candidacy, signing petitions; solicitation of money or other benefits. (1) As used in this section, undue influence means force, violence, restraint or the threat of it, inflicting injury, damage, harm, loss of employment or other loss or the threat of it, or giving or promising to give money, employment or other thing of value. (2) A person, acting either alone or with or through any other person, may not directly or indirectly subject any person to undue influence with the intent to induce any person to: (a) Register or vote; (b) Refrain from registering or voting; (c) Register or vote in any particular manner; (d) Be or refrain from or cease being a candidate; (e) Contribute or refrain from contributing to any candidate, political party or political committee; (f) Render or refrain from rendering services to any candidate, political party or political committee; (g) Challenge or refrain from challenging a person offering to vote; (h) Apply or refrain from applying for a ballot as an absent elector; or (i) Sign or refrain from signing a prospective petition or an initiative, referendum, recall or candidate nominating petition. (3) A person may not solicit or accept money or other thing of value as an inducement to act as prohibited by subsection (2) of this section. (4) This section does not prohibit: (a) The employment of persons to render services to candidates, political parties or political committees; (b) The public distribution by candidates, political parties or political committees of sample ballots or other items readily available to the public without charge, even though the distributor incurs costs in the distribution; (c) Public or nonpromissory statements by or on behalf of a candidate of the candidates intentions or purposes if elected; (d) A promise by a candidate to employ any person as administrative assistant, secretary or other direct personal aide; (e) Free custody and care of minor children of persons during the time those persons are absent from those children for voting purposes; (f) For persons voting, free transportation to and from places designated for the deposit of ballots under ORS 254.470 or to and from locations described in ORS 254.472 or 254.474; but no means of advertising, solicitation or inducement to influence the vote of persons transported may be used with that transportation; (g) Individuals or political committees from providing refreshments incidental to a gathering in support of or in opposition to a candidate, political committee or measure; (h) The public distribution of registration cards by a person approved by the Secretary of State under ORS 247.171 to print, copy or otherwise prepare and distribute registration cards, even though the distributor incurs costs in the distribution; or (i) An elections official from providing return identification envelopes for ballots that may be returned by mail at no cost to the elector under ORS 254.473.
ORS Chapter 260 — Campaign Finance Regulation;

ORS 260.675. Prohibited distribution of ballots. (1) A person employed or authorized to print official ballots may not give, deliver or knowingly permit any of the ballots to be taken by any person other than the official under whose direction the ballots are printed. (2) A person may not knowingly print, cause or permit to be printed any ballot in any other form, with any other names, with names spelled or names of the candidates arranged in any other way than that directed by the official under whose direction the ballots are printed. (3) An official having the duty of distributing ballots, and any persons acting for that official, may not knowingly distribute or cause to be distributed any ballots in any other manner than as provided under the election laws.
ORS Chapter 260 — Campaign Finance Regulation;

ORS 260.680. [Repealed by 1971 c.749 82]
ORS Chapter 260 — Campaign Finance Regulation;

ORS 260.685. Elections official compliance with directives of Secretary of State. An elections official shall not knowingly fail to comply with an interpretation made by the Secretary of State of any election law or a directive, an instruction or a rule made by the Secretary of State under ORS 246.110, 246.120, 246.140 or 246.150.
ORS Chapter 260 — Campaign Finance Regulation;

ORS 260.690. [Repealed by 1971 c.749 82]
ORS Chapter 260 — Campaign Finance Regulation;

ORS 260.700. [Amended by 1957 c.644 22; repealed by 1971 c.749 82]
ORS Chapter 260 — Campaign Finance Regulation;

ORS 260.705. Premature release of vote tally. A person may not make public the results of the tally of votes from any precinct until after 8 p.m. on the date of the election.
ORS Chapter 260 — Campaign Finance Regulation;

ORS 260.715. Prohibited conduct. (1) A person may not knowingly make a false statement, oath or affidavit when a statement, oath or affidavit is required under the election laws. (2) A person may not request a ballot in a name other than the persons own name. (3) A person may not vote or attempt to vote more than once at any election held on the same date. (4) A person may not vote or attempt to vote both in an election held in this state and in another state on the same date. (5) A person, except an elections official in performance of duties, may not willfully alter or destroy a ballot cast at an election or the returns of an election. (6) A person may not willfully place a fraudulent ballot among the genuine ballots. (7) A person may not falsely write anything purporting to be written by an elections official in performance of duties on the ballot. (8) A person may not commit theft of a ballot or tally or return sheet, or willfully hinder or delay the delivery of the tally or return sheet to the county clerk, or fraudulently break open a sealed tally or return sheet of the election. (9)(a) A person may not: (A) Manufacture or knowingly use a fraudulent ballot return identification envelope or secrecy envelope; or (B) Sell, make an offer with the actual intent to sell, purchase or make an offer with the actual intent to purchase, for money or other valuable consideration, any official ballot, replacement ballot, ballot return identification envelope or secrecy envelope. (b) As used in this subsection, ballot return identification envelope and secrecy envelope mean those envelopes used to return ballots to the county clerk.
ORS Chapter 260 — Campaign Finance Regulation;

ORS 260.720. [Repealed by 1971 c.749 82]
ORS Chapter 260 — Campaign Finance Regulation;

ORS 260.730. [Amended by 1957 c.644 23; repealed by 1971 c.749 82]
ORS Chapter 260 — Campaign Finance Regulation;

ORS 260.740. [Repealed by 1957 c.644 28]
ORS Chapter 260 — Campaign Finance Regulation;

ORS 260.750. [Amended by 1957 c.644 24; repealed by 1971 c.749 82]
ORS Chapter 260 — Campaign Finance Regulation;

ORS 260.760. [Amended by 1957 c.644 25; repealed by 1971 c.749 82]
ORS Chapter 260 — Campaign Finance Regulation;

ORS 260.770. [Repealed by 1971 c.749 82]
ORS Chapter 260 — Campaign Finance Regulation;

ORS 260.780. [Amended by 1957 c.644 26; repealed by 1971 c.743 432 and by 1971 c.749 83]
ORS Chapter 260 — Campaign Finance Regulation;

ORS 260.790. [Repealed by 1971 c.743 432 and by 1971 c.749 83]
ORS Chapter 260 — Campaign Finance Regulation;

ORS 260.800. [Repealed by 1957 c.644 28]
ORS Chapter 260 — Campaign Finance Regulation;

ORS 260.810. [Repealed by 1957 c.644 28]
ORS Chapter 260 — Campaign Finance Regulation;

ORS 260.820. [Repealed by 1971 c.749 82]
ORS Chapter 260 — Campaign Finance Regulation;

ORS 260.990. [1971 c.749 24,74; repealed by 1973 c.744 46 (260.991 enacted in lieu of 260.990)]
ORS Chapter 260 — Campaign Finance Regulation;

ORS 260.991. [1973 c.744 47 (enacted in lieu of 260.990); repealed by 1979 c.190 431]
ORS Chapter 260 — Campaign Finance Regulation;

ORS 260.992. [1973 c.623 6; repealed by 1977 c.678 4] PENALTIES
ORS Chapter 260 — Campaign Finance Regulation;

ORS 260.993. (c) In the case of a violation under ORS 260.537, may institute civil proceedings in the manner described in ORS 260.537. (5) Upon receipt of a complaint or report under subsection (1), (2) or (4) of this section involving an alleged violation subject to a penalty under ORS 260.993 or an alleged violation of ORS 260.537, the Attorney General or other prosecutor immediately shall examine the complaint or report to determine whether a violation of an election law has occurred. If the Attorney General or prosecutor determines that a violation has occurred, the Attorney General or prosecutor immediately shall begin prosecution or civil proceedings in the name of the state. The Attorney General or other prosecutor shall have the same powers in any county of this state as the district attorney for the county. (6) Upon receipt of a complaint under subsection (1) or (2) of this section involving an alleged violation of an election law or rule not subject to a penalty under ORS 260.537 or 260.993, the Attorney General shall examine the complaint to determine whether a violation of an election law or rule has occurred and shall make any investigation the Attorney General considers necessary. If the Attorney General believes after an investigation that a violation of an election law or rule has occurred, the Attorney General may impose a civil penalty under ORS 260.995. (7) In the case of an alleged violation subject to a civil penalty under ORS
ORS Chapter 260 — Campaign Finance Regulation;

ORS 260.999. [1995 c.1 11; repealed by 1999 c.999 59] _______________
ORS Chapter 275 — County Lands

ORS 275.010. [Repealed by 1983 c.327 16] MANAGEMENT AND DISPOSITION OF LANDS AND RESOURCES
ORS Chapter 275 — County Lands

ORS 275.020. Form and effect of conveyance to county. All real or personal estate conveyed by any form of conveyance, and duly acknowledged and recorded, to the inhabitants of any county, or to the county treasurer, or to any committee or other persons for the use of such county, shall be deemed the property of such county. All such conveyances shall have the same force and effect as if made to the inhabitants of such county by their corporate name.
ORS Chapter 275 — County Lands

ORS 275.025. [Repealed by 1983 c.537 7]
ORS Chapter 275 — County Lands

ORS 275.027. Adverse possession of county lands. The rights of any county to public lands are not extinguished by adverse possession. No title or property rights to public lands shall be acquired against the county through operation of a statute of limitations.