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OR Rev Stat § 227.188 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections|Chapter 227 - City Planning and Zoning|Section 227.188 - Amendments to city comprehensive plan map.

(1) A city governing body may authorize the planning commission or hearings officer to conduct hearings and make final decisions on applications for amendments to the city comprehensive plan map. (2)(a) A final decision of the planning commission or hearings officer made under subsection (1) of this section may be appealed to or reviewed by the city governing body. (b) A person may appeal or petition for review of a final decision to the city governing body under this subsection if the person appeared or participated in the proceedings of the planning commission or hearings officer orally or in writing. (3) This section is not subject to the provisions of ORS 227.178 or 227.179. (4) A decision of a planning commission, hearings officer or city governing body under this section shall comply with the post-acknowledgment procedures set forth in ORS 197.610 to 197.625. (5) This section does not apply to: (a) Any plan map amendment for which an exception is required under ORS 197.732; (b) Any lands designated under a statewide planning goal addressing agricultural lands or forestlands; or (c) An expansion of an urban growth boundary. (6) A decision of a city governing body issued on appeal under subsection (2) of this section is subject to review by the Land Use Board of Appeals under ORS 197.830 to 197.845. [2017 c.432 §2] Note: 227.188 was added to and made a part of ORS chapter 227 by legislative action but was not added to any smaller series therein. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.
OR Rev Stat § 227.190 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections|Chapter 227 - City Planning and Zoning|Section 227.190 - Solar access ordinances; purpose; standards.

(1) City councils may adopt and implement solar access ordinances. The ordinances shall provide and protect to the extent feasible solar access to the south face of buildings during solar heating hours, taking into account latitude, topography, microclimate, existing development, existing vegetation and planned uses and densities. The city council shall consider for inclusion in any solar access ordinance, but not be limited to, standards for: (a) The orientation of new streets, lots and parcels; (b) The placement, height, bulk and orientation of new buildings; (c) The type and placement of new trees on public street rights of way and other public property; and (d) Planned uses and densities to conserve energy, facilitate the use of solar energy, or both. (2) The State Department of Energy shall actively encourage and assist city councils’ efforts to protect and provide for solar access. (3) As used in this section, "solar heating hours" means those hours between three hours before and three hours after the sun is at its highest point above the horizon on December 21. [1981 c.722 §5]
OR Rev Stat § 227.195 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections|Chapter 227 - City Planning and Zoning|Section 227.195 - Effect of land use regulations and comprehensive plans.

Solar access ordinances shall not be in conflict with acknowledged comprehensive plans and land use regulations. [1981 c.722 §6]
OR Rev Stat § 227.215 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections|Chapter 227 - City Planning and Zoning|Section 227.215 - Regulation of development.

(1) As used in this section, "development" means a building or mining operation, making a material change in the use or appearance of a structure or land, dividing land into two or more parcels, including partitions and subdivisions as provided in ORS 92.010 to 92.285, and creating or terminating a right of access. (2) A city may plan and otherwise encourage and regulate the development of land. A city may adopt an ordinance requiring that whatever land development is undertaken in the city comply with the requirements of the ordinance and be undertaken only in compliance with the terms of a development permit. (3) A development ordinance may provide for: (a) Development for which a permit is granted as of right on compliance with the terms of the ordinance; (b) Development for which a permit is granted discretionarily in accordance and consistent with the requirements of ORS 227.173; (c) Development which need not be under a development permit but shall comply with the ordinance; and (d) Development which is exempt from the ordinance. (4) The ordinance may divide the city into districts and apply to all or part of the city. [1975 c.767 §11 (enacted in lieu of 227.220 to 227.270); 1977 c.654 §3]
OR Rev Stat § 227.280 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections|Chapter 227 - City Planning and Zoning|Section 227.280 - Enforcement of development legislation.

The council may provide for enforcement of any legislation established under ORS 227.215. [Amended by 1975 c.767 §14]
OR Rev Stat § 227.283 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections|Chapter 227 - City Planning and Zoning|Section 227.283 - Regulations applicable to resumption of nonconforming uses.

City land use regulations that allow the resumption of a nonconforming use after its interruption or abandonment may not consider a use interrupted or abandoned during the time that a federal, state or local emergency order limits or prohibits the use or the repair or replacement of the use. [2021 c.25 §2] Note: Section 4, chapter 25, Oregon Laws 2021, provides: Sec. 4. Section 2 of this 2021 Act [227.283] and the amendments to ORS 215.130 by section 3 of this 2021 Act apply to uses limited or prohibited by federal, state or local emergency orders issued on or after January 1, 2020. [2021 c.25 §4] Note: 227.283 was added to and made a part of ORS chapter 227 by legislative action but was not added to any smaller series therein. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation. Note: Sections 5 and 6, chapter 25, Oregon Laws 2021, provide: Sec. 5. Restoration or replacement of uses lost to 2020 wildfires. Restoration or replacement of a use under ORS 215.130 (5) or under city land use regulations that allow the restoration or reestablishment of a nonconforming use, including under section 2 of this 2021 Act [227.283], must commence no later than September 30, 2025, notwithstanding the time limitation under ORS 215.130 (6) or any other local land use regulation if the restoration is for uses that between September 1 and September 30, 2020, were damaged or destroyed by wildfires that were: (1) The subject of a federal or state major disaster declaration; or (2) Subject to a Governor’s executive order invocating the Emergency Conflagration Act under ORS 476.510 to 476.610. [2021 c.25 §5] Sec. 6. Section 5 of this 2021 Act is repealed January 2, 2026. [2021 c.25 §6]
OR Rev Stat § 227.286 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections|Chapter 227 - City Planning and Zoning|Section 227.286 - Regulations applicable to public property.

City ordinances regulating the location, construction, maintenance, repair, alteration, use and occupancy of land and buildings and other structures shall apply to publicly owned property, except as the ordinances prescribe to the contrary. [1969 c.460 §3 (enacted in lieu of 227.285); 1975 c.767 §12]
OR Rev Stat § 227.290 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections|Chapter 227 - City Planning and Zoning|Section 227.290 - Building setback lines established by city council; criteria.

(1) The council or other governing body of any incorporated city, under an exercise of its police powers, may establish or alter building setback lines on private property adjacent to any alley, street, avenue, boulevard, highway or other public way in such city. It may make it unlawful and provide a penalty for erecting after said establishment any building or structure closer to the street line than such setback line, except as may be expressly provided by ordinance. The council or body shall pass and put into effect such ordinances as may be needed for the purpose of providing for a notice to and hearing of persons owning property affected before establishing any such setback line. Such setback lines may be established without requiring a cutting off or removal of buildings existing at the time. (2) The council may consider, in enacting ordinances governing building setback lines, the site slope and tree cover of the land with regard to solar exposure. The council shall not restrict construction where site slope and tree cover make incident solar energy collection unfeasible, except an existing solar structure’s sun plane shall not be substantially impaired. (3) The council may consider, in enacting ordinances governing building setback lines and maximum building height, the impact on available wind resources. The ordinances shall protect an existing wind energy system’s wind source to the extent feasible. (4) The powers given in this section shall be so exercised as to preserve constitutional rights. [Amended by 1979 c.671 §4; 1981 c.590 §9]
OR Rev Stat § 227.300 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections|Chapter 227 - City Planning and Zoning|Section 227.300 - Use of eminent domain power to establish setback lines.

The council or other governing body of any incorporated city, under an exercise of the power of eminent domain, may establish or alter building setback lines on private property adjacent to any alley, street, avenue, boulevard, highway, or other public way in such city in cases where the establishment of such setback lines is for street widening purposes, and in cases where the establishment of such setback lines affects buildings or structures existing at the time. The council or other governing body of the city shall pass and put into effect such ordinances as may be needed for the purpose of providing for a notice to and hearing of persons whose property is affected by such establishment. In case of the exercise of the power of eminent domain, provision shall be made for ascertaining and paying just compensation for any damages caused as the result of establishing such setback lines.
OR Rev Stat § 227.350 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections|Chapter 227 - City Planning and Zoning|Section 227.350 - Notice of proposed wetlands development; exception; approval by city.

(1) After the Department of State Lands has provided the city with a copy of the applicable portions of the Statewide Wetlands Inventory, the city shall provide notice to the department, the applicant and the owner of record, within five working days of the acceptance of any complete application for the following activities that are wholly or partially within areas identified as wetlands on the Statewide Wetlands Inventory: (a) Subdivisions; (b) Building permits for new structures; (c) Other development permits and approvals that allow physical alteration of the land involving excavation and grading, including permits for removal or fill, or both, or development in floodplains and floodways; (d) Conditional use permits and variances that involve physical alterations to the land or construction of new structures; and (e) Planned unit development approvals. (2) The provisions of subsection (1) of this section do not apply if a permit from the department has been issued for the proposed activity. (3) Approval of any activity described in subsection (1) of this section shall include one of the following notice statements: (a) Issuance of a permit under ORS 196.600 to 196.921 by the department required for the project before any physical alteration takes place within the wetlands; (b) Notice from the department that no permit is required; or (c) Notice from the department that no permit is required until specific proposals to remove, fill or alter the wetlands are submitted. (4) If the department fails to respond to any notice provided under subsection (1) of this section within 30 days of notice, the city approval may be issued with written notice to the applicant and the owner of record that the proposed action may require state or federal permits. (5) The city may issue local approval for parcels identified as or including wetlands on the Statewide Wetlands Inventory upon providing to the applicant and the owner of record of the affected parcel a written notice of the possible presence of wetlands and the potential need for state and federal permits and providing the department with a copy of the notification of comprehensive plan map or zoning map amendments for specific properties. (6) Notice of activities authorized within an approved wetland conservation plan shall be provided to the department within five days following local approval. (7) Failure by the city to provide notice as required in this section will not invalidate city approval. [1989 c.837 §31; 1991 c.763 §26]
OR Rev Stat § 227.400 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections|Chapter 227 - City Planning and Zoning|Section 227.400 - Truck routes; procedures for establishment or revision; notice; hearing.

(1) A city council shall not establish a new truck route or revise an existing truck route within the city unless the council first provides public notice of the proposed truck route and holds a public hearing concerning its proposed action. (2) The city council shall provide notice of a public hearing held under this section by publishing notice of the hearing once a week for two consecutive weeks in some newspaper of general circulation in the city. The second publication of the notice must occur not later than the fifth day before the date of the public hearing. (3) The notice required under this section shall state the time and place of the public hearing and contain a brief and concise statement of the proposed formation of the truck route, including a description of the roads and streets in the city that will form the truck route. (4) As used in this section: (a) "Truck" includes motor truck, as defined in ORS 801.355, and truck tractor, as defined in ORS 801.575. (b) "Truck route" means the roads or streets in a city which have been formally designated by the city council as the roads or streets on which trucks must travel when proceeding through the city. [1985 c.564 §1]
OR Rev Stat § 227.450 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections|Chapter 227 - City Planning and Zoning|Section 227.450 - Recycling containers; recommendations for new construction.

(1) Each multifamily residential dwelling with more than 10 individual residential units that is constructed after October 4, 1997, should include adequate space and access for collection of containers for solid waste and recyclable materials. (2) Each commercial building and each industrial and institutional building that is constructed after October 4, 1997, should include adequate space and access for collection of containers for solid waste and recyclable materials. (3) As used in this section, "commercial," "recyclable material" and "solid waste" have the meanings given in ORS 459.005. [1997 c.552 §32]
OR Rev Stat § 227.455 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections|Chapter 227 - City Planning and Zoning|Section 227.455 - Clustered mailboxes in city streets and rights-of-way.

Each city in this state shall adopt standards and specifications for clustered mailboxes within the boundaries of city streets and rights-of-way that conform to the standards and specifications for such mailboxes contained in the State of Oregon Structural Specialty Code. [2011 c.488 §2] Note: 227.455 was enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but was not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 227 or any series therein by legislative action. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.
OR Rev Stat § 227.500 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections|Chapter 227 - City Planning and Zoning|Section 227.500 - Use of real property for religious activity; city regulation of real property used for religious activity.

(1) If a church, synagogue, temple, mosque, chapel, meeting house or other nonresidential place of worship is allowed on real property under state law and rules and local zoning ordinances and regulations, a city shall allow the reasonable use of the real property for activities customarily associated with the practices of the religious activity, including: (a) Worship services. (b) Religion classes. (c) Weddings. (d) Funerals. (e) Meal programs. (f) Child care, but not including private or parochial school education for prekindergarten through grade 12 or higher education. (2) A city may: (a) Subject real property described in subsection (1) of this section to reasonable regulations, including site review and design review, concerning the physical characteristics of the uses authorized under subsection (1) of this section; or (b) Prohibit or regulate the use of real property by a place of worship described in subsection (1) of this section if the city finds that the level of service of public facilities, including transportation, water supply, sewer and storm drain systems is not adequate to serve the place of worship described in subsection (1) of this section. (3) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, a city may allow a private or parochial school for prekindergarten through grade 12 or higher education to be sited under applicable state law and rules and local zoning ordinances and regulations. [2001 c.886 §4; 2017 c.745 §8; 2019 c.640 §20; 2021 c.385 §5; 2021 c.446 §5]
OR Rev Stat § 227.505 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections|Chapter 227 - City Planning and Zoning|Section 227.505 - Solar energy systems on residential and commercial structures.

(1) The installation and use on a residential structure of a solar photovoltaic energy system or a solar thermal energy system is an outright permitted use in any zone in which residential structures are an allowed use. (2) The installation and use on a commercial structure of a solar photovoltaic energy system or a solar thermal energy system is an outright permitted use in any zone in which commercial structures are an allowed use. (3) Approval of a permit application under ORS 227.160 to 227.186 is, notwithstanding the definition of "permit" in ORS 227.160, a ministerial function if: (a) The installation of a solar energy system can be accomplished without increasing the footprint of the residential or commercial structure or the peak height of the portion of the roof on which the system is installed; and (b) The solar energy system would be mounted so that the plane of the system is parallel to the slope of the roof. (4) As part of the permit approval process, a city: (a) May not charge a fee pursuant to ORS 227.175 for processing a permit; (b) May not require extensive surveys or site evaluations including, but not limited to, vegetation surveys, contour maps and elevation drawings; and (c) May charge building permit fees pursuant to ORS 455.020, 455.210 and 455.220. (5) Subsections (3) and (4) of this section do not apply to a permit application for a residential or commercial structure that is: (a) A federally or locally designated historic building or landmark or that is located in a federally or locally designated historic district. (b) A conservation landmark designated by a city or county because of the historic, cultural, archaeological, architectural or similar merit of the landmark. (c) Located in an area designated as a significant scenic resource unless the material used is: (A) Designated as anti-reflective; or (B) Eleven percent or less reflective. (6) As used in this section, "solar photovoltaic energy system" has the meaning given that term in ORS 757.360. [2011 c.464 §2] Note: 227.505 was enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but was not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 227 or any series therein by legislative action. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.
OR Rev Stat § 236.010 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections|Chapter 236 - Eligibility; Resignations, Removals and Vacancies; Discipline; Transfers|Section 236.010 - Causes for vacancies in office.

(1) An office shall become vacant before the expiration of the term if: (a) The incumbent dies, resigns or is removed. (b) The incumbent ceases to be an inhabitant of the district, county or city for which the incumbent was elected or appointed, or within which the duties of the office of the incumbent are required to be discharged. (c) The incumbent is convicted of an infamous crime, or any offense involving the violation of the oath of the incumbent. (d) The incumbent refuses or neglects to take the oath of office, or to give or renew the official bond of the incumbent, or to deposit such oath or bond within the time prescribed by law. (e) The election or appointment of the incumbent is declared void by a competent tribunal. (f) The incumbent is found to be a person with a mental illness by the decision of a competent tribunal. (g) The incumbent ceases to possess any other qualification required for election or appointment to such office. (h) Appointment of the incumbent is subject to Senate confirmation under section 4, Article III of the Oregon Constitution, and the appointment is not confirmed. (2) The provisions of subsection (1)(b) of this section do not apply when residence within the district, county or city for which the incumbent was elected or appointed is not required for such election or appointment. [Amended by 1969 c.669 §3; 1979 c.351 §3; 2007 c.70 §56]
OR Rev Stat § 236.020 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections|Chapter 236 - Eligibility; Resignations, Removals and Vacancies; Discipline; Transfers|Section 236.020 - Vacancy for breach of official bond.

The Governor shall declare vacant the office of every officer required by law to execute an official bond whenever a judgment is obtained against such officer for a breach of the conditions of the bond.
OR Rev Stat § 236.030 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections|Chapter 236 - Eligibility; Resignations, Removals and Vacancies; Discipline; Transfers|Section 236.030 - Persons ineligible for office because of membership in certain organizations.

(1) No person who is a member of, or affiliated with, any organization which teaches the doctrine of, or advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or violence shall be a candidate for public office or eligible for appointment to a public office. (2) The name of a person defined in subsection (1) of this section shall not be placed upon any ballot in connection with any election.