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2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 205 - County Clerks › Section 205.234 - Requirements for first page of instruments to be recorded; cover sheet.

(1) When an instrument is presented to a county clerk for recording, the first page of the instrument must contain at least:
(a) The names of the transactions as required in ORS 205.236;
(b) The names of the persons described in ORS 205.125 (1)(a) and (b) and 205.160;
(c) The person to whom and, for mailing purposes only, the address to which the instrument will be delivered as provided in ORS 205.180;
(d) For instruments that convey or contract to convey fee title to real estate and for memoranda of the instruments, the true and actual consideration paid for the transfer as required by ORS 93.030;
(e) For instruments that convey or contract to convey fee title to real estate, the tax statement information required by ORS 93.260;
(f) For instruments recorded in the County Clerk Lien Record, the information described in ORS 205.125 (1)(c) and (e); and
(g) For instruments that assign a mortgage or trust deed, the name and address of the assignee mortgagee or assignee trust deed beneficiary.
(2) Notwithstanding ORS 205.327, if an instrument presented for recording does not contain the information required by subsection (1) of this section, a cover sheet may be prepared that contains the required information. The person that presents the instrument for recording shall prepare the cover sheet. The cover sheet may be attached to the instrument and must be recorded as a part of the instrument. Any errors in the cover sheet do not affect the transactions contained in the instrument. The cover sheet need not be separately signed or acknowledged. [1991 c.230 §3; 1993 c.321 §4; 2007 c.345 §1; 2011 c.505 §3; 2012 c.47 §4]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 205 - County Clerks › Section 205.236 - Labeling of instrument to be recorded; instrument describing two or more transactions; recordation; fee.

(1) An instrument required or permitted by law to be recorded shall be clearly labeled in sufficient detail to enable the clerk to record the instrument in the appropriate record.
(2) An instrument describing two or more transactions required or permitted by law to be recorded as separate instruments may be recorded when the instrument is labeled in sufficient detail to enable the clerk to record the transactions in the appropriate records and:
(a) The transactions described in the instrument involve the same properties;
(b) The transactions are assignments, releases or satisfactions of any recorded instrument;
(c) The transactions are liens recorded under ORS 311.675;
(d) The transactions are municipal assessment liens being recorded under ORS 93.643;
(e) The instrument is recorded under ORS 371.650; or
(f) The instrument is a cooperative contract recorded under ORS 62.360.
(3) When an instrument described in subsection (2) of this section is accepted for recording by a county clerk, the county clerk shall enter the instrument into the appropriate records.
(4) Recording fees shall be charged for recording each additional transaction described in subsection (2) of this section and the fee shall be the fee provided for in ORS 205.320.
(5) Nothing in this section is intended to abolish the requirements for collection of the fees required under ORS 205.323.
(6) Recording an instrument under this section when the instrument is not clearly labeled does not affect the validity of the recordation.
(7) A county clerk shall not incur civil or criminal liability, either personally or in an official capacity, for recording an instrument under this section when the instrument is not labeled in sufficient detail to allow the clerk to record the transactions in all appropriate records. [1991 c.230 §5; 1993 c.321 §5; 1999 c.654 §20]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 205 - County Clerks › Section 205.238 - Return of instrument after recordation.

In every county, the county clerk shall return any instrument presented for recording to the person authorized to receive the instrument. The county clerk shall return the instrument by personally delivering or mailing the instrument not later than the 10th business day, not counting days on which the recording office is closed, after the date of recordation. [1991 c.230 §6]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 205 - County Clerks › Section 205.242 - Clerk to receive and certify instruments during specified hours; exceptions.

(1) The office of the county clerk in every county shall establish regular business hours to receive and certify, as required under ORS 93.620, instruments presented for recording, for a minimum of four hours per day, and 30 hours per week, from Monday through Friday.
(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section:
(a) The county clerk may reduce the number of regular business hours below the minimums required under subsection (1) of this section for:
(A) A holiday recognized by the county governing body;
(B) A state of emergency declared at the local, state or federal level; or
(C) An event that poses a safety risk to the public or staff of the office.
(b) The county clerk may reduce the number of regular weekly business hours to less than 30 for training programs of the office of the county clerk, not to exceed two business day closures per year.
(3)(a) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, the county governing body may modify the regular business hours of the office of the county clerk for a fiscal year upon adoption of a resolution in which the governing body determines in its sole discretion that a fiscal emergency exists in the county.
(b) A resolution adopted under this subsection may be renewed, amended or repealed by the county governing body.
(c) The regular business hours established under subsection (1) of this section may not be reduced under a resolution to a greater extent than the regular business hours of other nonemergency county services housed within the same building are reduced. [1991 c.230 §7; 1995 c.784 §1; 1997 c.249 §58; 2021 c.484 §1]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 205 - County Clerks › Section 205.244 - Rerecording of corrected instruments.

(1) An instrument that has been previously recorded may be rerecorded to make corrections in the original instrument.
(2) The county clerk shall record an instrument presented for rerecording as provided in subsection (1) of this section. The corrected instrument need not be acknowledged again. The person presenting the instrument for rerecording shall cause a rerecording certificate to be affixed to the first page of the instrument or to a cover sheet authorized by ORS 205.234 (2) added as a new first page to the instrument. The rerecording certificate shall contain the words "RERECORDED AT THE REQUEST OF _____ TO CORRECT_____. PREVIOUSLY RECORDED IN BOOK _____ AND PAGE___, OR AS FEE NUMBER___."
(3) A certified copy of a recorded instrument may not be altered for the purpose of correcting the original instrument. The person presenting the instrument may present an unaltered certified copy of the recorded instrument when it is attached to a cover sheet authorized by ORS 205.234 (2). The cover sheet must contain the rerecording certificate described in subsection (2) of this section. The rerecorded document may include attachments identified on the cover sheet that are necessary to make the corrections.
(4) A county clerk shall not incur civil or criminal liability, either personally or in an official capacity, for recording a corrected instrument under this section. [1991 c.230 §9; 2009 c.302 §1]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 205 - County Clerks › Section 205.255 - Filing requirement as recording requirement.

Any requirement by the laws of this state that an instrument described in ORS 205.246 be filed in the office of the county clerk or that an instrument be filed in deed or mortgage records shall be considered to be a requirement that such instruments be recorded instead of being filed. [Formerly 21.530; 1991 c.230 §16]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 205 - County Clerks › Section 205.323 - Additional fees for recording certain instruments; use of fees.

(1) In addition to and not in lieu of the fees charged and collected under ORS 205.320 and other fees, the county clerk shall charge and collect the following fees for the recording or filing of any instrument described in ORS 205.130:
(a) A fee of $1, to be credited as provided in subsection (4)(a) of this section;
(b) A fee of $10, to be credited as provided in subsection (4)(b) of this section; and
(c) A fee of $60, to be credited as provided in subsection (4)(c) of this section.
(2) Subsection (1) of this section does not apply to the recording or filing of the following:
(a) Instruments that are otherwise exempt from recording or filing fees under any provision of law;
(b) Any satisfaction of judgment or certificate of satisfaction of judgment; or
(c) Internal county government instruments not otherwise charged a recording or filing fee.
(3) Subsection (1)(c) of this section does not apply to the recording or filing of:
(a) Instruments required under ORS 517.210 to maintain mining claims;
(b) Warrants issued by the Employment Department pursuant to ORS 657.396, 657.642 and 657.646; or
(c) A certified copy of a judgment, a lien record abstract as described in ORS 18.170 or a satisfaction of a judgment, including a judgment noticed by recordation of a lien record abstract.
(4) Of the amounts charged and collected under this section:
(a) The recording or filing fee charged and collected under subsection (1)(a) of this section must be deposited and credited to the Oregon Land Information System Fund established under ORS 306.132.
(b) The recording or filing fee charged and collected under subsection (1)(b) of this section shall be credited as follows:
(A) Five percent of the fee must be credited for the benefit of the county;
(B) Five percent of the fee must be credited for the benefit of the county clerk for the purposes described in ORS 205.320 (2); and
(C) 90 percent of the fee must be credited to and deposited in the County Assessment and Taxation Fund created under ORS 294.187.
(c) The recording or filing fee charged and collected under subsection (1)(c) of this section must be credited to and deposited in the County Assessment and Taxation Fund created under ORS 294.187.
(5) The Department of Revenue and county tax collectors are exempt from paying the fee under subsection (1)(c) of this section. [1989 c.796 §15; 1999 c.701 §3; 1999 c.788 §61; 1999 c.803 §8; 2001 c.501 §10; 2001 c.713 §5; 2009 c.18 §2; 2013 c.646 §1; 2015 c.27 §23; 2018 c.109 §10]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 205 - County Clerks › Section 205.327 - Penalty for presenting nonstandard instruments for recording.

When an instrument required or permitted by law to be recorded is presented to a county clerk for recording, if the instrument does not comply with the requirements of ORS 205.232 or 205.234, the county clerk shall record the instrument, but shall charge and collect in advance a penalty of $20. The penalty authorized and collected under this section is in addition to and not in lieu of the fees charged under ORS 205.320 for recording the instrument. [1991 c.230 §4; 2001 c.713 §4; 2015 c.168 §1]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 205 - County Clerks › Section 205.350 - Fees for approving and recording plats.

The fee for performing the services set forth in ORS 92.090, 92.100 and 271.230, shall be set by ordinance of the county governing body. [Amended by 1971 c.621 §29; 1975 c.607 §28; 1979 c.833 §29]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 205 - County Clerks › Section 205.360 - Clerk to receipt and account for certain probate fees collected.

The clerk of the county court shall receive and receipt for fees prescribed in ORS 21.170 that are collected by the clerk, stating in the receipt the amount so received, from whom received and on what account the amount was received, specifying the cause or proceeding. If it is ascertained at any time that the clerk has received any such fees not so accounted for, or done service without collecting fees therefor as provided in ORS 21.170, or neglected duty in any other respect, the payment of salary of the clerk shall be withheld until the matter is fully rectified. [Amended by 1981 s.s. c.3 §99; 2011 c.595 §136]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 205 - County Clerks › Section 205.365 - Disposition of County Clerk Lien Record fees.

Within the first 10 days of the month following the month in which collected, all fees collected by a county clerk for recording and making entry of any instrument in the County Clerk Lien Record shall be paid to the county treasurer for deposit in a separate account in the county general fund. Moneys in such account shall be credited to the county clerk and used exclusively by the county clerk for payment of expenses incurred in maintaining the County Clerk Lien Record. [1983 c.696 §32]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 205 - County Clerks › Section 205.370 - Payment to and disposition of trial fees by court clerk.

Trial fees in the county court exercising judicial functions shall be paid to the clerk of the court, who shall keep a regular account of them, and by whom paid, in the fee book. The clerk shall pay the amount of such fees received to the treasurer of the county, as often as once a month, taking receipt therefor in duplicate, one of which the clerk shall file in the office of the clerk and the other the clerk may retain as private property. At the annual accounting of the county officers with the county court, the clerk shall exhibit to such court a detailed statement of the trial fees received by the clerk in the course of the year, verified by the oath of the clerk. [Amended by 1981 s.s. c.3 §100]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 205 - County Clerks › Section 205.395 - Payment of fees by state agencies for entry in County Clerk Lien Record.

Notwithstanding the provisions of ORS 182.040 to 182.060 and 205.320 relating to the time and manner of payment of fees to the county clerk, a state officer or state agency that records a warrant, order, a certified copy of the judgment or lien record abstract or other document with a county clerk for entry in the County Clerk Lien Record shall not be required to pay the fee for that service in advance or at the time the entry is made. Except as provided in ORS 137.270 the county clerk, on the 10th day of each month, shall provide the officer or agency with an itemized statement of all recordings made by the officer or agency for the preceding month, together with the total charge therefor. The officer or agency, upon receipt of the itemized statement, shall promptly pay the amount due the county. The fees that may be charged and collected by the county clerk for recording and making entry of any instrument in the County Clerk Lien Record are those fees prescribed for recording documents. [1983 c.696 §2; 1987 c.586 §36]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 205 - County Clerks › Section 205.450 - Definitions for ORS 205.450 to 205.470.

As used in ORS 205.450 to 205.470:
(1) "Encumbrance" means a claim, lien, charge or liability attached to and binding property.
(2) "Encumbrance claimant" means a person who purportedly benefits from the filing of an encumbrance.
(3) "Federal official or employee" has the meaning given the term "employee of the government" in the Federal Tort Claims Act (28 U.S.C. 2671).
(4) "Filing" includes filing or recording.
(5) "Invalid claim of encumbrance" means a claim of encumbrance that is not a valid claim of encumbrance.
(6) "Property" includes, but is not limited to, real and personal property.
(7) "State or local official or employee" means an appointed or elected official, employee or agent of:
(a) A branch of government of this state or a state agency, board, commission or department of a branch of government of this state;
(b) A public university listed in ORS 352.002;
(c) A community college or local school district in this state;
(d) A city, county or other political subdivision in this state; or
(e) A public corporation in this state.
(8) "Valid claim of encumbrance" is an encumbrance that:
(a) Is an encumbrance authorized by statute;
(b) Is a consensual encumbrance recognized under the laws of this state; or
(c) Is an equitable, constructive or other encumbrance imposed by a court of competent jurisdiction. [1997 c.290 §1; 2005 c.22 §156; 2011 c.637 §70]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 205 - County Clerks › Section 205.465 - Claim of encumbrance against certain property invalid without judicial order.

A claim of encumbrance against the property of a federal official or employee or against the property of a state or local official or employee based on the performance or nonperformance of official duties of the official, employee or agent shall be invalid unless an order from a court of competent jurisdiction authorizing the filing of the encumbrance is filed with the encumbrance. [1997 c.290 §4]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 205 - County Clerks › Section 205.470 - Liability for filing invalid claim of encumbrance.

Any person who knowingly files, or directs another to file, an invalid claim of encumbrance shall be liable to the owner of the property bound by the claim of encumbrance for a sum of not less than $5,000 or for actual damages caused by the filing of the claim of encumbrance, whichever is greater, together with costs and reasonable attorney fees at trial and on appeal. Any grantee or other person purportedly benefited by an invalid encumbrance that is filed who willfully refuses to release the invalid encumbrance upon request of the owner of the property affected shall be liable to the owner for the damages and costs and reasonable attorney fees at trial and on appeal provided in this section. [1997 c.290 §5]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 205 - County Clerks › Section 205.510 - County clerk not to act or have partner acting as attorney.

(1) No county clerk shall during the term of office of that clerk institute or assist in instituting any suit, action or probate proceeding in any court of which the clerk is an officer, act as an attorney or counselor with or without hire in any such suit, action or proceeding, or have a partner who shall act as an attorney in any of such proceedings.
(2) The county clerk of Multnomah County and the deputies of the clerk are prohibited from practicing or having a partner practicing as an attorney-at-law, while in office.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 205 - County Clerks › Section 205.515 - Orders or warrants issued by state agency or officer; docketing; transfer to County Clerk Lien Record.

(1) If an order or warrant issued by a state agency or officer was docketed in the judgment docket of the circuit court of any county before October 3, 1989, notice of satisfaction or release of the lien of an order or warrant so docketed shall be docketed in the same judgment docket in which the order or warrant was docketed.
(2) If an order or warrant issued by a state agency or officer was docketed in the judgment docket of a circuit court of any county before October 3, 1989, the officer or agency may cause such an order or warrant to be transferred to and recorded in the County Clerk Lien Record of the same county in which the order or warrant was originally docketed as provided in subsection (3) of this section. An order or warrant so transferred shall continue the lien created by the original docketing of the order or warrant.
(3) Upon request, the clerk of a circuit court shall supply to an officer or agency a certified copy of any order or warrant docketed in the judgment docket of a circuit court before October 3, 1989. That certified copy may then be recorded in the County Clerk Lien Record of the county where the circuit court is located in the same manner and with the same effect provided for the recording of original orders and warrants. Upon recording of the order or warrant, the agency or officer shall as soon as possible thereafter cause to be returned to the clerk of the circuit court that prepared the certified copy, the original of that certified copy reflecting the recording of the copy in the County Clerk Lien Record and the date of the recording. The clerk shall then cause to be entered in the register a notation reflecting the recording of the order or warrant in the County Clerk Lien Record and the date of the recording.
(4) Nothing in this section shall be construed to affect the status of liens created by, or require the transfer from, any judgment docket to any County Clerk Lien Record of any order or warrant docketed in a judgment docket before October 3, 1989. [1989 c.706 §5; 2003 c.576 §196]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 205 - County Clerks › Section 205.525 - Interest on penalties imposed by orders; satisfaction of orders or warrants issued by state agency or officer; recording release of lien in County Clerk Lien Record.

(1) Interest on a penalty imposed by an order shall run from the date of issuance of a final order at the rate provided for interest on judgments provided for in ORS 82.010 unless the penalty is paid within the time allowed by law.
(2) An order or warrant may be satisfied by payment of the amount due under the order or warrant, any penalties or interest accruing in connection with the order or warrant under law, and all costs incurred by the agency in connection with recording, indexing or service of the order or warrant and the satisfaction thereof. When an order or warrant has been fully satisfied it shall be the responsibility of the agency or officer that issued the order or warrant to record a full satisfaction in each county in which the order or warrant was recorded.
(3) The lien of an order or warrant may be released only by the officer or agency that issued the order or warrant. A release of the lien may be recorded in the County Clerk Lien Record in which the order or warrant was recorded. If the officer or agency records a release, the cost of recording or indexing the release may be recovered in advance from the person seeking the release. [1989 c.706 §4; 2005 c.22 §157]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 205 - County Clerks › Section 205.990 - Penalties.

Any officer who violates ORS 205.510 (1) shall be deemed guilty of official misconduct and punished therefor as provided by ORS 162.415. [Amended by 1959 c.552 §15; 1971 c.743 §346]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 206 - Sheriffs › Section 206.010 - General duties of sheriff.

The sheriff is the chief executive officer and conservator of the peace of the county. In the execution of the office of sheriff, it is the sheriff’s duty to:
(1) Arrest and commit to prison all persons who break the peace, or attempt to break it, and all persons guilty of public offenses.
(2) Defend the county against those who, by riot or otherwise, endanger the public peace or safety.
(3) Execute the process and orders of the courts of justice or of judicial officers, when delivered to the sheriff for that purpose, according to law.
(4) Execute all warrants delivered to the sheriff for that purpose by other public officers, according to law.
(5) Attend, upon call, the Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, Oregon Tax Court, circuit court, justice court or county court held within the county, and to obey its lawful orders or directions. [Amended by 1985 c.339 §1]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 206 - Sheriffs › Section 206.015 - Qualifications of sheriff; certification as police officer; determination of eligibility to be candidate for election to office of sheriff.

(1) A person is not eligible to be a candidate for election or appointment to the office of sheriff unless:
(a) The person is 21 years of age or older;
(b) The person has at least four years’ experience as a full-time law enforcement officer or at least two years’ experience as a full-time law enforcement officer with at least two years’ post-high-school education; and
(c) The person has not been convicted of a felony or of any other crime that would prevent the person from being certified as a police officer under ORS 181A.355 to 181A.689.
(2) As used in subsection (1) of this section, "two years’ post-high-school education" means four semesters or six quarters of classroom education in a formal course of study undertaken after graduation from high school in any accredited college or university. The term does not include apprenticeship or on-the-job training.
(3) If the person is not certified as a police officer by the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training at the time of accepting appointment or filing as a candidate, a person elected or appointed to the office of sheriff must obtain the certification not later than one year after taking office. A copy of the certification shall be filed with the county clerk or the county official in charge of elections. The county governing body shall declare the office of sheriff vacant when the person serving as sheriff is not certified as a police officer within one year after taking office.
(4) The Department of Public Safety Standards and Training, in consultation with the Board on Public Safety Standards and Training, shall establish a procedure for determining whether an individual is eligible under subsection (1) of this section to be a candidate for election to the office of sheriff. A copy of the department’s determination of an individual’s eligibility to be a candidate for election to the office of sheriff shall be filed with the county clerk or county official in charge of elections not later than the 61st day before the date of the election. If the department determines that the individual is not eligible to be a candidate for election to the office of sheriff, the county clerk or county official in charge of elections shall not place the name of the individual on the ballot at the election. [1971 c.299 §1; 1981 c.808 §5; 1987 c.484 §1; 1993 c.493 §87; 1997 c.853 §35]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 206 - Sheriffs › Section 206.030 - Duty to execute process and make return; taking concealed personal property; use of force.

An officer to whom any process, order or paper is delivered shall execute or serve it according to its command or direction, or as required by law, and must make a written return of the execution or service thereof. If a sheriff is directed by a court to take personal property into custody at a specific premises, and the property is concealed in a building or enclosure, the sheriff shall demand its delivery. If delivery is not made, the sheriff shall use such reasonable force as is necessary to enter into the building or enclosure and take the property into possession. [Amended by 2003 c.304 §1]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 206 - Sheriffs › Section 206.040 - Execution of process and service of papers.

When any process, order or paper is delivered to an officer, to be executed or served, the officer shall deliver to the person delivering it, if required, on payment of the fee, a written memorandum, specifying the names of the parties in the process, order or paper, the general nature thereof and the day on which it was received. The officer shall also, when required by law, or upon the request of the party served, without fee, deliver to the party a copy thereof.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 206 - Sheriffs › Section 206.050 - Commanding assistance in process serving.

(1) When an officer finds, or has reason to apprehend, that resistance will be made to the execution or service of any process, order or paper delivered to the officer for execution or service, and authorized by law, the officer may command as many adult inhabitants of the county of the officer as the officer may think proper and necessary to assist the officer in overcoming the resistance, and if necessary, in seizing, arresting and confining the resisters and their aiders and abettors, to be punished according to law.
(2) National Guard members are exempt from any service commanded under subsection (1) of this section while they continue to be active members. [Amended by 1961 c.454 §209; 2007 c.255 §12]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 206 - Sheriffs › Section 206.070 - Excusing liability of sheriff in execution of process.

No direction or authority by a party or the attorney of the party to a sheriff or the officer of the sheriff, in respect to the execution of process or the return thereof, or to any act or omission relating thereto, can be shown to discharge or excuse the sheriff from a liability for neglect or misconduct, unless it is contained in a writing signed by the party to be charged or affected thereby or the attorney of the party.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 206 - Sheriffs › Section 206.080 - Certificate of election or appointment to new sheriff; service on former sheriff.

When a new sheriff is elected or appointed, and has qualified, the county clerk shall give the new sheriff a certificate of that fact, under the seal of office of the county clerk. Whenever thereafter the new sheriff is authorized by statute to enter upon the duties of the office, the new sheriff shall serve such certificate upon the former sheriff, from which time the powers of the former sheriff cease, except when otherwise specially provided.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 206 - Sheriffs › Section 206.090 - Delivery of jail, prisoners and process to new sheriff.

Within one day after the service of the certificate referred to in ORS 206.080 upon the former sheriff, the former sheriff shall deliver to the successor:
(1) The jail of the county, with its appurtenances and the property of the county therein.
(2) The prisoners then confined in the county jail.
(3) The process or other papers in the custody of the former sheriff, authorizing or relating to the confinement of the prisoners, or if they have been returned, a written memorandum of them and the time and place of their return.
(4) All process for the arrest of a party, and all papers relating to the summoning of jurors which have not been fully executed.
(5) All executions and final process, except those which the former sheriff has executed, or has begun to execute, by the collection of money or a levy on property.
(6) All process or other papers for the enforcement of a provisional remedy not fully executed.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 206 - Sheriffs › Section 206.100 - Written assignment of items delivered.

The former sheriff shall also at the time referred to in ORS 206.090 deliver to the new sheriff a written assignment of the property, process, papers and prisoners delivered. The new sheriff shall thereupon acknowledge in writing, upon the assignment, the receipt of the property, process, papers and prisoners therein specified, furnish the former sheriff a certified copy thereof and file the original in the county clerk’s office.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 206 - Sheriffs › Section 206.110 - Return of process by former sheriff; completion of execution of process by successor; duty of successor as to defective or lost deeds.

(1) The former sheriff shall return all process, whether before or after judgment, which the former sheriff has fully executed, and the new sheriff and the successor in office shall complete the execution of all final process which the predecessor commenced and did not complete.
(2) In all cases where real property is sold under execution by any sheriff, and the sheriff fails or neglects during the term of office of the sheriff, by virtue of the expiration thereof, or otherwise, to make or execute a proper sheriff’s deed conveying the property to the purchaser, or if through mistake in its execution, or otherwise, any sheriff’s deed is inoperative, or if by reason of the loss of an unrecorded sheriff’s deed, the purchaser, the heirs or assigns or successors in interest of the purchaser desire the execution of another sheriff’s deed, the sheriff in office at any time after the purchaser is entitled to a deed shall execute such conveyance. When executed to cure or replace a defective or lost deed such conveyance shall be to the grantee in the defective or lost deed, but shall relate back and be deemed to take effect as of the date of the execution of the defective or lost deed so as to inure to the benefit of the heirs and assigns, or other successors in interest, of the grantee named therein. Such conveyance so executed by the sheriff in office shall have the same force and effect as if executed by the sheriff who made the sale. [Amended by 2003 c.576 §395]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 206 - Sheriffs › Section 206.120 - Disposition of money in custody when office vacant.

When the official term of office of any sheriff ends by expiration of the term, death, resignation, removal from office or otherwise, the money in the custody of the sheriff by virtue of the office of the sheriff, belonging to the county or litigants, shall be turned over immediately to the successor in office, and duplicate itemized receipts therefor immediately shall be filed with the county treasurer.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 206 - Sheriffs › Section 206.210 - Authority of sheriff over organization of office.

Notwithstanding the provisions of ORS 241.016 to 241.990 or any other county civil service law or regulation, the sheriff may organize the work of the office of the sheriff so that:
(1) The various duties required of the office may be assigned to appropriate departments and divisions to be performed by persons experienced and qualified for such respective kinds of work.
(2) The duties of the various assistants, officers and deputies of the sheriff are coordinated so that, when not engaged in a particular duty specified or directed to be done and not then requiring attention, such persons shall perform the other duties required of the office and then required to be done.
(3) The cooperation among assistants, officers, deputies and employees in the departments and divisions may be secured for the purposes of avoiding duplication of time and effort. [1963 c.331 §2]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 206 - Sheriffs › Section 206.310 - Service of papers on sheriff.

Personal service of a paper upon the sheriff may be made by delivering it to a person belonging to and in the office during office hours, or if no such person is there, by leaving it in the office, or if the office is not open, by delivering it to the county clerk or the deputy of the county clerk, at the county clerk’s office. [Formerly 206.130]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 206 - Sheriffs › Section 206.315 - Expenses of sheriff in conveying convicts and persons with mental illness to state institutions.

(1) A sheriff is entitled to receive from the county the actual and necessary expenses of the sheriff incurred in transporting and conveying convicts and parole violators to a Department of Corrections institution and persons with mental illness to a state mental hospital when conveyed by the sheriff in pursuance of the adjudication of an authorized tribunal of the state, to be audited and allowed as other claims against the county.
(2) All counties are entitled to receive reimbursement from the state in the amounts specified in subsection (3) of this section for the actual and necessary expenses incurred by the sheriff under subsection (1) of this section.
(3) Reimbursement by the state under subsection (2) of this section shall be as follows:
(a) Full reimbursement for transporting and conveying persons with mental illness to a state mental hospital.
(b) Full reimbursement for returning a parole violator to the state penitentiary.
(c) Seventy-five percent reimbursement for transporting and conveying a convict to a Department of Corrections institution. [Formerly 204.421; 1987 c.320 §146; 2007 c.70 §55]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 206 - Sheriffs › Section 206.325 - Expenses of sheriff in caring for property in custody.

A sheriff is entitled to claim from the plaintiff or moving party in any account, action or proceeding such reasonable sums of money as the sheriff may have been compelled to pay or incur in the care of property in the custody of the sheriff, under attachment, execution or proceedings for the claim and delivery of personal property. [Formerly 204.425]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 206 - Sheriffs › Section 206.330 - Sheriff entitled to rewards.

The sheriff is entitled to demand and receive to the sheriff’s own use any reward offered in pursuance of law for the apprehension of any person charged with or suspected of crime, when the sheriff has earned the same by a compliance with such offer. [Formerly 206.150]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 206 - Sheriffs › Section 206.345 - Authority to enter into intergovernmental contracts; authority under contract.

(1) A sheriff shall have authority to enter into contracts, jointly with the governing body of the county, on behalf of the county, as provided in ORS 190.010.
(2) During the existence of the contract, the sheriff and the deputies of the sheriff shall exercise such authority as may be vested in them by terms of the contract, including full power and authority to arrest for violations of all duly enacted ordinances of the contracting city. [1967 c.236 §1]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 206 - Sheriffs › Section 206.355 - Unauthorized use of uniform prohibited.

No person other than a county sheriff, person designated by a county sheriff, or regularly salaried sheriff’s deputy shall wear, use, copy or imitate in any manner the uniform of that county sheriff. [1979 c.492 §2]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 208 - County Treasurers › Section 208.020 - Payment, nonpayment and interest on county orders.

The county treasurer shall pay all orders of the county clerk when presented, if there is money in the treasury for that purpose, and write on the face of such orders the date of redemption and the signature of the county treasurer. If there are no funds to pay an order when presented, the county treasurer shall indorse thereon "Not paid for want of funds," and the date of presentment, over the signature of the county treasurer, which shall entitle such order thenceforth to draw legal interest; provided, the county court of any county, sitting for the transaction of county business, may, at any regular term thereof, by order duly made and entered of record, prescribe a rate of interest less than the legal rate, and after a rate of interest less than the legal rate is so prescribed, all orders of the county clerk issued while such orders remain unrevoked shall show upon their face the rate of interest so fixed by the court, which rate they shall bear. Such interest shall cease from the date of notice by publication in some newspaper circulated in the county, to be given by the county treasurer, when the county treasurer has as much as $15,000 belonging to the county fund, that there are funds to redeem the outstanding orders.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 208 - County Treasurers › Section 208.030 - Redemption of county orders.

County orders shall be redeemed by the treasurer according to the priority of the time of presentment. Such orders, payable out of the county revenue, shall be received in payment of county taxes without any regard to priority of presentment or number, but the treasurer shall not pay any balance thereon over and above such tax when there are outstanding orders unpaid for want of funds.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 208 - County Treasurers › Section 208.070 - Manner of keeping books.

The county treasurer shall so arrange and keep the books of the county treasurer that the amount received and paid out, on account of separate and distinct funds, or specific appropriations, shall be exhibited in separate accounts, as well as the whole receipts and expenditures by one general account.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 208 - County Treasurers › Section 208.080 - Inspection of books by county court; exhibit of moneys.

The county treasurer shall at all times keep the books and office of the county treasurer subject to the inspection and examination of the county court. The county treasurer shall exhibit the money in the office of the county treasurer to such court at least once a year.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 208 - County Treasurers › Section 208.090 - Monthly financial statement.

The county treasurer of each county shall, on or before the 10th day of each calendar month, file with the county court a statement in writing showing, as of the first of the then calendar month:
(1) The amount of cash on hand in the custody of the county treasurer as county treasurer;
(2) The banks in which such funds are deposited, with the amounts so deposited in each bank;
(3) The security furnished the county by each bank to cover such deposits, and the interest rates paid on such deposits; and
(4) A statement of the amount of outstanding warrant indebtedness of the county and the date up to which the county’s warrant indebtedness has been redeemed.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 208 - County Treasurers › Section 208.110 - Crediting of moneys to proper funds; payment from funds.

In all counties having a population of 100,000 or more, the county treasurer shall:
(1) Credit all fees, moneys received in trust for litigants or other persons and all other public moneys, except tax moneys, to the proper funds.
(2) Keep a trust fund for each public officer receiving money in trust for litigants or other persons.
(3) Pay out money from any such trust fund to the persons entitled to the same upon the order of any such officer.
(4) Receive checks, drafts and money orders for any such officer for collection only.
(5) If a check, draft or money order received under subsection (4) of this section is returned to the treasurer unpaid, charge the same to the account of such officer. [Amended by 1981 c.48 §5; 2005 c.22 §158]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 208 - County Treasurers › Section 208.990 - Penalties.

Any county treasurer failing to comply with ORS 208.020 for a period of 10 days commits a Class A violation. [Amended by 1999 c.1051 §166; 2011 c.597 §82]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 209 - County Surveyors › Section 209.005 - Definitions.

As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise:
(1) "Control point" means a horizontal or vertical survey position set within the stated precision of the survey.
(2) "County surveyor" means an individual appointed or elected to the office of county surveyor and who is responsible for performing the duties of such office as described by law.
(3) "Deputy county surveyor" means an individual appointed by the county surveyor to the office of deputy county surveyor.
(4) "Geodetic control" means horizontal or vertical survey monuments that are primarily intended to be used as reference positions for other surveys or that serve to extend the national geodetic control network.
(5) "Monument" means any permanent material object or collection of objects, either natural or man-made, that indicates the position on the ground of a survey station, public land survey corner or accessories, or a land boundary corner established by a qualified surveyor.
(6) "Public land survey corner" means a section corner, one-quarter section corner, Donation Land Claim corner, meander corner, witness corner or any other corner established by the General Land Office or its successor.
(7) "Registered professional land surveyor" has the meaning given that term in ORS 672.002. [1989 c.394 §2; 1991 c.339 §1; 2005 c.230 §1]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 209 - County Surveyors › Section 209.015 - Authority to enter upon land; no unnecessary damage; notice.

(1) Subject to subsection (3) of this section, the county surveyor, and employees and agents of the county surveyor, may enter upon any land for the purpose of surveying or performing any work necessary to carry out existing laws and may establish permanent survey monuments.
(2) Any person exercising the right of entry granted under subsection (1) of this section shall do so with no unnecessary damage to the land entered upon.
(3) A county surveyor or any employee or agent of the county surveyor shall not enter upon or establish any permanent survey monument upon any property without first providing notice to the landowner or landowners and the occupant of the property. [1993 c.219 §2]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 209 - County Surveyors › Section 209.020 - Surveys on court order; fees.

The county surveyor shall execute all orders directed to the surveyor by any court of record or county court for surveying roads, or surveying or resurveying any tract of land the title to which is in dispute before such court, and all orders of survey for the partition of real estate. The county surveyor may charge and collect a fee that will reimburse the county for work performed under this section. [Amended by 1979 c.653 §1; 1989 c.394 §4]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 209 - County Surveyors › Section 209.030 - Surveys on court order of land divided by county line; fees.

When lands the title to which is in dispute before any court are divided by a county line, the court making an order of survey may direct such order to the surveyor of any county in which any part of such land is situated. The county surveyor may charge and collect a fee that will reimburse the county for work performed under this section. [Amended by 1989 c.394 §5]