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  STATUTORY REFERENCES FOR OREGON CITIES  

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  • The statutory references listed below refer the code user to state statutes applicable to Oregon cities. They are current with the 2017 Regular Session of the State legislature effective through Oct. 6, 2017, pending classification of undesignated material and text revision by the Oregon Reviser.

    General Provisions

    Incorporation of cities

    ORS § 221.005 et seq.

    City charters

    Oregon Const. Art. XI, § 2

    Charter amendments

    ORS § 221.210

    Boundary changes

    ORS ch. 222

    Ordinances

    ORS § 221.275 et seq.

    Enforcement of ordinances

    ORS §§ 30.315 and 221.315

    Procedures for infractions, violations and traffic offenses

    ORS ch. 153

    Elections

    ORS §§ 221.180, 221.200, 221.230

    Initiative and referendum

    ORS §§ 221.210 and 250.255 et seq.

    Administration and Personnel

    City officers

    ORS § 221.110 et seq.

    Municipal courts

    ORS §§ 221.140, 221.336 et seq.

    Public meetings

    ORS § 192.610 et seq.

    Emergency management and services

    ORS ch. 401

    Planning commissions

    ORS § 227.010 et seq.

    Revenue and Finance

    Financial administration

    ORS ch. 294

    Public contracts and purchasing

    ORS chs. 279A—279C

    Assessments for local improvements

    ORS ch. 223

    Limitations on powers of city to assist corporations

    Oregon Const. Art. XI § 9

    Revenue sharing for cities

    ORS § 221.770

    Business Licenses and Regulations

    Taxation of liquor prohibited

    ORS § 473.190

    Animals

    Animal control

    ORS ch. 609

    Rabies control

    ORS § 433.340 et seq.

    Health and Safety

    General authority

    ORS § 221.410

    Health Hazard Abatement Law

    ORS § 222.840 et seq.

    Camping by homeless

    ORS § 203.077 et seq.

    Fireworks

    ORS § 480.111 et seq.

    Public Peace, Morals and Welfare

    General authority

    ORS § 221.410

    State penal code

    ORS title 16

    Curfew

    ORS § 419C.680

    Firearms regulation

    ORS § 166.170 et seq.

    Public intoxication

    ORS § 430.402

    Vehicles and Traffic

    Oregon vehicle code

    ORS title 59

    Local authority

    ORS §§ 801.038, 801.040

    Rules of the road

    ORS ch. 811

    Driving under influence of intoxicants

    ORS ch. 813

    Off-road vehicles

    ORS ch. 821

    Abandoned vehicles

    ORS ch. 819

    Parking offenses

    ORS § 221.275 et seq.

    Bicycles

    ORS § 814.400 et seq.

    Streets, Sidewalks and Public Places

    City improvements and works

    ORS ch. 223

    City parks, memorials and cemeteries

    ORS ch. 226

    Public Services

    Municipal utilities

    ORS ch. 225

    Regulation of public utilities

    ORS § 221.420 et seq.

    City sewers and sanitation

    ORS ch. 224

    System development charges

    ORS § 223.297 et seq.

    Buildings and Construction

    State building code

    ORS ch. 455

    Adoption of codes by reference

    ORS § 221.330

    Radio antennas

    ORS § 221.295

    Subdivisions

    Subdivisions and partitions

    ORS ch. 92

    Zoning

    City planning and zoning

    ORS ch. 227