2021 Oregon Revised Statutes
Chapter 248 - Political Parties; Presidential Electors
Section 248.085 - Transfer of property; election of officers; bylaws or rules; executive committee functions.


(a) The officers of the retiring state central committee shall deliver to the newly elected committee the property, records and funds owned or controlled by the retiring committee.
(b) The committee shall elect a chairperson, vice chairperson and other officers the committee considers necessary. The persons elected to the offices need not be members of the state central committee. The committee shall determine the term of each office.
(c) The committee shall adopt, amend or repeal bylaws or rules for the government of the state central committee.
(2) At any meeting of the state central committee, the committee, by bylaw or resolution, may select an executive committee and delegate powers to it. The persons selected as the executive committee need not be members of the state central committee. In no event may the central committee delegate, or the executive committee exercise, the power to elect a person to fill a vacancy in state committee offices. However, the central committee may provide in its bylaws for the appointment by the executive committee of a temporary officer to fill a vacancy. [1965 c.407 §14; 1975 c.779 §11; 1979 c.190 §86]

Structure 2021 Oregon Revised Statutes

2021 Oregon Revised Statutes

Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections

Chapter 248 - Political Parties; Presidential Electors

Section 248.002 - Definitions.

Section 248.004 - Powers of political parties; liability of political parties and of officers, employees and members of political parties.

Section 248.006 - Qualification and maintenance of status as major political party; loss of status as major political party; calculation of number of party members.

Section 248.007 - Organization of major political parties; applicability of ORS 248.012 to 248.315; election of precinct committeepersons; notice to Secretary of State; use of primary election.

Section 248.008 - Qualification as minor political party; party member registration requirement; eligibility to nominate candidates; maintenance of status as minor political party; loss of status as minor party.

Section 248.009 - Process for nominating candidates by minor political party; notice to filing officer; notice of nominating convention.

Section 248.015 - Precinct committeepersons; qualifications; election; vote required; term.

Section 248.019 - Write-in candidate for precinct committeeperson; process.

Section 248.021 - Nomination of separate elector as precinct committeeperson.

Section 248.023 - Certificates of election; acceptance of office; list of precinct committeepersons; offices declared vacant when no committeeperson elected.

Section 248.024 - Resignation or ineligibility of precinct committeeperson.

Section 248.026 - Selection of precinct committeeperson to fill vacancy; effective date of selection; term; powers.

Section 248.029 - Recall procedure.

Section 248.033 - Organizational meeting; notice.

Section 248.035 - Transfer of property; election of officers; notice of election; eligibility to vote.

Section 248.045 - Proxies prohibited; bylaws or rules; executive committee functions; voting privileges.

Section 248.075 - State central committee; organizational meeting; notice.

Section 248.085 - Transfer of property; election of officers; bylaws or rules; executive committee functions.

Section 248.315 - Selection of delegates to national convention.

Section 248.355 - Selection of presidential electors; candidate’s pledge.

Section 248.360 - Election time and number of presidential electors to be elected; names of presidential electors not printed on ballot.