2021 Oregon Revised Statutes
Chapter 249 - Candidates; Recall
Section 249.002 - Definitions.


(1) "Candidate" means an individual whose name is or is expected to be printed on the official ballot or a write-in candidate.
(2) "County clerk" means the county clerk or the county official in charge of elections.
(3) "Elector" means an individual qualified to vote under section 2, Article II, Oregon Constitution.
(4) "Judge" means judge of the Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, circuit court or the Oregon Tax Court, or any county judge who exercises judicial functions.
(5) "Member" means an individual who is registered as being affiliated with the political party.
(6) "Minor political party" means a political party that has qualified as a minor political party under ORS 248.008.
(7) "Nonpartisan office" means the office of judge, Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries, any elected office of a metropolitan service district under ORS chapter 268, justice of the peace, county clerk, county assessor, county surveyor, county treasurer, sheriff, district attorney or any office designated nonpartisan by a home rule charter.
(8) "Prospective petition" means the information, except signatures and other identification of petition signers, required to be contained in a completed petition.
(9) "Public office" means any national, state, county, city or district office or position, except a political party office, filled by the electors.
(10) "State office" means Governor, Secretary of State, State Treasurer, Attorney General, Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries, judge, state Senator, state Representative or district attorney. [1979 c.190 §94; 1983 c.350 §64; 1985 c.324 §1; 1987 c.707 §6; 1993 c.493 §5; 1995 c.92 §1; 1995 c.107 §1; 1995 c.607 §76; 2001 c.430 §1; 2009 c.491 §6; 2010 c.18 §2; 2011 c.731 §10; 2017 c.749 §51]

Structure 2021 Oregon Revised Statutes

2021 Oregon Revised Statutes

Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections

Chapter 249 - Candidates; Recall

Section 249.002 - Definitions.

Section 249.004 - Verification of documents.

Section 249.005 - Acceptance of petition or minutes without original signatures.

Section 249.008 - Verification of signatures by county clerk or Secretary of State; removal of signatures prohibited after submittal; rules.

Section 249.009 - Exclusive form of signature sheets for petitions; numbering of signature sheets; rules.

Section 249.013 - Candidacy for more than one office; effect of filing petition or declaration for more than one office without prior withdrawal; district board and city offices.

Section 249.020 - Filing of candidates’ nominating petition or declaration of candidacy.

Section 249.031 - Contents of petition or declaration.

Section 249.035 - Filing officer.

Section 249.037 - Time for filing petition or declaration.

Section 249.052 - Determination of inhabitancy of candidate for Legislative Assembly; verification of residence.

Section 249.056 - Filing fees.

Section 249.061 - One candidate per petition; prospective petition; statement regarding payment of petition circulators; certification of signature sheets.

Section 249.064 - Information required on petition; certification of petition.

Section 249.068 - Requirements regarding number and distribution of persons signing partisan petitions.

Section 249.072 - Requirements regarding number and distribution of persons signing nonpartisan petitions.

Section 249.076 - Qualifications of signers of petitions.

Section 249.078 - Printing name of candidate for presidential nomination of major party on ballot; discretion of Secretary of State; nominating petition; petition requirements.

Section 249.088 - Nomination or election of candidate at nominating election.

Section 249.091 - Nomination of certain nonpartisan candidates or candidates to fill a vacancy in nonpartisan office.

Section 249.170 - Withdrawal of candidacy; refund of filing fee.

Section 249.190 - Filling vacancy in nomination of major party; rules.

Section 249.200 - Nomination by major party to fill vacancy in partisan office; exceptions; rules.

Section 249.205 - Filling vacancy in nomination to nonpartisan office; nomination procedure to fill vacancy in nonpartisan office; rules.

Section 249.215 - Filling vacancy in state office at general election; remaining term of office.

Section 249.712 - Acceptance of nomination.

Section 249.720 - Information to be contained in certificate of nomination.

Section 249.722 - Time for filing certificate; filing officers; rules.

Section 249.735 - Qualification as assembly of electors; records; notice; nomination by assembly.

Section 249.737 - Filing officer for nomination by assembly of electors.

Section 249.740 - Certificates of nomination made by individual electors; statement regarding payment of petition circulators; certification of signature sheets.

Section 249.810 - Entries in register of nominations upon filing certificates.

Section 249.830 - Procedure for withdrawing nomination.

Section 249.842 - Filling vacancy in nomination; rules.

Section 249.850 - Filing of certificate to fill vacancy in nomination; notifying proper officials to make changes in general election ballots.

Section 249.865 - Filing prospective petition; contents of petition; statement regarding payment of petition circulators; certification of signature sheets; effect of violation.

Section 249.875 - Time for completing filing; verification of signatures.

Section 249.877 - Statement of justification by public officer.