2021 Oregon Revised Statutes
Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections
Chapter 249 - Candidates; Recall

Section 249.002 - Definitions. - (1) "Candidate" means an individual whose name is or is...

Section 249.004 - Verification of documents. - (2) When a copy of any election document filed under...

Section 249.005 - Acceptance of petition or minutes without original signatures. - (a) The signature sheets containing the original signatures were stolen...

Section 249.008 - Verification of signatures by county clerk or Secretary of State; removal of signatures prohibited after submittal; rules. - (2) If the total number of signatures presented to a...

Section 249.009 - Exclusive form of signature sheets for petitions; numbering of signature sheets; rules. - (a) Design the form of nominating or recall petitions, certificates...

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. - (2)(a) A person may not file a nominating petition or...

Section 249.020 - Filing of candidates’ nominating petition or declaration of candidacy. - (2) At the time of filing, a declaration of candidacy...

Section 249.031 - Contents of petition or declaration. - (a) The name by which the candidate is commonly known....

Section 249.035 - Filing officer. - (1) State office, United States Senator or Representative in Congress...

Section 249.037 - Time for filing petition or declaration. - (2) If a vacancy occurs in a partisan elective office...

Section 249.052 - Determination of inhabitancy of candidate for Legislative Assembly; verification of residence. - (a) Where the candidate receives personal mail; (b) Where the...

Section 249.056 - Filing fees. - (a) United States Senator, $150. (b) Governor, Secretary of State,...

Section 249.061 - One candidate per petition; prospective petition; statement regarding payment of petition circulators; certification of signature sheets. - (2) Before circulating a nominating petition, the candidate shall deliver...

Section 249.064 - Information required on petition; certification of petition. - (2) A nominating petition of any candidate shall contain the...

Section 249.068 - Requirements regarding number and distribution of persons signing partisan petitions. - (a) A nominating petition for an office to be voted...

Section 249.072 - Requirements regarding number and distribution of persons signing nonpartisan petitions. - (2) The nominating petition for a nonpartisan office not provided...

Section 249.076 - Qualifications of signers of petitions. - (2) Any elector may sign: (a) A nominating petition or...

Section 249.078 - Printing name of candidate for presidential nomination of major party on ballot; discretion of Secretary of State; nominating petition; petition requirements. - (a) By direction of the Secretary of State who in...

Section 249.088 - Nomination or election of candidate at nominating election. - (a) Unless a candidate for nonpartisan office receives a majority...

Section 249.091 - Nomination of certain nonpartisan candidates or candidates to fill a vacancy in nonpartisan office. - (a) The candidate or candidates are nominated; and (b) The...

Section 249.170 - Withdrawal of candidacy; refund of filing fee. - (2) The official with whom a declaration of candidacy is...

Section 249.190 - Filling vacancy in nomination of major party; rules. - (2) Immediately after selecting a new nominee, the party, by...

Section 249.200 - Nomination by major party to fill vacancy in partisan office; exceptions; rules. - (a) If the vacancy occurs on or before the 70th...

Section 249.205 - Filling vacancy in nomination to nonpartisan office; nomination procedure to fill vacancy in nonpartisan office; rules. - (2) The Secretary of State by rule may adopt a...

Section 249.215 - Filling vacancy in state office at general election; remaining term of office. - (2) The remaining two years of the term of the...

Section 249.712 - Acceptance of nomination. - (2) The acceptance of the nominee may be indorsed upon...

Section 249.720 - Information to be contained in certificate of nomination. - (a) The name by which the candidate is commonly known....

Section 249.722 - Time for filing certificate; filing officers; rules. - (2) A certificate of nomination of a candidate for: (a)...

Section 249.735 - Qualification as assembly of electors; records; notice; nomination by assembly. - (a) Of not fewer than 1,000 electors of the state...

Section 249.737 - Filing officer for nomination by assembly of electors. - (a) The number of signatures of assembly members in the...

Section 249.740 - Certificates of nomination made by individual electors; statement regarding payment of petition circulators; certification of signature sheets. - (b) For an election next following any change in the...

Section 249.810 - Entries in register of nominations upon filing certificates. - (a) The date the certificate was filed. (b) The name...

Section 249.830 - Procedure for withdrawing nomination. - (2) The statement must be: (a) Signed by the person...

Section 249.842 - Filling vacancy in nomination; rules. - (2) Subject to subsection (5) of this section, before the...

Section 249.850 - Filing of certificate to fill vacancy in nomination; notifying proper officials to make changes in general election ballots. - (2) Upon receipt of notification that a vacancy has been...

Section 249.865 - Filing prospective petition; contents of petition; statement regarding payment of petition circulators; certification of signature sheets; effect of violation. - (2) The chief petitioner shall include with the prospective petition...

Section 249.875 - Time for completing filing; verification of signatures. - (2) The provisions for verification of signatures on an initiative...

Section 249.877 - Statement of justification by public officer. - (2) The county clerk shall have the statement printed on...