The Oregon Revised Statutes ( ORS ) is the codified body of statutory law governing the U.S. state of Oregon , as enacted by the Oregon Legislative Assembly , and occasionally by citizen initiative . The statutes are subordinate to the Oregon Constitution .
4-821: The Office of the Legislative Counsel prepares and publishes the softcover multi-volume Oregon Revised Statutes every two years, after each biennial legislative session. The Oregon Legislature created the Oregon Revised Statutes by recodifying the previous code, which was called the Oregon Compiled Laws Annotated (1940). See 1953 Or. Laws c. 3. The first Oregon Revised Statutes was published in 1953. Replacement parts were published biennially from 1955 to 1987 in odd years. Pages for this set were printed on yellow paper housed in huge, gray looseleaf binders . [1] The first softcover edition of
8-594: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Oregon Legislative Counsel Committee The Office of the Oregon Legislative Counsel is a government agency in the U.S. state of Oregon. The office was established in 1953, primarily to offer legal services to the members and committees of the Oregon Legislative Assembly . The office drafts legislation, conducts legal research, writes opinions, compiles and publishes session laws and
12-647: The Oregon Revised Statutes , and reviews administrative rules submitted by agencies of the executive branch of the government of Oregon . It also assists the Oregon Law Commission in revising, reforming, and improving the law. The Legislative Counsel Committee, composed of members of both the Oregon State Senate and the Oregon House of Representatives , oversees the office. Dexter Johnson
16-623: The Oregon Revised Statutes was published in 1989. The 2009 edition requires 21 volumes. The codes which preceded the ORS are Deady's General Laws of Oregon (1845–1864), Deady and Lane's General Laws of Oregon (1843–1872), Hill's Annotated Laws of Oregon (1887), Hill's Annotated Laws of Oregon (2d ed. 1892), Bellinger and Cotton's Annotated Codes and Statutes of Oregon (1902), Lord's Oregon Laws (1910), Oregon Laws (Olson’s) (1920), Oregon Code Annotated (1930), and Oregon Compiled Laws Annotated (1940). This Oregon government -related article
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