Election Notices

This portion of the City's website contains notices for elections referenced by ORS 250.270(5)(b). These notices are in addition to the notices required by the Oregon City Charter Section 24 and Section 25 posted at various locations around the City. The pertinent laws for these notices have been copied below for reference purposes.                  

• Oregon City Charter, Section 24 - Regular Elections. Regular city elections shall be held at the same times and places as biennial general state elections, in accordance with applicable state election laws. The recorder, pursuant to directions from the commission, shall give at least ten days' notice of each regular city election by posting notice thereof at a conspicuous place in the city hall and in one public place in each voting precinct of the city. The notice shall state the officers to be elected, the ballot title of each measure to be voted upon, and the time and place of the election.    

• Oregon City Charter, Section 25 - Special Elections. The commission shall provide the time, manner and means for holding any special election. The recorder shall give at least ten days' notice of each special election in the manner provided by the action of the commission ordering the election. The dates of special elections shall be subject to designation by state law.
  
  
• ORS 250.270(5)(a) The city elections officer, upon receiving a ballot title for a city measure to be referred or initiated from the city attorney or city governing body, shall publish in the next available edition of a newspaper of general distribution in the city a notice of receipt of the ballot title including notice that an elector may file a petition for review of the ballot title not later than the date referred to in ORS 250.296.
• (b) In addition to publishing a notice as described in paragraph (a) of this subsection, the city elections officer may publish a notice on the city’s website for a minimum of seven days.
  
  
• ORS 250.296 Procedure for elector dissatisfied with ballot title of city measure. (1) Any elector dissatisfied with a ballot title filed with the city elections officer by the city attorney or the city governing body, may petition the circuit court of the judicial district in which the city is located seeking a different title and stating the reasons the title filed with the court is insufficient, not concise or unfair. The petition shall name as respondent the city attorney or city governing body, depending on who prepared the ballot title, and must be filed not later than the seventh business day after the title is filed with the city elections officer. The court shall review the title and measure to be initiated or referred, hear arguments, if any, and certify to the city elections officer a title for the measure which meets the requirements of ORS 250.035.
• (2) An elector filing a petition under this section shall notify the city elections officer in writing that the petition has been filed. The notice shall be given not later than 5 p.m. on the next business day following the day the petition is filed.
• (3) The review by the circuit court shall be the first and final review, and shall be conducted expeditiously to insure the orderly and timely circulation of the petition or conduct of the election at which the measure is to be submitted to the electors.