2019 Oregon Revised Statutes
Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections
Chapter 222 - City Boundary Changes; Mergers; Consolidations; Withdrawals
Section 222.040 - Delay of effective date of actions under this chapter because of election; effective date of certain annexations and transfers of territory.
(1) Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter that provides a different effective date, an annexation, transfer of territory, consolidation or merger under this chapter, or any removal by a city by ordinance of a newly annexed area from a special district, shall not become effective during the period:
(a) Beginning after the 90th day before a primary election or general election and ending on the day after the election; or
(b) Beginning after the deadline for filing the notice of election before any other election held by any city, district or other municipal corporation involved in the annexation, transfer of territory, consolidation, merger or removal, and ending on the day after the election.
(2) If the effective date established for an annexation, transfer of territory, consolidation, merger or removal is a date that is prohibited under this section, the annexation, transfer of territory, consolidation, merger or removal shall become effective on the day after the election.
(3) For the purposes of ORS 308.225 only, the effective date of an annexation under ORS 222.180 shall be the date of filing of the abstract referred to in ORS 222.180. [1981 c.391 §3; 1983 c.514 §1b; 1985 c.130 §5; 1985 c.808 §71; 1989 c.923 §25; 1995 c.712 §92]
