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2019 Oregon Revised Statutes
Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections
Chapter 222 - City Boundary Changes; Mergers; Consolidations; Withdrawals
Section 222.300 - Ordinances of previously incorporated cities continued in effect; initiation of civil and criminal actions.
Universal Citation: OR Rev Stat § 222.300 (2019)
(1) The ordinances in force in the previously incorporated cities at the time of the creation of the newly formed incorporated city by virtue of ORS 222.210, so far as the ordinances are not inconsistent with the charter adopted for the newly formed municipal corporation, shall continue in effect within the limits of the newly formed municipal corporation and shall be deemed its ordinances subject to the provisions of said charter and subject to modification, amendment or repeal by the council or other governing body of the newly created municipal corporation.
(2) From the date the newly formed municipal corporation comes into existence, all complaints and prosecutions for crimes committed or ordinances violated and all suits or causes of action arising within the territory of the municipal corporation prior to its creation may be instituted in said incorporated city with the same effect as if it had been in existence prior to the violations, subject however, to the provisions of the charter of the newly formed municipal corporation.
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