2025 Oregon Revised Statutes
Volume : 01 - Courts, Oregon Rules of Civil Procedure
Chapter 009 - Oregon State Bar; Attorneys; Law Libraries
Section 9.200 - Effect of failure to pay licensure fees; reinstatement.

(1) Any licensee in default in payment of licensure fees established under ORS 9.191 (1) or any licensee in default in payment of assessed contributions to a professional liability fund established under ORS 9.080 (2) shall be given written notice of delinquency and a reasonable time to cure the default. The chief executive officer of the Oregon State Bar shall send the notice of delinquency to the licensee at the licensee’s electronic mail address on file with the bar on the date of the notice. The chief executive officer shall send the notice by mail to any licensee who is not required to have an electronic mail address on file with the bar under the rules of procedure and the rules of the Supreme Court. If a licensee fails to pay the fees or contributions within the time allowed to cure the default as stated in the notice, the licensee is automatically suspended. The chief executive officer shall provide the names of all licensees suspended under this section to the State Court Administrator and to each of the judges of the Court of Appeals, circuit and tax courts of the state.

(2) An active licensee delinquent in the payment of fees or contributions is not entitled to vote.

(3) A licensee delinquent in the payment of fees or contributions may be assessed a late payment penalty determined by the board of governors.

(4) A licensee suspended for delinquency under this section may be reinstated only on compliance with the rules of the Supreme Court and the rules of procedure and payment of all required fees or contributions. [Amended by 1957 c.271 §1; 1961 c.499 §2; subsection (2) formerly part of 9.190; 1979 c.508 §4a; 2013 c.3 §2; 2015 c.122 §5; 2017 c.94 §11; 2025 c.32 §21]