203.810���� Offenses under county law; jurisdiction; prosecutions; enforcement GENERAL PROVISIONS ����� 203.010 General powers of county as body politic and corporate. Each county is a body po

203.810���� Offenses under county law; jurisdiction; prosecutions; enforcement

GENERAL PROVISIONS

����� 203.010 General powers of county as body politic and corporate. Each county is a body politic and corporate for the following purposes:

����� (1) To sue and be sued;

����� (2) To purchase and hold for the use of the county lands lying within its own limits and any personal estate;

����� (3) To make all necessary contracts; and

����� (4) To do all other necessary acts in relation to the property and concerns of the county.

����� 203.015 Power of county to contract for purchase or lease of real or personal property. (1) A county may enter into a contract for the purchase or for the lease with option to purchase of real or personal property when:

����� (a) The period of time allowed for payment under the contract does not exceed 30 years; and

����� (b) The county is not obligated to make payments under the contract in any fiscal year unless the county governing body includes such payments in the county�s budget for that fiscal year and makes an appropriation therefor.

����� (2) The powers granted to counties by this section are in addition to any other powers possessed by counties in this state, and this section may not be construed to limit such powers. [2003 c.794 �184]

����� Note: 203.015 was added to and made a part of ORS chapter 203 by legislative action but was not added to any smaller series therein. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.

����� 203.020 [Repealed by 1979 c.492 �1]

����� 203.030 Definition for ORS 203.030 to 203.075. As used in ORS 203.030 to 203.075, �governing body� means the representative body vested with legislative power by statute or charter. [1973 c.282 �1]

����� 203.035 Power of county governing body or electors over matters of county concern. (1) Subject to subsection (3) of this section, the governing body or the electors of a county may by ordinance exercise authority within the county over matters of county concern, to the fullest extent allowed by Constitutions and laws of the United States and of this state, as fully as if each particular power comprised in that general authority were specifically listed in ORS 203.030 to 203.075.

����� (2) The power granted by this section is in addition to other grants of power to counties, shall not be construed to limit or qualify any such grant and shall be liberally construed, to the end that counties have all powers over matters of county concern that it is possible for them to have under the Constitutions and laws of the United States and of this state.

����� (3) An ordinance adopted by a county governing body that changes the number or mode of selection of elective county officers shall not take effect unless the ordinance is submitted to and approved by the electors of the county at a primary election, general election or election held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of an odd-numbered year. However, an ordinance adopted under this section may not change the mode of selection of a county assessor.

����� (4) Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit the rights of the electors of a county to propose county ordinances through exercise of the initiative power. [1973 c.282 �2; 1981 c.140 �1; 1985 c.756 �1; 1995 c.712 � 87; 2007 c.155 �12]

����� 203.040 Inapplicability of ordinances inside incorporated city. Except by consent of the governing body or the electors of a city and except in cities not regularly operating as such through elected governmental officials, ordinances adopted under ORS