TheOregon Revised Statutes (ORS) is thecodified body ofstatutory law governing theU.S. state ofOregon, as enacted by theOregon Legislative Assembly, and occasionally by citizeninitiative. The statutes are subordinate to theOregon Constitution.
TheOffice of the Legislative Counsel prepares and publishes the softcover multi-volume Oregon Revised Statutes every two years, after each biennial legislative session.
The Oregon Legislature created the Oregon Revised Statutes by recodifying the previous code, which was called theOregon Compiled Laws Annotated (1940).See 1953 Or. Laws c. 3. The first Oregon Revised Statutes was published in 1953. Replacement parts were published biennially from 1955 to 1987 in odd years. Pages for this set were printed on yellow paper housed in huge, graylooseleaf binders.[1] The first softcover edition of the Oregon Revised Statutes was published in 1989. The 2009 edition requires 21 volumes.
The codes which preceded the ORS areDeady's General Laws of Oregon (1845–1864),Deady and Lane's General Laws of Oregon (1843–1872),Hill's Annotated Laws of Oregon (1887),Hill's Annotated Laws of Oregon (2d ed. 1892),Bellinger and Cotton's Annotated Codes and Statutes of Oregon (1902),Lord's Oregon Laws (1910),Oregon Laws (Olson’s) (1920),Oregon Code Annotated (1930), andOregon Compiled Laws Annotated (1940).
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