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Or. Rev. Stat. § 190.003 (2026)

Definition for ORS 190.003 to 190.130

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      190.003 Definition for ORS 190.003 to 190.130. As used in ORS 190.003 to 190.130, “unit of local government” includes a county, city, district or other public corporation, commission, authority or entity organized and existing under statute or city or county charter. [1967 c.550 §2]

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Cited in 8 cases, 1972–2015 · leading case: Bradford v. Davis, 626 P.2d 1376 (Or. 1981).
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Bradford v. Davis, 626 P.2d 1376 (Or. 1981). “'Public body” includes any intergovernmental agency, department, council or other like entity which is created under ORS 190.003 to 190.110, and which does not act under the direction and control of any single member government.”
Nw. Nat. Gas Co. v. City of Portland, 711 P.2d 119 (Or. 1985). “200(8) to enter into contracts with “units of local governments,” defined in ORS 190.003 to include cities, to “act jointly or in cooperation with them or to provide mass transit services to areas under *315 their jurisdictions.”
State ex rel. Dewberry v. Kitzhaber, 313 P.3d 1135 (Or. Ct. App. 2013). “007 directs that the “provisions of ORS 190.003 to 190.130 shall be liberally construed” and that legislative history supported its view of the text of ORS 190.”
Miller v. Grants Pass Irrigation Dist., 609 P.2d 859 (Or. Ct. App. 1980). · cites it 2× “260(2): "`Public body' means the state and any department, agency, board or commission of the state, any city, county, school district or other political subdivision or municipal or public corporation and any instrumentality thereof.”
River Road Water Dist. v. City of Eugene, 492 P.2d 812 (Or. Ct. App. 1972). “It shall be considered a unit of local government for the purposes of ORS 190.003 to 190.110, a public employer for the purposes of ORS 236.”
Schoenheit/Unger v. Rosenblum, 345 P.3d 436 (Or. 2015). · cites it 3× “] (2) For the purposes of carrying out ORS chapters 195,196 and 197, counties may voluntarily join together with adjacent counties as authorized in ORS 190.003 to 190.620. (3) Whenever counties and cities representing 51 percent of the population in their area petition the Land…”
Lane Council of Governments v. Lane Council of Governments Employes Ass'n, 552 P.2d 600 (Or. Ct. App. 1976). “LCOG is an organization formed by voluntary agreement pursuant to the authority of ORS 190.003 to 190.110 by a number of local governments in Lane County.”
Schoenheit/Unger v. Rosenblum (Or. 2015). · cites it 3× “] (2) For the purposes of carrying out ORS chapters 195, 196 and 197, counties may voluntarily join together with adjacent counties as authorized in ORS 190.003 to 190.620. (3) Whenever counties and cities representing 51 percent of the population in their area petition the Land…”
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