Oregon Revised Statutes

Or. Rev. Stat. § 192.650 (2026)

Recording or written minutes required; content; fees

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192.650 Recording or written minutes required; content; fees. (1) The governing body of a public body shall provide for the sound, video or digital recording or the taking of written minutes of all its meetings. Neither a full transcript nor a full recording of the meeting is required, except as otherwise provided by law, but the written minutes or recording must give a true reflection of the matters discussed at the meeting and the views of the participants. All minutes or recordings shall be available to the public within a reasonable time after the meeting, and shall include at least the following information:

(a) All members of the governing body present;

(b) All motions, proposals, resolutions, orders, ordinances and measures proposed and their disposition;

(c) The results of all votes and, except for public bodies consisting of more than 25 members unless requested by a member of that body, the vote of each member by name;

(d) The substance of any discussion on any matter; and

(e) Subject to ORS 192.311 to 192.478 relating to public records, a reference to any document discussed at the meeting.

(2) Minutes of executive sessions shall be kept in accordance with subsection (1) of this section. However, the minutes of a hearing held under ORS 332.061 shall contain only the material not excluded under ORS 332.061 (2). Instead of written minutes, a record of any executive session may be kept in the form of a sound or video tape or digital recording, which need not be transcribed unless otherwise provided by law. If the disclosure of certain material is inconsistent with the purpose for which a meeting under ORS 192.660 is authorized to be held, that material may be excluded from disclosure. However, excluded materials are authorized to be examined privately by a court in any legal action and the court shall determine their admissibility.

(3) A reference in minutes or a recording to a document discussed at a meeting of a governing body of a public body does not affect the status of the document under ORS 192.311 to 192.478.

(4) A public body may charge a person a fee under ORS 192.324 for the preparation of a transcript from a recording. [1973 c.172 §5; 1975 c.664 §1; 1979 c.644 §4; 1999 c.59 §44; 2003 c.803 §14]

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 11 cases, 1981–2015 · leading case: Harris v. Nordquist, 771 P.2d 637 (Or. Ct. App. 1989).

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Harris v. Nordquist, 771 P.2d 637 (Or. Ct. App. 1989). · cites it 6× “630(2) and ORS 192.650. 2 The issue crucial to both claims is whether *24 some of the board’s members’ gatherings at various restaurants before and after board meetings violated ORS 192.”

Handy v. Lane Cnty., 362 P.3d 867 (Or. Ct. App. 2015). · cites it 4× “630(2) as well as ORS 192.650 — which requires “sound, video or digital recording or the taking of written minutes” at all “meetings” of a governing body.”

Adamson v. Bonesteele, 671 P.2d 693 (Or. 1983). · cites it 2× “Defendant further contends that he is statutorily required to disseminate his complained of remarks by ORS 192.650, which provides for the keeping of minutes of meetings of a public body and that such minutes must give a true reflection "of the matters discussed at the meeting…”

Lyford v. Bd. of Com'rs for Benton, 651 P.2d 1355 (Or. Ct. App. 1982). “ORS 192.650. The McMinnville city charter provided for such minutes.”

Hitchcock v. McMinnville City Council, 631 P.2d 777 (Or. 1981). “ORS 192.650. The McMinnville City Charter provided for such minutes.”

Morrow Cnty. Health Dist. v. Account Control Consultant Enter., Inc., 23 P.3d 1004 (Or. Ct. App. 2001). · cites it 3× “Similarly, plaintiff cites no convincing authority here, other than the inapposite ORS 192.650, for the proposition that there is any particular kind of formality by which its board must act to approve a contract.”

Byrnes v. City of Hillsboro, 798 P.2d 1119 (Or. Ct. App. 1990). “ORS 192.650 requires minutes of public meetings to be kept.”

Adamson v. Bonesteele, 648 P.2d 1352 (Or. Ct. App. 1982). · cites it 2× “Defendant also relies on ORS 192.650, which requires that written minutes of all meetings be made and that those minutes “* * * must give a true reflection of the matters discussed at the meeting and the views of the participants.”

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals v. Institutional Animal Care & Use Comm. of the Univ. of Oregon, 794 P.2d 1224 (Or. Ct. App. 1990). “130 and of the minute-keeping requirements of ORS 192.650. Defendant’s post-September 26, 1988 resubmittal of the [professor’s] proposals to members of the IACUC without the convening of an IACUC session violated the requirements of openness contained in ORS 192.”

Gilmore v. Bd. of Psychologist Examiners, 725 P.2d 400 (Or. Ct. App. 1986). “As a public agency, the Board is required to keep minutes of its public meetings, ORS 192.650(1), but the deliberations of a contested case are exempt from the requirements.”

Peta v. Inst. Animal Care & Use Com., 794 P.2d 1224 (Or. Ct. App. 1990). “130 and of the minute-keeping requirements of ORS 192.650. Defendant's post-September 26, 1988 resubmittal of the [professor's] proposals to members of the IACUC without the convening of an IACUC session violated the requirements of openness contained in ORS 192.”

— Or. Rev. Stat. § 192.650(1) — 2 cases

Morrow Cnty. Health Dist. v. Account Control Consultant Enter., Inc., 23 P.3d 1004 (Or. Ct. App. 2001). “Similarly, plaintiff cites no convincing authority here, other than the inapposite ORS 192.650, for the proposition that there is any particular kind of formality by which its board must act to approve a contract.”

— Or. Rev. Stat. § 192.650(l)(c) — 1 case

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