Bill Text: OR HB3039 | 2011 | Regular Session | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relating to roadside memorial signs; and appropriating money.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 25-16)

Status: (Passed) 2011-08-02 - Chapter 668, (2011 Laws): Effective date January 1, 2012. [HB3039 Detail]

Download: Oregon-2011-HB3039-Enrolled.html

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     76th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2011 Regular Session

                            Enrolled

                         House Bill 3039

Sponsored by Representative OLSON, Senator MORSE; Representatives
  BARKER, BERGER, BEYER, BOONE, CAMERON, CANNON, CLEM, COWAN,
  DEMBROW, DOHERTY, ESQUIVEL, FREEMAN, GARRARD, GARRETT, GELSER,
  HANNA, HARKER, HICKS, HOYLE, JOHNSON, KENNEMER, KOTEK, KRIEGER,
  MCLANE, PARRISH, ROBLAN, SCHAUFLER, SHEEHAN, G SMITH, SPRENGER,
  TOMEI, WAND, WEIDNER, WHISNANT, WINGARD, Senators FERRIOLI,
  KRUSE, STARR, THOMSEN

                     CHAPTER ................

                             AN ACT

Relating to roadside memorial signs; and appropriating money.

Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:

  SECTION 1.  { + (1) As used in this section, 'police officer '
includes:
  (a) Employees of institutions defined in ORS 421.005 as
Department of Corrections institutions whose duties, as assigned
by the Director of the Department of Corrections, include the
custody of persons committed to the custody of or transferred to
the Department of Corrections and employees of the Department of
Corrections who were classified as police officers.
  (b) Employees of the Department of State Police who are
classified as police officers by the Superintendent of State
Police.
  (c) Sheriffs and those deputy sheriffs or other employees of a
sheriff whose duties, as classified by the sheriff, are the
regular duties of police officers or corrections officers.
  (d) Police chiefs and police personnel of a city who are
classified as police officers by the council or other governing
body of the city.
  (2) The Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain a
roadside memorial sign that commemorates a police officer killed
in the line of duty if:
  (a) The Legislative Assembly adopts a concurrent resolution
that recognizes the police officer killed in the line of duty;
and
  (b) The department receives the payment of a fee determined by
the department under subsection (3) of this section.
  (3) The department shall determine the amount of the fee
required under subsection (2)(b) of this section by rule. The fee
may not exceed the direct and indirect expenses associated with
erecting, maintaining and removing a roadside memorial sign.
  (4) The department shall deposit the fees that the department
collects under this section into the Roadside Memorial Fund
established under section 2 of this 2011 Act.

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  (5) A public body, as defined in ORS 174.109, may not expend
moneys for the purpose of paying the fee required under
subsection (2)(b) of this section.
  (6) The department, by rule, shall establish the size, design
and location of a roadside memorial sign erected under this
section. The sign must include the name of the police
officer. + }
  SECTION 2.  { + The Roadside Memorial Fund is established in
the State Treasury, separate and distinct from the General Fund.
Moneys in the Roadside Memorial Fund are continuously
appropriated to the Department of Transportation for the purpose
of carrying out the provisions of section 1 of this 2011 Act. + }
  SECTION 3.  { + Section 1 of this 2011 Act applies to
concurrent resolutions passed on or after January 1, 2011. + }
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Passed by House June 22, 2011

    .............................................................
                         Ramona Kenady Line, Chief Clerk of House

    .............................................................
                                    Bruce Hanna, Speaker of House

    .............................................................
                                   Arnie Roblan, Speaker of House

Passed by Senate June 24, 2011

    .............................................................
                              Peter Courtney, President of Senate

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Received by Governor:

......M.,............., 2011

Approved:

......M.,............., 2011

    .............................................................
                                         John Kitzhaber, Governor

Filed in Office of Secretary of State:

......M.,............., 2011

    .............................................................
                                   Kate Brown, Secretary of State

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