Bill Text: OR SB360 | 2011 | Regular Session | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relating to courts; and declaring an emergency.

Spectrum: Unknown

Status: (Passed) 2011-06-22 - Effective date, June 17, 2011. [SB360 Detail]

Download: Oregon-2011-SB360-Enrolled.html

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     76th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2011 Regular Session

                            Enrolled

                         Senate Bill 360

Printed pursuant to Senate Interim Rule 213.28 by order of the
  President of the Senate in conformance with presession filing
  rules, indicating neither advocacy nor opposition on the part
  of the President (at the request of Senate Interim Committee on
  Judiciary)

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

                             AN ACT

Relating to courts; amending ORS 51.020; and declaring an
  emergency.

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

  SECTION 1. ORS 51.020 is amended to read:
  51.020. (1) The county court or board of county commissioners
of every county may set off and establish, or modify the
boundaries of, justice of the peace districts within the county.
No more than six justice of the peace districts shall be set off
or established or permitted to remain in existence within any
county. Except in the counties of Baker, Gilliam, Grant, Harney,
Morrow, Sherman, Tillamook and Wheeler, a justice of the peace
district may not include any portion of the city that is the
county seat for the county or any portion of a city in which a
circuit court regularly holds court. In the counties of Baker,
Gilliam, Grant, Harney, Morrow, Sherman, Tillamook and Wheeler, a
justice of the peace district in existence on January 15, 1998,
may include any portion of the city that is the county seat for
the county, or any portion of a city in which a circuit court
regularly holds court, until such time as the justice court
ceases to provide judicial services within the county seat or
city. If the justice court ceases to provide judicial services
within the county seat or city, the district that includes
portions of the county seat or city shall cease to exist and may
not thereafter be reestablished.
  (2) At the time that the county court or board of county
commissioners of a county sets off and establishes the boundaries
of a justice of the peace district, the county court or board of
county commissioners may require as a qualification for the
office that a person serving as justice of the peace in the
district be a member of the Oregon State Bar.
   { +  (3) The prohibition of subsection (1) of this section on
a justice of the peace district that includes any portion of the
city that is the county seat for the county, or any portion of a
city in which a circuit court regularly holds court, does not
prevent a justice of the peace from conducting an arraignment for
a person in custody in the city that is the county seat for the
county, or in a city in which a circuit court regularly holds
court, if the accusatory instrument for the offense was filed in

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the justice court and the offense was committed within the
boundaries of the justice of the peace district. + }
  SECTION 2.  { + This 2011 Act being necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency
is declared to exist, and this 2011 Act takes effect on its
passage. + }
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Passed by Senate May 3, 2011

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                               Robert Taylor, Secretary of Senate

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

Passed by House June 8, 2011

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                                    Bruce Hanna, Speaker of House

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                                   Arnie Roblan, Speaker of House

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Received by Governor:

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

Approved:

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

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                                         John Kitzhaber, Governor

Filed in Office of Secretary of State:

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

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

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