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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3136
Sponsored by Representative BREESE-IVERSON, Senators MEEK, ANDERSON (Presession filed.)
SUMMARY
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject
to consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor’s brief statement of the essential features of the
measure as introduced.The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability
standards.
Digest: This Act lets more land professionals serve on planning commissions. (Flesch Readability
Score:61.3).
Removes a requirement that a maximum of two real estate professionals may serve on a city
or county planning commission.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to composition of planning commissions; amending ORS 215.030 and 227.030.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. ORS 215.030 is amended to read:
215.030. (1) The county planning commission shall consist of five, seven or nine members ap-
pointed by the governing body for four-year terms, or until their respective successors are appointed
and qualified[; provided that in the first instance], except that the terms of the initial members
[shall] must be staggered for one, two, three and four years.
(2) A commission member may be removed by the governing body, after hearing, for misconduct
or nonperformance of duty.
(3) Any vacancy on the commission [shall] must be filled by the governing body for the unex-
pired term.
(4) Members of the commission shall serve without compensation other than reimbursement for
duly authorized expenses.
(5) Members of a commission [shall] must be residents of the various geographic areas of the
county. [No more than two voting members shall be engaged principally in the buying, selling or de-
veloping of real estate for profit, as individuals, or be members of any partnership or officers or em-
ployees of any corporation that is engaged principally in the buying, selling or developing of real estate
for profit.] No more than two voting members [shall] may be engaged in the same kind of occupation,
business, trade or profession.
(6) The governing body may designate one or more officers of the county to be nonvoting mem-
bers of the commission.
(7) Except for subsection (5) of this section, the governing body may provide by ordinance for
alternative rules to those specified in this section.
SECTION 2. ORS 227.030 is amended to read:
227.030. (1) Not more than two members of a city planning commission may be city officers, who
shall serve as ex officio nonvoting members.
(2) A member of such a commission may be removed by the appointing authority, after hearing,
for misconduct or nonperformance of duty.
(3) Any vacancy in such a commission [shall] must be filled by the appointing authority for the
NOTE:Matter in boldfaced type in an amended section is new; matter [italic and bracketed] is existing law to be omitted.
New sections are in boldfaced type.
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unexpired term of the predecessor in the office.
(4) [No more than two voting members of the commission may engage principally in the buying,
selling or developing of real estate for profit as individuals, or be members of any partnership, or of-
ficers or employees of any corporation, that engages principally in the buying, selling or developing of
real estate for profit.] No more than two members [shall] may be engaged in the same kind of occu-
pation, business, trade or profession.
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