NON-AUTHORITATIVE reference — not the official county code. Always verify against the county's own published text.
Oregon · county government
The law your county actually applies to you
3,335 documents from 27 of Oregon's 36 counties — 90% of the state's population. Land use, procurement, public records: the end of the authority chain that reaches people, and the one nobody publishes in a single place.
county code, ordinances, board orders and administrative policy
27 of 36
Counties
90% of Oregon's population; the rest are in progress
9,703
Citations into state law
every ORS and OAR reference the text actually makes
598
Recovered by OCR
scans with no text layer, read by two independent engines that agreed
Why this corpus is hard
Thirty-six counties, no common platform. Municode, CivicPlus, Granicus,
American Legal, Laserfiche, plain PDF directories, and several sites that are
simply one person's HTML. Each was surveyed before anything was ingested.
Publication is not uniform and the gaps are recorded as gaps. A county
that publishes only part of its code is marked as such rather than presented as
complete, and nine counties are deferred rather than half-ingested.
Scanned paper is common. Documents with no text layer are recovered by
two OCR engines reading independently, and promoted only where they agree — never
by one engine's confident guess.
Citations resolve into state law
A county ordinance citing ORS 215.203 resolves into
Executive
Regulatory Frameworks and returns the statute's title and URL — one copy of the
law, cited from wherever it is needed.
A citation that resolves to nothing is not automatically a gap.
155 of the sections cited here were renumbered — the text
still exists, under a new number — and 137 were repealed, which
is a complete answer rather than a missing document. Both are reported as what they
are.
These are recorded as references_external, not as
implements. A county ordinance citing a statute usually is implementing
it. Usually is not a basis for asserting it as fact, so the stronger claim
stays empty until something measures it.
Every document carries provenance — source URL, retrieval date and a
content hash — and its full text is verified line by line against the snapshot it
was extracted from.
County law binds real decisions. These are mirrors, not the official
record; verify against the cited source before acting on one.