# Oregon Counties — Code, Ordinances, Policy and Land Use

> Non-authoritative, AI-friendly reference for policy instruments of Oregon's 36 counties — codified county code and ordinances, board and county-court orders, administrative policy (HR, purchasing, public records, IT), and land use (comprehensive plans, zoning, development codes).
> Full verbatim text of jurisdiction-authored documents is included in-repo;
> third-party materials are summarized with links to official sources.
> Always verify against the authoritative source linked in each document.

## Start here

- [AGENTS.md](AGENTS.md): rules for AI agents working in this corpus
- [STATUS.md](STATUS.md): freshness, coverage, and drift at a glance

## Contents

- `[County documents](counties/)`: one tree per built county — `counties/<slug>/` with subdirectories `code/` (codified county code), `orders/` (board and county-court orders), `policies/` (administrative policy), and `land-use/` (comprehensive plans, zoning, development codes). Not every county has every subdirectory; absence of a directory is absence of ingested documents, not evidence about what the county publishes.
- `[County registry](_meta/counties.yml)`: the canonical roster of all 36 counties — slug, FIPS, governing body (6 are county courts, not boards), home-rule status (8 of 36), population, and `built`/`deferred` flags with reasons. Consult before asserting anything about a county's instruments; these fields are load-bearing for CI guardrails.
- `[Per-county source registries](_meta/sources/)`: one YAML per built county declaring every upstream source consumed, human-approved before ingestion.
- `[Authority graph](_meta/graph.json)`: document relationships including county documents' citations into state law (ORS/OAR). Feeds `graph_neighbors` and `authority_chain`.
- `[ORS dispositions](_meta/ors-dispositions.yml)`: renumbered/repealed status for the ORS sections county documents cite, mirrored from executive-regulatory-frameworks — check here before treating a county's ORS citation as current.