Non-authoritative. Every figure here derives from mirrored public records; verify against the authoritative sources linked below before relying on any of it.

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Living county law, dead citations: 8% of county ORS citations point at statutes that no longer exist

Oregon's mirrored county code carries 8,723 citations to state statutes. 808 of them — about 9% — point at sections that no longer exist under that number: mostly renumbered (the text lives on elsewhere) or repealed outright, some as far back as 1993. County ordinances cite the law as it stood when they were adopted; the state renumbers and repeals underneath them. This is a fact about how law ages, found mechanically — not an error count.

renumbered — text lives on under a new number (held)repealed — no current textrenumbered — destination not mirroredno disposition mined
columbia33% of 12malheur16% of 110deschutes13% of 1,118lincoln13% of 235benton12% of 186jackson12% of 711hood11% of 81curry11% of 264crook10% of 29washington10% of 116coos10% of 303yamhill10% of 1,112umatilla10% of 284polk9% of 349wasco8% of 790lane8% of 449grant8% of 103clatsop8% of 172clackamas8% of 305klamath7% of 167multnomah6% of 1,437marion6% of 158union4% of 225

What the dead citations point at

cited sectionwhat happened to itcounty citations
ORS 197.763renumbered 2021 → ORS 197.79730
ORS 197.298renumbered None → ORS 197a.350, ORS 197a.35520
ORS 477.490repealed 202515
ORS 197.247repealed 199314
ORS 197.296renumbered 2023 → ORS 197a.35014
ORS 308.370repealed 199913
ORS 195.145renumbered 2023 → ORS 197a.24512
ORS 192.440renumbered 2017 → ORS 192.32412
ORS 195.137renumbered 2023 → ORS 197a.23011
ORS 279b.085no disposition mined11
ORS 192.410renumbered 2017 → ORS 192.31110
ORS 197.307renumbered 2023 → ORS 197a.200, ORS 197a.40010
ORS 475.314renumbered 2015 → ORS 475b.45010
ORS 197.352renumbered 2007 → ORS 195.3058
ORS 192.501renumbered 2017 → ORS 192.3458

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A dead citation is not a county's mistake unless the ordinance was adopted after the section died — and adoption dates are not consistently recorded, so this page makes no such claim for any county. Bars show each county's share of dead citations with its absolute denominator printed beside it; counties with fewer than 10 recorded ORS citations (3 of them) are excluded from the bars to avoid rate noise, and everything remains in the counts. Dispositions are mechanically mined from ORS chapters' own history brackets (29,215 sections) — non-authoritative; verify against oregonlegislature.gov. 598 of 3,335 county documents are OCR-recovered, and OCR can corrupt a citation (a real example: ORS 4758, a machine's misreading of 475B) — such strings simply fail to parse and are absent here, but treat single odd citations with suspicion. Coverage: 27 of 36 counties are mirrored; the other nine are access-blocked, not evidence of anything about those counties.