§ ORS § 249.013Candidacy for more than one office; effect of filing petition or declaration for more than one office without prior withdrawal; district board and city offices

(1) A
person may not be a candidate for more than one lucrative office to be filled
at the same election.

(2)(a) A person
may not file a nominating petition or declaration of candidacy for more than
one lucrative office or more than one office of precinct committeeperson before
the date of the election at which a person will be nominated or elected to each
office unless the person first files a written withdrawal, under ORS 249.170,
of the person’s initial filing.

(b)
Notwithstanding ORS 249.170, if a person files a declaration of write-in
candidacy for an office of precinct committeeperson under ORS 248.019, any
prior declaration of candidacy for the office of precinct committeeperson that
was filed for that election by the same person is considered withdrawn.

(3) If at any
time before the date of the election at which a person will be nominated or
elected to each office it is determined that a person has filed two or more
nominating petitions or declarations of candidacy for any lucrative office or
two or more nominating petitions or declarations of candidacy for the office of
precinct committeeperson without written withdrawal or withdrawals intervening,
all such filings are invalid and any other filing made by the same person is
void.

(4)(a) A person
may not be a candidate for more than one position on the same district board to
be filled at the same election.

(b) As used in
this subsection, “district board” means the governing body of a district as
defined in ORS 255.012.

(5) A person may
not be a candidate for more than one city office to be filled at the same
election.

(6)
Notwithstanding any provision of this section, in the case of a vacancy to be
filled by election, the same person is eligible for nomination and election to
both the unexpired and the succeeding terms. The name of the candidate may be
placed on the ballot in both places. [Formerly 249.750; 1991 c.971 §15; 1995
c.606 §6a; 1995 c.607 §14; 1999 c.318 §49; 2001 c.965 §3; 2013 c.702 §1; 2019
c.675 §29]



249.014 [1961 c.64 §2; 1971 c.749 §76;
1979 c.190 §95; renumbered 249.004]



249.015 [1979 c.190 §101; 1983 c.514 §6;
repealed by 2005 c.797 §73]



MAJOR POLITICAL PARTY
NOMINATIONS AND NOMINATIONS TO NONPARTISAN OFFICE



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