ORS 204.005: Election or appointment of county officers.

(1) The following county officers shall be elected at the primary election or general election, as provided in ORS 249.088: (a) A sheriff. (b) A county clerk. (c) A county assessor. (d) A county treasurer. (e) A county commissioner to succeed any commissioner whose term of office expires the following January. (f) In any county where there is a vacancy from any cause in the office of county commissioner, an additional commissioner to fill the vacancy. (2) Unless an adopted county charter or a county ordinance provides otherwise, the governing body of a county shall appoint a county surveyor. [Subsection (2) enacted as 1953 c.477 §2; subsection (3) enacted as 1959 c.174 §3; 1959 c.628 §1; 1961 c.571 §3; subsection (4) enacted as 1963 c.386 §2; 1965 c.221 §21; 1969 c.532 §3; 1971 c.88 §4; 1983 c.327 §4; 2005 c.797 §29; 2009 c.491 §1]