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Article: CLATSOP COUNTY CLERK ISSUES DECISION ON PROSPECTIVE PETITION
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- July 16, 2007
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The Clatsop County government issued the following news release:
Clatsop County Clerk Nicole Williams issued a letter today stating that the initiative petition to amend the county charter to provide an annual salary for the district attorney does not comply with requirements of the Oregon Constitution.
Chief petitioners Hans Olsen, Myrna Patrick and Lawrence Taylor filed the proposed petition with the county clerk last Tuesday to require that the district attorney's annual salary be not less than 90 percent of the annual salary of a Clatsop County circuit judge.
Under Oregon law, the county clerk is required to review whether a petition complies with certain procedural requirements of the ...