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Term Limit Examples
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Hillsboro (separate clauses)
A councilor may serve no more than two consecutive elected four year terms.
A mayor may serve no more than two consecutive elected four year terms.
Beaverton
A mayor may serve no more than three consecutively-elected four-year terms. A councilor may
serve no more than three consecutively-elected four-year terms; the limit applies even if one or
more of the consecutive terms is served in different numbered council positions. If a mayor or a
councilor is appointed or elected for a term that is less than three years, the partial term does
not count as a term; in addition to the partial term, a mayor or a councilor may also serve three
consecutively-elected four-year terms.
Lake Oswego (separate clauses)
No Councilor, including those serving on July 1, 1980, may be elected to a City office, or any
combination of such offices, for a period to exceed eight (8) consecutive years.
No Mayor, including the one serving on July 1, 1980, shall be elected to any elective City office,
or any combination of such offices, for a period to exceed eight (8) consecutive years.
Oregon City (separate clauses)
No person shall be elected to the office of commissioner for more than two terms of four years
in any ten year period.
If a prospective candidate for election to the office of mayor has been elected either to the
office of mayor or city commissioner for more than two terms of four years in the previous ten
years, that prospective candidate shall not be eligible for election to the office of mayor.
Tualatin
No person shall be eligible to serve on the City Council more than twelve (12) years in any
twenty (20) year period, whether serving as Councilor, Mayor, a pro tern member, or a
combination thereof, except if a person has served only two terms as City Councilor, then that
person shall be eligible to serve another two consecutive terms as Mayor. No person may be
elected or appointed to an office on the City Council if completing that term of office would
cause a violation of these term limits. The calculation of"years" shall include those preceding
the passage of this Section, but shall not prevent any member of the City Council from
completing a term of office that commenced prior to its passage. For the purposes of this
Section, years of service on the City Council shall be calculated by first determining the
aggregate number of days a person has served as a member of the City Council within an
applicable window of twenty calendar years, and then attributing a year of service for every
365.25 days of service.
Wilsonville
No person shall be eligible to serve on the City Council more than twelve (12) years in any
twenty (20) year period, whether serving as Councilor, Mayor, a pro tern member, or a
combination thereof. No person may be elected or appointed to an office on the City Council if
completing that term of office would cause a violation of these term limits. The calculation of
"years" shall include those preceding the enactment of this Section, but shall not prevent any
member of the City Council from completing a term of office. To be eligible for election or
appointment to an office on the City Council, prior years of service on the City Council shall be
calculated by first determining the aggregate number of days a person has previously served as
a member of the City Council within the period of twenty calendar years prior to the
commencement of the proposed term, and then attributing a year of service for every 365.25
days of service within that period.
Milwaukie (separate clauses)
No person shall serve more than two consecutive terms as councilor.
No person shall serve more than two consecutive terms as mayor.
Sherwood
No councilor shall serve on the council more than three consecutive terms. For purposes of this
subsection, "terms" include terms to which the councilor was either elected or appointed,
regardless of whether the councilor served the full four years of the term.