Oregon Code § 62.360·Enacted ·Last updated March 01, 2026
Statute Text
Recording cooperative contracts.
(1) A cooperative may record any contract authorized by ORS 62.355 in the
office of the county clerk of the county in which the member resides or in
which products covered by that contract have been or are to be produced. If the
cooperative has substantially uniform contracts with more than one member
residing or producing such products in any county, it may, in lieu of recording
the original contracts, record:
(a) A true copy
of the uniform contract; and
(b) A sworn list
or sworn lists of the names of members who have executed such contract and who
reside or produce such products in that county, and the effective date of the
contract as to each such member.
(2) The county
clerk shall record each such contract, and shall record alphabetically in the
Cooperative Contract Record the name of each party to that contract. For
recording such contract the fee is the same as for recording a contract under
ORS 205.320.
(3) Recording
pursuant to this section shall operate as constructive notice to all persons of
the existence and contents of the contract. Any right, title, interest or lien
created as to the products covered by the contract subsequent to such recording
is subject to the cooperatives right, title or interest under that contract.
If the member creates any mortgage upon or other security interest in any such
products subsequent to such contract recording, and if the member and the
mortgagee or secured party jointly notify the cooperative in writing of the
existence and amount of the mortgage or other security interest, all payments
which after such notice become due from the cooperative to that member by
reason of the cooperatives sale or other handling of those products shall be
paid by the cooperative to the mortgagee or other secured interest until the
amount of the mortgage or secured party has been paid, and the balance
thereafter shall be paid to the member.
(4) When a
contract recorded under this section has been terminated in any manner, the
cooperative shall give, upon demand, a statement of termination to the member
party to the contract, who may record the statement in the office of the county
clerk where the contract was originally filed or recorded. The county clerk
shall record the termination and index the name of the member in the
Cooperative Contract Record. A cooperative may record at any time in the office
of the county clerk where the contract was originally filed or recorded, a
sworn list of the names of all persons whose contracts have been terminated in
any manner other than by expiration of their term, and the county clerk shall
record the termination and index the name of each of those persons in the
Cooperative Contract Record. The fee for recording and indexing a document
under this section is the fee established in ORS 205.320. [1957 c.716 §33; 1965
c.632 §6; 1971 c.621 §12; 1975 c.607 §14; 1979 c.833 §15; 1981 c.835 §5; 1999
c.654 §3]