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Portland is a Sanctuary City

23.10.020 Definitions.

City Code Section

(Amended by Ordinances 187678 and 191973, effective January 1, 2025.)  

  1. For purposes of this Chapter, the following definitions apply:
  2. A.  City means the City of Portland as defined in Title 1 of the Code of the City of Portland.
  3. B.  Commissioner means the Commissioner of the State of Oregon’s Bureau of Labor and Industries.
  4. C.  Employer means any person or entity who directly or through an agent employs another for a position being performed a majority of the time within Portland, but does not include:
    1. 1.  The United States Government;
    2. 2.  The State of Oregon and any office, department, agency, authority, institution, association, society or other body of the state, including the legislature and the judiciary;
    3. 3.  Any political subdivision of the State of Oregon or any county, city, district, authority, public corporation or public entity other than the City; or
    4. 4.  Employers with fewer than six employees.
  5. D.  Employ means to engage or use the personal service of another person on a full-time, part-time, temporary or seasonal basis, where the employer reserves the right to control the means by which such service is performed.
  6. E.  Conditional offer of employment means any offer for a position that is conditioned solely on:
    1. 1.  The results of an employer’s inquiry into or gathering of information about a person’s arrest or conviction history; and/or
    2. 2.  Some other contingency expressly communicated to the applicant at the time of the offer.
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