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Law librarians are asked lots of landlord-tenant questions by public librarians and by law library patrons.  Here is our latest list of contacts:
IF YOU HAVE Oregon Landlord-Tenant Law QUESTIONS:

We BLOG about Oregon landlord-tenant law and on a wide range of related issues: renting to relatives, Landlord School, service animals, renting a room in someone’s house, etc.  Click on the landlord-tenant law tags below or on the right-hand sidebar.
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I last blogged about the Sheriff’s Civil Process Manual (and writs of assistance) back in 2010, but before we got the 2010 update to the Manual.
The Washington County Law Library does now have the 2010 edition of the Manual.  It’s not online and the CD-ROM costs a cool $350 (yikes!), so not a lot of libraries will have it.  I’m not sure it is worth $350, but it sure does help lawyers, judges, and litigants answer a lot of their service and writ questions – maybe that makes it priceless.
(You can also see my updated “Oregon Legal Research Resources -Not Online” list at our website.  The link is at the bottom of the Oregon Legal Resources webpage.)
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The Washington County Law Library has a new legal research guide on appeals, available on our website in a number of places: the What’s New page; the Subjects Guide page; and our lovely Document Index.  If you are ever at a loss to find a document on our website, the Document Index page includes every document uploaded to the website.  You can also use the labels on the right-hand sidebar of this blog to find posts about appeals. 

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If your own website or Favorites list has the old URL, you might want to update it manually, but the search engines catch up fairly quickly. (We have a lot of research guide and website updating to do ourselves.  Oh boy.)
One’s quixotic search for PURLs (persistent uniform resource locators – see also the Wikipedia article) is foiled again.  It takes research, time, expertise, and money to transition to PURLs and no one has that nowadays so most of us are stuck with link rot.
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I first wrote this blog post in 2007 and it’s high time for an update:

 
As you might imagine, libraries get lots of questions about building codes, specifically asking if we have them. The short answer is, no.  (If the answer you get is yes and you need the information for a client, please read on.)
 
You see, it’s next to impossible to keep building codes up to date in a small library, in almost any library for that matter.  But we can refer you to a better source of information. Here’s some advice I published a few years ago in a bar association newsletter and it is still good information:
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I’ve updated my “Oregon Legal Research Resources Not Online or Through Fee-Based Databases Only” PDF grid.
You can find it from each of these web pages:
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Please note corrected effective date for this law – and thank you to the lawyers who alerted me to this!

The Oregon Small Claims Court jurisdictional limit has been raised to $10,000.

HB 2710 was signed by the Governor on June 30, 2011.  (Chapter 595, (2011 Laws): Some parts effective date July 1, 2011; the Small Claims Court amendments are effective October 1, 2011.)
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But when you’re in the early stages of research, or just curious, try these websites:
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Forbes dot com brings us this story:
More scam and other consumer protection information from the:
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The Uniform Law Commission (ULC) recently approved the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act. Find links to the latest UELMA draft and other documents and more at the June 11, 2011, Legal Informatics blog post: Uniform Electronic Material Act Approved by ULC.
For more about official, authenticated laws, follow the links at the June 11, 2011, AACPLL blog post, National inventory of primary legal materials, including a link to the seminal AALL State-by-State Report on Authentication of Online Legal Resources and updates.
Law librarians, lawyers, legislators, and others have been working on this problem for a very long time.  The problem: most digital (including online) statutes and other legal research materials are not official, authenticated, and are only prima facie evidence of the law.
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