Oregon Statutes 131A.450 – Record keeping and reporting requirements
(1) All forfeiting agencies shall maintain written documentation of each seizure for forfeiture made under the provisions of this chapter, sale of seized or forfeited property under this chapter, decision to retain property forfeited under the provisions of this chapter, transfer of property forfeited under this chapter and other dispositions of property seized for forfeiture or forfeited under the provisions of this chapter.
Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 131A.450
- Asset forfeiture: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
- Civil forfeiture: The loss of ownership of property used to conduct illegal activity.
- Forfeiture counsel: means an attorney designated by a forfeiting agency to represent the forfeiting agency in forfeiture proceedings. See Oregon Statutes 131A.005
- Forfeiture proceeds: means all property that has been forfeited in a proceeding under this chapter, including money, earnings from forfeited property and amounts realized from the sale of forfeited property. See Oregon Statutes 131A.005
- Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
- Property: means any interest in anything of value, including the whole of any lot or tract of land and tangible and intangible personal property, including currency, instruments or securities or any other kind of privilege, interest, claim or right whether due or to become due. See Oregon Statutes 131A.005
- Public body: has the meaning given in ORS § 174. See Oregon Statutes 131A.005
(2)(a) As soon as practicable following the seizure of property for civil forfeiture, forfeiture counsel shall file with the Asset Forfeiture Oversight Advisory Committee an electronic report that describes the property seized and the circumstances of the seizure.
(b) As soon as practicable following the entry of judgment under this chapter, forfeiture counsel shall file with the committee an electronic report describing the judgment and the manner in which any forfeited property and the proceeds from any sales of forfeited property were distributed.
(3) Law enforcement agencies shall supply to forfeiture counsel all information requested by forfeiture counsel that is necessary for the preparation of the electronic reports required by subsection (2) of this section.
(4) Public bodies that receive forfeiture proceeds under ORS § 131A.360 (2) and 131A.365 (4) shall submit an electronic report to the committee for any calendar year in which those proceeds are received. The report must be submitted no later than January 31 of the following year and must describe how the proceeds received by the public body have been or will be used.
(5) The committee may require forfeiture counsel or a political subdivision to include in the electronic reports described in this section any additional information requested by the committee.
(6) The committee shall develop and make available electronic forms for the purposes of the reports described in this section. [2009 c.78 § 49; 2011 c.504 § 2; 2013 c.9 § 2]