(1) The following county officers shall be elected at the primary election or general election, as provided in ORS § 249.088:

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(a) A sheriff.

(b) A county clerk.

(c) A county assessor.

(d) A county treasurer.

(e) A county commissioner to succeed any commissioner whose term of office expires the following January.

(f) In any county where there is a vacancy from any cause in the office of county commissioner, an additional commissioner to fill the vacancy.

(2) Unless an adopted county charter or a county ordinance provides otherwise, the governing body of a county shall appoint a county surveyor. [Subsection (2) enacted as 1953 c.477 § 2; subsection (3) enacted as 1959 c.174 § 3; 1959 c.628 § 1; 1961 c.571 § 3; subsection (4) enacted as 1963 c.386 § 2; 1965 c.221 § 21; 1969 c.532 § 3; 1971 c.88 § 4; 1983 c.327 § 4; 2005 c.797 § 29; 2009 c.491 § 1]