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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
A-Engrossed
Senate Bill 6
Ordered by the Senate April 15
Including Senate Amendments dated April 15
Sponsored by Senator ANDERSON
SUMMARY
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject
to consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor’s brief statement of the essential features of the
measure. The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards.
Digest: Says an application for a building permit must be acted on not later than 45 days after
it is done. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8).
Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services, a municipality, a building official
or any other agency or official responsible for administering and enforcing the state building code
to approve and issue, or disapprove and deny, any application for a building permit for middle
housing or conventional single-family residential housing in a residential subdivision with
more than six lots not later than 45 business days after the date on which the applicant submits
a complete application. Requires any other agency or jurisdiction that must review an appli-
cation for a building permit to complete the review within 10 business days after receipt or
the portion of the application that is subject to the review is approved.
Declares that an application for a building permit is approved if the department, a municipality,
a building official or any other agency or official fails to deny or act upon the application within
the allowable period. Requires prompt issuance of the building permit in such circumstances. Makes
the department, municipality, building official or other agency or official that fails to promptly issue
the building permit liable to the applicant for the fees the applicant paid and the costs the applicant
incurred in preparing the application.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to a deadline within which to act upon an application for a building permit; creating new
provisions; and amending ORS 455.050.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
ORS 455.050 is amended to read:
455.050. (1) All building permits issued in this state [ shall contain the following information ]
must list:
[(1)] (a) The name and address of the owner of the building or structure to be constructed or
altered under the permit;
[(2)] (b) The name and address of the builder or contractor, if known, who will perform the
construction or alteration; and
[(3)] (c) The street address and legal description or tax lot number of the property on which
construction or alteration will occur.
(2)(a) Notwithstanding any other condition that applies to issuing a building permit in
this state for middle housing, as defined in ORS 197A.420, or conventional single-family res-
idential housing in a residential subdivision, as defined in ORS 455.175, with more than six
lots, the Department of Consumer and Business Services, a municipality, a building official
or any other agency or official responsible for administering and enforcing the state building
code shall approve and issue, or disapprove and deny, any application for a building permit
not later than 45 business days after the date on which the applicant submits a complete
NOTE: Matter in boldfaced type in an amended section is new; matter [ italic and bracketed] is existing law to be omitted.
New sections are in boldfaced type.
LC 4622
A-Eng. SB 6
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application. The department, municipality, building official or other agency or official shall
publish on a publicly available website associated with building permit applications, and make
available at the office in which a person may submit an application, the criteria the depart-
ment, municipality, building official or other agency or official uses to determine that an
application is complete.
(b) Any other agency or jurisdiction that must review an application for a building permit
before the department, a municipality, a building official or other agency or official may ap-
prove the application must complete the review within 10 business days after receiving an
application for review. If an agency or jurisdiction does not complete the review within the
10-day period, the portion of the application that the other agency or jurisdiction was re-
sponsible for reviewing is approved.
(c) If the department, a municipality, a building official or any other agency or official
responsible for administering and enforcing the state building code does not disapprove or
otherwise act on an application for a building permit within the period described in paragraph
(a) of this subsection, the building permit is approved and the department, municipality,
building official or other agency or official shall issue the building permit to the applicant
promptly.
(d) If the department, a municipality, a building official or any other agency or official
responsible for administering and enforcing the state building code does not promptly issue
a building permit under the circumstances described in paragraph (c) of this subsection, the
applicant may bring an action in the Marion County circuit court, if the applicant seeks the
building permit from the department, or in a circuit court located in the county in which the
applicant seeks the building permit, if the applicant seeks the building permit from a
municipality, building official or other agency or official. In the action, the applicant may
obtain:
(A) An injunction to direct the department, the municipality, the building official or the
other agency or official to issue the building permit as required under paragraph (c) of this
subsection; and
(B) The sum of the fee the applicant paid for the application and the actual documented
expenses the applicant incurred in preparing the application.
(e) The court may award attorney fees and costs to an applicant that prevails in an
action described in paragraph (d) of this subsection.
SECTION 2.
The amendments to ORS 455.050 by section 1 of this 2025 Act apply to com-
pleted applications for building permits that applicants submit on or after the effective date
of this 2025 Act.
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