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Coos County, Oregon — Forced Sales of Personal Property (county layer)

Local operations layer. The legal framework lives on the parent page → oregon. This page currently carries only module C11 (forced sales of vehicles, boats, equipment and businesses); the tax-sale, redemption, surplus, office, records, title, purchaser and restriction modules (C0–C10) have not been researched for Coos County and are listed under needs_verification. Legal information, not legal advice. Last verified: 2026-10-18.

C0. Identity

  • FIPS: 41011
  • Parent legal framework: oregon
  • County seat, population, recording unit: not researched. [needs_verification]

C11. Forced Sales of Vehicles, Boats, Equipment & Businesses → framework: oregon §12

County layer only. The state rules — writ and levy, the debtor’s challenge to execution, notice of an execution sale of personal property (mailing, and posting in three public places or, at the creditor’s request, on the sheriffs’ ORS 18.926 website), payment, bill of sale and what the buyer takes — are on oregon §12.1 and §12.4; towing, abandoned-vehicle, vessel and tax-warrant sales on §12.2; lienholder sales without a court on §12.3; publication channels and reuse limits on §12.7. This module records only what Coos County sources themselves publish. Retrieved 2026-10-18.

  • Sheriff’s civil / execution-sale practice: Citing ORS 206.010(3), the Civil Section processes and enforces court papers including “foreclosure of real or personal property as ordered by the courts or The Department of Justice”; payments by check, money order or cashier’s check payable to the Coos County Sheriff’s Office. Personal-property sale terms were not located. [Source: https://co.coos.or.us/civil]
  • Where sheriff’s sales are posted (online lists): The sheriffs’ ORS 18.926 notice website has a Coos County page listing the sheriff’s office as 250 N Baxter, Coquille (Civil Division, 541-396-7803). The page states that “All pending Sheriff sales for this county may not be posted on this site”; for personal property, website posting replaces the three-place posting only when the creditor asks for it (see oregon §12.1, §12.7). [Source: OSSA county page — https://oregonsheriffssales.org/county/coos/] The Civil page links “Online notice of Sheriff Sales” and an OSSA bulletin; the Civil FAQ says “A Sheriff is required to post the initial Notice of Sale online” (stated for houses). [Sources: https://co.coos.or.us/civil ; https://co.coos.or.us/civil-faqs]
  • Notice posting places & newspaper: No retrieved primary source names a county newspaper or the specific “three public places” used for personal-property execution notices. [needs_verification]
  • Local tow / abandoned-vehicle ordinance: No county abandoned-vehicle sale ordinance was located. Coos County Code Article 2, Division Seven (adopted October 5, 1994; Ord. 97-05-007L) requires peace officers to inventory impounded vehicles — defined to include “abandoned or unlawfully parked vehicles” — and does not govern sale. [Source: https://co.coos.or.us/files/ab8bfe1b6/article_2_-_regulations.pdf]
  • County forfeiture / unclaimed-property sales (forced dispositions only): Not located. (The county Land Agent’s land-sale auctions concern tax-foreclosed real property and are outside this module.) [needs_verification]
  • Lienholder sales run without the sheriff: possessory-lien (towing, repair, storage) and self-storage sales are conducted by the lien claimant under state law; see oregon §12.3. No Coos County rule altering them was located.
  • Scope note: real-property sale listings shown on sheriff or OSSA pages are not reproduced here.
  • C11 needs_verification:
  • C11 sources (retrieved 2026-10-18):

▸ For Investors / Operators — In Coos County the sheriff is the selling officer for court-ordered execution sales of vehicles, equipment and other personal property (ORS 18.860, 18.868; oregon §12.1); any payment terms and posting channels the county itself publishes are listed in C11 above. What a buyer takes, which liens survive and how title is transferred for titled vehicles and vessels are state-law questions in oregon §12.1, §12.4 and §12.8.

▸ For Former Owners — The challenge-to-execution and exemption procedure, the notice timing before a sale, and any surplus after an execution, lien or abandoned-vehicle sale are governed by state law (oregon §12.1–§12.3); the county offices above are where those notices originate.

C7. Meta

  • sources: see the C11 source list above (all retrieved 2026-10-18).
  • needs_verification:
    • C0 Identity (county seat, population, recording unit) — not researched
    • C1 Local Tax Sale — not researched
    • C2 Local Redemption — not researched
    • C3 Local Surplus / Excess Proceeds — not researched
    • C4 Offices & Contacts — not researched
    • C5 Local Procedure Notes — not researched
    • C6 Records Access — not researched
    • C8 Title & Quiet Title — not researched
    • C9 Purchaser Obligations — not researched
    • C10 Local Restrictions — not researched
    • C11: Personal-property sale terms
    • C11: Posting places / newspaper
    • C11: Forfeiture / unclaimed-property sale ordinance
    • C11: Civil fee page (https://co.coos.or.us/sheriff/page/current-civil-service-fees) returned HTTP 404
  • cross_links: oregon, personal-property-execution-sales-by-state
  • changelog:
    • 2026-10-18 — Page created with C11 only (Oregon county layer for forced sales of personal property). Raw evidence: schema/verification/oregon-counties-2026-10-18/.

▸ For Investors / Operators — In Coos County the sheriff is the selling officer for court-ordered execution sales of vehicles, equipment and other personal property (ORS 18.860, 18.868; oregon §12.1); any payment terms and posting channels the county itself publishes are listed in C11 above. What a buyer takes, which liens survive and how title is transferred for titled vehicles and vessels are state-law questions in oregon §12.1, §12.4 and §12.8.

▸ For Former Owners — The challenge-to-execution and exemption procedure, the notice timing before a sale, and any surplus after an execution, lien or abandoned-vehicle sale are governed by state law (oregon §12.1–§12.3); the county offices above are where those notices originate.

Legal information, not legal advice. This page summarizes Coos County, Oregon sources for research purposes. Statutes, ordinances, fees and sale practices change; verify against the cited primary sources and consult a licensed Oregon attorney before acting. Last verified: 2026-10-18.

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