Curry 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 Curry County and are listed under needs_verification. Legal information, not legal advice. Last verified: 2026-10-18.
C0. Identity
- FIPS: 41015
- 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 Curry County sources themselves publish. Retrieved 2026-10-18.
- Sheriff’s civil / execution-sale practice: The Sheriff’s Civil Service page names a civil contact (Joan Allen-Steineke) and links “Sheriff’s Sales Information” to the state sheriffs’ association site; it publishes no county sale terms. [Source: https://www.currycountyor.gov/government/county_sheriff/civil_service/index.php] [needs_verification: sale terms]
- Where sheriff’s sales are posted (online lists): The sheriffs’ ORS 18.926 notice website has a Curry County page listing the sheriff’s office as 94235 Moore Street #311 (mailing) / 29808 Colvin St, Gold Beach (Chief Civil Deputy, 541-247-3245). 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/curry/]
- 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: The Curry County Code table of contents lists no towing or abandoned-vehicle sale division. Article One, Division Five (“Inventorying Impounded Motor Vehicles”, enacted under ORS 203.035) requires inventory of lawfully impounded vehicles only. [Sources: https://www.currycountyor.gov/government/county_code.php ; https://www.currycountyor.gov/Article%201%20-%20Division%205.pdf (scanned; read by OCR)]
- County forfeiture / unclaimed-property sales (forced dispositions only): Unclaimed property in the sheriff’s possession (Article One, Division Two). For property valued under USD 100, unclaimed 30 days after it came into the sheriff’s possession, the sheriff may ask the Board for disposal authority; if a public sale is approved, the County Accountant posts notice “in three public places within the county at least ten days before the sale” and publishes it once “in a newspaper of general circulation in the County”; the highest bidder buys; the owner may reclaim before the sale and may claim the net proceeds within six months after it (§§1.02.010–1.02.070). Property valued at USD 100 or more goes by ORS 98.005–98.025 (§1.02.080). State law separately lets a sheriff dispose of unclaimed property under ORS 98.245 (see oregon §12.2). [Source: https://www.currycountyor.gov/Article%201%20-%20Division%202.pdf (scanned; read by OCR); ORS ch. 98 — https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors098.html]
- 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 Curry 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:
- Sheriff execution-sale terms
- Posting places / newspaper for execution notices
- OCR reading of the scanned Division Two and Five PDFs against the signed originals
- C11 sources (retrieved 2026-10-18):
- Curry County Sheriff — Civil Service — https://www.currycountyor.gov/government/county_sheriff/civil_service/index.php
- Curry County Code — table of contents — https://www.currycountyor.gov/government/county_code.php
- Curry County Code Art. 1 Div. 2 (PDF) — https://www.currycountyor.gov/Article%201%20-%20Division%202.pdf
- Curry County Code Art. 1 Div. 5 (PDF) — https://www.currycountyor.gov/Article%201%20-%20Division%205.pdf
- ORS ch. 98 — https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors098.html
- OSSA county page — https://oregonsheriffssales.org/county/curry/
▸ For Investors / Operators — In Curry 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: Sheriff execution-sale terms
- C11: Posting places / newspaper for execution notices
- C11: OCR reading of the scanned Division Two and Five PDFs against the signed originals
- 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 Curry 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 Curry 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.