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Josephine County, OR

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Josephine 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 Josephine County and are listed under needs_verification. Legal information, not legal advice. Last verified: 2026-10-18.

C0. Identity

  • FIPS: 41033
  • 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 Josephine County sources themselves publish. Retrieved 2026-10-18.

  • Sheriff’s civil / execution-sale practice: The Civil Division “handles sheriff’s sales, foreclosures”; its fee page lists “Enforcement Actions (Property seizure, writ, or order of assistance, or writ of execution)” at USD 89, “in addition to the Notice Process fee”, and accepts cash, business check, money order, cashier’s check and cards. The published sale terms (Tuesday–Thursday 11:30 a.m. at the courthouse; cash or certified cashier’s checks payable to Josephine County Sheriff) are on the real property page; personal-property terms were not located. [Sources: https://www.josephinecounty.gov/government/sheriff/civil_division/index.php ; https://www.josephinecounty.gov/government/sheriff/civil_division/civil_division_fees.php ; https://www.josephinecounty.gov/government/sheriff/civil_division/real_property_sales.php]
  • Where sheriff’s sales are posted (online lists): The sheriffs’ ORS 18.926 notice website has a Josephine County page listing the sheriff’s office as 1901 NE F St, Grants Pass (541-474-5145). 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/josephine/]
  • Notice posting places & newspaper: The real-property page refers to “publishing the notice in a newspaper of general circulation” without naming it. [needs_verification]
  • Local tow / abandoned-vehicle ordinance: The county code is hosted by General Code (eCode360), which returned a bot-challenge; no towing or abandoned-vehicle chapter was read. [needs_verification — blocked]
  • County forfeiture / unclaimed-property sales (forced dispositions only): Not located. (Auctions run by the county Legal Department are county-property sales, not sheriff’s sales, 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 Josephine 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:
    • Personal-property sale terms
    • Newspaper / posting places
    • County code towing provisions (blocked)
    • Forfeiture / unclaimed-property sale ordinance
  • Sources refused or unreachable (not bypassed):
    • Code Publishing → General Code/eCode360 — challenge
  • C11 sources (retrieved 2026-10-18):

▸ For Investors / Operators — In Josephine 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: Newspaper / posting places
    • C11: County code towing provisions (blocked)
    • C11: Forfeiture / unclaimed-property sale ordinance
  • 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 Josephine 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 Josephine 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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