1. (1) Accounts Payable Records: Series documents payment of agency bills for general accounts, excluding grants. Records may include reports, invoices, statements, vouchers, purchase orders, payment authorizations, receipt records, canceled checks or warrants, and related documentation. SEE ALSO: Grant Records. Minimum retention: 3 years after annual audit report has been completed.
2. (2) Accounts Receivable Records: Series documents revenues owed to the agency by vendors, citizens, organizations, governments, and others to be credited to general accounts excluding grants. Records may include reports, receipts, invoices, awards, logs, lists, summaries, statements, and related documentation. SEE ALSO: Grant Records; and Agency Improvement Administrative and Financial Records. Minimum retention: 3 years after collected or deemed uncollectible.
3. (3) Agency Improvement Administrative and Financial Records: Series documents the non-technical and financial administration of county or special district improvements including capital improvements, local improvement districts, urban renewal, and economic improvement districts. Records may include affidavits of posting, notices of proposed assessments, certificates of mailing, interested party letters, bid quotes, reports, awards, expense reports, purchase orders, requisitions, cost analyses, construction and maintenance bonds and insurance, and related documentation. SEE ALSO: Assessment Dockets, Ledgers, and Registers. Minimum retention: (a) Records of project cost, 3 years after disposal or replacement of facility, structure, or system; (b) All other improvement records, 10 years after substantial completion [as defined by ORS 12.135].
4. (4) Assessment Balance Reports: Series documents the status of billings related to assessments for agency improvements. Records may include reports showing account status by tax lot, ordinance, delinquent balances, and other criteria. Minimum retention: (a) Annual reports or similar cumulative summaries, permanent; (b) All other reports, 3 years.
5. (5) Assessment Dockets, Ledgers, and Registers: Series documents payments made by property owners for assessment to finance agency improvements. Records may include property assessments, terms, payment documentation, and related documentation. Minimum retention: 3 years after final payment.
6. (6) Asset Inventory Records: Series documents the capitalized and expendable assets of an agency. Examples of capitalized assets may include buildings, real estate, infrastructure assets, vehicles, equipment, furniture, and information technology. Examples of expendable assets include office supplies and other small office purchases. Minimum retention: (a) Records of capitalized assets, 3 years after disposal or replacement of asset; (b) Records of expendable assets, 3 years.
7. (7) Audit Reports, External: Series documents annual audits of the financial position of the agency conducted by external auditors. Records may include accountant’s summary, combined financial statements, schedules, balance sheet details, comments, recommendations, and related documentation. SEE ALSO: Audit Records, Internal. Minimum retention: Permanent.
8. (8) Balance Status and Projection Reports: Series documents the status of funds, bank accounts, investments, and other accountings of agency funds. Minimum retention: 3 years after annual audit report issued.
9. (9) Bank Transaction Records: Series documents the status and transaction activity of agency funds held at banks. Records may include account statements, deposit and withdrawal slips, checks, and reconciliation records. SEE ALSO: Grant Records for retention of records documenting grant transactions. Minimum retention: 3 years after annual audit report issued.
10. (10) Bond Records: Series documents actions pertaining to all agency bond issues including foreclosures. Records may include property assessments, registers and receipts, payment schedules, title reports, legal opinions, resolutions, lists of properties to be sold, memoranda, and related documentation. Minimum retention: (a) Foreclosure records, 3 years after final payment, redemption, sale, or action; (b) Registers and receipts, 3 years after annual audit report issued; (c) All other bond records, 3 years after final payment.
11. (11) Budget Preparation Records: Series documents the preparation of department budget requests presented to the specified governing body. Records may include staff reports, budget instructions, worksheets, surveys, allotment reports, spending plans, contingency plans, budget proposals, financial forecasting reports, and related documentation. Minimum retention: 2 years.
12. (12) Budgets (Adopted) Records: Series documents the final annual financial plan approved by a governing body for all agency expenditures. Records may include budget message, financial summaries, revenues and expenditures, operating programs, debt service, position and wage analysis, overhead allocations, organization charts, previous actual and budgeted plans, and related documentation. Note: Special districts may file copies of budgets with county clerk, which is subject to a separate retention. SEE ALSO: Budgets (Taxing Districts). Minimum retention: Permanent.
13. (13) Check Conversion Records: Series documents checks received from customers that are electronically deposited after being imaged and converted to an Automated Clearing House (ACH) transaction or Image Replacement Document (IRD). Minimum Retention: (a) Original paper instrument, 30 days; (b) ACH transaction or IRD, 3 years.
14. (14) Competitive Bid and Competitive Proposal Records: Series documents the publication, evaluation, rejection, and award of quoted bids to vendors and other entities. Records may include requests for proposals (RFPs), requests for qualifications (RFQs), invitations to bid (ITBs), requests for information (RFIs), bid exemption documents, bid and quote lists, notices of bid opening and award, comparison summaries, spreadsheets, tabulation worksheets, bid advertising records, tally sheets, bid specifications, and related documentation. SEE ALSO: Purchasing Records. Minimum retention: (a) Accepted bids and bid exemptions for construction projects, 10 years after substantial completion [as defined by ORS 12.135]; (b) All other accepted bids and bid exemptions, 6 years after bid awarded or canceled; (c) Rejected bids, 2 years.
15. (15) Credit and Debit Receipts: Series documents agency’s copy of credit or debit card receipts documenting payment received. Minimum retention: 3 years.
16. (16) Financial Impact Analysis Records: Series documents the financial analysis of various agency practices. Records may include reports, studies, worksheets, and related documentation. Minimum retention: 3 years.
17. (17) Financial Reports: Series contains reports documenting the general financial condition and operation of the agency. Minimum retention: (a) Annual reports, permanent; (b) All other financial reports, 3 years after annual audit report issued.
18. (18) General Ledgers: Series documents the annual summary of accounts reflecting the financial position of the agency. SEE ALSO: Subsidiary Ledgers, Journals, and Registers Records. Minimum retention: 10 years.
19. (19) Gift and Contribution Records: Series documents unconditional gifts and contributions to the agency. SEE ALSO: Contract, Lease, and Agreement Records for conditional gift, contribution, and donation records. Minimum retention: 3 years.
20. (20) Grant Records: Series documents funds received or disbursed by the agency for specific projects. Records may include applications, project proposals, evaluations and recommendations, summaries, budgets, grant agreements, inventories, financial reports, and accounting records. Minimum retention: (a) Records documenting the purchase or disposal of real property, 10 years after substantial completion [as defined by ORS 12.135], or 3 years after final disposition, or as specified in agreement, whichever is longer; (b) Unsuccessful grant applications, 1 year after rejection or withdrawal; (c) All other grant records, 10 years after final expenditure report approved or as specified in agreement, whichever is longer.
21. (21) Investment Records: Series documents and tracks various investments made by the agency. Records may include bank statements documenting investment information, journal entries, confirmations of purchase of U.S. Treasury Bills, confirmations of deposit in local investment pool, deposit slips, memoranda related to specific investments, and related documentation. Minimum retention: 3 years after investment ends.
22. (22) Petty Cash Fund Records: Series documents petty cash activity for the agency. Records may include requests and authorizations to establish petty cash funds, ledgers, statements, requests for disbursements, and copies of receipts and invoices. Minimum retention: 3 years.
23. (23) Purchasing Records: Series documents orders, authorizations, and evidence of receipt of the purchase of goods and services by the agency. Records may include purchase orders and requests, purchase authorizations, requisitions, and related documentation. SEE ALSO: Competitive Bid and Competitive Proposal Records; and Grant Records. Minimum retention: 3 years.
24. (24) Revenue Sharing Records: Series documents evidence of receipt and administration of federal and/or state revenue sharing funds including those from state liquor and cigarette taxes. Records may include transmittals, affidavits of publication, planned and actual use reports, and related documentation. Minimum retention: 3 years.
25. (25) Subsidiary Ledgers, Journals, and Registers Records: Series documents details of transactions such as those related to receipts and expenditures on a daily, monthly, quarterly, or similar basis. Records may include journals, ledgers, registers, day books, and other account books that provide backup documentation to the general ledger. SEE ALSO: Grant Records for records documenting transaction of grant funds. Minimum retention: (a) Year-end payroll register, 75 years; (b) Trust fund ledgers, 3 years after trust fund closed; (c) All other subsidiary ledgers, journals, and registers, 3 years.
26. (26) Travel Records, Employee: Series documents requests, authorizations, reimbursements, and other actions related to employee travel. Records may include expense reports and receipts, vouchers, requests, authorizations, and related documentation. Minimum retention: 3 years.
27. (27) Trust Fund Records: Series documents bequests to the agency or funds held in trust by the agency for specific parties. Records may include wills or other legal documents, expenditure records, chronologies, resolutions establishing trust funds by the agency, records documenting subject matter approved for purchase, acquisition lists, and related documentation. SEE ALSO: Subsidiary Ledgers, Journals, and Registers Records. Minimum retention: 3 years after trust fund closed.
28. (28) Unclaimed Property Report Records: Series documents annual reports submitted to the Oregon State Treasury of financial assets being held for a person or entity that cannot be found. Records may include Holder Report, owner information, and related documentation. Note: Unclaimed property is not real estate, abandoned personal property, or lost and found items. Minimum Retention: 3 years after the property is remitted to the Oregon State Treasury.
29. (29) Utility Customer Account Records: Series documents management of accounts of public utility customers. Records include application and disconnection requests, billing and payment records, routine meter reading records, account change records, and related documentation. Minimum retention: (a) Account change records, 2 years; (b) Security deposit records, 3 years after refund or last action; (c) All other records, 3 years.
30. (30) Vendor Lists: Series documents vendors providing goods and services to the agency. Minimum retention: Until superseded or obsolete.

Statutes/Other Implemented

ORS 192.005–192.170 & ORS 357.805–357.895

History

OSA 7-2025, amend filed 11/05/2025, effective 11/05/2025
OSA 1-2017, f. & cert. ef. 1-13-17
OSA 3-2012, f. & cert. ef. 10-29-12
OSA 1-2010, f. & cert. ef. 5-27-10
OSA 2-2005, f. & cert. ef. 5-10-05
OSA 4-2004, f. & cert. ef. 9-1-04