Bill Text: OR HCR14 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Adopting Code of West as model of conduct in State of Oregon.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 9-1)

Status: (Failed) 2011-06-30 - In committee upon adjournment. [HCR14 Detail]

Download: Oregon-2011-HCR14-Introduced.html

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     76th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2011 Regular Session

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                 House Concurrent Resolution 14

Sponsored by Representative FREEMAN; Representatives CAMERON,
  DOHERTY, OLSON, THATCHER, WAND, WEIDNER, WHISNANT, WINGARD,
  Senator KRUSE

                             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 as
introduced.

  Adopts Code of West as model of conduct in State of Oregon.

                      CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
  Whereas Oregon has been and continues to be a state whose
residents value a spirit of individualism bound by principles;
and
  Whereas those principles include aspirations to live with
strength, courage, self-sufficiency, compassion, hard work,
independence and a commitment to the highest moral character; and
  Whereas the pioneers who forged lives for themselves, their
families and their descendants in Oregon shared in the canon of
ethics fostered by other early settlers of the western United
States, including ranchers, cowboys and peace officers; and
  Whereas the canon of ethics came to be known as the Code of the
West; and
  Whereas in his book  { - Cowboy Ethics - }, author James P.
Owen distilled the Code of the West into 'Ten Principles to Live
By'; and
  Whereas Oregonians of the present and future can derive wisdom
and guidance from these 10 principles; now, therefore,
Be It Resolved by the Legislative Assembly of the State of
  Oregon:
  That we, the members of the Seventy-sixth Legislative Assembly,
adopt the Code of the West, as derived from the book  { -  Cowboy
Ethics - } by James P. Owen and summarized as follows, as a model
of conduct in the State of Oregon:
  (1) Live each day with courage;
  (2) Take pride in your work;
  (3) Always finish what you start;
  (4) Do what has to be done;
  (5) Be tough, but fair;
  (6) When you make a promise, keep it;
  (7) Ride for the brand;
  (8) Talk less, say more;
  (9) Remember that some things are not for sale; and
  (10) Know where to draw the line.
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