Hazell v. Brown

*458DE MUNIZ, J.

This case requires us to examine the operative text of a voter-approved ballot measure that purported to depend for its efficacy upon the passage of a companion measure that voters rejected. The trial court concluded that the text at issue was severable from the ballot measure and ruled that the remaining provisions of the measure were, according to the plain text of the measure itself, dormant. The Court of Appeals affirmed that judgment. Hazell v. Brown, 238 Or App 487, 242 P3d 743 (2010). For the reasons set out in this opinion, we also affirm the trial court’s judgment and the…