Oregon Constitution Article XI Sec. 1

[Brian]

Here is another fun little Oregon nugget: http://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/652.110

652.110¹
Method of paying employees

• agreement on method of payment
• revocation of agreement

(1) A person engaged in any business or enterprise of any kind in this state may not issue, in payment of or as evidence of indebtedness for wages due an employee, any order, check, memorandum or other instrument of indebtedness unless the instrument is negotiable and payable without discount in cash on demand at some bank or other established place of business in the county where the employee lives or works and where a sufficient amount of funds have been provided and are or will be available for the payment of the instrument when due. The person shall, upon presentation and demand, pay the instrument in lawful money of the United States.

Then the subsequent sections of that statue go on to lay ways for you to hang yourself.

[David Neil]

Thank you all, I just got back on line after hiatus and am particularly interested in following up with more research given the leads so far

[mikecz]

Here is another fun little Oregon nugget: http://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/652.110

652.110¹
Method of paying employees

• agreement on method of payment
• revocation of agreement

(1) A person engaged in any business or enterprise of any kind in this state may not issue, in payment of or as evidence of indebtedness for wages due an employee, any order, check, memorandum or other instrument of indebtedness unless the instrument is negotiable and payable without discount in cash on demand at some bank or other established place of business in the county where the employee lives or works and where a sufficient amount of funds have been provided and are or will be available for the payment of the instrument when due. The person shall, upon presentation and demand, pay the instrument in lawful money of the United States.

Then the subsequent sections of that statue go on to lay ways for you to hang yourself.

A nugget indeed... This is wonderful.

[David Neil]

Here is another fun little Oregon nugget: http://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/652.110

unless the instrument is negotiable and payable without discount .

The stipulation in the law that wages must be payed in an instrument that is not discounted seems to demand that the payment be made in lawful money since the return required for FRN use (our income tax) is a form of discount??