[Ord. No. 94-576A, § 1]
This chapter is established to provide a policy for the naming of facilities owned or operated by Metro. This policy includes facilities that are operated by a Metro department, commission, or other entity which has responsibility for facility operations.
[Ord. No. 94-576A, § 1; Ord. No. 02-967, § 1; Ord. No. 03-994A, § 4; Ord. No. 13-1319, § 1]
(a) 
Facilities owned by Metro shall be named through adoption of a Resolution by the Metro Council. For purposes of this section, a "facility" shall be a building, which may contain one or more rooms, theaters, halls, offices, exhibits, etc., a group of buildings under common management with a shared mission, or a zoo, park, open space, trail, cemetery, golf course, boat ramp, or other outdoor area owned by Metro.
(b) 
The principal purpose of the name of a facility shall be to identify the facility's function and purpose. When the Council deems it to be practicable and advisable, the name may also reflect the facility's ownership, location, source or sources of funding for its construction, or the contribution of effort made or funds contributed by a person, persons, corporation, firm, partnership, joint venture, association, governmental body, joint stock company, limited liability company, estate, trust, or syndicate toward its construction, acquisition, or operation.
(c) 
A Metro facility may be named after any living person who has not held elective office in Oregon. In the event Metro acquires ownership of a facility that was named after a living person by the facility's former owner, the facility shall continue to bear that name.
(d) 
A Metro facility may be named for a deceased person in recognition of the person's significant contribution of effort or money in support of the facility or its construction or mission, in conformance with an adopted policy, if any, of the Metro Council.
(e) 
A Metro facility other than the Oregon Zoo and the Oregon Convention Center may be named for a corporation, firm, partnership, joint venture, association, governmental body, joint stock company, limited liability company, estate, trust, or syndicate in recognition of that entity's significant contribution of effort or money in support of the facility or its construction, operation or mission, in conformance with an adopted policy, if any, of the Metro Council.
(f) 
Individual parts of a facility, including but not limited to theaters, exhibits, ballrooms, meeting rooms, halls, lobbies, and equipment, may be named after a person or persons, living or deceased, or after a corporation, firm, partnership, joint venture, association, governmental body, joint stock company, limited liability company, estate, trust, or syndicate, by adoption of a Resolution by the Metro Council.
(g) 
Facilities which Metro operates but does not own may not be named or re-named by Metro or a Metro commission. The owner(s) of such facilities shall retain authority for their naming or re-naming.