§ 137.673 Validity of rules

Here's a plain English summary of this rule.

This rule protects the sentencing guidelines and rules created by the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission. It says that even if the commission made small mistakes in how it followed the official process for creating rules, those mistakes alone do not make the rules invalid or unenforceable.

In practice, this means someone cannot challenge a sentencing rule just by pointing out a paperwork error or a technical misstep in how the rule was adopted. The rule has to have a real, meaningful problem, not just a minor procedural slip, before a court will throw it out.

This matters for anyone involved in a criminal case in Oregon because sentencing guidelines affect how judges decide punishments. Knowing that small procedural errors will not undo these rules helps keep the sentencing system stable and predictable, so people can rely on the rules staying in effect even if a technical mistake happened when they were written.