The issue in this case is whether a juvenile, remanded from juvenile court to circuit court and convicted of a crime other than aggravated murder, can be sentenced to a minimum prison term. ORS 161.620.

At the age of 17, defendant was remanded to circuit court, ORS 419.533(1), and convicted of murder and third degree robbery. ORS 163.115; ORS 164.395. On the murder charge, the trial court imposed a life sentence, with a minimum sentence of 25 years.1 Defendant appeals, contending that ORS 161.620 prohibits imposition of the minimum sentence.

ORS 161.620 provides, in part, that a “sentence imposed upon any person remanded from the juvenile court * * * shall not include * * * any mandatory minimum sentence except that a mandatory minimum sentence under ORS 163.105(1)(c) [for aggravated murder] shall be imposed where the person was 17 years of age at the time of the offense.” In State v. Noble, 94 Or App 123, 126, 764 P2d 949 (1988), rev dismissed 307 Or 506 (1989), we interpreted the phrase “mandatory minimum” to exclude minimum terms that a trial judge has the discretion to impose and to include minimum sentences that atrial judge is requiredhy statute to impose and that a Parole Board cannot override. Noble allowed the imposition of a minimum term under ORS 144.110,2 because a sentence imposed under that statute is discretionary and can be overridden by four members of the Parole Board.

*238Defendant contends that Noble was wrongly decided and should be overruled. He argues that the statute is not as clear and unambiguous as that case treated it and that the legislative history shows that ORS 161.620 was intended to bar imposition of any minimum term of imprisonment for a remanded juvenile, except in the specific instance of aggravated murder. Although we are unpersuaded by the legislative history that defendant cites, and still do not find the statute to be ambiguous,3 we agree that the holding in Noble was overstated when it said, “Mandatory minimum sentences are those which neither the court nor the Parole Board has discretion to alter.” 94 Or App at 125. (Emphasis supplied.) The reference to the parole board is overbroad. The sentence should have solely referred to the discretion of the court. Accordingly, we overrule the portion of Noble that pertains to the parole board.

We reaffirm that the phrase “mandatory minimum,” as used in ORS 161.620, means only'those minimum terms that the court is required by statute to impose. See, e.g., ORS 163.115(3)(b); ORS 163.105; ORS 161.610. It does not refer to minimum terms that the court has discretion to impose. See, e.g., ORS 163.115(3)(c); ORS 144.110(1). Defendant would have us hold that the phrase “mandatory minimum sentence” means “minimum sentence.” We decline that invitation. Reading the qualifying term “mandatory” out of the statute would be contrary to ORS 174.0104 and would render the phrase a meaningless redundancy.

In this case, the trial court relied on ORS 163.115(3) when it imposed the 25-year sentence. That statute provides, *239in part:

“ (a) A person convicted of murder shall be punished by imprisonment for life.

“(b) When a defendant is convicted of murder under this section, the court shall order that the defendant shall be confined for a minimum of 10 years without possibility of parole, release on work release or any form of temporary leave or employment at a forest or work camp.

“(c) When a defendant is convicted of murder under this section, the court, in addition to the minimum required by paragraph (b) of this subsection, may order that the defendant shall be confined for a minimum term of up to an additional 15 years without possibility of parole, release on work release or any form of temporary leave or employment at a forest or work camp.” (Emphasis supplied.)

Thus, defendant’s 25-year sentence is actually comprised of two minimum sentences. The 10-year minimum sentence imposed under subsection (3)(b) is a mandatory minimum sentence. Because its imposition violates ORS 161.620, it is reversed. The 15-year minimum sentence imposed under subsection (3)(c) is a discretionary minimum sentence. It is affirmed.

Reversed and remanded for resentencing.

concurring in part; dissenting in part.

I agree with the majority that “mandatory minimum sentence” as used in ORS 161.620 prohibits a minimum sentence that the court, by statute, , is required to impose, except the minimum sentence mandated by ORS 163.105(1) for aggravated murder. Accordingly, the 10-year sentence imposed on defendant is prohibited.1

However, I do not agree that the 15-year sentence was permissible under ORS 161.620. Defendant was convicted of murder. ORS 163.115(3) provides:

“ (a) A person convicted of murder shall be punished by imprisonment for life.

*240“(b) When a defendant is convicted of murder under this section, the court shall order that the defendant shall be confined for a minimum of 10 years without possibility of parole, release on work release or any form of temporary leave or employment at a forest or work camp.

“(c) When a defendant is convicted of murder under this section, the court, in addition to the minimum required by paragraph (b) of this subsection, may order that the defendant shall be confined for a minimum term of up to an additional 15 years without possibility of parole, release on work release or any form of temporary leave or employment at a forest or work camp.

. “(d) The minimum term set forth in paragraph (b) or (c) of this subsection may be set aside by a unanimous vote of the State Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision.” (Emphasis supplied.)

Although the additional 15-year minimum sentence that the court imposed under subsection (3)(c) is not one that the court was required to impose, that subsection presumes that the court has also imposed the mandatory 10-year minimum under subsection (3)(b). Because the presumed 10-year minimum is not permissible here, the predicate for the “additional” 15-year minimum is lacking, and the court was not authorized to impose it.

Accordingly, I would reverse both minimum sentences.

dissenting.

Defendant contends that State v. Noble, 94 Or App 123, 764 P2d 949 (1988), rev dismissed 307 Or 506 (1989), was wrongly decided and should be overruled in its entirety. He points out (and the lead opinion apparently agrees) that ORS 161.620 is not as clear and unambiguous as Noble treated it. He argues that the legislative history compels the conclusion that the legislature meant to bar imposition of any minimum term of imprisonment on a remanded juvenile, except in the specific instance of aggravated murder. The lead opinion reaches some sort of compromise, which I cannot quite comprehend, that seems to be based on some policy that the legislature did not express. It is wholly wrong. Judge *241Buttler is wrong in his concurrence and absolutely correct in his dissent.

The state does not dispute defendant’s legislative history, but it argues that that history leads to a different result from the one that defendant seeks. In its supplemental brief, the state quotes what it calls “[t]he only discussion * * * in the legislative history that might shed any light on the issue” between a committee member and a witness in a hearing on a proposed amendment to the bill and characterizes the discussion as “distinctly inconclusive.” That is close to the mark. In the absence of clear legislative history from which to devise intent, I would read the statute in the most straightforward manner and without inventing meanings for supposedly new legal terms, as the lead opinion apparently does.

Read without the lead opinion’s policy gloss, ORS 161.620 prohibits the imposition of any mandatory prison term on a remanded juvenile, except if the conviction is under ORS 163.105. Noble was wrongly decided, and we should overrule it in its entirety.