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ORS Chapter 448 — Pool Facilities; Water and

ORS 448.992. (b) Classify all sewage treatment works. In classifying the sewage treatment works, the commission shall take into consideration size and type, character of wastewater to be treated and other physical conditions affecting the sewage treatment works and the skill, knowledge and experience required of an operator. (c) Certify persons qualified to supervise the operation of sewage treatment works. (d) Subject to the prior approval of the Oregon Department of Administrative Services, establish a schedule of fees for certification under paragraph (c) of this subsection. The fees established under the schedule shall be sufficient to pay the costs incurred by the Department of Environmental Quality in carrying out the provisions of ORS 448.410 to 448.430 and 448.992 and shall be within the budget authorized by the Legislative Assembly as that budget may be modified by the Emergency Board. (2) The commission may grant a variance from the requirements of ORS 448.415, according to criteria established by rule by the commission. (3) In adopting rules under this section, the commission shall consult with the Oregon Health Authority in order to coordinate rules adopted under this section with rules adopted by the authority under ORS 448.450. [1987 c.635 2; 1991 c.703 9; 2003 c.14 273; 2009 c.595 867; 2023 c.602 6] Note: See note under
ORS Chapter 448 — Pool Facilities; Water and

ORS 448.994. Potable water treatment plant violation penalty. (1) Any person who knowingly and willfully violates ORS 448.455 (2) commits a Class B misdemeanor. (2) Subject to ORS 153.022, any person who knowingly makes any false statement, representation, or certification in any application, record, report, plan or other document filed or required to be maintained under ORS 448.450 to 448.465 and 448.992, or by any rule adopted under ORS 448.450 to 448.465 and 448.992, commits a Class B misdemeanor. [1987 c.635 15; 1999 c.1051 303; 2011 c.597 201] _______________
ORS Chapter 450 — Sanitary Districts and

ORS 450.005. Definitions for ORS 450.005 to 450.245. As used in ORS 450.005 to 450.245, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) District board means the governing body of a district. (2) County board means the county court or board of county commissioners of the county. (3) County means the county in which the district, or the greater portion of the taxable assessed value of the district or proposed district, is located. (4) District means a sanitary district formed in one or more counties and outside the corporate limits of any city pursuant to ORS 450.005 to 450.245 or pursuant to any law which those sections supersede. (5) Owner means the holder of the record title to real property or the vendee under a land sale contract, if there is such a contract. (6) Secretary means the secretary of the district. [Amended by 1969 c.563 1; 1983 c.83 87; 2001 c.373 1] (Formation)
ORS Chapter 450 — Sanitary Districts and

ORS 450.009. Formation purposes; petition. Sanitary districts may be formed for the purpose of providing sanitation facilities and services. In addition to the other matters, a petition for formation of a sanitary district shall state the number of members, three or five, on the district board.
ORS Chapter 450 — Sanitary Districts and

ORS 450.010. [Repealed by 1955 c.442 1 (450.009 enacted in lieu of 450.010)]
ORS Chapter 450 — Sanitary Districts and

ORS 450.015. [Amended by 1969 c.563 3; repealed by 1971 c.727 203]
ORS Chapter 450 — Sanitary Districts and

ORS 450.025. [Amended by 1969 c.563 6; repealed by 1971 c.727 203]
ORS Chapter 450 — Sanitary Districts and

ORS 450.030. [Amended by 1969 c.563 7; repealed by 1971 c.727 203]
ORS Chapter 450 — Sanitary Districts and

ORS 450.035. [Repealed by 1971 c.647 149]
ORS Chapter 450 — Sanitary Districts and

ORS 450.040. [Amended by 1961 c.438 3; repealed by 1971 c.647 149]
ORS Chapter 450 — Sanitary Districts and

ORS 450.045. Board members; qualifications; first terms. (1) The power and authority given a sanitary district, except as otherwise provided, shall be exercised by a board of three or five members, according to the number set forth in the petition for formation. (2) A person is qualified to be a member of the board if the person is an elector of or owner in the district. (3) If the first board to be elected has three members: (a) The terms of the candidates receiving the highest and second highest votes expire June 30 next following the second regular district election. (b) The term of the candidate receiving the third highest vote expires June 30 next following the first regular district election. (4) If the first board to be elected has five members: (a) The terms of the candidates receiving the first, second and third highest votes expire June 30 next following the second regular district election. (b) The term of the candidate receiving the fourth or fifth highest vote expires June 30 next following the first regular district election.
ORS Chapter 450 — Sanitary Districts and

ORS 450.050. [Amended by 1969 c.563 8; repealed by 1971 c.727 203]
ORS Chapter 450 — Sanitary Districts and

ORS 450.054. [1955 c.594 2; 1969 c.563 10; repealed by 1971 c.727 203] (Officers and Elections)
ORS Chapter 450 — Sanitary Districts and

ORS 450.055. Board officers; term; vacancy. (1) The officers of the district shall be the district board, consisting of three or five members, and a secretary appointed by the board. (2) Except as to those members of the board who are elected on formation and those members who are elected at an election when the number of board members is increased to five, the term of office of each elected member shall be four years. (3) Vacancy in the membership of the board shall occur by reason of the occurrence of any event listed in ORS 236.010 or, unless excused, by failure to attend three successive regular board meetings. The district board shall fill any vacancy on the board as provided in ORS 198.320.
ORS Chapter 450 — Sanitary Districts and

ORS 450.059. Election laws applicable. (1) ORS chapter 255 governs the following: (a) The nomination and election of members of the district board. (b) The conduct of district elections. (2) The electors of a district may exercise the powers of the initiative and referendum regarding a district measure, in accordance with ORS 255.135 to 255.205.
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ORS 450.062. Increase of board membership from three to five members; election. (1) A district having a three member board may vote to increase the number of members on the board to five at a regular district election as provided in this section. The board shall order an election on the question of increased membership when a petition is filed with the secretary of the board requesting that the electors of the district be permitted to vote on the question. The requirements for preparing, circulating and filing a petition under this section shall be as provided for an initiative petition in ORS 255.135 to 255.205. The board shall be increased to five members if a majority of the votes cast on the question favors the increase. (2) At the same election at which the question of increasing the board from three to five members is voted upon, the electors shall vote for a number of candidates: (a) To fill any vacancy; (b) To elect a successor to any position the term of which expires June 30 next following the election; and (c) To elect two candidates to fill the two new board positions if the board membership is increased. (3) If the board membership is increased under this section, the Secretary of State by rule shall adjust and stagger the terms of the board members elected at the election under this section as necessary so that at least two board members are elected at each subsequent regular district election.
ORS Chapter 450 — Sanitary Districts and

ORS 450.065. Election of president; appointment, duties and compensation of secretary. (1) At its first regular meeting each year, or as soon thereafter as practicable, the board shall choose one of its members as president and appoint a secretary. (2) The secretary shall receive such compensation as is fixed by the order of the board. (3) The secretary shall perform all duties required by the board and those prescribed in ORS 450.005 to 450.245. (4) Within 30 days following the entry of the order establishing a district, the secretary of the district shall file a written report with the Environmental Quality Commission, stating the name of the district, the date of its formation and the names and addresses of the board members, and shall furnish with the report a map showing the district boundaries.
ORS Chapter 450 — Sanitary Districts and

ORS 450.070. Meetings of board. (1) The board shall hold such meetings either in the day or evening, as may be convenient, but must hold one regular monthly meeting at a stated time and public place, at which, so far as practicable, district business shall be conducted. (2) In case of the absence or inability of the president or secretary to act, the board may, by order entered in its minutes, choose a president pro tempore, or secretary pro tempore, or both. (3) Special meetings may be called by the president or two members of the board by giving notice of time and place of the meeting six hours in advance. (Powers)
ORS Chapter 450 — Sanitary Districts and

ORS 450.075. Powers of sanitary district. A sanitary district may: (1) Have and use a common seal. (2) Sue and be sued in its name. (3) Acquire, construct, reconstruct, alter, enlarge, renew, replace, operate and maintain such sewage collection and disposal systems as in the judgment of the board are necessary and proper for the area of the district. In the performance of these functions, either in or out of the district, it may join with any other public body as defined in ORS 174.109, a federal agency or another state in the joint establishment, maintenance and operation of such works, and may contract therefor within the limits of authority conferred by ORS 450.005 to 450.245. (4) Permit the use, by lease or otherwise, of any property of the district by any other public body as defined in ORS 174.109, a federal agency or another state. (5) Acquire by purchase, gift, devise, condemnation proceedings or otherwise, such real and personal property and rights of way, either within or without the limits of the district, as in the judgment of the board are necessary or proper to the exercise of its powers, and to pay for and hold the same. (6) Make and accept contracts, deeds, releases and documents that, in the judgment of the board, are necessary or proper in the exercise of any of the powers of the district. (7) Issue bonds as provided in ORS 450.095 to 450.125. (8) Determine the rate of levy of taxes in the district, and fix sewer rentals, charges and assessments as provided in ORS 450.130 to 450.175. (9) Employ and pay necessary agents, employees and assistants. (10) Lay its sewers and drains in any public street or road in the county, and for this purpose enter upon it and make all necessary and proper excavations, restoring it to its proper condition. However, the consent of the proper city, county or state authorities, as the case may be, shall first be obtained and the conditions of such consent complied with. (11) Maintain and operate disposal sites and solid waste collection and disposal systems in compliance with ORS 459.005 to 459.437, 459.992 (1) and (2) and 466.995 (1). (12) Call all necessary elections. (13) Compel all residents and property owners in the district to connect their houses and structures requiring sewage or drainage disposal with adjacent street sewers, drains or other sewage disposal system of the district. (14) Do any act necessary or proper to the complete exercise and effect of any of its powers or for the purposes for which it was formed. (15) Make and enforce all necessary and proper regulations for: (a) The cleanliness of roads and streets of the district. (b) All other sanitary purposes not in conflict with the laws of this state. (16) Make and enforce necessary and proper regulations governing the storage, collection, transportation and disposal of solid wastes where such regulations are supplemental to the requirements of the Environmental Quality Commission adopted pursuant to ORS 459.045 and are necessary to meet special local conditions.
ORS Chapter 450 — Sanitary Districts and

ORS 450.080. [Repealed by 2011 c.292 4]
ORS Chapter 450 — Sanitary Districts and

ORS 450.082. District may contract for employee health care services or insurance. (1) The district board may enter into contracts for medical or any other remedial care recognized under state law and hospital services or insurance covering employees of the district for remedial care and hospital benefits. Failure to obtain insurance or service contracts shall not be construed as negligence or lack of diligence on the part of the board or the members thereof. (2) As used in this section remedial care includes services rendered by a person licensed to practice one or more of the healing arts within the scope of the license of the person.
ORS Chapter 450 — Sanitary Districts and

ORS 450.084. Payment for services or insurance by district. (1) The district may agree to pay none, part or all of the premiums or charges on insurance or service contracts, and it may collect from the salary of any employee covered by the contract the percentage of the premiums or charges the employee is required to provide pursuant to the contract. Contributions for premiums or charges by employees shall be only on a voluntary basis. (2) The board may negotiate more than one contract with one or more companies or associations if necessary to obtain optimum coverage at minimum cost. (3) No premium or other periodic charge on any insurance or service contract shall be paid unless the insurer or hospital association issuing such policy or contract is authorized to transact business as an insurance company or hospital association in this state. (4) Expenses incurred by a district in establishing programs or providing benefits authorized by ORS 450.082 and this section are expenses for which a district may levy taxes as provided by ORS 450.170. [1967 c.439 3,5]
ORS Chapter 450 — Sanitary Districts and

ORS 450.085. Adoption of regulations and ordinances. Any general regulation or ordinance of a district board shall be adopted in accordance with ORS 198.510 to 198.600. Orders not establishing a general regulation need not be posted or published. [Amended by 1971 c.268 16] (District Finances)
ORS Chapter 450 — Sanitary Districts and

ORS 450.090. Deposit of district moneys; contents of withdrawal or payment order. Moneys of the district may be deposited in accordance with ORS 295.001 to 295.108 and as designated by the district board. Moneys shall be withdrawn or paid out only upon proper order and warrant or check signed by the president and countersigned by the secretary. The order shall: (1) Specify the name of the person to whom the moneys are paid; (2) Specify the fund from which the moneys are paid; (3) State generally the purpose for which the moneys are paid; and (4) Be entered in the minutes of the board.
ORS Chapter 450 — Sanitary Districts and

ORS 450.095. Bond election. (1) This section establishes the procedure for determining whether bonds of the district, either general obligation, revenue or a combination of both, shall be issued and sold to raise money for the purposes set forth in ORS 450.075 (3). The question shall be decided by election. The board: (a) May order the election on its own resolution; or (b) Shall order the election when a petition is filed as provided in this section. (2) The order of the board calling the election shall determine the form of the bonding proposal as follows: (a) The order may submit to the electors as one proposal the question of issuing bonds to make all outlays, or so many of them as may be selected; or (b) The order may submit as separate questions the issuance of bonds for any of the outlays singly or in such combinations as the order may direct. (3) The requirements for preparing, circulating and filing a petition under this section shall be as provided for an initiative petition under ORS 255.135 to 255.205. (4) In addition to the information required under ORS 255.085 in a notice for an election on the issuance of bonds, the notice for an election under this section shall describe the form of the bonding proposal as determined under subsection (2) of this section. (5) When an election is called pursuant to a petition of electors, the proposal under subsection (2) of this section must conform with the proposal of the petition. (6) If a majority of the votes cast at a bond election is in favor of the issuance of bonds, the board may issue and dispose of the bonds proposed in the order calling the election.
ORS Chapter 450 — Sanitary Districts and

ORS 450.100. [Repealed by 1971 c.647 149]
ORS Chapter 450 — Sanitary Districts and

ORS 450.105. [Amended by 1961 c.438 4; repealed by 1971 c.647 149]
ORS Chapter 450 — Sanitary Districts and

ORS 450.110. District bonds; denomination; place of payment; interest. (1) General obligation or revenue bonds shall be of such denominations as the district board determines, except that no bonds shall be of a denomination greater than $5,000. (2) All bonds shall be payable in lawful money of the United States at a place named by the district board, and shall bear interest at a rate determined by the district board, payable semiannually.
ORS Chapter 450 — Sanitary Districts and

ORS 450.115. by the State of Oregon as investments of the fund designated in subsection (2) of this section. (2) The Sanitary District Sewerage System Revolving Fund is established separate and distinct from the General Fund. Moneys in the Sanitary District Sewerage System Revolving Fund are continuously appropriated to the State Treasurer for investment under the authority of this section. The interest paid on the investments purchased pursuant to this section shall be credited to the General Fund of the State of Oregon, and the principal, as it is repaid to the state by sanitary districts, shall be credited to the General Fund to be available for the payment of general governmental expenses. The State Treasurer is authorized to sell at not less than cost, the bonds, in whole or in part, that have been purchased under the authority of this section. The proceeds of sale of the bonds shall be credited to the General Fund to be available for the payment of general governmental expenses.
ORS Chapter 450 — Sanitary Districts and

ORS 450.120. Debt limitations. The total outstanding district bonds of all types, including improvement bonds of the kind authorized by ORS 223.205 and 223.210 to 223.295, shall at no time exceed in the aggregate 13 percent of the real market value of all taxable property within the district, computed in accordance with ORS 308.207.
ORS Chapter 450 — Sanitary Districts and

ORS 450.125. Payment of bonds; issuance of improvement bonds. (1) All general obligation and revenue bonds shall be paid within a period of 30 years and in annual installments of such amounts as will make the combined amount of principal and interest payable each year as nearly equal as practicable during the years of payment. (2) Improvement bonds may be issued in the manner provided by ORS 223.205 and 223.210 to 223.295 without submitting the question of their issuance to the electors of the district.
ORS Chapter 450 — Sanitary Districts and

ORS 450.130. Sewer service charges; collection and enforcement. (1) The sanitary board may enact ordinances levying sewer service charges within the district, for the purpose of financing the construction, operation and maintenance of the sewage collection and disposal system. (2) The board may contract with any city or district serving water in such area to collect such service charges with the water bills, and the serving agency may cut off water for nonpayment of such service charges. The board may pay the water serving agency for the reasonable cost of such collection services. (3) Service charges may also be collected and enforced as provided in ORS 454.225. [Amended by 1975 c.247 1]
ORS Chapter 450 — Sanitary Districts and

ORS 450.135. Ordinance declaring method of payment. (1) For the purposes specified in ORS
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ORS 450.140. Assessment ordinance. If any of the cost of sewers, drains or sewage treatment plants is assessed against the property directly benefited thereby, the board shall, before attempting to make the improvement or assessment, adopt a general ordinance providing for the method of assessment. The ordinance shall: (1) Contain provision for notice to property owners of intention to make the assessment and improvement. (2) Provide that notice shall be not less than 20 days before action is taken thereon. (3) Provide an opportunity for property owners to appear before the board for the purpose of remonstrating against assessments. (4) Provide for the general method of assessing the property directly benefited and of the recording of liens against the property directly benefited, and of making supplementary assessments and rebates.
ORS Chapter 450 — Sanitary Districts and

ORS 450.145. Entry of assessments in lien docket; lien docket as public record. (1) When assessments are made they shall be entered into a permanent lien docket which shall be kept in the office of the district and wherein shall be shown the amount of each lien, property against which it has been assessed, the owner thereof and such additional information as is required to keep a permanent and complete record of the lien and the payments thereon. (2) The lien docket shall be a public record kept by the secretary and shall be open to inspection during all business hours established by the district.
ORS Chapter 450 — Sanitary Districts and

ORS 450.150. Hearing of objections to proposed improvements. (1) The board shall appoint a time for the hearing of remonstrances or objections against any proposed improvement regardless of the method of payment. At the time appointed all objectors or remonstrators shall have the right to be heard. (2) If two-thirds or more of the owners of the property directly benefited, which is liable for any of the cost of the sewers, drains or sewage disposal plants, file written remonstrances objecting to the proposed improvement, the board shall sustain the remonstrances, and no further proceedings in the matter of proposed improvements shall be had for a period of six months. (3) If two-thirds of the owners of the property directly benefited by the proposed improvements do not file written remonstrances against the improvement, the board may proceed with the making of the improvement.
ORS Chapter 450 — Sanitary Districts and

ORS 450.160. Collection and enforcement of delinquent liens; reassessment. (1) In case the whole or any portion of the cost of sewers, drains or sewage treatment plants is assessed against the property directly benefited and the owner of the property fails to pay the amount of the lien, or any portion thereof, or the interest thereon, when they become due, the board may proceed to foreclose the lien in any manner provided by law for the collection of liens by local governments as defined in ORS 174.116 and may provide by ordinance a general procedure for the collection of liens in any manner not inconsistent with law. (2) The provisions of ORS 223.405 to 223.485 relating to reassessment shall be available to sanitary districts where applicable. [Amended by 2003 c.802 117]