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OR Rev Stat § 341.283 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 09 - Education and Culture|Chapter 341 - Community Colleges|Section 341.283 - Organization; meetings; quorum; rules; journal; expenses.

(1) After July 1 of each year, the board of a district shall meet and organize by electing a chairperson and a vice chairperson from its members. (2) The board shall provide for the time and place of its regular meetings, at any of which it may adjourn to the next succeeding regular meeting or to some specified time prior thereto. Special meetings shall be convened by order of the chairperson of the board or upon the request of four board members at least 24 hours before such meeting is to be held, or by common consent of the board members. Notice of any special meeting shall be given to the members pursuant to bylaws of the board. (3) A majority of the board members shall constitute a quorum. The affirmative vote of the majority of members of the board is required to transact any business. (4) The board shall adopt rules for the government of the conduct of its members and its proceedings. The board shall keep a journal and, on the call of any one of its members, shall cause the yeas and nays to be taken and entered upon its journal upon any question before it. (5) Any duty imposed upon the board as a body shall be performed at a regular or special meeting and shall be made a matter of record. The consent to any particular measure obtained from individual board members when the board is not in session shall not be an act of the board and shall not be binding upon the district. (6) Members of the board shall receive no compensation for their services, but they shall be allowed the actual and necessary expenses incurred by them in the performance of their duties. [1971 c.513 §2; 1973 c.725 §2; 1995 c.67 §12]
OR Rev Stat § 341.287 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 09 - Education and Culture|Chapter 341 - Community Colleges|Section 341.287 - Status; official title of board.

(1) Districts are bodies corporate, and the board is authorized to sue and be sued in the corporate name. (2) The members of the board of a district in their official capacity shall be known as the board of education of the community college district. [1971 c.513 §3]
OR Rev Stat § 341.305 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 09 - Education and Culture|Chapter 341 - Community Colleges|Section 341.305 - Tax levy.

Subject to the Local Budget Law (ORS 294.305 to 294.565) and sections 11 and 11b, Article XI of the Oregon Constitution, each community college district shall prepare annually an estimate of the amount of funds necessary to carry out the purposes of the district and may levy a tax upon all assessable property in the district. [Formerly 341.900; 1993 c.45 §132; 1997 c.541 §382; 1999 c.59 §88]
OR Rev Stat § 341.308 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 09 - Education and Culture|Chapter 341 - Community Colleges|Section 341.308 - Authority to certify operating taxes.

A community college district, upon approval of a majority of the electors voting upon the question at the election held to approve formation of a district, may certify operating taxes to the assessor under ORS 310.060 that are within the district’s permanent rate limit established under ORS 341.095. [1969 c.673 §12; 1995 c.67 §13; 1997 c.541 §383]
OR Rev Stat § 341.309 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 09 - Education and Culture|Chapter 341 - Community Colleges|Section 341.309 - Establishment of interstate taxing authority.

A community college district may enter into discussions with county governments or other similar county-wide public organizations in bordering states for the purpose of discussing the feasibility of establishing interstate taxing authority for the district through an interstate agreement entered into pursuant to ORS 190.410 to 190.440. Any such agreement shall be approved by the Legislative Assembly prior to taking effect. [1997 c.521 §4] Note: 341.309 was enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but was not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 341 or any series therein by legislative action. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.
OR Rev Stat § 341.310 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 09 - Education and Culture|Chapter 341 - Community Colleges|Section 341.310

[Renumbered 332.810]
OR Rev Stat § 341.311 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 09 - Education and Culture|Chapter 341 - Community Colleges|Section 341.311 - Eminent domain.

A board may obtain by condemnation the title to any land it is authorized to acquire. Condemnation proceedings instituted by the board shall be conducted in accordance with and subject to the provisions of ORS chapter 35 except that the relator therein shall be the board. [1971 c.513 §6]
OR Rev Stat § 341.312 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 09 - Education and Culture|Chapter 341 - Community Colleges|Section 341.312 - Self-insurance program.

(1) A board of education of a community college district may operate a self-insurance program to provide its employees with health insurance benefits. (2) A board may operate a self-insurance program under this section for liability covering all activities of the community college district and for health insurance benefits for students engaging in athletic contests or in traffic patrols, and may pay the necessary premiums thereon. (3) Failure to operate a self-insurance program shall in no case be construed as negligence or lack of diligence on the part of the board or the members thereof. [1999 c.502 §3]
OR Rev Stat § 341.315 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 09 - Education and Culture|Chapter 341 - Community Colleges|Section 341.315 - Contract for educational services.

Any school district, education service district, institution of higher education, county, municipality or private organization may contract with a community college district to provide services of an educational nature that are subject to the approval of the Higher Education Coordinating Commission. [Formerly 341.825; 1987 c.204 §1; 1995 c.67 §14; 2013 c.747 §59]
OR Rev Stat § 341.317 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 09 - Education and Culture|Chapter 341 - Community Colleges|Section 341.317 - Educational services to adults in custody at correctional institutions; reimbursement.

(1) Reimbursement from the Community College Support Fund established in ORS 341.620 may be made available to community colleges that deliver educational services to adults in custody confined to the state-operated correctional facilities and to locally operated correctional facilities. The reimbursement shall be distributed as directed in ORS 341.626 and the rules of the Higher Education Coordinating Commission. (2) The commission shall review and approve services to correctional institutions at least once biennially. (3) The enrollment limitation, as provided by ORS 341.022, does not apply to persons receiving services under this section. (4) Reimbursement from the Community College Support Fund established in ORS 341.620 may not be made available to community colleges for delivering educational services to adults in custody confined in federal prisons. Neither shall local property taxes be used to support the services. A host community college shall support the services through a contractual arrangement with the federal government. [1987 c.204 §3; 1989 c.256 §1; 1995 c.67 §15; 2013 c.747 §60; 2019 c.213 §130]
OR Rev Stat § 341.319 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 09 - Education and Culture|Chapter 341 - Community Colleges|Section 341.319 - Intellectual property.

(1) A board may acquire by gift or by purchase interests in intellectual property of any kind, whether patentable or copyrightable or not, including patents, copyrights, inventions, discoveries, processes and ideas. The board may also agree to aid in the development of property acquired pursuant to this section and to pay an assignor of any interest in intellectual property a share of any moneys received on account of the board’s ownership or management of the property. (2) A board may manage, develop or dispose of by assignment, sale, lease, license or other action deemed advisable by the board, property acquired under subsection (1) of this section, and may contract with any person or agency, board, commission or department of this or any other state or with the federal government regarding the management, development or disposition thereof. The board may make gratuitous assignments of such property to any trust or fund, the sole beneficiary of which is the district or any of the institutions or activities under its control, subject to the share, if any, agreed to be paid to the assignor. The board may reassign such property to the inventor, author or discoverer. (3) A board may determine the terms and conditions of any transaction authorized by this section and need not require competitive bids in connection therewith. No formal publicity or advertising is required regarding property for the development of which the board wishes to contract, but the board shall make reasonable efforts to disseminate such information in appropriate research and industrial circles. (4) Moneys received by the board as a result of ownership or management of property acquired under this section or of transactions regarding such property shall be credited to a special fund which shall only be applied to payment of the agreed share, if any, to assignors, the remainder, if any, may be used for general expenses of the college. [1971 c.513 §7]
OR Rev Stat § 341.320 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 09 - Education and Culture|Chapter 341 - Community Colleges|Section 341.320

[Renumbered 332.820 and then 341.195 (1), (2)]
OR Rev Stat § 341.321 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 09 - Education and Culture|Chapter 341 - Community Colleges|Section 341.321 - Reserve fund; establishment and termination procedures.

Notwithstanding any other statutory provisions, any board of education of a community college district by resolution may establish a reserve fund by making transfers from the district’s general fund. Transfers to the reserve fund shall be included in the district budget prepared and published in accordance with ORS 294.305 to 294.565. If at any time conditions arise which dispense with the necessity for further transfers to or expenditures from a fund established pursuant to this section, the district board shall so declare by resolution. The resolution shall order the balance remaining in such fund to be transferred to the general fund of the district and shall declare the reserve fund closed. [1975 c.770 §25; 1995 c.67 §16]
OR Rev Stat § 341.326 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 09 - Education and Culture|Chapter 341 - Community Colleges|Section 341.326 - Qualification.

Except as provided in ORS 255.400 to 255.424: (1) At each regular district election, board members shall be elected for a term of four years to succeed the board members whose terms of office expire on June 30 of that year. (2) A person shall be qualified to be a candidate for election to the board if the person is an elector who resides in the district. If the district is zoned and the position sought is one elected or nominated by zone, the person also must reside in the zone from which the person is nominated. (3) Members of a board shall be nominated and elected at large or by zones according to a method described in ORS 341.327 and determined under ORS 341.025 or 341.331. (4) A board member must qualify for office by taking an oath of office. [Formerly 341.333; 2019 c.449 §24]
OR Rev Stat § 341.327 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 09 - Education and Culture|Chapter 341 - Community Colleges|Section 341.327 - Method of electing board.

Except as provided in ORS 255.400 to 255.424: (1) The board members may be elected in one of the following methods or a combination thereof: (a) Elected by electors of zones as nearly equal in population as possible according to the latest federal census. (b) Elected at large by position number by the electors of the district. (2) Candidates for election from zones shall be nominated by electors of the zones. Candidates for election at large may be nominated by electors of zones or by electors of the district, as determined under subsection (3) of this section. (3) Where the method selected under subsection (2) of this section includes a combination of nomination of candidates from and by zones and of nomination of candidates at large, the number of candidates to be nominated in each manner shall be specified in the petition submitted under ORS 341.025 or under ORS 341.331. [Formerly 341.280; 2019 c.449 §25]
OR Rev Stat § 341.330 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 09 - Education and Culture|Chapter 341 - Community Colleges|Section 341.330

[Renumbered 332.830]
OR Rev Stat § 341.333 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 09 - Education and Culture|Chapter 341 - Community Colleges|Section 341.333

[1971 c.513 §25; 1973 c.796 §54; 1977 c.149 §4; 1983 c.350 §202; renumbered 341.326]
OR Rev Stat § 341.335 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 09 - Education and Culture|Chapter 341 - Community Colleges|Section 341.335 - Vacancy; filling of vacancy; term of appointed member.

(1) The board shall declare the office of a board member vacant if it finds any of the following: (a) The incumbent has died or resigned. (b) The incumbent has been removed or recalled from office or the election of the incumbent thereto has been declared void by the judgment of a court. (c) The incumbent has ceased to be a resident of the district from which the incumbent was nominated or elected. (d) The incumbent has ceased to discharge the duties of office for two consecutive months unless prevented therefrom by sickness or other unavoidable cause or unless excused by the chairperson of the board. (2) A board member who is nominated or elected by zone and who changes permanent residence from one zone of a district to another zone or who by a change in zone boundaries no longer resides in the zone of nomination or election is entitled to continue to serve as board member until June 30 following the next regular district election at which a successor shall be elected by the electors to serve for the remainder of the unexpired term, if any. The successor shall take office July 1 next following the election. (3) When a vacancy is declared under subsection (1) of this section, the remaining board members shall meet and appoint a person to fill the vacancy from any of the electors of the district if the position is one filled by both nomination and election at-large, and otherwise from any of the electors of the zone from which the vacancy occurs. (4) If the offices of a majority of the board members are vacant at the same time, the governing body of the principal county shall appoint persons to fill the vacancies from any of the electors of the district if the positions are filled by both nomination and election at-large, and otherwise from any of the electors of the zone from which the vacancy occurs. (5) The period of service of a board member appointed under subsection (3) or (4) of this section commences upon appointment and expires June 30 next following the next regular district election at which a successor is elected. The successor shall be elected to serve the remainder, if any, of the term for which the appointment was made. If the term for which the appointment was made expires June 30 after the election of the successor, the successor shall be elected to a full term. In either case, the successor shall take office on July 1. [1971 c.513 §27; 1975 c.647 §31; 1977 c.149 §5; 1983 c.350 §203; 2003 c.576 §436]
OR Rev Stat § 341.339 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 09 - Education and Culture|Chapter 341 - Community Colleges|Section 341.339 - Position numbers required for at-large positions.

(1) The positions of board members elected at-large, and their respective successors in office, shall be designated by numbers as Position No. 1, Position No. 2, and so on. (2) This section applies to any district that elects any board member to an at-large position. [1971 c.513 §30; 1983 c.350 §204]
OR Rev Stat § 341.340 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 09 - Education and Culture|Chapter 341 - Community Colleges|Section 341.340

[Renumbered 332.840 and then 341.215]
OR Rev Stat § 341.341 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 09 - Education and Culture|Chapter 341 - Community Colleges|Section 341.341 - Assigning position numbers.

Position numbers for board members elected at-large, and their respective successors in office in the event of vacancies before the expiration of their terms, in districts changing the method of election of any of the board members shall be determined by drawing by the affected board members under the supervision of the county clerk of the principal county. As soon as possible after the drawing, the county clerk of the principal county shall furnish a certified statement to each affected board member of the position number drawn by the board member. A copy of the statement shall be filed with the county clerk of the principal county and with the administrative office of the district. [1971 c.513 §31]
OR Rev Stat § 341.356 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 09 - Education and Culture|Chapter 341 - Community Colleges|Section 341.356 - Election laws applicable.

Except as provided in ORS 255.400 to 255.424: (1) ORS chapter 255 governs the following: (a) The nomination and election of board members. (b) The conduct of district elections. (2) The electors of a community college district may exercise the powers of the initiative and referendum regarding a district measure, in accordance with ORS 255.135 to 255.205. (3) ORS 249.865 to 249.877 govern the recall of board members. [1983 c.350 §206; 2019 c.449 §27]
OR Rev Stat § 341.357 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 09 - Education and Culture|Chapter 341 - Community Colleges|Section 341.357 - Publication of notices.

(1) Except as provided by ORS chapter 255 and ORS 294.448 (Local Budget Law) and 341.670, notice of community college district organization and merger, community college district budgets and community college district purchasing shall be given only as provided in this section. (2) Whenever notice is required, the board shall cause the notice to be published in one or more of the newspapers published in the district and having a general circulation in the district. If no newspaper is published in the district, the notice shall be published in some newspaper designated by the board and having circulation throughout the district. The notice shall be published in at least two issues of each designated newspaper. (3) The board may also cause broadcasting of any notice required to be published in the manner provided in ORS 193.310 to 193.360. (4) The board shall cause the time and place of publishing each of the notices required by subsection (1) of this section and the content of such notices to be recorded in the minutes of the board. [1971 c.513 §11; 1973 c.796 §56; 1983 c.350 §207; 2015 c.841 §4; 2019 c.449 §28]
OR Rev Stat § 341.369 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 09 - Education and Culture|Chapter 341 - Community Colleges|Section 341.369 - Special elections.

The board may call a special election upon questions as to the issuance of bonds, the levy of taxes which may not be levied without the affirmative vote of the people and any other questions which may be submitted to the electors of such districts. [1971 c.513 §17; 1973 c.796 §57; 1983 c.350 §208]
OR Rev Stat § 341.371 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 09 - Education and Culture|Chapter 341 - Community Colleges|Section 341.371 - Board resolution required to submit question to electors.

Any of the questions to be submitted to the electors of any district must be submitted in the form of a resolution of its board. The resolution shall specify the questions to be voted upon and the date for holding any special election. The board may adopt any such resolution on its own motion, and must adopt the resolution when petitioned by the requisite number of electors of the district. [1971 c.513 §18; 1974 c.45 §7; 1983 c.350 §209]
OR Rev Stat § 341.379 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 09 - Education and Culture|Chapter 341 - Community Colleges|Section 341.379 - Eligibility of electors following certain events.

During the period following an election or other action resulting in a boundary change in a district and prior to the date the change becomes effective, the district or districts from which an area will be separated as a result of the boundary change may hold elections for all legal purposes but the electors registered in the area to be separated as a result of the boundary change shall not be qualified to vote in any such election. The election on any measure in such district or districts shall not affect or encumber the area to be separated. [1971 c.513 §22; 1983 c.83 §77]
OR Rev Stat § 341.405 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 09 - Education and Culture|Chapter 341 - Community Colleges|Section 341.405 - Establishment of community college.

Upon approval of the Higher Education Coordinating Commission, a community college may be established by a community college district in which all the requirements for formation of the district are met and for which adequate building space, library and suitable laboratory or shop space for the courses to be offered are available or will be available before classes begin. [Formerly 341.520; 1967 c.465 §4; 2013 c.747 §61]
OR Rev Stat § 341.415 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 09 - Education and Culture|Chapter 341 - Community Colleges|Section 341.415 - Official name of college.

The official name of every community college shall include the words "community college." [1965 c.19 §1; 1971 c.513 §88]
OR Rev Stat § 341.420 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 09 - Education and Culture|Chapter 341 - Community Colleges|Section 341.420 - Procedure for name changes for district or college.

(1)(a) Subject to the requirements of subsection (2) of this section, the name of any community college district or community college may be changed by resolution of the district board of education. The district board shall submit the proposed name change to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for its approval or disapproval. If the proposed name change is approved by the commission, it shall be submitted to a public hearing in the district. If the commission disapproves the proposed name change, the district board may rescind its resolution or revise it to reflect a different name which must be submitted to the commission for its approval or disapproval. (b) If the proposed name is approved by the commission, notice of the hearing shall be given as provided in ORS 341.357. The proposed change shall take effect 21 days after the final adjournment of the public hearing unless a remonstrance is filed under subsection (2) of this section. (2) If a remonstrance to the proposed name change is filed with the district board within 20 days after the final adjournment of the public hearing under subsection (1) of this section, the district board must submit the question of the proposed name change to the electors of the district unless the board rescinds its resolution. The remonstrance must be signed by at least five percent or at least 50, whichever is less, of the electors of the district. The proposed name change shall be submitted to the electors at the regular school election next following adoption of the resolution. (3) If the majority of votes cast at the election favor the change, it shall take effect upon the canvass and return of the vote. If the majority of votes cast oppose the change, it shall not take effect. [1971 c.513 §94; 1991 c.397 §3; 2013 c.747 §179]
OR Rev Stat § 341.430 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 09 - Education and Culture|Chapter 341 - Community Colleges|Section 341.430

[2011 c.465 §1; 2012 c.104 §11; 2013 c.1 §35; 2013 c.214 §1; 2015 c.132 §1; renumbered 350.395 in 2017]