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OR Rev Stat § 223.005 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections|Chapter 223 - Local Improvements and Works Generally|Section 223.005 - Appropriation and condemnation for public use within and without city limits.

Any incorporated city may: (1) Appropriate any private real property, water, watercourse and riparian rights to any public or municipal use or for the general benefit and use of the people of the city, including but not limited to appropriation for an aviation field, park, city hall, city buildings, jail, or to protect the city from overflow by freshets. (2) Appropriate any real property, water, watercourse and water and riparian rights, including power sites, to any public or municipal use or for the general benefit and use of the people within or without the city, and to build dams, reservoirs and conduits for the purpose of storing and using water to aid in developing the necessary power to generate electricity for the use and benefit of the people within or without the city. (3) Condemn for its use private property for the purpose of erecting and maintaining electric lines thereon for the purpose of generating and conveying power to light and heat the city, and to be used and sold by the city for manufacturing, transportation, domestic and other purposes, either within or without the corporate limits of the city, and for the purpose of constructing electrical systems for municipal uses. [Amended by 1971 c.134 §1]
OR Rev Stat § 223.010 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections|Chapter 223 - Local Improvements and Works Generally|Section 223.010 - Right of city to enter upon, survey, examine and select property to be appropriated or condemned.

For the purposes of ORS 223.005, a city may enter upon, survey and examine property in the manner provided by ORS 35.220 and may select any such property or rights for the purpose of constructing any ditch, drain, dam, dike, canal, flume, sewer, reservoir, septic tank, filter bed, sewer form or purifying plant or laying or constructing and maintaining any pipe, sewer, drain, aqueduct, dam, dike, canal, flume, reservoir, septic tank, filter bed, sewer form or purifying plant or other plant, building or electric lines or system for municipal uses, including but not limited to, aviation fields, parks, city hall, city buildings, jails, docks, piers, slips, shore and terminal structures. [Amended by 1971 c.134 §2; 2003 c.477 §4]
OR Rev Stat § 223.015 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections|Chapter 223 - Local Improvements and Works Generally|Section 223.015 - Manner of appropriation or condemnation; compensation.

After selection of such rights and property under ORS 223.010 in such manner as the council provides, the city seeking to make the appropriation may proceed in the manner prescribed by the statutes for the appropriation of land for corporate purposes, and not otherwise, unless otherwise provided by law, to have such property appropriated and the compensation therefor determined and paid. However, the compensation for such condemnation by a city shall be paid by a deposit in the court of an order drawn upon the city treasurer for the amount of compensation.
OR Rev Stat § 223.020 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections|Chapter 223 - Local Improvements and Works Generally|Section 223.020 - Scope of appropriation.

Appropriation of property under ORS 223.005 may extend beyond the corporate limits of the city to or along and including any lake, spring, stream or power site.
OR Rev Stat § 223.105 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections|Chapter 223 - Local Improvements and Works Generally|Section 223.105 - Proceedings to condemn property for city improvements when owner and city disagree on price.

(1) The provisions of this section apply to every city, whether organized under general law or otherwise. (2) Whenever the council of any incorporated city deems it necessary to take or damage private property for the purpose of establishing, laying out, extending or widening streets, or other public highways and places within any city, or for rights of way for drains, sewers or aqueducts, or for widening, straightening or diverting channels of streams and the improvement of waterfronts, and the council cannot agree with the owner of the property as to the price to be paid, the council may direct proceedings to be taken under the general laws of this state to procure the same.
OR Rev Stat § 223.112 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections|Chapter 223 - Local Improvements and Works Generally|Section 223.112 - Definitions for ORS 223.112 to 223.132.

As used in ORS 223.112 to 223.132, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) "Council" means the city council or other controlling body of a city. (2) "Economic improvement" means: (a) The planning or management of development or improvement activities. (b) Landscaping or other maintenance of public areas. (c) Promotion of commercial activity or public events. (d) Activities in support of business recruitment and development. (e) Improvements in parking systems or parking enforcement. (f) Any other economic improvement activity for which an assessment may be made on property specially benefited thereby. [1985 c.576 §1; 1991 c.902 §4]
OR Rev Stat § 223.114 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections|Chapter 223 - Local Improvements and Works Generally|Section 223.114 - Economic improvement; assessment ordinance.

(1) A council may enact an ordinance establishing a procedure to be followed by the city in making assessments for the cost of an economic improvement upon the lots which are specially benefited by all or part of the improvement. (2) In any ordinance adopted under subsection (1) of this section, a city shall not be authorized to: (a) Levy assessments in an economic improvement district in any year that exceed one percent of the real market value of all the real property located within the district. (b) Include within an economic improvement district any area of the city that is not zoned for commercial or industrial use. (c) Levy assessments on residential real property or any portion of a structure used for residential purposes. [1985 c.576 §2; 1989 c.1018 §3; 1991 c.459 §350; 1991 c.902 §5]
OR Rev Stat § 223.117 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections|Chapter 223 - Local Improvements and Works Generally|Section 223.117 - Requirements of assessment ordinance.

(1) An ordinance adopted under ORS 223.114, shall provide for enactment of an assessment ordinance that: (a) Describes the economic improvement project to be undertaken or constructed. (b) Contains a preliminary estimate of the probable cost of the economic improvement and the proposed formula for apportioning cost to specially benefited property. (c) Describes the boundaries of the district in which property will be assessed. (d) Specifies the number of years, to a maximum of five, in which assessments will be levied. (e) Contains provision for notices to be mailed or delivered personally to affected property owners that announce the intention of the council to construct or undertake the economic improvement project and to assess benefited property for a part or all of the cost. The notice shall state the time and place of the public hearing required under paragraph (f) of this subsection. (f) Provides for a hearing not sooner than 30 days after the mailing or delivery of notices to affected property owners at which the owners may appear to support or object to the proposed improvement and assessment. (2) The ordinance shall also: (a) Provide that if, after the hearing held under subsection (1)(f) of this section, the council determines that the economic improvement shall be made, the council shall determine whether the property benefited shall bear all or a portion of the cost and shall determine, based on the actual or estimated cost of the economic improvement, the amount of assessment on each lot in the district. (b) Require the city recorder or other person designated by the council to prepare the proposed assessment for each lot in the district and file it in the appropriate city office. (c) Require notice of such proposed assessment to be mailed or personally delivered to the owner of each lot to be assessed, which notice shall state the amount of the assessment proposed on the property of the owner receiving the notice. The notice shall state the time and place of a public hearing at which affected property owners may appear to support or object to the proposed assessment. The hearing shall not be held sooner than 30 days after the mailing or personal delivery of the notices. (d) Provide that the council shall consider such objections and may adopt, correct, modify or revise the proposed assessments. (e) Provide that the assessments will not be made and the economic improvement project terminated when written objections are received at the public hearing from owners of property upon which more than 33 percent of the total amount of assessments is levied. [1985 c.576 §3; 1989 c.1018 §4]
OR Rev Stat § 223.118 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections|Chapter 223 - Local Improvements and Works Generally|Section 223.118 - Remonstrance against assessment; exclusion of property.

(1) In addition to the requirements listed in ORS 223.117 (2), an assessment ordinance adopted under ORS 223.114 and 223.117 may, at the discretion of the council, provide that: (a) When the council receives written objections at the public hearing only from owners of property upon which less than 33 percent of the total amount of assessments is levied, the economic improvement project may be undertaken or constructed, but that assessments shall not be levied on any lot or parcel of property if the owner of that property submitted written objections at the public hearing. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an owner of property who fails to submit written objections at the public hearing as provided for in the ordinance shall be deemed to have made a specific request for the economic improvement services to be provided during the period of time specified in the assessment ordinance. (b) The council, after excluding from assessment property belonging to such owners, shall determine the amount of assessment on each of the remaining lots or parcels in the district. (c) Notice of such proposed assessment be mailed or personally delivered to the owner of each lot to be assessed, which notice shall state the amount of the assessment proposed on the property of the owner receiving the notice. (2) When assessments are levied against property within an economic improvement district in accordance with an assessment ordinance that contains the provisions described in subsection (1) of this section: (a) Any new owner of benefited property in the district or any owner of benefited property who excluded the property from assessment by submitting written objections to the council may subsequently agree to the assessment of the owner’s property in the district. The council shall apportion the costs to the property for the remaining time in which assessments will be levied. (b) The assessed property may not be relieved from liability for that assessment. (c) If the council considers it necessary to levy assessments upon property in the district for longer than the period of time specified in the assessment ordinance, the council shall enact an ordinance that provides for continued assessments for a specified number of years and grants to property owners in the district the notice and right of remonstrance described in ORS 223.117 (2)(b) to (e) and subsection (1)(a) to (c) of this section. [1991 c.773 §2]
OR Rev Stat § 223.119 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections|Chapter 223 - Local Improvements and Works Generally|Section 223.119 - Advisory committee; functions.

An ordinance adopted under ORS 223.114, may require creation, for each economic improvement district, of an advisory committee to allocate expenditure of moneys for economic improvement activities within the scope of ORS 223.112 to 223.132. If an advisory committee is created, the council shall strongly consider appointment of owners of property within the economic improvement district to the advisory committee. An existing association of property owners or tenants may enter into an agreement with the city to provide the proposed economic improvement. [1985 c.576 §4; 1989 c.1018 §5]
OR Rev Stat § 223.122 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections|Chapter 223 - Local Improvements and Works Generally|Section 223.122 - Effect of local improvement districts or urban renewal districts.

The existence of local improvement districts or urban renewal districts in a city does not affect the creation of economic improvement districts under ORS 223.112 to 223.132. [1985 c.576 §5]
OR Rev Stat § 223.124 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections|Chapter 223 - Local Improvements and Works Generally|Section 223.124 - Extension of assessment period.

When the council considers it necessary to levy assessments upon property in an economic improvement district for longer than the period of time specified in the assessment ordinance that created the district, the council shall enact an ordinance that provides for continued assessments for a specified number of years and grants to property owners in the district the notice and right of remonstrance described in ORS 223.117 (2)(b) to (e). [1985 c.576 §6]
OR Rev Stat § 223.127 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections|Chapter 223 - Local Improvements and Works Generally|Section 223.127 - Application of certain assessment statutes to economic improvement districts.

(1) ORS 223.387 and 223.391 to 223.395 apply to economic improvement districts created by a city in accordance with ORS 223.112 to 223.132. (2) The rights and duties accorded local governments and the owners of property for financing assessments under ORS 223.205 and 223.210 to 223.295 apply to assessments levied upon property in an economic improvement district for financing all or part of the cost of an economic improvement. [1985 c.576 §7; 1991 c.902 §6; 2003 c.802 §3]
OR Rev Stat § 223.129 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections|Chapter 223 - Local Improvements and Works Generally|Section 223.129 - Expenditure of assessment revenues; liability for unauthorized expenditures.

(1) A city council shall not expend any moneys derived from assessments levied under ORS 223.112 to 223.132 for any purpose different from the purpose described in the ordinance adopted under ORS 223.114. (2) Any public official who expends any moneys derived from assessments levied under ORS 223.112 to 223.132 for any purpose different from the purpose described in an ordinance adopted under ORS 223.114 shall be civilly liable for the return of the moneys by suit of the district attorney of the county in which the city is located or by suit of any taxpayer of the city. [1985 c.576 §8]
OR Rev Stat § 223.132 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections|Chapter 223 - Local Improvements and Works Generally|Section 223.132 - Formation of economic improvement districts as additional power of cities.

The authority granted to cities by ORS 223.112 to 223.132, is in addition to any other authority a city may have under state law, its charter or its ordinances to create or finance economic improvement districts. [1989 c.1018 §2]
OR Rev Stat § 223.141 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections|Chapter 223 - Local Improvements and Works Generally|Section 223.141 - Definitions for ORS 223.141 to 223.161.

As used in ORS 223.141 to 223.161, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) "Business license fee" means any fee paid by a person to a city for any form of license that is required by the city in order to conduct business in that city. (2) "Conducting business" means to engage in any business, trade, occupation or profession in pursuit of gain including activities carried on by a person through officers, agents and employees as well as activities carried on by a person on that person’s own behalf. (3) "Council" means the city council or other controlling body of a city. (4) "Economic improvement" means: (a) The planning or management of development or improvement activities. (b) Landscaping or other maintenance of public areas. (c) Promotion of commercial activity or public events. (d) Activities in support of business recruitment and development. (e) Improvements in parking systems or parking enforcement. (f) Any other economic improvement activity for which an assessment may be made on property specially benefited thereby. [1991 c.698 §1]
OR Rev Stat § 223.144 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections|Chapter 223 - Local Improvements and Works Generally|Section 223.144 - Economic improvement district; business license fee ordinance.

(1) A council, on its own motion or after receiving a petition for the formation of an economic improvement district signed by 33 percent or more of persons conducting business within the proposed district, may enact an ordinance establishing a procedure to be followed by the city in imposing a business license fee to raise revenue for the cost of an economic improvement. The business license fee authorized under this subsection may be in the form of a surcharge on an existing business license fee imposed by the city on any business, trade, occupation or profession carried on or practiced in the economic improvement district. (2) In any ordinance adopted under subsection (1) of this section, a city shall not be authorized to: (a) Include within an economic improvement district any area of the city that is not zoned for commercial or industrial use. (b) Impose a business license fee to raise revenue for an economic improvement that does not primarily benefit persons conducting business within the economic improvement district. [1991 c.698 §2]
OR Rev Stat § 223.147 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections|Chapter 223 - Local Improvements and Works Generally|Section 223.147 - Requirements of business license fee ordinance.

(1) An ordinance adopted under ORS 223.144, shall provide for enactment of a business license fee ordinance that: (a) Describes the economic improvement project to be undertaken or constructed. (b) Contains a preliminary estimate of the probable cost of the economic improvement. (c) Describes the boundaries of the district in which property will be assessed. (d) Specifies the number of years, to a maximum of five, in which business license fees for the economic improvement will be imposed. (e) Contains provision for notices to be mailed or delivered personally to affected persons that announce the intention of the council to construct or undertake the economic improvement project and to impose a business license fee upon persons conducting business within the district for a part or all of the cost. The notice shall state the time and place of the public hearing required under paragraph (f) of this subsection. (f) Provides for a hearing not sooner than 30 days after the mailing or delivery of notices to affected persons at which the persons may appear to support or object to the proposed improvement and business license fee. (2) The ordinance shall also: (a) Provide that if, after the hearing held under subsection (1)(f) of this section, the council determines that the economic improvement shall be made, the council shall determine whether the businesses benefited shall bear all or a portion of the cost and shall determine, based on the actual or estimated cost of the economic improvement, the amount of the business license fee. (b) Require notice of such proposed business license fee to be mailed or personally delivered to each person conducting business within the proposed economic improvement district, which notice shall state the amount of the business license fee. The notice shall state the time and place of a public hearing at which affected persons may appear to support or object to the proposed business license fee. The hearing shall not be held sooner than 30 days after the mailing or personal delivery of the notices. (c) Provide that the council shall consider the objections of persons subject to the proposed business license fee and may adopt, correct, modify or revise the proposed business license fee. (d) Provide that the business license fee will not be imposed and the economic improvement project terminated when written objections are received at the public hearing from more than 33 percent of persons conducting business within the economic improvement district who will be subject to the proposed business license fee. [1991 c.698 §3]
OR Rev Stat § 223.151 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections|Chapter 223 - Local Improvements and Works Generally|Section 223.151 - Advisory committee; functions.

An ordinance adopted under ORS 223.144, may require creation, for each economic improvement district, of an advisory committee to develop a plan and to allocate expenditure of moneys for economic improvement activities within the scope of ORS 223.141 to 223.161. If an advisory committee is created, the council shall appoint persons conducting business within the economic improvement district to the advisory committee. An existing association of persons conducting business within an economic improvement district may enter into an agreement with the city to provide the economic improvement. [1991 c.698 §4]
OR Rev Stat § 223.154 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections|Chapter 223 - Local Improvements and Works Generally|Section 223.154 - Extension of business licensing period.

When the council considers it necessary to impose business license fees upon persons conducting business in an economic improvement district for longer than the period of time specified in the ordinance that created the district, the council shall enact an ordinance that provides for continued business license fees for a specified number of years and grants to persons conducting business in the district the notice and right of remonstrance described in ORS 223.147 (2)(b) to (d). [1991 c.698 §5]
OR Rev Stat § 223.157 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections|Chapter 223 - Local Improvements and Works Generally|Section 223.157 - Expenditure of business license fees; liability for unauthorized expenditures.

(1) A city council shall not expend any moneys derived from business license fees levied under ORS 223.141 to 223.161 for any purpose different from the purpose described in the ordinance adopted under ORS 223.144. (2) Any public official who expends any moneys derived from business license fees levied under ORS 223.141 to 223.161 for any purpose different from the purpose described in an ordinance adopted under ORS 223.144 shall be civilly liable for the return of the moneys by suit of the district attorney of the county in which the city is located or by suit of any taxpayer of the city. [1991 c.698 §6]