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OR Rev Stat § 554.020 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 554 - Corporations for Irrigation, Drainage, Water Supply or Flood Control|Section 554.020 - Articles of incorporation; filing.

(1) One or more natural persons of the age of 18 or more, a domestic or foreign corporation, a partnership or an association, by submitting articles of incorporation to the Office of the Secretary of State for filing, may act as incorporators of a corporation for one or more of the following purposes: (a) Irrigating or draining land. (b) Furnishing land with water for domestic use. (c) Protecting land by flood control. (d) Taking ownership of and operating existing sanitary sewer facilities when water for domestic use is supplied pursuant to paragraph (b) of this subsection. (2) The incorporators shall file a true copy of the articles of incorporation in the county clerk’s office of the county where the land incorporated is situated. (3) The requirements for filing a document under ORS 554.005 apply to articles of incorporation. [Amended by 1971 c.200 §8; 1987 c.94 §145; 1987 c.579 §1; 2013 c.284 §1]
OR Rev Stat § 554.030 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 554 - Corporations for Irrigation, Drainage, Water Supply or Flood Control|Section 554.030 - Evidence of corporate existence.

The articles of incorporation or a certified copy of the one filed with the Secretary of State or county clerk shall be prima facie evidence of the existence of the corporation.
OR Rev Stat § 554.040 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 554 - Corporations for Irrigation, Drainage, Water Supply or Flood Control|Section 554.040 - Contents of articles.

The articles of incorporation shall specify: (1) The duration of the corporation, if limited. (2) The name assumed by the corporation and by which it shall be known, which name must include the words "district improvement company," except that: (a) A corporation organized under ORS 554.005 to 554.340 but not organized for profit, or a corporation incorporated before March 4, 1937, under chapter 172, Oregon Laws 1911, which amends its articles to state that the corporation shall not operate for profit, may omit the word "company" from the name and adopt a name using the words "improvement district" combined with other appropriate words to designate the name of such district; and (b) A district converted to a corporation under ORS 554.380 shall replace the word "district" with the words "improvement company." (3) The particular land to be improved by the works of the corporation, describing the land by legal subdivisions so far as possible and otherwise by tracts or lots of duly platted land or by metes and bounds, with the acreage thereof and the names of the respective owners as shown by the records of the county, and the total number of acres. (4) In general but clear language, the purpose and intent of the corporation, and describe in general language the proposed plan of improvement whether for one or more of the purposes named in ORS 554.020. (5) The number of directors and the names of those first holding such office, and the mode and times of the election of their successors in office. (6) The location of the principal office of the corporation for the transaction of business, which must be in a county where at least a portion of the land to be improved is situated, and the mailing address, if different. (7) Whether or not such corporation is organized for profit to the corporation or to its members. (8) The initial registered agent and the address, including any street and number, of the registered office of the corporation. (9) The name and address of each incorporator. (10) The method of allocating votes to the membership, which may be based on: (a) One vote for each acre of land owned; or (b) One vote for each parcel as defined in the bylaws of the corporation, regardless of the number of acres owned. [Amended by 1983 c.717 §31; 1987 c.94 §146; 1995 c.233 §1; 2013 c.284 §6]
OR Rev Stat § 554.060 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 554 - Corporations for Irrigation, Drainage, Water Supply or Flood Control|Section 554.060 - Challenge to validity of organization; effect of defects or omissions.

(1) No action, suit or proceeding shall be maintained for the purpose of questioning the sufficiency or correctness of any statement within the articles of incorporation when the provisions of ORS 554.005 to 554.340 with respect thereto have been substantially complied with. (2) No error in the description of any tract or parcel of land included in such district or in naming the owner thereof shall affect the incorporation or relieve the land from the same unless the owner has been materially prejudiced, misled or injured thereby, and has instituted proceedings because of same within three months after actual notice in any manner brought to the owner. Notwithstanding any error, defect or omission in the articles of incorporation in such case, the corporation is hereby declared to be a legally organized corporation as to all such owners. [Amended by 1987 c.94 §147; 2013 c.284 §7]
OR Rev Stat § 554.070 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 554 - Corporations for Irrigation, Drainage, Water Supply or Flood Control|Section 554.070 - Membership; meetings; voting; proxies; voting trusts; quorum; removal of officers.

(1) Every owner of land described in the articles of incorporation is a member of the corporation, and membership is lost or gained through a sale or purchase of any of said land, as the case may be, by which the legal title is transferred. In case of sale or purchase under contract without transfer of legal title, the parties may agree with respect to voting such land as provided in the bylaws, and unless so agreed and determined pursuant thereto the holder of the legal title shall be entitled to vote. Corporate owners may by resolution of their board of directors appoint and designate a proxy as provided by the bylaws. (2) At all meetings of the members of the corporation each member who attends in person, or by proxy appointed in writing, shall be entitled to vote as provided in the articles of incorporation. In the absence of a provision in the articles of incorporation, each member shall be entitled to vote the amount of acreage of the land owned by the member on the basis of one vote for each acre of land. Nothing in the laws of Oregon shall be construed to prevent any owners of land, or members of the corporation, from joining in a voting trust or from giving a proxy or power of attorney to vote such membership for a term of years or until the happening or performance of a named contingency or condition. Except as provided in subsection (4) of this section or ORS 554.560, members representing a majority of the votes entitled to be cast shall be necessary to constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at all landowners’ meetings, and a majority vote shall govern in all cases except as otherwise specially provided by law. (3) At any meeting of the members of the corporation any officer may be removed and another elected in the place of the officer. There must be at least one regular meeting of the members in each year, to be fixed by the bylaws, and there shall be such other meetings as may be called under the provisions of the bylaws. (4) When members representing a majority of the votes entitled to be cast or their appointed proxies do not attend the regular annual meeting of the members of the corporation or any other meeting called under the bylaws, the directors of the corporation may call another meeting of the members on a date that is not later than 60 days after the date of the meeting at which a quorum was not obtained. At such subsequent meeting, members representing 25 percent or more of the votes entitled to be cast shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. [Amended by 1985 c.466 §1; 1995 c.233 §2]
OR Rev Stat § 554.080 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 554 - Corporations for Irrigation, Drainage, Water Supply or Flood Control|Section 554.080 - Corporate existence; powers of corporation.

When the articles of incorporation are filed by the Secretary of State, the corporation is deemed to be established and has the power: (1) To sue and be sued. (2) To contract and be contracted with. (3) To have, use and alter a corporate seal. (4) To purchase, condemn by the power of eminent domain, possess and dispose of real and personal property as necessary and convenient to carry out the purposes of the corporation, and to take, hold, possess and dispose of all real and personal property donated to the corporation to carry out the purposes of the corporation. (5) To appoint subordinate officers, employees and agents as the corporation requires, and prescribe their duties and compensation. (6) To make, establish or amend bylaws, rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the laws of the state, the articles of incorporation, or the covenants and provisions of the landowners’ notice provided in ORS 554.170 to 554.190, if any is filed, prescribing the manner and mode of conducting the business of the corporation, distributing and using water in domestic use, irrigating land, using any drainage or flood control works, collecting and treating sewage and enforcing the collection of rates, tolls, charges, fees, fines and assessments. Bylaws, rules and regulations must be ratified by two-thirds of the votes of the members of the corporation. (7) To prescribe, fix, make and charge and collect from the water users or those who receive the benefits of the corporation, rates, tolls, fees, fines and charges for maintenance and operation of the corporation, use of water or for the works of the corporation, or for violation of any of the bylaws, rules and regulations of the corporation. The rates, tolls, fines, fees and charges shall be a lien on the crops produced as prescribed in ORS 545.275, and may be a lien upon the land to which the water was furnished, or benefit was provided, as prescribed in ORS 554.135. (8) To make, levy and collect assessments either ratably or in proportion to the benefits received as provided by the bylaws or recorded landowners’ notice, upon the lands described in the articles of incorporation to fund the corporation for any purpose, including maintenance and operation, estimated delinquencies on assessments, principal and interest of maturing indebtedness, and reserve necessary or provided by the bylaws, subject to the limitations, restrictions and provisions of the recorded landowners’ notice. [Amended by 1987 c.94 §148; 1991 c.459 §432d; 2013 c.284 §2]
OR Rev Stat § 554.082 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 554 - Corporations for Irrigation, Drainage, Water Supply or Flood Control|Section 554.082 - Registered office and registered agent.

(1) A corporation shall continuously maintain in this state a registered agent and registered office that may be, but need not be, the same as any of the corporation’s places of business. The registered office must be located at a physical street address where process may be personally served on the registered agent. The registered office may not be a commercial mail receiving agency, a mail forwarding business or a virtual office. (2) A registered agent must be: (a) An individual who resides in this state and whose business office is identical to the registered office; (b) A domestic corporation or domestic nonprofit corporation, the business office of which is identical to the registered office; or (c) A foreign corporation or foreign nonprofit corporation that is authorized to transact business in this state, the business office of which is identical to the registered office. [1993 c.190 §19; 2001 c.315 §56; 2013 c.158 §37; 2017 c.705 §33]
OR Rev Stat § 554.084 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 554 - Corporations for Irrigation, Drainage, Water Supply or Flood Control|Section 554.084 - Change of registered office or registered agent.

(1) A corporation may change its registered office or registered agent by delivering to the Office of the Secretary of State for filing a statement of change that sets forth: (a) The name of the corporation; (b) If the registered office is to be changed, the address including street and number of the new registered office; (c) If the registered agent is to be changed, the name of the new registered agent and that the new agent has consented to the appointment; and (d) That after the change or changes are made, the street addresses of its registered office and the business office of its registered agent will be identical. (2) If a registered agent changes the street address of the agent’s business office, the registered agent shall change the street address of the registered office of the corporation for which the agent is the registered agent by notifying the corporation in writing of the change and signing, either manually or in facsimile, and delivering to the Office of the Secretary of State a statement that complies with the requirements of subsection (1) of this section and recites that the corporation has been notified of the change. (3) The filing of the statement by the Secretary of State shall terminate the existing registered office or agent, or both, on the effective date of the filing and establish the newly appointed registered office or agent, or both, as that of the corporation. [1993 c.190 §20]
OR Rev Stat § 554.086 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 554 - Corporations for Irrigation, Drainage, Water Supply or Flood Control|Section 554.086 - Resignation of registered agent.

(1) A registered agent may resign as agent upon delivering a signed statement to the Office of the Secretary of State and giving notice in the form of a copy of the statement to the corporation. The statement may include a statement that the registered office is also discontinued. (2) Upon delivery of the signed statement, the Secretary of State shall file the resignation statement. The copy of the statement given to the corporation under subsection (1) of this section shall be addressed to the corporation at the corporation’s mailing address or the corporation’s principal office as shown by the records of the Office of the Secretary of State. For purposes of this subsection, written notice is effective at the earliest of the following: (a) When received; (b) Five days after its deposit in the United States mail, as evidenced by the postmark, if mailed postpaid and correctly addressed; or (c) On the date shown on the return receipt, if sent by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested and the receipt is signed by or on behalf of the addressee. (3) The agency appointment is terminated and the registered office discontinued, if so provided, on the 31st day after the date on which the statement was filed by the Secretary of State, unless the corporation shall sooner appoint a successor registered agent as provided in ORS 554.082, thereby terminating the capacity of such agent. [1993 c.190 §21]
OR Rev Stat § 554.088 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 554 - Corporations for Irrigation, Drainage, Water Supply or Flood Control|Section 554.088 - Service on corporation.

(1) The registered agent appointed by a corporation shall be an agent of the corporation upon whom any process, notice or demand required or permitted by law to be served upon the corporation may be served. (2) The Secretary of State shall be an agent of a corporation including a dissolved corporation upon whom any such process, notice or demand may be served whenever the corporation fails to appoint or maintain a registered agent in this state or whenever the corporation’s registered agent cannot with reasonable diligence be found at the registered office. (3) Service shall be made on the Secretary of State by: (a) Serving the Secretary of State or a clerk on duty at the office a copy of the process, notice or demand, with any papers required by law to be delivered in connection with the service, and the required fee for each party being served or by mailing to the office a copy of the process, notice or demand and the required fee for each party being served by certified or registered mail; (b) Transmittal by the person instituting the proceedings of notice of the service on the Secretary of State and copy of the process, notice or demand and accompanying papers to the corporation being served by certified or registered mail: (A) At the last registered office of the corporation as shown by the records on file in the Office of the Secretary of State; and (B) At such address the use of which the person initiating the proceedings knows or, on the basis of reasonable inquiry, has reason to believe is most likely to result in actual notice; and (c) Filing with the appropriate court or other body, as part of the return of service, the return receipt of mailing and an affidavit of the person initiating the proceedings stating that this section has been complied with. (4) The Secretary of State shall keep a record of all processes, notices and demands served upon the Secretary of State under this section. (5) After completion of initial service upon the Secretary of State, no additional documents need be served upon the Secretary of State to maintain jurisdiction in the same proceeding or to give notice of any motion or provisional process. (6) Nothing contained in this section shall limit or affect the right to serve any process, notice or demand required or permitted by law to be served upon a corporation in any other manner now or hereafter permitted by law, or enlarge the purposes for which service on the Secretary of State is permitted where such purposes are limited by other provisions of law. [1993 c.190 §22]
OR Rev Stat § 554.090 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 554 - Corporations for Irrigation, Drainage, Water Supply or Flood Control|Section 554.090 - Directors; qualifications; president; seal; secretary-treasurer; exercise of corporate powers; indemnification.

(1) No person is eligible to the office of director unless the person is a member of the corporation. The directors named in the articles of incorporation and thereafter when elected by the members shall promptly qualify and thereupon meet and organize and elect one of their number president who shall preside at their meetings and at the meetings of the members. The board shall adopt a seal with a suitable design. (2) The board shall elect a secretary who shall keep a fair and correct record of all its proceedings and the official business of the corporation, which shall be open to the inspection of all members as well as to all other interested persons. The secretary may or may not be a member of the board and shall hold the office of treasurer of the corporation and shall receive and receipt for all moneys received. (3) From the first meeting of the directors, the powers vested in the corporation shall be exercised by them or by their officers or agents under their direction except as otherwise specially provided by law. (4) Subject to ORS 554.150, the directors and officers of any corporation incorporated under this chapter shall be entitled to indemnification in the same manner as allowed under ORS 65.387 to 65.414. [Amended by 1969 c.345 §17; 1995 c.233 §3]
OR Rev Stat § 554.100 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 554 - Corporations for Irrigation, Drainage, Water Supply or Flood Control|Section 554.100 - Oath of office.

Each director shall, before entering upon official duties, take and subscribe to an oath before some officer authorized by law to administer oaths, that the director will honestly, faithfully and impartially perform the duties devolving upon the director in office as director, and that the director will not neglect any of the duties imposed upon the director by law.
OR Rev Stat § 554.110 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 554 - Corporations for Irrigation, Drainage, Water Supply or Flood Control|Section 554.110 - Powers of directors.

The board of directors shall have full power and authority to: (1) Build, construct and complete any works and improvements needed to carry out the plan of improvement of the lands described in the articles of incorporation. (2) In the name of the corporation, make all necessary water filings and appropriations of water for every purpose of the articles of incorporation. (3) Operate and maintain such works as are necessary, convenient or beneficial for said purposes. (4) Hire employees as may be required, and purchase machinery, equipment and supplies. (5) Generally contract with reference to any of said matters as the board may determine for the purposes and within the scope of the powers granted in ORS 554.005 to 554.340 for improving the land. [Amended by 1995 c.79 §307]
OR Rev Stat § 554.120 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 554 - Corporations for Irrigation, Drainage, Water Supply or Flood Control|Section 554.120 - Records of proceedings of directors; lien docket; deposit of moneys; segregation of funds; accounting; warrant and bond register.

(1) The board of directors shall cause to be kept a well-bound book entitled "Records of Proceedings of Board of Directors," in which shall be recorded minutes of all meetings, proceedings, certificates, bonds, and any and all corporate acts, which records shall be at all times open to the inspection of anyone interested, whether members or creditors. (2) A lien docket shall also be provided, in which, as to every tract of each owner, all assessments or liens shall be charged and all payments shall be credited, and in which interest on any assessments in arrears shall be charged at time of payment of any installment, to the end that such record shall show the true condition of all liens and the amount thereof. (3) Except as otherwise provided by ORS 554.160 (2), all money of the corporation shall be deposited with a convenient insured institution or trust company, as those terms are defined in ORS 706.008, in the name of the corporation, and all funds provided to be segregated and held separate shall be so kept, and an accounting of each of such funds upon the books of the corporation shall be correctly kept. (4) A warrant register shall be provided in which shall be separately kept a record of all warrants issued, the number, date and amount thereof with the name of payee, and the date paid, showing principal and interest separately. The corporation shall keep a register of all bonds with a description thereof, the date thereof and when issued, and generally such a record as shall show all outstanding bonds separately of the several issues and kinds of payments. [Amended by 1969 c.694 §46; 1997 c.631 §492; 2001 c.215 §29]