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OR Rev Stat § 266.450 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance|Chapter 266 - Park and Recreation Districts|Section 266.450 - Regulations and orders adopted by board; penalty for violating regulation.

(1) Any general regulation of the district board shall be adopted in accordance with ORS 198.510 to 198.600. (2) Orders not establishing a general regulation need not be published or posted, unless otherwise provided by this chapter, but shall be entered in the minutes, and the entry shall be signed by the secretary of the board. An ordinary order shall take effect upon the entry in the minutes. (3) Violation of a regulation enacted under ORS 266.410 (7) is a misdemeanor punishable upon conviction by a fine not to exceed $100 or imprisonment not to exceed five days, or both. [Amended by 1969 c.668 §19; 1971 c.268 §13]
OR Rev Stat § 266.460 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance|Chapter 266 - Park and Recreation Districts|Section 266.460 - District attorney to aid board; special counsel.

The district board may call upon the district attorney for advice as to any district business. The district attorney shall give advice when called on therefor by the board. The board may at any time employ special counsel for any purpose. [Amended by 1969 c.668 §20; 1971 c.268 §14]
OR Rev Stat § 266.480 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance|Chapter 266 - Park and Recreation Districts|Section 266.480 - Power to contract bonded indebtedness for certain purposes.

A district has the power to contract a bonded indebtedness for the purpose of providing funds: (1) To acquire land, rights of way, interests in land, buildings and equipment. (2) To improve land and develop parks and recreation grounds. (3) To construct, reconstruct, improve, repair and furnish buildings, gymnasiums, swimming pools, golf courses, driving ranges, boat marinas and recreational facilities of every kind. (4) To acquire equipment of all types, including vehicular equipment necessary for and in the use, development and improvement of the lands and facilities of the district. (5) To pay the costs, expenses and attorney fees incurred in the issue and sale of the bonds. (6) To fund or refund outstanding indebtedness, or for any one or combination of any such purposes. [Amended by 1969 c.668 §22]
OR Rev Stat § 266.490 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance|Chapter 266 - Park and Recreation Districts|Section 266.490 - Bond election at discretion of board or on petition.

(1) For the purpose of providing funds with which to put into effect one or any combination of any of the purposes authorized under ORS 266.480, the district board, when authorized by a majority of those voting at an election called for that purpose, may borrow money and sell and dispose of general obligation bonds. (2) The district board: (a) May order an election under this section on its own resolution; or (b) Shall order an election under this section when a petition is filed as provided in this section. (3) A petition shall specify a dollar amount for carrying out any one or more of the purposes authorized by ORS 266.480. 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. [Amended by 1967 c.609 §4; 1969 c.668 §23; 1975 c.627 §3; 1979 c.190 §410; 1983 c.350 §123]
OR Rev Stat § 266.512 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance|Chapter 266 - Park and Recreation Districts|Section 266.512 - Authority for general obligation bonds; issuance and sale of general obligation bonds and revenue bonds.

(1) Whenever authorized by the electors, the district board may issue general obligation bonds of the district, not exceeding the principal amount stated in the notice of election and for the purpose therein named. (2) The aggregate amount of general obligation bonds issued and outstanding at any one time shall in no case exceed two and one-half percent of the real market value of all taxable property of the district, computed in accordance with ORS 308.207. (3) General obligation or revenue bonds must recite that they are issued under this chapter. All bonds shall be signed by the president of the district board and attested by the secretary. The interest coupons thereto annexed shall be signed by the president and secretary, by their original or engraved facsimile signatures. (4) All general obligation and revenue bonds issued, including refunding bonds, shall be issued as prescribed in ORS chapter 287A. [1969 c.668 §26 (enacted in lieu of 266.510 and 266.520); 1981 c.94 §15; 1991 c.459 §363; 2007 c.783 §83]
OR Rev Stat § 266.514 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance|Chapter 266 - Park and Recreation Districts|Section 266.514 - Revenue bonds; issuance; conditions.

In addition to the authority to issue general obligation bonds, a district, when authorized by a majority of those voting at an election called for that purpose, may sell and dispose of revenue bonds, and pledge as security therefor all or any part of the unobligated net revenue of the district or a recreational facility of the district, to purchase, acquire, construct, reconstruct or improve a facility, or to perform any of those acts in combination, for any authorized purpose. Revenue bonds shall be issued in the same manner and form as are general obligation bonds of the district, but they shall be payable, both as to principal and interest, from revenues only. Revenue bonds shall not be subject to the limitation provided by ORS 266.512 applicable to general obligation bonds and shall not be a lien upon any of the taxable property within the limits of the district. Revenue bonds shall be payable solely from such part of the revenue of the district as remains after payment of obligations having a priority and of all expenses of operation and maintenance of the district, including any taxes levied against it. All revenue bonds shall contain a clause reciting that both the principal and interest are payable solely from operating revenues of the district remaining after paying such obligations and expenses. [1969 c.668 §26a]
OR Rev Stat § 266.516 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance|Chapter 266 - Park and Recreation Districts|Section 266.516 - Refunding bonds.

Refunding bonds of the same character and tenor as those replaced thereby may be issued pursuant to a resolution duly adopted by the district board without submitting to the electors the question of authorizing the issuance of such bonds. [1969 c.668 §26b]
OR Rev Stat § 266.518 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance|Chapter 266 - Park and Recreation Districts|Section 266.518 - Contracting with United States for facilities.

(1) In carrying out the powers conferred by this chapter, a district may contract with the United States or any agency thereof for the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, maintenance and operation, or any of them, of park and recreation facilities. (2) Contract provisions for repayment of any loan from the United States, and the bonds securing the payment of the same, if any are issued, may be of such denomination, for such term not exceeding 50 years and may call for the payment of such interest not exceeding seven percent per annum, may provide for such installments and for repayment of the principal at such times, as may be required by the federal laws and as may be agreed upon between the district board and the United States agency. [1969 c.668 §26c; 1973 c.86 §1]
OR Rev Stat § 266.530 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance|Chapter 266 - Park and Recreation Districts|Section 266.530 - Registration and delivery of bonds; disposition of proceeds.

(1) The county treasurer shall register each bond issued pursuant to ORS 266.480 in a book kept for that purpose in the office of the county treasurer, noting the district, amount, date, time and place of payment, rate of interest and such other facts as may be deemed proper. (2) The county treasurer shall cause the bonds to be delivered promptly to the purchasers upon payment therefor, and shall hold the proceeds of the sale of the bonds subject to the order of the district board to be used solely for the purpose for which the bonds were issued. (3) When the bonds have been so executed, registered and delivered, their legality shall not be open to contest by the district or by any person or corporation for or on its behalf, for any reason whatever. [Amended by 1969 c.668 §27]
OR Rev Stat § 266.540 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance|Chapter 266 - Park and Recreation Districts|Section 266.540 - Additional taxes for payment of bond interest and principal; bond sinking fund.

(1) The district board shall ascertain and levy annually, in addition to all other taxes, a direct annual ad valorem tax on all taxable property in the district, which tax shall be outside of and in addition to the annual levy limitation contained in ORS 266.420, and which tax shall be for an amount sufficient: (a) To pay the interest accruing on the bonds promptly as it becomes due. (b) To raise a percentum of the principal of the bonds as will, in equal annual installments, be sufficient to retire all the bonds as they mature. (2) The funds derived from such tax levies shall be retained by the county treasurer, and kept by the county treasurer in a separate fund to be known as and designated "______ Park and Recreation District bond interest and sinking fund." The fund shall be irrevocably pledged to and used solely for the payment of the interest accruing on and the principal of the bonds when due, so long as any of the bonds or the coupons thereto appertaining remain outstanding and unpaid. The interest earnings of the fund shall be credited thereto and become a part thereof. [Amended by 1969 c.668 §28]
OR Rev Stat § 266.550 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance|Chapter 266 - Park and Recreation Districts|Section 266.550 - Procedure in event board fails to levy bond tax.

If the district board fails or refuses to levy the tax necessary for the interest, principal or sinking fund, the county treasurer shall ascertain and certify the amount necessary to the county board. The county board shall then levy a tax sufficient to raise the sum so required and ascertained by the county treasurer. The proper county officer having power to extend county taxes shall extend such tax upon the tax roll of the county upon the taxable property of the district. The proper county officer whose duty it is to collect taxes shall collect such tax according to law, and shall pay the funds so collected into the county treasury to the credit of the bond interest and sinking fund of the district to be used in the payment of the bonds and interest. [Amended by 1969 c.668 §29]
OR Rev Stat § 266.560 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance|Chapter 266 - Park and Recreation Districts|Section 266.560 - Redemption of bonds; notice.

(1) Whenever the amount of any sinking fund created under ORS 266.480 and 266.540 equals the amount, principal and interest, of any bond then due or subject under the pleasure or option of the district to be paid or redeemed, the county treasurer of the county in which the district is located shall notify the holder of the bond and shall publish a notice in the newspaper published nearest to the district. (2) The county treasurer shall, within 30 days from the date of the notice, redeem and pay any bond then redeemable and payable, giving priority according to the date of issuance numerically, upon presentation of the bond at the place of payment specified therein. (3) In case any holder of such bonds fails to present them at the time mentioned in the notice the interest thereon shall cease, and the county treasurer shall thereafter pay only the amount of the bond and the interest accrued thereon up to the last day of the time of redemption mentioned in the notice. (4) When any bonds are so redeemed or paid, the county treasurer shall cause them to be canceled and write across the face thereof "redeemed" and the date of redemption, and shall deliver them to the district board, taking its receipt therefor. [Amended by 1969 c.668 §30]
OR Rev Stat § 266.580 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance|Chapter 266 - Park and Recreation Districts|Section 266.580 - Payment of bond principal and interest; payment of collection commission.

(1) The principal of and the interest on the bonds shall be payable in lawful money of the United States of America at the office of the treasurer of the county or at the fiscal agency of the State of Oregon in the city of New York, at the option of the purchaser thereof. (2) The county treasurer must cause to be paid out of any money in the hands of the county treasurer belonging to the district the interest on or principal of any bond issued pursuant to ORS 266.480 promptly when and as the same becomes due at the place of payment designated in the coupons or bonds. (3) All coupons or bonds so paid must be immediately reported to the district board. (4) No county treasurer or district board shall pay to the purchaser of any bond issued pursuant to ORS 266.480 or to any agency representing such purchaser, any commission whatsoever for collection of the interest on or principal of any bond so issued. (5) The county treasurer shall not be required to remit to the purchaser of any bonds or coupons the amount necessary to redeem such bonds or coupons until the day they are due. [Amended by 1969 c.668 §31]
OR Rev Stat § 266.590 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance|Chapter 266 - Park and Recreation Districts|Section 266.590 - Validation of certain bond issues.

All proceedings taken prior to March 18, 1949, in the authorization and issuance of bonds by any district pursuant to ORS 266.480 to 266.512 and 266.530 to 266.580 hereby are validated, ratified, confirmed and approved, notwithstanding any defects and irregularities in the proceedings or any part thereof, and notwithstanding that the amount of the bonded indebtedness to be incurred was not stated upon the ballot used in the election authorizing the issuance of the bonds. [Amended by 1969 c.668 §32]
OR Rev Stat § 267.001 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance|Chapter 267 - Mass Transit Districts; Transportation Districts|Section 267.001 - Authority of certain mass transit and transportation districts to impose vehicle registration fees.

Subject to ORS 801.040, 801.042, 801.237 and 803.445, for the purpose of exercising any power the district, as defined in ORS 801.237, is authorized to exercise, the district may impose registration fees on vehicles under ORS 803.445. [1989 c.864 §11; 2009 c.865 §40b]
OR Rev Stat § 267.010 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance|Chapter 267 - Mass Transit Districts; Transportation Districts|Section 267.010 - Definitions for ORS 267.010 to 267.394.

As used in ORS 267.010 to 267.394, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) "District" means a mass transit district established under ORS 267.010 to 267.394. (2) "District board" or "board" means the board of directors of a district. (3) "Mass transit system" or "transit system" means the property, equipment and improvements of whatever nature owned, used, constructed, maintained, controlled or operated to provide mass transportation for passengers or to provide for the movement of people, including park-and-ride stations, transfer stations, parking lots, malls and skyways, provided that nothing contained herein shall limit the power of a city to exercise its general powers over or provide such stations, lots, malls or skyways. (4) "Metropolitan statistical area" means an area designated by the United States Office of Management and Budget as a metropolitan statistical area. [1969 c.643 §1; 1973 c.116 §1; 2009 c.11 §26]
OR Rev Stat § 267.020 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance|Chapter 267 - Mass Transit Districts; Transportation Districts|Section 267.020 - Transfer of transit system to metropolitan service district; effect of transfer order.

When a metropolitan service district organized under ORS chapter 268 functions in a mass transit district organized under ORS 267.010 to 267.394, the governing body of the metropolitan district may at any time order transfer of the transit system of the transit district to the metropolitan district, whereupon: (1) The governing body of the transit district shall transfer title to, and possession of, the transit system and of all books, records, files, documents, and other property of the transit district to the metropolitan district. (2) The metropolitan district shall be responsible for all the liabilities and obligations imposed upon or assumed by the transit district. (3) For purposes of mass transit the metropolitan district shall have all the rights, powers, privileges and immunities, and be subject to all the duties and obligations, of a mass transit district under ORS 267.010 to 267.394, insofar as they are consistent with ORS chapter 268. (4) The boundaries of the metropolitan district shall, for purposes of mass transit, be extended to encompass all the territory of the transit district. (5) The transit district shall be dissolved and the offices of its directors terminated. [1969 c.643 §40; 1997 c.833 §26]
OR Rev Stat § 267.030 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance|Chapter 267 - Mass Transit Districts; Transportation Districts|Section 267.030 - Use of alternative fuels for certain district vehicles; exceptions; annual report; application to all district vehicles.

(1) To the maximum extent possible, motor vehicles subject to the control of a district shall use alternative fuel for operation. (2) To the extent that it is economically and technologically possible, all motor vehicles purchased or leased by the board of the district shall be capable of using alternative fuel. However, this subsection does not apply if the vehicle will be primarily used in an area that does not have and cannot reasonably be expected to establish an alternative fuel refueling station or if the district is unable to secure financing sufficient to cover additional costs resulting from the requirement of this subsection. (3) Prior to July 1 of each year, the board of the district shall submit an annual report to the Department of Environmental Quality and the State Department of Energy. The report shall contain at a minimum: (a) The number of purchases and leases of vehicles capable of using alternative fuel; (b) The number of conversions of vehicles from the use of gasoline or diesel fuel to the use of alternative fuel; (c) The quantity of each type of alternative fuel used; and (d) Any other information required by the Department of Environmental Quality and the State Department of Energy to carry out their functions under subsection (4) of this section. (4) If the Department of Environmental Quality and State Department of Energy determine that the use of alternative fuel required by this section has been effective in reducing total annual motor vehicle emissions in the district, the motor vehicles subject to the control of the board of the district shall be capable of using alternative fuel, to the maximum extent possible. (5) The board of the district shall comply with all safety standards established by the United States Department of Transportation in the conversion, operation and maintenance of vehicles using alternative fuel. (6) As used in this section, "alternative fuel" means any fuel determined by the Department of Environmental Quality to be less polluting than conventional gasoline, including but not necessarily limited to reformulated gasoline, low sulfur diesel fuel, natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, methanol, ethanol, any fuel mixture containing at least 85 percent methanol or ethanol and electricity. [1991 c.730 §2; 2003 c.186 §12]
OR Rev Stat § 267.080 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance|Chapter 267 - Mass Transit Districts; Transportation Districts|Section 267.080 - Creation of district; district jurisdiction.

As provided by ORS 267.010 to 267.394, a mass transit district may be created in any metropolitan statistical area for the purpose of providing a mass transit system for the people of the district. Except as otherwise provided in ORS 267.107 (2)(c), the territorial jurisdiction of the district may include all territory within the geographic boundaries of every Oregon county in that metropolitan statistical area. [Formerly 267.100; 2009 c.11 §27]
OR Rev Stat § 267.085 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance|Chapter 267 - Mass Transit Districts; Transportation Districts|Section 267.085 - Resolution to form district; content; filing.

(1) In addition to and not in lieu of other actions authorized for the initiation of proceedings to form a mass transit district, the governing body of the most populous city in a metropolitan statistical area may by resolution propose formation of a mass transit district, if that city has a local transit system and if the governing body finds that area-wide mass transit needs cannot be met by local transit operation. The resolution of the governing body shall be addressed to and filed with the county board of the principal county and proceedings conducted as provided by ORS 198.705 to 198.955. (2) A certified copy of the order forming a mass transit district shall be filed with the Governor. [Formerly 267.105; 2009 c.11 §28]