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OR Rev Stat § 341.619 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 09 - Education and Culture|Chapter 341 - Community Colleges|Section 341.619 - New territory in Blue Mountain and Columbia Gorge Community College Districts not liable for existing debt.

(1) Notwithstanding ORS 341.575, when territory is annexed to the Blue Mountain Community College District, the new territory shall not become liable for any existing debt of the Blue Mountain Community College District that resulted from the bond measure that was approved by the people at the general election held on November 3, 1998. (2) Notwithstanding ORS 341.575, when territory within Hood River County is annexed to the Columbia Gorge Community College District, the new territory shall not become liable for any existing debt of the Columbia Gorge Community College District that resulted from a bond measure that was approved by the people at a general election held prior to January 1, 2001. [1999 c.1027 §2; 2001 c.836 §1]
OR Rev Stat § 341.620 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 09 - Education and Culture|Chapter 341 - Community Colleges|Section 341.620 - Community College Support Fund.

There is established a Community College Support Fund in the General Fund. [Derived from 1991 c.162 §1; 1995 c.67 §27]
OR Rev Stat § 341.626 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 09 - Education and Culture|Chapter 341 - Community Colleges|Section 341.626 - Distribution of state aid; rules.

(1) Subject to rules adopted by the Higher Education Coordinating Commission and to ORS 291.232 to 291.260, the Director of the Office of Community Colleges and Workforce Development shall distribute state aid to each community college district and community college service district. (2) The rules adopted by the commission shall provide: (a) No state aid for hobby and recreation classes; (b) Procedures for proper and accurate record keeping; (c) Procedures that will ensure reasonable year-to-year stability in the delivery of appropriated moneys to the colleges; and (d) Procedures to ensure that the full state appropriation is distributed to the colleges. [1987 c.474 §10 (enacted in lieu of 341.625); 2013 c.747 §70; 2015 c.366 §24; 2019 c.384 §17]
OR Rev Stat § 341.635 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 09 - Education and Culture|Chapter 341 - Community Colleges|Section 341.635 - Effect on state aid of scholarships and of certain admissions.

(1) In determining the amount of apportionment to the community college from the General Fund under ORS 341.626, tuition and fees allowed for scholarships authorized by ORS 341.478 shall be considered as paid by the student. (2) The district shall include the high school student attending the community college in determining the number of equivalent full-time students in classes for purposes of ORS 341.626 and other laws governing the distribution of state and federal funds to such colleges. [Subsection (1) enacted as 1965 c.148 §2; subsection (2) enacted as 1965 c.262 §7; 1971 c.513 §66; 1989 c.258 §1; 1993 c.45 §141; 1995 c.67 §29]
OR Rev Stat § 341.655 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 09 - Education and Culture|Chapter 341 - Community Colleges|Section 341.655 - Distribution of federal funds for career and technical education.

(1) As used in this section, "approved expenses" means the operating expenses of community college districts for career and technical education programs that have been approved by the Director of the Office of Community Colleges and Workforce Development. (2) Federal moneys received for purposes of reimbursing community college districts for career and technical education programs may be used by the districts to pay approved expenses. [1965 c.487 §2; 1967 c.433 §7; 1971 c.513 §67; 1987 c.474 §12; 1993 c.45 §§142,143; 2009 c.94 §15; 2015 c.366 §25]
OR Rev Stat § 341.660 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 09 - Education and Culture|Chapter 341 - Community Colleges|Section 341.660 - Treatment of public library costs in computing state aid.

A community college district that operates a free public library pursuant to ORS 357.410 shall not include or reflect the operating or construction costs attributable to such library that are in addition to the costs otherwise incurred for library facilities or services for the community college in any computation of eligibility for state aid for operation or construction at the community college. However, a community college district that operates a free public library is eligible for any federal funds to which it would otherwise be entitled for public library purposes. [1975 c.112 §11]
OR Rev Stat § 341.665 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 09 - Education and Culture|Chapter 341 - Community Colleges|Section 341.665 - Receipt of funds for apprenticeship programs.

(1) The receiving community college shall be awarded funds from the contracted out-of-district funds allocated to the Office of Community Colleges and Workforce Development if the college operates the program under a contract with an apprenticeship training committee and the contract is approved by the office. (2) A community college district may submit full-time equivalencies generated by apprenticeship programs to the office for reimbursement from the Community College Support Fund for purposes of ORS 341.626 but may not submit for reimbursement those full-time equivalencies generated through contracts under subsection (1) of this section. [1979 c.311 §1; 1995 c.67 §30; 2015 c.366 §26]
OR Rev Stat § 341.670 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 09 - Education and Culture|Chapter 341 - Community Colleges|Section 341.670 - System for reporting finances.

(1) The community college districts of this state shall use the same system for reporting finances. (2) The Office of Community Colleges and Workforce Development shall: (a) Select the system, which may be an existing system; and (b) Provide guidelines for implementation of the system. (3) The system selected by the office shall include uniform identification of: (a) Funds; (b) Revenues by source; and (c) Expenditures by function and object classification, as that term is defined in ORS 294.311. (4) The office shall place data gathered from the system on the website of the office to ensure timely access to the information by the public. [2015 c.841 §2]
OR Rev Stat § 341.675 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 09 - Education and Culture|Chapter 341 - Community Colleges|Section 341.675 - Authority to incur bonded indebtedness; aggregate amount.

(1) A community college district may contract a bonded indebtedness for any one or more of the following purposes in and for the district: (a) To acquire, construct, reconstruct, improve, repair, equip or furnish a college building or buildings or additions thereto; (b) To acquire or to improve all property, real and personal, appurtenant thereto or connected therewith, including self-financing facilities; (c) To fund or refund outstanding indebtedness; and (d) To provide for the payment of the debt. (2) The community college district may use the proceeds received from the sale of bonds to pay for any costs incurred by the district in issuing and selling such bonds, including but not limited to, attorney fees and the cost of publishing notices of bond elections, printing such bonds and advertising such bonds for sale. (3) The aggregate amount of such district bonded indebtedness shall not exceed one and one-half percent (0.015) of the real market value of all taxable property within the district, computed in accordance with ORS 308.207. (4) For purposes of any law relating to bonded indebtedness, "community college district" includes a "community college service district." [1971 c.513 §§37,43; 1991 c.459 §385; 1997 c.271 §2]
OR Rev Stat § 341.678 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 09 - Education and Culture|Chapter 341 - Community Colleges|Section 341.678 - Election on bonded indebtedness.

(1) To determine whether a community college district should contract a bonded indebtedness for any one or more purposes described in ORS 341.675, the question shall be decided by election. The district board may order the election on its own motion or shall order the election if a petition is filed as provided in this section. (2) The requirements for preparing, circulating and filing a petition under this section shall be as provided for an initiative petition in ORS 255.135 to 255.205. The petition shall state the amount of the proposed bonded indebtedness and the purposes for which the indebtedness shall be contracted. [1983 c.350 §212 (enacted in lieu of 341.679); 1993 c.45 §145]
OR Rev Stat § 341.681 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 09 - Education and Culture|Chapter 341 - Community Colleges|Section 341.681 - Issuance of bonds.

If the electors of the district voting on the question of contracting bonded indebtedness approve the question, the board of the district may issue bonds of the district. [1971 c.513 §§40,41,42; 1981 c.94 §29; 1983 c.347 §25; 1983 c.350 §213; 1995 c.67 §31; 2007 c.783 §135]
OR Rev Stat § 341.685 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 09 - Education and Culture|Chapter 341 - Community Colleges|Section 341.685 - Registration of bonds; disposition of proceeds.

(1) The paying agent and registrar, appointed in accordance with ORS 287A.300 (1) to (3), shall register each community college district bond, including refunding bonds, in a record maintained for that purpose in the office of the paying agent and registrar, noting the community college district, amount, date, time and place of payment, rate of interest and such other facts as the paying agent and registrar may consider proper. The paying agent and registrar shall cause the bonds to be delivered promptly to the purchasers thereof upon payment therefor, and if the place of delivery is outside the city in which the paying agent and registrar’s office is situated, the cost of delivery of the bonds shall be paid by the issuing district. (2) The paying agent and registrar shall hold the proceeds of the sale of all bonds for the community college district subject to the order of the board of the district to be used solely for the purpose for which the bonds were issued. The paying agent and registrar is authorized to deliver the proceeds of the sale of the bonds to the person designated as custodian of the community college district funds under ORS 341.703. (3) When the bonds have been so executed, registered and delivered, their legality shall not be open to contest by the community college district, or by any person for or on its behalf, for any reason whatever. [1971 c.513 §44; 1995 c.67 §32; 2007 c.783 §136]
OR Rev Stat § 341.690 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 09 - Education and Culture|Chapter 341 - Community Colleges|Section 341.690 - Tax levy to meet annual bonded indebtedness; bond sinking fund.

(1) The board of the district shall ascertain and levy annually, in addition to all other taxes, a direct ad valorem tax on all the taxable property in the district, sufficient to pay the maturing interest and principal of all community college district bonds outstanding promptly when and as such payments become due. The amount of the tax may be increased by an amount sufficient to retire any bonds which may be callable. The board shall annually file a copy of its budget and levies with the paying agent and registrar. The board shall in each year include such taxes in the district budget for such year. Such taxes shall in each year be certified, extended upon the tax rolls and collected by the same officers in the same manner and at the same time as the taxes for general district purposes. (2) The funds derived from such tax levies shall be retained by the paying agent and registrar without being paid to the district or to any officer thereof, and shall be kept by the paying agent and registrar in a separate fund to be known as and designated "______ Community College District Bond Interest and Sinking Fund," which 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 such fund shall be credited thereto and become a part thereof. For failure to retain and account for such funds, as provided in this section, the paying agent and registrar shall be liable upon the official bond of the paying agent and registrar. (3) The fund shall not be diverted or used for any other purpose; but if a surplus remains after all interest and principal have been paid on all community college district bonds then outstanding and unpaid, the surplus may be transferred to such other fund as the board of the district may direct. (4) If the tax required by subsection (1) of this section is not levied by the board of the district, the paying agent and registrar shall certify the county share, based on the proportion of the assessed valuation of the community college district located in the county, to the governing body of each county in which territory of the district is located which shall then levy a tax on all taxable property within the county that is in the district sufficient to raise the required amount. (5) The county assessors shall extend the tax so levied upon the county tax rolls for such district. The county sheriffs shall collect this tax and pay the sums collected into the fund kept by the paying agent and registrar pursuant to subsection (2) of this section. [1971 c.513 §45; 1995 c.67 §33]
OR Rev Stat § 341.693 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 09 - Education and Culture|Chapter 341 - Community Colleges|Section 341.693 - Payment of bond principal and interest.

(1) The paying agent and registrar must cause to be paid out of any money in the hands of the paying agent and registrar belonging to the community college district, the interest on or principal of, as the case may be, any bond issued by the district promptly when and as the same becomes due at the place of payment designated in such coupons or bonds. All coupons or bonds so paid must be immediately reported to the board of the district. (2) The paying agent and registrar shall not be required to remit to the purchaser of any bonds or coupons the amount necessary to redeem them until the day such bonds or coupons are due. [1971 c.513 §46; 1995 c.67 §34]
OR Rev Stat § 341.695 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 09 - Education and Culture|Chapter 341 - Community Colleges|Section 341.695 - Bond redemption procedure.

(1) Whenever the sinking fund mentioned in ORS 341.690 equals the amount, principal and interest, of any bond then due or subject at the option of the district to be paid or redeemed when authorized by the board of the district, the paying agent and registrar shall notify the holder of such bond and publish a notice in the newspaper published in the district in compliance with ORS 193.010 to 193.100. The notice shall state that the paying agent and registrar will, within 30 days from the date of the notice, redeem and pay any such bond then redeemable and payable, giving priority according to the date of issuance numerically. Upon presentation of any such bond at the place of payment specified therein, the paying agent and registrar shall cause the bond to be paid. If any holder of such bond fails to present it at the time mentioned in the notice, the interest thereon shall cease, and the paying agent and registrar shall thereafter pay only the amount of such bond and the interest accrued thereon up to the last day of the time of redemption mentioned in the notice. (2) When any bonds are so redeemed or paid, the paying agent and registrar shall cause the same to be canceled and write across the face thereof "redeemed" and the date of redemption, and shall deliver it to the board of the district, taking its receipt therefor. [1971 c.513 §47; 1995 c.67 §35]
OR Rev Stat § 341.697 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 09 - Education and Culture|Chapter 341 - Community Colleges|Section 341.697 - Refunding bonds.

(1) Whenever any community college district has any outstanding bonded indebtedness, which is due or subject at the option of the district to be paid or redeemed, the district, by and through the board of the district, may: (a) Issue and exchange, for any such indebtedness, its bonds bearing the rate of interest determined by the board pursuant to ORS 287A.300 (1) to (3); or (b) Issue and sell such bonds and apply the proceeds of such sale in payment of the indebtedness for the payment of which the refunding bonds are proposed to be issued. (2) Refunding bonds issued under subsection (1) of this section shall in all respects conform to, and be governed, as to their issue, by ORS 341.675 (3) and the provisions of ORS 287A.360 to 287A.380 that are not inconsistent with this section. (3) The refunding of indebtedness and issuing of bonds for such purpose shall not require an election, but may be done by resolution of the board of the district at any legally called board meeting. The debt limitations imposed by law shall not affect the right of any district to issue refunding bonds under authority of this section. The validity of any bonds so issued, or of the indebtedness thereby refunded, shall not thereafter be open to contest by the district or by any person for any reason whatever. [1971 c.513 §48; 1981 c.94 §30; 1983 c.347 §26; 1993 c.45 §146; 2007 c.783 §137]
OR Rev Stat § 341.702 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 09 - Education and Culture|Chapter 341 - Community Colleges|Section 341.702 - Laws governing issuance of bonds.

All legally authorized and issued general obligation bonds or revenue bonds shall be issued as prescribed in ORS chapter 287A. [1975 c.642 §23 (enacted in lieu of 341.701); 2007 c.783 §138]
OR Rev Stat § 341.703 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 09 - Education and Culture|Chapter 341 - Community Colleges|Section 341.703 - Custodian of funds; depositories; signature on checks; warrants as checks.

(1) The board of a community college district shall designate a custodian of funds of the district. Funds shall be disbursed only in the manner provided by subsection (3) of this section. (2) For the purpose of receiving deposits of community college funds, the board of the district shall designate such bank or banks, as the board deems safe and proper depositories for district funds. The custodian designated under subsection (1) of this section shall not be liable personally or upon the official bond of the custodian for moneys lost by reason of failure or insolvency of any bank which becomes a depository under this subsection. (3) When funds are available for payment, district obligations shall be paid by check bearing the original signature of the custodian of the district funds; or if authorized by the board of the district, the custodian’s facsimile signature. (4) Where a statute specifies a warrant as the means by which district obligations shall be paid, warrant means "check" if funds are available for payment. [1971 c.513 §50; 1995 c.67 §36]
OR Rev Stat § 341.705 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 09 - Education and Culture|Chapter 341 - Community Colleges|Section 341.705 - Warrant procedure.

(1) As used in this section, "community college district obligation" includes salaries of district employees and other regularly contracted services. (2) Warrants in payment of district obligations shall be issued only when there are insufficient funds to pay the warrant and shall be indorsed "not paid for want of funds." Warrants may be issued at the end of each month, if necessary. Warrants shall not be issued without a vote of the board of the district. They must be signed by the chairperson of the board and countersigned by the district clerk. If the chairperson is absent or unable to execute the warrants, the board may authorize any member of the board to act as chairperson in executing the warrants. (3) Unless the board of the district has designated a lower rate of interest, which rate must appear on the face of the warrants, warrants indorsed "not paid for want of funds" shall draw interest at a rate not to exceed seven percent (0.07) from date of indorsement until called. (4) Funds becoming available for payment of warrants indorsed "not paid for want of funds" shall be applied in payment in the order in which the warrants were so indorsed. (5) At the last regular school board meeting of the district preceding July 1 in each year, the district clerk shall certify to the board a list of all district warrants which were called for payment more than seven years prior to July 1 next following the meeting, and which have not been paid. The certification shall state the amount of each of such warrants, to whom issued, and date of issuance. The board of the district shall cause notice to be published in some newspaper having a general circulation in the district. The notice shall contain a statement that if such warrants are not presented for payment within 60 days from July 1, they will be canceled, and payment thereof will be refused. (6) At the first regular meeting of the board in each district after the expiration of 60 days from July 1 in each year, the board shall make an order that all such warrants which have not been so presented for payment, describing them, shall be canceled and the board shall so cancel. (7) Nothing in this section prohibits a board from paying, upon any claim arising from the canceling of any such warrant, the principal of the warrant when presented without interest if not indorsed for want of funds and, if indorsed for want of funds, with interest to the date such warrant was called. [1971 c.513 §52]
OR Rev Stat § 341.709 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 09 - Education and Culture|Chapter 341 - Community Colleges|Section 341.709 - Annual audit required.

(1) The board of a community college district shall cause to have prepared an annual audit of the books and accounts of the district, including but not limited to student body funds, athletic funds, cafeteria funds, and other similar funds collected by the college. The audit statements must be filed with the administrative office for the district on or before December 31 of the year in which the audit is conducted. (2) Accountants employed under this section must be selected from the roster of authorized municipal accountants maintained by the Oregon Board of Accountancy under ORS 297.670. [1971 c.513 §51; 1987 c.159 §1]
OR Rev Stat § 341.710 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 09 - Education and Culture|Chapter 341 - Community Colleges|Section 341.710

[1959 c.641 §6; 1961 c.602 §10; 1965 c.100 §302; renumbered 341.025]
OR Rev Stat § 341.715 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 09 - Education and Culture|Chapter 341 - Community Colleges|Section 341.715 - Short-term bonds.

(1) As provided by ORS 287A.180, the board of a community college district may contract indebtedness by the issuance of short-term bonds for the purpose of meeting current expenses, retiring outstanding bonds or warrants, or paying the interest thereon. (2) The board of the district in which indebtedness was incurred under this section shall levy an annual tax on all taxable property in the district sufficient to meet the interest payments and retire the indebtedness, but no tax shall be necessary where other provisions are made for payment of the indebtedness. [1971 c.513 §53; 1983 c.124 §10; 1985 c.356 §5; 1993 c.97 §26; 2007 c.783 §139]
OR Rev Stat § 341.720 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 09 - Education and Culture|Chapter 341 - Community Colleges|Section 341.720

[1959 c.641 §7; 1965 c.100 §303; renumbered 341.035]