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OR Rev Stat § 454.060 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 12 - Public Health|Chapter 454 - Sewage Treatment and Disposal Systems|Section 454.060 - Powers in addition to other municipal or commission powers.

The powers and authority granted to a municipality or the Environmental Quality Commission by ORS 454.010 to 454.050 are in addition to, and not in lieu of, or derogation of any other powers and authority vested in a municipality or the commission pursuant to law. [1973 c.101 §7]
OR Rev Stat § 454.105 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 12 - Public Health|Chapter 454 - Sewage Treatment and Disposal Systems|Section 454.105 - Definitions for ORS 454.105 to 454.175.

As used in ORS 454.105 to 454.175, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) "Disposal system" means that term as defined in ORS 468B.005. (2) "Municipality" means a city, county, county service district, sanitary authority or sanitary district. [Formerly 449.405]
OR Rev Stat § 454.115 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 12 - Public Health|Chapter 454 - Sewage Treatment and Disposal Systems|Section 454.115 - Authority over disposal systems.

(1) In order to facilitate the abatement, elimination or control of the pollution of waters and streams, any municipality may: (a) Construct, reconstruct, improve, extend, repair, equip or acquire disposal systems, within or without the municipality. (b) Accept grants or loans or other aid from the United States or any other source. (c) Enter into all necessary agreements. (d) Issue revenue bonds of the municipality without limitation as to amount. (2) The powers conferred by ORS 454.105 to 454.175 are in addition to and supplemental to the powers conferred by any other law and not in substitution for any right, powers or privileges vested in a municipality. [Formerly 449.410]
OR Rev Stat § 454.125 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 12 - Public Health|Chapter 454 - Sewage Treatment and Disposal Systems|Section 454.125 - Bond election.

Before any bonds may be issued under ORS 454.115, their issuance must first be approved by a majority of the electors voting on the proposition at either a general election or at a special election, to be called, held and conducted in the same manner as special elections on the proposition of issuing general obligation bonds. [Formerly 449.415]
OR Rev Stat § 454.135 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 12 - Public Health|Chapter 454 - Sewage Treatment and Disposal Systems|Section 454.135 - Bonds issued to finance disposal system.

(1) The bonds issued under ORS 454.115 shall be payable from that portion of the earnings of the disposal system of the municipality which is pledged to their payment, and they shall have a lien of such priority on the earnings as is specified in the proceedings providing for their issuance. (2) The governing body may provide that the bonds, or such ones thereof as may be specified, shall, to the extent and in the manner prescribed, be subordinated and be junior in standing, with respect to their payment of principal, interest and security, to such other bonds of the municipality as are designated. (3) The bonds shall bear such date, may be issued in such amounts, may be in such denominations, may mature in such amounts and at such time, shall be payable at such place, may be redeemable, either with or without premium, or nonredeemable, may carry such registration privileges, and may be executed by such officers and in such manner as is prescribed by the governing body. (4) In case any of the officers whose signatures appear on the bonds or coupons cease to be officers before delivery of the bonds, the signatures, whether manual or facsimile shall, nevertheless, be valid and sufficient for all purposes, the same as if such officers had remained in office until delivery. (5) The bonds so issued shall bear interest at a rate to be fixed by the governing body payable at times to be fixed by the governing body. (6) The bonds shall be sold at public sale. However, they may be sold at private sale to the United States or to the State of Oregon or any of their agencies or instrumentalities. [Formerly 449.420; 1981 c.94 §41]
OR Rev Stat § 454.145 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 12 - Public Health|Chapter 454 - Sewage Treatment and Disposal Systems|Section 454.145 - Bond content.

Bonds issued under ORS 454.115 or the proceedings of the governing body authorizing their issuance may contain such covenants as the governing body considers advisable concerning: (1) Rates or fees to be charged for services rendered by the disposal system, the revenue of which is pledged to the payment of such bonds. (2) Deposit and use of the revenue of such disposal system. (3) Issuance of additional bonds payable from the revenue of such disposal system. (4) Rights of the bondholders in case of default in the payment of the principal of or interest on the bonds, including the appointment of a receiver to operate such disposal system. [Formerly 449.425]
OR Rev Stat § 454.155 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 12 - Public Health|Chapter 454 - Sewage Treatment and Disposal Systems|Section 454.155 - Refunding bonds.

(1) The governing body of every municipality by ordinance or resolution without prior approval of the electors may issue and exchange or sell refunding revenue bonds to refund, pay or discharge all or any part of its outstanding revenue bonds, including interest thereon, if any, in arrears or about to become due. (2) All other relevant provisions in ORS 454.105 to 454.175 pertaining to revenue bonds shall be applicable to the refunding revenue bonds, including their terms and security, the rates and other aspects of the bonds. [Formerly 449.430]
OR Rev Stat § 454.165 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 12 - Public Health|Chapter 454 - Sewage Treatment and Disposal Systems|Section 454.165 - Joint agreements for construction and financing of disposal systems.

(1) Any two, or more, municipalities, counties or other political subdivisions, notwithstanding any limitation or provision of municipal charter to the contrary, may, through their respective governing bodies, enter into and perform such contracts and agreements as they consider proper for or concerning the planning, construction, lease or other acquisition and the financing of the disposal system and the maintenance and operation thereof. (2) Municipalities, counties or other political subdivisions so contracting with each other may also provide in any contract or agreement for a board, commission or such other body as their governing bodies consider proper for the supervision and general management of the disposal system and for the operation thereof, and may prescribe its powers and duties and fix the compensation of the members thereof. [Formerly 449.435]
OR Rev Stat § 454.175 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 12 - Public Health|Chapter 454 - Sewage Treatment and Disposal Systems|Section 454.175 - Agreements with industrial establishment.

When determined by its governing body to be in the public interest and necessary for the protection of the public health, any municipality may enter into and perform contracts, whether long-term or short-term, with any industrial establishment for the provision and operation by the municipality of the disposal system to abate or reduce the pollution of waters caused by discharges of industrial wastes by the industrial establishment and the payment periodically by the industrial establishment to the municipality of amounts at least sufficient, in the determination of such governing body, to compensate the municipality for the cost of providing, including payment of principal and interest charges, and of operating and maintaining the disposal system serving such industrial establishment. [Formerly 449.440]
OR Rev Stat § 454.205 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 12 - Public Health|Chapter 454 - Sewage Treatment and Disposal Systems|Section 454.205 - "Municipality" defined.

As used in ORS 454.205 to 454.255, "municipality" includes an incorporated city, a metropolitan service district, a sanitary district, a sanitary authority, a county service district, or any other special district authorized to treat and dispose of sewage. [1973 c.213 §2]
OR Rev Stat § 454.215 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 12 - Public Health|Chapter 454 - Sewage Treatment and Disposal Systems|Section 454.215 - Authority over disposal systems.

(1) Any municipality may own, acquire, construct, equip, operate and maintain, either within or without its statutory or corporate limits, in whole or in part, disposal systems with all appurtenances necessary, useful or convenient for the collection, treatment and disposal of sewage. The municipality may acquire by gift, grant, purchase or condemnation necessary lands and rights of way therefor, either within or without its statutory or corporate limits. For the purpose of acquiring property for such uses, the municipality may invoke and shall have the rights, powers and privileges granted to public corporations under the provisions of existing or future laws pertaining to this subject. (2) The authority given by ORS 454.205 to 454.255 shall be in addition to, and not in derogation of any power existing in the municipality under any constitutional, statutory or charter provisions now or hereafter existing. [1973 c.213 §3]
OR Rev Stat § 454.225 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 12 - Public Health|Chapter 454 - Sewage Treatment and Disposal Systems|Section 454.225 - Rates and charges; collection.

The governing body of the municipality may establish just and equitable rates or charges to be paid for the use of the disposal system by each person, firm or corporation whose premises are served thereby, or upon subsequent service thereto. If the service charges so established are not paid when due, the amounts thereof, together with such penalties, interests and costs as may be provided by the governing body of the municipality may be recovered in an action at law, or if the municipality does not have the ability to collect sewerage disposal charges in connection with or as part of the charge for another service or utility that can be curtailed to secure collection, the charge may be certified and presented after July 15 and on or before the following July 15 to the tax assessor of the county in which the municipality is situated and be by the assessor assessed against the premises serviced on the next assessment and tax roll prepared after July 15. Once the service charges are certified and presented to the assessor, the payment for the service charges must be made to the tax collector pursuant to ORS 311.370. Such payment shall be made by the person responsible for the delinquent service charge or by the municipality who has received payment for the delinquent service charge. These charges shall thereupon be collected and paid over in the same manner as other taxes are certified, assessed, collected and paid over. [1973 c.213 §4; 1979 c.350 §19; 1991 c.459 §409; 1995 c.79 §228]
OR Rev Stat § 454.245 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 12 - Public Health|Chapter 454 - Sewage Treatment and Disposal Systems|Section 454.245 - Serial bonds; term and content; interest; amount.

(1) The governing body of the municipality may determine the maturities and tenor of the bonds issued under ORS 454.235. However, the bonds shall be serial in character in accordance with present or future provisions of law or the charter. They shall be payable in not to exceed 40 years from the date of issuance thereof, and shall be sold at a price to net the municipality not less than the par value thereof with accrued interest. They shall bear interest at not to exceed six percent per annum payable semiannually. (2) The amount of any bonds issued under ORS 454.205 to 454.255 shall not be within any limitation of indebtedness fixed by law or charter, but shall be in addition thereto. [1973 c.213 §§6,7]
OR Rev Stat § 454.255 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 12 - Public Health|Chapter 454 - Sewage Treatment and Disposal Systems|Section 454.255 - Plans and cost estimates; examination by electors.

Before calling any election under ORS 454.235, the governing body of the municipality shall cause to be prepared plans, specifications and estimates of costs of any proposed disposal or water system, as defined in ORS 448.115, to be voted upon, which may be examined by any elector of the municipality. [1973 c.213 §8; 1981 c.749 §23]
OR Rev Stat § 454.275 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 12 - Public Health|Chapter 454 - Sewage Treatment and Disposal Systems|Section 454.275 - Definitions for ORS 454.275 to 454.380.

As used in ORS 454.275 to 454.380: (1) "Affected area" means an area subject to an order of the commission issued under ORS 454.305. (2) "Commission" means the Environmental Quality Commission. (3) "Governing body" means a board of commissioners, county court or other managing board of a municipality. (4) "Municipality" means a city, county, county service district, sanitary district, metropolitan service district or other special district authorized to treat or dispose of sewage in any county with a population exceeding 400,000 according to the latest federal decennial census. (5) "Subsurface sewage disposal system" has the meaning given that term in ORS 454.605. (6) "Threat to drinking water" means the existence in any area of any three of the following conditions: (a) More than 50 percent of the affected area consists of rapidly draining soils; (b) The ground water underlying the affected area is used or can be used for drinking water; (c) More than 50 percent of the sewage in the affected area is discharged into cesspools, septic tanks or seepage pits and the sewage contains biological, chemical, physical or radiological agents that can make water unfit for human consumption; or (d) Analysis of samples of ground water from wells producing water that may be used for human consumption in the affected area contains levels of one or more biological, chemical, physical or radiological contaminants which, if allowed to increase at historical rates, would produce a risk to human health as determined by the local health officer. Such contaminant levels must be in excess of 50 percent of the maximum allowable limits set in accordance with the Federal Safe Drinking Water Act. (7) "Treatment works" has the meaning given that term in ORS 454.010. [1981 c.358 §1; 1983 c.235 §7; 1987 c.627 §8]
OR Rev Stat § 454.280 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 12 - Public Health|Chapter 454 - Sewage Treatment and Disposal Systems|Section 454.280 - Construction of treatment works by municipality; financing.

Notwithstanding the provisions of ORS chapters 450, 451 and 454, or any city or county charter, treatment works may be constructed by a municipality and financed by the sale of general obligation bonds, revenue bonds or assessments against the benefited property without a vote in the affected area or municipality or without being subject to a remonstration procedure, when the findings and order are filed in accordance with ORS 454.310. The provisions of ORS 223.205 to 223.316 and 223.770 shall apply in so far as practicable to any assessment established as a result of proceedings under ORS 454.275 to 454.380. [1981 c.358 §2; 1995 c.333 §18; 1997 c.249 §153]
OR Rev Stat § 454.285 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 12 - Public Health|Chapter 454 - Sewage Treatment and Disposal Systems|Section 454.285 - Resolution or ordinance.

(1) The governing body may adopt by resolution or ordinance a proposal to construct sewage treatment works and to finance the construction by revenue bonds, general obligation bonds or by assessment against the benefited property. (2) The resolution or ordinance shall: (a) Describe the boundaries of the affected area which must be located within a single drainage basin as identified in regional treatment works plans; and (b) Contain findings that there is a threat to drinking water. (3) The proposal must be approved by a majority vote of the governing body and does not require the approval of the residents or landowners in the affected area or municipality. (4) The governing body shall forward a certified copy of the resolution or ordinance to the Environmental Quality Commission. Preliminary plans and specifications for the proposed treatment works shall be submitted to the commission with the resolution or ordinance. [1981 c.358 §3; 1983 c.235 §8]
OR Rev Stat § 454.290 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 12 - Public Health|Chapter 454 - Sewage Treatment and Disposal Systems|Section 454.290 - Study; preliminary plans.

(1) The governing body shall order a study and the preparation of preliminary plans and specifications for the treatment works. (2) The study shall include: (a) Engineering plans demonstrating the feasibility of the treatment works and conformance of the plan with regional treatment works plans. (b) Possible methods for financing the treatment works. (c) The effect of the treatment works on property in the affected area. [1981 c.358 §4]
OR Rev Stat § 454.295 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 12 - Public Health|Chapter 454 - Sewage Treatment and Disposal Systems|Section 454.295 - Commission review; hearing; notice.

(1) After receiving a certified copy of a resolution or ordinance adopted under ORS 454.285, the Environmental Quality Commission shall review and investigate conditions in the affected area. If substantial evidence reveals the existence of a threat to drinking water, the commission shall set a time and place for a hearing on the resolution or ordinance. The hearing shall be held within or near the affected area. The hearing shall be held not less than 50 days after the commission completes its investigation. (2) The commission shall give notice of the time and place of the hearing on the resolution or ordinance by publishing the notice of adoption of the resolution or ordinance in a newspaper of general circulation within the affected area once each week for two successive weeks beginning not less than four weeks before the date of the hearing and by such other means as the commission deems appropriate in order to give actual notice of the hearing. [1981 c.358 §5]
OR Rev Stat § 454.300 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 12 - Public Health|Chapter 454 - Sewage Treatment and Disposal Systems|Section 454.300 - Conduct of hearing; notice of issuance of findings; petition for argument.

(1) At the hearing on the resolution or ordinance, any interested person shall have a reasonable opportunity to be heard or to present written testimony. The hearing shall be for the purpose of determining whether a threat to drinking water exists in the affected area, whether the conditions could be eliminated or alleviated by treatment works and whether the proposed treatment works are the most economical method to alleviate the conditions. The hearing may be conducted by the Environmental Quality Commission or by a hearings officer designated by the commission. After the hearing the commission shall publish a notice of issuance of its findings and recommendations in the newspaper used for the notice of hearing under ORS 454.295 (2), advising of the opportunity for argument under subsection (2) of this section. (2) Within 15 days after the publication of notice of issuance of findings any person or municipality that will be affected by the findings may petition the commission to present written or oral arguments on the proposal. If a petition is received, the commission shall set a time and place for argument. [1981 c.358 §6]
OR Rev Stat § 454.305 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 12 - Public Health|Chapter 454 - Sewage Treatment and Disposal Systems|Section 454.305 - Effect of findings; exclusion of areas; filing of findings.

(1) If the Environmental Quality Commission finds a threat to drinking water does exist but treatment works would not alleviate the conditions, the commission shall terminate the proceedings. (2) If the commission finds a threat to drinking water exists within the territory and the conditions could be removed or alleviated by the construction of treatment works, the commission shall order the governing body to proceed with construction of the treatment works. (3) If the commission finds that a threat to drinking water exists in only part of the affected area or that treatment works would remove or alleviate the conditions in only part of the affected area, the commission may reduce the affected area to the size in which the threat to drinking water could be removed or alleviated. The findings shall describe the boundaries of the affected area as reduced by the commission. (4) In determining whether to exclude any area, the commission must consider whether or not exclusion would unduly interfere with the removal or alleviation of the threat to drinking water and whether the exclusion would result in an illogical boundary for the provision of services. (5) If the commission determines that a threat to drinking water exists but that the proposed treatment works are not the most economical method of removing or alleviating the conditions, the commission may issue an order terminating the proceedings under ORS 454.275 to 454.380, or referring the resolution or ordinance to the municipality to prepare alternative plans, specifications and financing methods. (6) At the request of the commission the municipality or a boundary commission shall aid in determining the findings made under subsections (3) and (4) of this section. (7) The commission shall file its findings and order with the governing body of the municipality. [1981 c.358 §7]
OR Rev Stat § 454.310 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 12 - Public Health|Chapter 454 - Sewage Treatment and Disposal Systems|Section 454.310 - Construction authorized upon commission approval; when connection may be required; final plans.

(1) When a certified copy of the findings and order approving the proposal is filed with the governing body, the governing body shall order construction of the treatment works and proceed with the financing plan as specified in the order. As part of the construction of the treatment works, the governing body may require property owners in the affected area to connect to the treatment works. The governing body shall establish by ordinance the method the governing body will use to enforce a mandatory connection requirement. (2) Within 12 months after receiving the Environmental Quality Commission’s order the municipality shall prepare final plans and specifications for the treatment works and proceed in accordance with the time schedule to construct the facility. [1981 c.358 §8; 1989 c.559 §1]
OR Rev Stat § 454.317 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 12 - Public Health|Chapter 454 - Sewage Treatment and Disposal Systems|Section 454.317 - Resolution or ordinance authorizing levy and collection of seepage charge.

(1) When a certified copy of the findings and order approving the proposal is filed with the governing body as provided in ORS 454.305, the governing body may adopt a resolution or ordinance authorizing the levy and collection of a seepage charge upon all real properties served by on-site subsurface sewage disposal systems, as defined in ORS 454.605, within the boundaries of the affected area. (2) A resolution or ordinance adopted under this section shall authorize the levy and collection of a seepage charge only in an affected area located entirely within a single drainage basin as identified in regional treatment works plans. (3) A resolution or ordinance adopted under this section shall: (a) Describe the boundaries of the affected area; and (b) Contain an estimate of the commencement and completion dates for the proposed treatment works and a proposed schedule for the extension of sewer service into the affected area. [1983 c.235 §2]