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OR Rev Stat § 554.135 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 554 - Corporations for Irrigation, Drainage, Water Supply or Flood Control|Section 554.135 - Alternative method for collecting assessments.

(1) In lieu of the method of levy and assessment provided for in ORS 554.130, the board of directors may provide in the bylaws or by resolution for the billing and collection of the rates, tolls, fees, fines and charges of the corporation in the manner provided in this section. The provision in the bylaws or the resolution may apply to rates, tolls, fees, fines and charges for the operation and maintenance of the corporation, for the use of water, or for the use of any of the works of the corporation, or for violation of any of the bylaws, rules and regulations of the corporation, or for principal and interest of maturing indebtedness. (2) The bylaws or the resolution establishing the rates, tolls, fees, fines and charges shall fix the time when they shall become due and payable, and shall also fix a time after which they shall become delinquent, which time shall be any time within one year from the due date. (3) If any rates, tolls, fees, fines or charges remain unpaid after the delinquency date, the corporation may file a notice of lien and collect the delinquent charges in the manner provided for collection of incurred charges of an irrigation district under ORS 545.494, 545.496, 545.498, 545.502, 545.504 and 545.506. (4) If rates, tolls, fees, fines or charges, or any installment thereof, are not paid when due, interest shall be charged and collected on the past due amount at the rate of one and one-half percent per month, or fraction of a month, until paid. [1991 c.459 §432c; 2013 c.284 §3]
OR Rev Stat § 554.140 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 554 - Corporations for Irrigation, Drainage, Water Supply or Flood Control|Section 554.140 - Directors’ duty to institute proceedings to enforce lien; attorney fees.

(1) The board of directors shall institute proceedings to enforce the lien of any assessment when the last installment of such assessment is delinquent for more than three months. If the board fails to promptly institute and diligently prosecute in good faith proceedings for enforcement of a lien after that time and any member or creditor of the corporation shall give written notice to the board of such delinquency and request that such procedure be instituted and the board neglects for 30 days thereafter in good faith to bring suit to enforce the lien, the members of the board so failing shall each be jointly and severally liable to the corporation in the amount of the delinquent assessment. (2) Any member or creditor of the corporation may bring an action on behalf of the corporation in its name against any such directors to enforce the payment thereof; however, no directors shall be personally liable for payment of a delinquent assessment if: (a) The record of proceedings of a duly constituted meeting of the board held prior to the commencement of such action show either that such director presented or voted in favor of a resolution presented and voted upon by the board calling for the prompt commencement of such enforcement proceedings; or (b) If no meeting of the board was held between the time prescribed for enforcement of a delinquent assessment lien and the commencement of an action against the directors by a member or creditor of the corporation, that such director duly requested a special meeting of the board of directors be called for the purpose of adopting such a resolution and that the proposed resolution was submitted with the request. (3) In any legal proceeding instituted by the board of directors of the corporation as provided in this section, the court may award to the prevailing party, in addition to the costs and disbursements of such proceedings, a reasonable attorney fee at trial and on appeal. [Amended by 1963 c.549 §1; 1981 c.897 §65; 1995 c.618 §87]
OR Rev Stat § 554.150 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 554 - Corporations for Irrigation, Drainage, Water Supply or Flood Control|Section 554.150 - Action to compel assessment.

If the board of directors neglects to make any assessment provided by ORS 554.005 to 554.340 for 30 days after the time when it is required to be made, any member of the corporation or any creditor thereof who is likely to be injured thereby may bring an action to compel the assessment to be made. In any such case the costs and expenses thereof may be assessed to the directors who were willfully negligent in failing to make the same and judgment rendered against them jointly and severally by the court in the same action. In such action the corporation and the directors shall be parties defendant. [Amended by 1979 c.284 §173]
OR Rev Stat § 554.160 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 554 - Corporations for Irrigation, Drainage, Water Supply or Flood Control|Section 554.160 - Assessments to provide funds to meet obligations; custody, disbursement and disposal of funds; general operating expenses.

(1) When any bonds or obligations of the corporation are payable from revenue of assessments pledged for the payment thereof, the board of directors shall, at the time of creating such indebtedness or issuing such bonds or obligations or at any time thereafter when assessments therefor are made, designate such fund by appropriate name and shall at the time of making each assessment thereafter determine the amount and portion of the assessment in dollars which is required to be then made for revenue of such fund. In determining and levying every assessment provided in ORS 554.005 to 554.340 the board of directors shall provide separately for the amount to be so raised for each of the several funds so designated and named including the general operation and maintenance fund. (2) The revenues apportioned to the funds pledged to the payment of bonds and obligations shall be separately held and kept and accounted for. The corporation shall disburse the funds only for the purposes for which levied until the indebtedness and obligation for which the assessment was made is fully paid with interest, whereupon the remainder shall be transferred to the general fund of the corporation for the payment of expenses of the corporation and its operation and maintenance. At the time of making assessments the board of directors shall first determine the estimated amount necessary for the expenses of operation and maintenance and then the several amounts for the respective funds, and determine that the whole amount thereof is within the limitations, restrictions and provisions of the landowners’ notice provided for in ORS 554.170 to 554.190. [Amended by 1969 c.694 §47; 2001 c.215 §30]
OR Rev Stat § 554.170 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 554 - Corporations for Irrigation, Drainage, Water Supply or Flood Control|Section 554.170 - Covenants by landowners; effect.

Owners of all the land described in the articles of incorporation or amendments thereto may at any time after the adoption of the plans and specifications for improving the land as provided in ORS 554.210, mutually covenant and agree for the purpose of binding their respective lands, as provided in ORS 554.180. Such covenants and agreements shall attach to and run with the land for the purpose of limiting, restricting and governing the conduct of the corporation. Such covenants, limitations, restrictions and agreements must not be inconsistent with the articles of incorporation, and after the recording of the same as provided in ORS 554.190 they may not be altered, amended, modified or rescinded during the life of such corporation without the consent of landowners representing two-thirds of the lands in the district and persons having an interest in such lands and the corporation and its creditors if any there are. After the recording, the bylaws of the corporation and every act and proceeding of such corporation must be in accordance with and subject to the limitations, restrictions and provisions thereof. [Amended by 1965 c.427 §1]
OR Rev Stat § 554.200 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 554 - Corporations for Irrigation, Drainage, Water Supply or Flood Control|Section 554.200 - Incurring indebtedness before notice recorded; scope of notice.

When any corporation is organized pursuant to ORS 554.005 to 554.340, the board of directors and the corporation may not lawfully incur any indebtedness or obligation of such corporation, except as otherwise provided in ORS 554.005 to 554.340, before the landowners’ notice has been executed and recorded. When the notice is so recorded, it shall be notice to the world of the facts therein stated. It shall not be necessary, for the purpose of the lien of any assessment or indebtedness of the corporation upon any of the lands described therein, to file or record in the office where deeds and other instruments affecting the title to real property are recorded, any resolution of the corporation or notice of assessment, indebtedness or lien; but as to all matters upon the recording of the landowners’ notice every person interested in any of the land therein described or dealing with respect thereto is put upon inquiry respecting the same and shall ascertain from the corporation the extent and amount of such indebtedness, assessment and lien upon the land. [Amended by 1987 c.158 §117]
OR Rev Stat § 554.210 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 554 - Corporations for Irrigation, Drainage, Water Supply or Flood Control|Section 554.210 - Plans and specifications; how adopted.

(1) Owners of all the land described in the articles of incorporation may, by unanimous agreement in writing, subscribed and acknowledged by them: (a) Cause to be prepared and approve and adopt detailed plans and specifications for the works and improving of the lands under the plan described in the articles of incorporation; (b) Make a report upon the same, including an estimate of the cost; and (c) File the plans, specifications and report with the secretary of the corporation. (2) When the owners have acted pursuant to subsection (1) of this section: (a) The board of directors shall adopt a resolution briefly reciting the facts of the plans, specifications and report and accepting, approving and adopting them as the plan of improvement of the land described in the articles of incorporation. (b) The plans, and specifications and report shall be the plans of the corporation for the works and improvement of the land. (3) If the landowners do not adopt plans, specifications and a report thereon by unanimous consent, the plans, specifications and report may be adopted by resolution at a meeting of members as provided in subsections (4) to (6) of this section. (4) The board of directors at any meeting of the board may adopt a resolution: (a) Designating and authorizing the expenditures for preliminary investigation and report upon the plans and cost of works and construction, or repair or reconstruction of the same, or purchasing or acquiring any property, ditches, dikes, levees, plants, improvements, easements, rights of way, water rights, or other things necessary, advantageous or beneficial for improving the land under the plan described in the articles of incorporation; or (b) Determining and declaring that such preliminary investigation and the expense thereof is unnecessary. (5) Pursuant to action under subsection (4) of this section, the directors shall then: (a) Secure a competent engineer, if necessary or desirable, who shall make the investigation, and prepare detailed plans and specifications and make a report upon the same, including an estimate of the cost thereof; or (b) Prepare detailed plans and specifications and report with an estimate of the cost thereof without securing an engineer. (6) The directors shall submit the detailed plans and specifications and report to a meeting of the members of the corporation for adoption. Adoption must in that case be made by resolution passed by a two-thirds vote of all the votes to which the members may be entitled. (7) Notwithstanding subsections (1) to (6) of this section, when a corporation formed under ORS chapter 554 takes ownership of existing sanitary sewer facilities under ORS 554.020 (1)(b), the board of directors may adopt as detailed plans and specifications of the corporation the plans and specifications of the former owner or operator of the sanitary sewer facilities without securing a competent engineer. [Amended by 2013 c.284 §4]
OR Rev Stat § 554.220 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 554 - Corporations for Irrigation, Drainage, Water Supply or Flood Control|Section 554.220 - Bonds; denominations; interest; maturities; execution; coupons; amortized installment obligations.

(1) At any time after recording the landowners’ notice as provided in ORS 554.190 and adoption of a plan for improvement of the land described in the articles of incorporation as provided in ORS 554.210, the board of directors may, if in their judgment it seems best, and subject to the limitations, restrictions and provisions of the landowners’ notice, issue bonds or other obligations of the corporation necessary or convenient for improving the lands, including the refunding of outstanding bonds and any indebtedness of the corporation. (2) The bonds shall be in such denominations as the board may determine, and bear interest from date at a rate determined by the board, payable semiannually, to mature at intervals to be determined by the board, both principal and interest being payable at some convenient insured institution or trust company, as those terms are defined in ORS 706.008, that is named in the bonds. The bonds shall be signed by the president of the corporation and attested with the seal of the corporation and the signature of the secretary. They may be issued so as to mature serially in annual amounts so as to be approximately equal, principal and interest, and may be issued so as to include a sum sufficient to pay the first four years’ interest, or less, to accrue on the bonds, and be numbered serially in the order in which they mature. Each such bond shall have interest coupons attached bearing the serial number of the bond, which coupons shall be serially numbered in the order of maturity. (3) If the directors so determine, they may issue for the purposes stated in this section, or as provided in ORS 554.270 and 554.280, one or more amortized installment obligations of the corporation constituting a designated series of such bonds as particularly described in ORS 554.280, all of which obligations shall be evenly and ratably paid as the attached installments mature as determined by the board of directors and as described in ORS 554.280. The latter bonds and coupons shall be executed and attested as provided by subsections (1) and (2) of this section for bonds of the corporation. [Amended by 1969 c.694 §48; 1977 c.188 §10; 1981 c.94 §49; 1981 c.526 §7; 1997 c.631 §493; 2001 c.215 §31]
OR Rev Stat § 554.230 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 554 - Corporations for Irrigation, Drainage, Water Supply or Flood Control|Section 554.230 - Bonds; recitals; payment; liability of land.

(1) Bonds or obligations of the corporation shall refer therein to ORS 554.005 to 554.340 and to the resolution of the board of directors authorizing the same, and shall briefly recite the purpose for which issued. If they constitute a lien on the land described in the articles of incorporation they shall so state therein; otherwise they shall state that they and the interest thereon are payable by the revenue derived from the annual assessments by the corporation upon the land described in the articles of incorporation and the landowners’ notice, which assessments are lien-apportioned to every acre of such land and assessed for a fund pledged for the payment thereof, and that the corporation covenants to and with the holder thereof to make such assessments as required by the laws of Oregon and to pay the obligation (or bond) at the maturity therein provided, and further that the assessment required to be made for the payment thereof at maturity will not together with all other assessments required for payment of the debts and obligations, operation and maintenance, and other charges, exceed the limitations prescribed in the landowners’ notice. (2) Upon the issue of any bond or obligation payable by revenue derived from assessment by the corporation upon the land for a fund designated in the resolution authorizing such issue, the land described in the articles of incorporation and the landowners’ recorded notice shall thereafter be and remain liable to be assessed for such payments as provided in and subject to the provisions of ORS 554.005 to 554.340.
OR Rev Stat § 554.240 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 554 - Corporations for Irrigation, Drainage, Water Supply or Flood Control|Section 554.240 - Retirement of bonds; conditions of sale; resolution authorizing bond issue; surrender of bonds in payment of assessments; debts not to exceed assessments or benefits.

(1) The corporation may provide that bonds or any of them may be retired at the option of the corporation on any interest-paying date after the expiration of a time determined and fixed therein. (2) Bonds and obligations shall not be sold for less than 90 percent of their face value, and may be issued all at the same time or in such amounts as the board deems necessary. Before issuing any bonds or obligations the board shall first pass a resolution authorizing the same and provide the whole amount thereof and the purpose of same and if payable from a separate fund shall designate the same. The resolution shall prescribe the form and substance of the bonds or obligations and provide with respect thereto the matters and things otherwise prescribed therefor in ORS 554.005 to 554.340. (3) When any bond, obligation or coupon is payable from revenue by assessment to constitute a fund for the payment thereof, any such bond, obligation or coupon may at or after its maturity be surrendered to the corporation in payment of such assessment, but not in payment of any assessment for operation and maintenance expense or any other fund separately pledged for payment of other obligations, bonds or debts of the corporation. Bonds and obligations received in payment of any obligation shall be numbered consecutively and the lowest numbers paid off first. (4) No obligations of the corporation shall be issued by the board unless it is determined that the annual assessment which will be required for the payment thereof as same matures together with other assessments which will be necessary for maintenance and operation expense and other purposes will not exceed in the whole the maximum amount of annual benefits which may be assessed and apportioned in any one year. Nor shall debts be incurred and obligations issued the aggregate amount of which will exceed the limitation determined by the determined benefits as stated in the recorded landowners’ notice.
OR Rev Stat § 554.250 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 554 - Corporations for Irrigation, Drainage, Water Supply or Flood Control|Section 554.250 - Refunding bonds.

The board of directors may issue bonds for the purpose of refunding or satisfying any of the bonded or other indebtedness of the corporation, whether or not due, or which has or may become payable at the option of the corporation, or by consent of the holders of the indebtedness, or by any lawful means, whether such bonded or other indebtedness is now existing or may hereafter be created, and there are not funds in the treasury of the corporation available for the payment of the same and unpaid interest thereon.
OR Rev Stat § 554.260 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 554 - Corporations for Irrigation, Drainage, Water Supply or Flood Control|Section 554.260 - Contracts with governmental agencies or others for financial assistance or cooperative action.

Whenever the board of directors of the corporation shall by resolution determine it to be for the best interest of the corporation, the board may enter into contract with the United States or its duly constituted agencies, or any municipal or other corporation of Oregon, or any person, for the purpose of procuring or receiving a loan or financial assistance for any works or improvement of the corporation, or for the maintenance and operation of any works or improvement of the corporation or of such other party, or for the purpose of acquiring jointly or controlling and managing in conjunction with such other party any works or improvement or any easement or right of way necessary for such improvement or work; and may bind the corporation for the maintenance, support and operation of the whole or any part thereof after construction of the same; and may agree that any works or improvement of the United States or any constituted governmental agency embracing any part of the works or improvement of the corporation or serving any purpose thereof shall be subject to the control, rules and regulations of the United States or any of its constituted agencies or officers as any law or regulation of the United States may require; and may agree to protect the United States and its constituted governmental agencies or officers from any loss or damage by reason of any works or improvement for or in behalf of the corporation as any law may require as a condition thereof; and may contract with the United States to furnish without cost such easements and rights of way and other property as shall be necessary for the proposed improvement and works of the corporation and their maintenance and operation, as required or provided by law as a condition thereof.
OR Rev Stat § 554.270 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 554 - Corporations for Irrigation, Drainage, Water Supply or Flood Control|Section 554.270 - Purchase or lease of works and water rights; provision as to payment; serial coupon obligations.

(1) Whenever the board of directors of the corporation shall by resolution determine that it is to the best interest of the corporation, the board may enter into contracts for the purchase or option to purchase or lease, upon such terms as it determines to the best interest of the corporation, any ditch, works, improvement, easement, right of way, water right or other thing required or advantageous to the corporation for the works and improvement of the land described in the articles of incorporation within the scope of the purposes therein named. (2) In any such case the board may by such contract provide for spreading the payments over such period as may be agreed upon and may issue therefor serial installment coupon obligations in such number and denominations as it may determine, inclusive of interest at such rate as the board may provide on all unpaid assessments, together with an amount sufficient to pay a proportionate part of the cost of administering the bond assessment program and issuing the bonds authorized under ORS 554.220 and 554.250, including, but not limited to, legal, printing and consultant’s fees, such amount to be determined by the governing body. The installment coupons shall be of such amount and stated maturity as will pay and retire all installment coupon obligations of such designated series evenly, justly and ratably from year to year at the same time, and shall be general obligations of the corporation, payable from a fund as provided in ORS 554.280. [Amended by 1981 c.322 §9]