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2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 264 - Domestic Water Supply Districts › Section 264.875 - Assumption of debts and obligations of district upon dissolution.

(1) An irrigation district within which a water district is situated, or a city supplying water to a water district, may enter into a written agreement with a water district contemplating dissolution undertaking to assume, in the event of such dissolution, all of the outstanding debts and obligations of the water district and to continue to furnish water to the inhabitants of the dissolving district for domestic and municipal use for a term therein specified, not to exceed 25 years. Subject to the provisions of this section, the successor city shall, if the dissolution is approved, have the powers and assume the responsibilities, with reference to domestic water supply, as are conferred and imposed upon cities under ORS 223.005 to 223.105, 223.205 to 223.930 and ORS chapter 225. Any person entitled to water service within the area of the dissolved district has the same remedies at law or in equity to enforce the rights of the person to water supply service as are available to enforce the right to water service within the city.
(2) The successor city or district shall furnish domestic water supply and service to persons owning or occupying property within the dissolved district on the same terms and conditions as in the case of those owning or occupying property within the city, or elsewhere within the irrigation district. If the district assets and obligations are transferred to a city, the city may charge a rate for the service that is no more than the rate which is uniformly applied to all users in similar classifications outside the city. No such differential rate may be charged, however, unless such a differential is provided for, and specifically limited, by the terms of the agreement made prior to the dissolution. Nothing in this section authorizes a city or an irrigation district to levy an ad valorem real property tax on property outside the city or district.
(3) Any debts or obligations assumed by the successor city or by the irrigation district by reason of, or during the period of, its commitment under the agreement shall bind the city or irrigation district until they are fully paid and discharged. No contract shall be effective unless all of the terms thereof are reduced to writing, signed by the entities, and filed with the county clerk as a part of and at the time the findings and plan of dissolution are filed under ORS 198.925. [1971 c.601 §5; 1983 c.740 §67]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 264 - Domestic Water Supply Districts › Section 264.990 - Penalties.

Violation of any provision of ORS 264.346 is a Class D violation. Each day’s refusal to remove fire hazards after notice by the inspecting officer to the owner or occupant of the premises whereon such hazard exists shall constitute a separate offense. [1953 c.206 §5; 1999 c.1051 §168]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 265 - Cemetery Maintenance Districts › Section 265.010 - Formation; filing boundary change with county assessor and Department of Revenue.

(1) A cemetery maintenance district may be formed in the manner provided by this chapter.
(2) For purposes of ad valorem taxation, a boundary change must be filed in final approved form with the county assessor and the Department of Revenue as provided in ORS 308.225. [Amended by 1953 c.69 §2; 1957 c.117 §1; 1963 c.519 §34; 1971 c.727 §85; 2001 c.138 §9; 2003 c.802 §90]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 265 - Cemetery Maintenance Districts › Section 265.020 - Area in which district may be formed.

A cemetery maintenance district may be formed in an area aggregating not less than 4,000 acres in one body, or in an area of less extent if it has an assessed valuation of not less than $200,000, as shown by the last county assessment roll. [Amended by 1971 c.727 §86]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 265 - Cemetery Maintenance Districts › Section 265.050 - Board of directors; terms.

(1) The power and authority given a cemetery maintenance district shall be exercised by and through a board of directors, each member of which shall be an elector of the district.
(2) The electors of a district may elect a board of three directors or five directors.
(3) Except as provided by ORS 265.100, each director shall be elected to serve for a term of four years.
(4) The board of directors shall fill any vacancy on the board as provided in ORS 198.320. [Amended by 1971 c.727 §88; 1973 c.796 §21; 1975 c.647 §25; 1983 c.83 §40; 1983 c.350 §106; 2003 c.284 §1]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 265 - Cemetery Maintenance Districts › Section 265.075 - Changing number of members of board of directors.

(1) At a meeting of the board of directors of a cemetery maintenance district, the board may change the number of directors to be elected to the board by a motion approved by an affirmative vote of a majority of the board.
(2) If the board votes to change the number of directors to be elected to the board, the board shall notify the county clerk of the county in which the petition to form the district was filed and the Secretary of State within 30 days of taking action.
(3) If the board votes to increase the number of directors from three to five, two new directors shall be elected at the next regular district election. The board shall specify the term of office of the new directors to maintain the election schedule for a five-member board as specified in ORS 265.100.
(4) If the board votes to decrease the number of directors from five to three, the board shall determine which director positions will be eliminated. A person serving as a director in a position to be eliminated may complete the person’s term. The director positions that are eliminated may not be placed on the ballot at a subsequent district election. [2003 c.284 §4]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 265 - Cemetery Maintenance Districts › Section 265.100 - Organization of board; terms of first directors.

(1) Within 10 days after issuance of their certificates of election, the directors elected as the first board of a district shall meet and organize by first taking and subscribing an oath of office to the effect that they will discharge faithfully the duties of their office to the best of their ability. They first shall determine by lot the length of term each shall hold.
(2) If the district has first elected a board of three directors, the term of one director shall expire on June 30 next following the first regular district election and the terms of two directors shall expire on June 30 next following the second regular district election.
(3) If the district has first elected a board of five directors, the term of two directors shall expire on June 30 next following the first regular district election and the terms of three directors shall expire on June 30 next following the second regular district election. [Amended by 1971 c.727 §90; 1973 c.796 §22; 1975 c.647 §26; 1983 c.350 §107; 2003 c.284 §2]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 265 - Cemetery Maintenance Districts › Section 265.130 - Meetings of board; officers.

(1) The directors shall hold meetings at such time and place within the district as they may determine upon. They shall hold at least one regular meeting in each month on a day to be fixed by them and may hold such special meetings under such rules as they may make.
(2) The directors shall, at the time of their organization, choose from their number a chairperson, a secretary and a treasurer. The secretary and treasurer may be the same person. All officers shall hold their offices until the first regular meeting in January following election and until their successors are elected and qualified. These officers shall have, respectively, powers to perform the duties usual in such cases.
(3) A majority shall constitute a quorum to do business. [Amended by 1969 c.345 §5]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 265 - Cemetery Maintenance Districts › Section 265.135 - Application of ORS chapter 255 to district.

(1) ORS chapter 255 governs the following:
(a) The nomination and election of directors.
(b) The conduct of district elections.
(2) The electors may exercise the powers of the initiative and referendum regarding a district measure, in accordance with ORS 255.135 to 255.205. [1983 c.350 §110]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 265 - Cemetery Maintenance Districts › Section 265.140 - Powers of district.

The board of directors shall transact all business pertinent to the affairs of a cemetery maintenance district. The district has the power:
(1) To sue and be sued.
(2) To purchase, take by gift or devise, own, hold, manage and operate land for cemetery purposes.
(3) To acquire in any manner permitted by law existing cemeteries and to manage, operate, enlarge, maintain and beautify them.
(4) To plat and lay out in suitable cemetery lots and blocks for burial purposes any land it may own or control.
(5) To make such contracts and to purchase and own such personal property as may be necessary or convenient for carrying out the purposes of this chapter.
(6) To sell or perpetually lease cemetery lots or tracts for burial purposes.
(7) To set aside, at the discretion of the board of directors, not to exceed one-half of the moneys derived from the sale or lease of cemetery lots and tracts as an irreducible maintenance fund. Any money gift or bequest, if so designated in the instrument creating the same, shall be placed and held in the irreducible maintenance fund, and the interest of such fund shall be used in the perpetual upkeep and beautification of the cemetery and lots therein. Such fund shall be invested only in such securities as state funds may be invested in by the State Treasurer under the laws of this state.
(8) To do any and all things necessary or convenient for proper ownership, operation, maintenance and management of the district property.
(9) To levy a tax on all taxable property within the district, computed in accordance with ORS 308.207, for the purpose of defraying the expenses of operation of the district and purchase of necessary property therefor. [Amended by 1953 c.53 §2; 1963 c.9 §10; 1971 c.647 §52; 1987 c.531 §1; 2003 c.802 §91]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 265 - Cemetery Maintenance Districts › Section 265.150 - Disposition of district funds.

(1) All funds collected on behalf of the district through the levy of taxes, and all donations, contributions, bequests or equities, or from any other source, shall be deposited with the county treasurer to the credit of the district fund and, except as otherwise provided in subsection (2) of this section, shall be drawn out only upon proper order and warrant or check. The warrant or check shall bear the signature of the treasurer and countersignature of the chairperson.
(2) At the request of the district, all funds on deposit with the county treasurer to the credit of the district shall be paid over by the county treasurer to the district. [Amended by 1961 c.516 §1]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 265 - Cemetery Maintenance Districts › Section 265.160 - Interest on unpaid warrants.

All warrants for payment of any indebtedness of the cemetery maintenance district which are unpaid for want of funds shall bear interest at a rate to be fixed by the board of directors, but in no event to exceed six percent per annum from the date of indorsement "not paid for want of funds." The aggregate amount of warrants issued shall not exceed the revenue to be received for the year in which the indebtedness is incurred.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 265 - Cemetery Maintenance Districts › Section 265.200 - Pioneer cemetery maintenance districts; annexation.

(1) As used in this section:
(a) "Pioneer cemetery maintenance district" means a cemetery maintenance district organized under ORS chapter 265 that is located in one or more rural counties and is organized for the purpose of maintaining a cemetery, as defined in ORS 97.010, that is located outside the urban growth boundaries of all cities.
(b) "Rural county" means a county with a population not greater than 20,000.
(2) Notwithstanding ORS 198.750, 198.755, 198.760, 198.765, 198.775, 198.850, 198.855 and 198.857, a parcel of land may be annexed to a pioneer cemetery maintenance district as provided in this section.
(3)(a) The owner of a parcel of land wishing to have the land annexed to a pioneer cemetery maintenance district must submit an annexation petition to the governing body of the district.
(b) The annexation petition shall declare that the petition is filed pursuant to this section, state the name of the affected pioneer cemetery maintenance district and all affected counties, indicate the principal Act of the district and be signed by the landowner.
(c) If the governing body of the pioneer cemetery maintenance district approves the annexation petition, the governing body shall endorse the petition.
(4)(a) The landowner must file the endorsed annexation petition with the board of commissioners of all affected counties.
(b) If the endorsed annexation petition filed under this section meets the requirements of this section and is otherwise sufficient under the principal Act, the county board shall approve the petition.
(c) Upon approval, the county board shall enter an order describing the boundaries of the land and declaring the land annexed to the pioneer cemetery maintenance district.
(d) For purposes of ad valorem taxation, the county board shall file the boundary change of the pioneer cemetery maintenance district in final approved form with the county assessor and the Department of Revenue as provided in ORS 308.225. [2019 c.246 §2]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 266 - Park and Recreation Districts › Section 266.010 - Definitions.

As used in this chapter:
(1) "County board" means county court or board of county commissioners of the county.
(2) "County" means the county in which the district, or the greater portion of the taxable assessed value of the district, is located.
(3) "District" means park and recreation district formed under this chapter.
(4) "District board" means the governing body of a district.
(5) "Owner" means the holder of record title to real property or the vendee under a land sale contract, if there is such a contract. [Subsection (2) (1967 Replacement Part) enacted as 1967 c.574 §2; 1969 c.668 §1; 1983 c.83 §41]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 266 - Park and Recreation Districts › Section 266.040 - Application of ORS chapter 255 to district.

(1) ORS chapter 255 governs the following:
(a) The nomination and election of board members.
(b) The conduct of all elections in the district.
(2) The electors of a district may exercise the powers of the initiative and referendum regarding a district measure, in accordance with ORS 255.135 to 255.205. [1983 c.350 §118]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 266 - Park and Recreation Districts › Section 266.110 - Petition for formation.

(1) A community may form a municipal corporation to provide park and recreation facilities for the inhabitants.
(2) In addition to other required matters, the petition for formation shall state the number of members to be on the district board and the method of election of the board of the proposed district from among the methods described in ORS 266.375. [Amended by 1957 c.57 §1; 1961 c.587 §1; 1969 c.668 §3; 1971 c.727 §91; 1975 c.249 §5]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 266 - Park and Recreation Districts › Section 266.310 - Officers of district; qualifications.

(1) The officers of the district shall be a board of three or five members, to be elected by the electors of the district, and a secretary, to be appointed by the board.
(2) Every elector of a district is qualified to be a member of the board or officer of the district. [Amended by 1957 c.57 §2; 1969 c.668 §11; 1983 c.83 §42; 1983 c.350 §113]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 266 - Park and Recreation Districts › Section 266.320 - Number of board members elected at formation election; terms of office.

(1) The number of district board members to be elected shall be three or five, according to the number set forth in the petition for formation. The terms of the first board members shall be determined as provided in subsections (2) and (3) of this section.
(2) If a three-member board is to be elected:
(a) The candidates receiving the highest and the second highest vote shall be elected to a term expiring June 30 next following the second regular district election.
(b) The candidate receiving the third highest vote shall be elected to a term expiring June 30 next following the first regular district election.
(3) If a five-member board is to be elected:
(a) The candidates receiving the first, second and third highest vote shall be elected to a term expiring June 30 next following the second regular district election.
(b) The candidates receiving the fourth and fifth highest vote shall be elected to a term expiring June 30 next following the first regular district election. [Amended by 1957 c.57 §3; 1969 c.668 §12; 1971 c.647 §56; 1971 c.727 §192; 1983 c.350 §114]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 266 - Park and Recreation Districts › Section 266.325 - Changing number of board members; election; notice to Secretary of State.

(1) This section establishes the procedure for determining the following questions:
(a) Whether a district having a three-member board shall increase the number of members to five.
(b) Whether a district having a five-member board shall decrease the number of members to three.
(2) The question of increasing or decreasing the membership of the district board shall be determined at a regular district election. The district board shall order that the question be submitted to the electors when a petition is filed with the secretary of the board requesting that the electors of the district be permitted to vote on the question. The requirements for preparing, circulating and filing the petition shall be as provided for an initiative petition in ORS 255.135 to 255.205. The board shall be increased to five members or decreased to three members if a majority of the votes cast on the question favors the increase or decrease. At an election to increase the membership, electors shall vote for candidates to fill the additional positions.
(3) Not later than the 40th day before the regular district election at which a question under this section will be submitted, the district elections authority shall notify the Secretary of State. If the electors favor the increase or decrease in board membership, not later than the 30th day after the election, the Secretary of State by rule shall allocate and stagger the terms of the board members under ORS 266.335. [1957 c.57 §7; 1983 c.350 §115; 1985 c.808 §75]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 266 - Park and Recreation Districts › Section 266.330 - Election of board members; terms.

(1) At the regular district election, successors to the board members whose terms expire shall be elected as follows:
(a) In an unzoned district, if one board member is to be elected, the candidate receiving the highest vote shall be elected. If two or three board members are to be elected, the candidates receiving the first and second or first, second and third highest vote shall be elected.
(b) In a district that is zoned under ORS 266.380:
(A) If a board member is to be elected by the electors of a zone, the candidate who receives the highest vote from the zone shall be elected.
(B) If a board member is to be elected by the electors of the entire district, the candidate receiving the highest vote among the candidates nominated from the same zone shall be elected.
(2) Except as provided in ORS 266.320 and 266.335, the term of a board member is four years. [Amended by 1957 c.57 §4; 1969 c.668 §13; 1973 c.796 §24; 1975 c.647 §28; 1983 c.350 §116]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 266 - Park and Recreation Districts › Section 266.335 - Continuing schedule of biennial elections after change in number of board members; powers of Secretary of State.

(1) When a district under ORS 266.325 expands the membership of its district board from three to five members or reduces the membership of its board from five to three members, the Secretary of State by rule shall provide for continuing the schedule of biennial elections of board members as follows:
(a) If the board is reduced to three members, at least one member shall be elected at each regular district election.
(b) If the board is expanded to five members, at least two members shall be elected at each regular district election.
(2) The Secretary of State may adjust and stagger the terms of board members as necessary in order to continue regular biennial elections under subsection (1) of this section.
(3) The Secretary of State shall take into consideration and, as much as possible, provide for the continued method of representation adopted by the district under ORS 266.375. [1983 c.350 §112]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 266 - Park and Recreation Districts › Section 266.340 - Oath of office of board members.

A district board member when elected shall take the oath of office within 10 days after receiving the certificate of election. [Amended by 1969 c.345 §6; 1969 c.668 §§14,45]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 266 - Park and Recreation Districts › Section 266.370 - Board as governing power; president and secretary; meetings.

(1) The park and recreation board is the governing power of the district and shall exercise all powers of the district.
(2) At its first meeting or as soon thereafter as may be practicable, the board shall choose one of its members as president and shall appoint a secretary who need not be a member of the board. In case of the absence, or inability to act, of the president or secretary, the board shall, by order entered upon the minutes, choose a president pro tempore, or secretary pro tempore, or both, as the case may be.
(3) The board shall hold meetings either in the day or evening, as may be necessary.
(4) The board shall fill any vacancy on the board as provided in ORS 198.320. [Amended by 1983 c.350 §119; 2011 c.292 §1]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 266 - Park and Recreation Districts › Section 266.375 - Manner of electing board members.

(1) The board members may be elected in one of the following methods or a combination thereof:
(a) Elected by the electors of zones as nearly equal in population as possible according to the latest federal census.
(b) Elected at large by position number by the electors of the district.
(2) Candidates for election from zones shall be nominated by electors of the zones. Candidates for election at large may be nominated by electors of zones or by electors of the district, as determined under subsection (3) of this section.
(3) Where the method selected under subsection (2) of this section includes a combination of nomination of candidates from zones and of nomination of candidates at large, the number of candidates to be nominated in each manner shall be specified in the petition submitted under ORS 266.110 or in the petition or resolution under ORS 266.380. [1975 c.249 §2]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 266 - Park and Recreation Districts › Section 266.385 - Boundaries of zones for board members; adjustment for population and boundary changes; filing of boundary change with county assessor and Department of Revenue.

(1) The board shall adjust zones established within a district as necessary to make them as nearly equal in population as is feasible according to the latest federal census. The board also shall adjust boundaries of zones as necessary to reflect boundary changes of the district.
(2) For purposes of ad valorem taxation, a boundary change must be filed in final approved form with the county assessor and the Department of Revenue as provided in ORS 308.225. [1975 c.249 §4; 1983 c.350 §121; 2001 c.138 §10]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 266 - Park and Recreation Districts › Section 266.410 - General district powers.

Every district shall have power:
(1) To have and use a common seal.
(2) To sue and be sued in its name.
(3) To construct, reconstruct, alter, enlarge, operate and maintain such lakes, parks, recreation grounds and buildings as, in the judgment of the district board, are necessary or proper, and for this purpose to acquire by lease, purchase, gift, devise, condemnation proceedings or otherwise such real and personal property and rights of way, either within or without the limits of the district as, in the judgment of the board, are necessary or proper, and to pay for and hold the same.
(4) To make and accept any and all contracts, deeds, leases, releases and documents of any kind which, in the judgment of the board, are necessary or proper to the exercise of any power of the district, and to direct the payment of all lawful claims or demands.
(5) To assess, levy and collect taxes to pay the cost of acquiring sites for and constructing, reconstructing, altering, operating and maintaining any lakes, parks, recreation grounds and buildings that may be acquired, or any lawful claims against the district, and the running expenses of the district.
(6) To employ all necessary agents and assistants, and to pay the same.
(7) To make and enforce regulations:
(a) For the removal of garbage and other deleterious substances, and all other sanitary regulations not in conflict with the Constitution, the laws of Oregon or the regulations of the Environmental Quality Commission.
(b) Governing the conduct of the users of the facilities of lakes, parks, recreational grounds and buildings within the district.
(8) To prohibit any person violating any rule or regulation from thereafter using the facilities of the district for such period as the board may determine.
(9) To call necessary or proper elections after the formation of the district.
(10) To enlarge the boundaries of the district as provided by ORS 198.705 to 198.955.
(11) To compel all residents and owners within the district to connect their houses and habitations with the street sewers, drains or other sewage disposal system.
(12) To establish and collect reasonable charges for the use of the facilities of the district and issue appropriate evidence of the payment of such charges.
(13) Generally to do and perform any and all acts necessary and proper to the complete exercise and effect of any of its powers or the purposes for which it was formed. [Amended by 1961 c.587 §5; 1969 c.668 §16; 1971 c.647 §57; 1971 c.727 §193; 1983 c.350 §122; 2001 c.104 §81]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 266 - Park and Recreation Districts › Section 266.430 - Sinking funds.

The park and recreation board, by resolution duly adopted, may establish sinking funds for the purpose of defraying the costs of acquiring land for park and recreation sites, and for acquiring or constructing buildings or facilities thereon or therein. Any such fund may be created through the inclusion annually within the tax budget of the district of items representing the yearly installments to be credited thereto. The amount of these items shall be collected and credited to the proper fund in the same manner in which taxes levied or revenues derived for other purposes for the district are collected and credited. The balances to the credit of the funds need not be taken into consideration or deducted from budget estimates by the levying authority in preparing the annual budget of the district. None of the moneys in such funds shall be diverted or transferred to other funds, but if unexpended balances remain after disbursement of the funds for the purpose for which they were created, such balances, upon approval by resolution of the park and recreation board, shall be transferred to the operation and maintenance fund of the district.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 266 - Park and Recreation Districts › Section 266.440 - Deposit and disbursement of district moneys.

(1) Except as otherwise provided by ORS 266.530 to 266.580, the money of the district shall be deposited, in the discretion of the district board, either with the county treasurer of the county, in accordance with subsections (2) to (4) of this section, or in one or more banks or savings and loan associations to be designated by the board. Funds deposited in a bank or savings and loan association shall be withdrawn or paid out only upon proper order and warrant or check signed by the secretary and countersigned by the president of the district board. The board may by resolution designate a secretary pro tempore or a president pro tempore who may sign warrants or checks on behalf of the secretary and president, respectively.
(2) If district funds are deposited with the county treasurer, when the tax collector pays over to the county treasurer moneys collected for a district, the county treasurer shall keep the moneys in the county treasury as follows:
(a) The county treasurer shall place and keep in a fund called the operation and maintenance fund of the district (naming it) the moneys levied by the district board for that fund.
(b) The county treasurer shall place and keep in a fund called the construction fund of the district (naming it) the moneys levied by the board for construction, reconstruction and alteration.
(3) The county treasurer shall pay out moneys from the funds only upon the written order of the board, signed by the president and countersigned by the secretary. The order shall specify the name of the person to whom the money is to be paid and the fund from which it is to be paid, and shall state generally the purpose for which the payment is made. The order shall be entered in the minutes of the board.
(4) The county treasurer shall keep the order as a voucher, and shall keep a specific account of receipts and disbursements of money for the district. [Amended by 1969 c.668 §18; 1973 c.220 §1]
2023 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]
2023 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]
2023 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]
2023 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]
2023 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]
2023 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]
2023 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]
2023 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]
2023 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]
2023 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 266.430 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; 2023 c.173 §3]
2023 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]
2023 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]
2023 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]
2023 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]
2023 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]