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2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 276 - Public Facilities › Section 276.252 - Sewage system for state institutions and departments.

The Oregon Department of Administrative Services may construct sewage systems for departments located in and near the City of Salem, connect the state sewers with the City of Salem sewer system and enter into a contract with the City of Salem by which the state will contribute its relative proportion of the cost of the sewage disposal plant to be constructed by the City of Salem. The department may enter into a contract with the City of Salem for the use of the sewage disposal plant and provide for the payment to the City of Salem of a reasonable share of the cost of operating the plant. [Amended by 1969 c.199 §39]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 276 - Public Facilities › Section 276.265 - Apprenticeship programs; state agency as training agent.

(1) It is the policy of this state to encourage public agencies to participate in apprenticeship programs. Every public agency employing five or more persons in the same apprenticeable occupation for the improvement or maintenance, not including routine maintenance, of a public facility shall be encouraged to register as a training agent with the appropriate apprenticeship committees and shall be expected to employ at least one apprentice for that apprenticeable occupation, subject to the public agency’s available and legislatively approved budget resources. The public agency shall be subject in its capacity as a training agent to the rules and policies of the responsible apprenticeship committees and the State Apprenticeship and Training Council.
(2) For purposes of this section:
(a) "Apprenticeable occupation" has the meaning defined in ORS 660.010.
(b) "Employing five or more persons" means the employment of five or more persons at any time during the current or immediately prior fiscal year; provided, however, that a public agency may petition the State Apprenticeship and Training Council for exemption from the requirements of this section on the grounds that the public agency’s circumstances have so changed since the immediately prior fiscal year as to make application of this section contrary to the interests of current or potential apprentices.
(c) "Improvement or maintenance, not including routine maintenance" means construction, reconstruction and major renovation of or to and painting of public facilities and includes the remodeling, alteration and emergency repair of buildings, other structures, real property, highways and roads. "Improvement or maintenance, not including routine maintenance" does not include minor alteration, ordinary repair or maintenance necessary in order to preserve a public facility.
(d) "Public agency" means the State of Oregon or any political subdivision thereof or any county, city, district, authority, public corporation or entity and any of their instrumentalities organized and existing under law or charter.
(e) "Public facility" means the works, buildings and grounds owned, leased or rented by a public agency and which are situated within the State of Oregon, and shall include any such works, buildings or grounds governed, managed or administered by the Oregon Department of Administrative Services. [1991 c.897 §2]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 276 - Public Facilities › Section 276.280 - Definitions for ORS 276.285.

As used in ORS 276.285:
(1) "Construction" means the building, installation or assembly of a new facility; the addition, expansion, alteration, conversion or replacement of an existing facility; or the relocation of a facility from one location to another. "Construction" includes the installation of equipment made a part of the facility and related site preparation.
(2) "Facility" means a building, structure, utility and other support systems, or other improvement upon real property.
(3) "Improvement" means additions to buildings, structures or other facilities that are intended to be permanent.
(4) "Maintenance" means activities to keep facilities in an efficient operating condition and that do not add to the value or extend the economic life of the facilities.
(5) "Operations" means activities to run and use a facility for its purpose.
(6) "Real property" means land and all buildings, structures and improvements thereon. "Real property" includes fixtures erected on, above or under the land, and includes landscaping, crops, fencing and other support elements.
(7) "Repair" means work done to restore worn or damaged real property or facilities to normal operating condition.
(8) "Replace" means to exchange or substitute a facility component for another component performing the same function at the same or higher level of performance or economy and in compliance with then current building code requirements. [1995 c.452 §9]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 276 - Public Facilities › Section 276.385 - Rentals for buildings other than State Capitol or Supreme Court Building.

(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall fix rentals for space in buildings specified in ORS 276.004, and rentals or other charges for parking facilities. The rentals shall be fixed on a basis as nearly uniform as practicable to provide amounts:
(a) To pay the expenses of operating, maintaining and insuring and paying depreciation on the buildings controlled and managed by the department;
(b) To construct, improve, repair, equip and furnish additional buildings, structures and other projects for state government, and to purchase or improve sites therefor; and
(c) To provide amounts necessary to repay indebtedness, and the interest thereon, incurred to construct, improve, repair, equip and furnish buildings, structures and other projects for state government.
(2) The Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall negotiate with the Department of Transportation and other state agencies who own, operate or control state buildings to determine a fair rental rate when such facilities are to be used by other than the owning agency.
(3) Except in the case of the State Transportation Building and such other buildings owned or controlled by other state agencies, all rentals under this section shall be credited to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services Operating Fund. Rentals for the State Transportation Building, and such other state-owned buildings, are credited to the appropriate state fund for the purposes of that fund. [1969 c.706 §10; 1977 c.116 §4; 1977 c.598 §12; 1993 c.500 §21; 2005 c.755 §9]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 276 - Public Facilities › Section 276.390 - Submission of rent schedule to Emergency Board or Joint Interim Committee on Ways and Means.

Not later than June 30 of each even-numbered year, the Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall submit to the Emergency Board or to the Joint Interim Committee on Ways and Means a schedule of rentals proposed for the biennium beginning on July 1 of the next calendar year. [1969 c.706 §11; 1977 c.598 §13; 2011 c.545 §36; 2012 c.107 §7; 2019 c.20 §1]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 276 - Public Facilities › Section 276.410 - Assignment of quarters to officers and state agencies.

(1) The Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall assign state agencies office space in the buildings described in ORS 276.004 or in leased quarters as provided in ORS 276.420 to 276.440 or in available space in other buildings owned or controlled by other state agencies.
(2) Adequate quarters in a state office building, or in some other building in the City of Salem owned or leased by the state, shall be assigned for all elected state officers and the administrative heads of all state agencies to the extent feasible as space becomes available.
(3) In carrying out the responsibilities authorized in this section, the department may acquire and hold office space necessary to meet identified space needs, including such costs as are incurred by the department to assure availability of office space, and shall assure conformity with statewide management objectives and fiscal policies, including the development of space utilization standards.
(4) In carrying out its duties under subsection (3) of this section, the department shall allocate and collect from state agencies the costs for vacancies experienced in acquiring such space. [Amended by 1967 c.419 §62; 1977 c.598 §14; 1981 c.492 §1; 1993 c.500 §22]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 276 - Public Facilities › Section 276.412 - Payment of rent by state agencies.

(1) Each month the Oregon Department of Administrative Services may bill state agencies to which quarters in any state building have been assigned an amount fixed by the department as rent for the preceding month for the quarters assigned to such agencies.
(2) Moneys so collected shall be deposited in the Oregon Department of Administrative Services Operating Fund.
(3) This section applies to quarters occupied by the Department of State Lands and to quarters leased with option to purchase or under installment purchase agreement under ORS 276.429 (1). [Amended by 1959 c.289 §1; 1967 c.33 §2; 1967 c.454 §95; 1969 c.199 §40; 1969 c.706 §55; 1977 c.598 §15; 1981 c.491 §2; 2005 c.755 §10]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 276 - Public Facilities › Section 276.420 - "Office quarters" defined; department may enter into leases and rental agreements on behalf of certain agencies.

(1) For the purposes of ORS 276.420 to 276.440, "office quarters" means office space, office buildings and related service, storage and parking facilities and may also include factory built, modular or portable units.
(2) Where any agency does not have authority by law to enter into a lease or rental agreement for office quarters, the Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall have authority, with the approval of the agency, to enter into a lease or rental agreement on behalf of the agency. [Amended by 1977 c.598 §16]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 276 - Public Facilities › Section 276.424 - Joint leases.

Any two or more agencies, including the Oregon Department of Administrative Services, may enter into a joint lease or rental agreement for office quarters in the same city or community, with such provision for apportionment of the rental as may be agreed upon. [Amended by 1977 c.598 §17]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 276 - Public Facilities › Section 276.426 - Location of leased office quarters of state agencies to be centralized.

(1) It is declared to be the public policy of this state to promote economy, efficiency and convenience to the public by means of centralizing the location of office quarters of all state agencies having offices in the same city or community.
(2) Any state agency renting or leasing office quarters in any city or community shall, wherever feasible, rent or lease quarters in the same building in which are situated the office quarters of one or more other state agencies or in a building in close proximity thereto. [Amended by 1977 c.598 §18]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 276 - Public Facilities › Section 276.428 - Approval and supervision of leases and rental agreements; ordering changes in location of offices of state agencies.

(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, any lease or rental agreement for office quarters must be approved by the Oregon Department of Administrative Services prior to execution.
(2) The Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall exercise supervisory authority over all leases or rental agreements for office quarters for all state agencies. Any such agency shall make such changes in the location of its office quarters in any city or community as are ordered by the Oregon Department of Administrative Services, upon a determination by said department that the relocation will be in the best interests of the state, and will improve public access or services, reduce rentals or be to the advantage of the general public. In order to accomplish any change of location so ordered, any outstanding lease or rental agreement shall be terminated at the earliest date possible under the terms of the lease or agreement. [Amended by 1969 c.199 §41; 1977 c.598 §19]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 276 - Public Facilities › Section 276.429 - Leases; lease option purchase; cost policy; report to legislative review agency.

(1) The Oregon Department of Administrative Services may enter into, as appropriate, leases, including lease with option to purchase, installment purchases and rental agreements, as lessee, for office quarters for state agencies. In determining which method of acquiring office quarters is most appropriate under the circumstances, the department shall consider cost and the long-term best interests of the state. It is the policy of the state, in fulfilling the objectives set forth in ORS 276.426, to acquire office quarters in the most cost-effective manner feasible.
(2) The costs to the department incurred for the purpose of making such office space ready for occupancy, including professional services, remodeling, equipment acquisition and other similar costs paid to others or incurred by the department, may be advanced out of the Oregon Department of Administrative Services Operating Fund. The fund shall be reimbursed for costs so advanced from charges paid to the department by the agency leasing the space as a tenant. Where more than one agency occupies the space, the charges shall be assessed and collected from the agencies in the manner determined by the department.
(3) Immediately following each monthly rental period, the department shall bill each state agency occupying office quarters leased under subsection (1) of this section, a sum equal to such part of the total amount required for the rent of such quarters as the rental value of the space occupied by each of the state agencies bears to the whole amount of the rental value of such space so leased by the state. Such sums and rental values shall be determined by the department. Moneys collected therefor shall be placed in the Oregon Department of Administrative Services Operating Fund established in ORS 283.076 and used for the payment of the rental and operating expenses of such office quarters.
(4) Prior to entering into any lease purchase or installment purchase agreement or before exercising any purchase option in agreements made under subsection (1) of this section, the department shall report to the legislative review agency as defined in ORS 291.371. However, the department shall not enter into any lease purchase or installment purchase agreement in excess of $100,000 under any provision of law other than ORS 283.085 to 283.092.
(5) The title to properties acquired through lease-purchase options authorized in subsection (1) of this section shall vest automatically in the Oregon Department of Administrative Services in the name of the state. Properties so acquired shall be operated as office buildings as provided in ORS 276.004. [1953 c.591 §1; 1955 c.243 §1; 1965 c.385 §1; 1969 c.199 §42; 1969 c.706 §56; 1977 c.598 §20; 1981 c.106 §13; 1981 c.491 §3; 1981 c.492 §2; 1985 c.276 §3; 1991 c.642 §3; 2005 c.755 §11; 2007 c.783 §90; 2016 c.117 §44]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 276 - Public Facilities › Section 276.440 - Renting space to public agencies and private citizens; use for meetings.

(1) For any building under its jurisdiction, as described in ORS 276.004, the Oregon Department of Administrative Services may:
(a) Rent office quarters in order of priority first to other public agencies, then to private persons, at rates established under ORS 276.385 and 276.390, if the department and the owning agency, if other than the department, determine that the office quarters are not appropriate to the needs of state agencies.
(b) Rent space other than office quarters to any person, whether public or private, at rates appropriate to the local market, as determined by the department, notwithstanding ORS 276.385 (1), if the department and the owning agency, if other than the department, determine that such space is not appropriate to the needs of state agencies.
(c) Permit the occasional use of any unoccupied or vacant room or space for conventions, assemblies or other public meetings.
(d) With the advice of the occupying agency, rent the auditoriums, meeting rooms, courtyards and other outdoor spaces, suitable rooftops or lobbies of buildings occupied by state agencies to persons, whether public or private, engaged in commercial, cultural, educational or recreational activities that will not disrupt the building operations or the orderly conduct of state business.
(2) Terms of rentals authorized under this section may not exceed 10 years. Rentals authorized under this section may be negotiated without competitive bid.
(3) The department shall, by lease or otherwise, impose terms and conditions on rentals authorized under this section as necessary to protect the public interest.
(4) Receipts from rentals of space under this section shall be deposited in the Oregon Department of Administrative Services Operating Fund. [1977 c.598 §26; 2019 c.278 §5]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 276 - Public Facilities › Section 276.575 - Computation of rent schedules; collection of rents.

(1) The office building described in section 6, chapter 528, Oregon Laws 1971, shall be exempt from the rent schedules established under ORS 276.385 and 276.390.
(2) Rents attributable to any state agency, including the Employment Department, occupying space in such office building shall be computed in amounts sufficient to liquidate the sums advanced under section 7, chapter 528, Oregon Laws 1971, by July 1, 2002, with interest thereon.
(3) Rent collections for such buildings shall be handled as provided in ORS 276.412. [1971 c.528 §8]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 276 - Public Facilities › Section 276.580 - Additional payment by occupants for maintenance and service charges.

Every state agency, including the Employment Department, occupying space in the building described in section 6, chapter 528, Oregon Laws 1971, shall pay to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services all maintenance costs and necessary service charges arising out of its occupancy of the building. [1971 c.528 §9]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 276 - Public Facilities › Section 276.585 - Assignment of excess space; rental and additional charges.

Whenever space in the office building authorized by chapter 528, Oregon Laws 1971, exceeds current requirements of the Employment Department, the Oregon Department of Administrative Services may assign such space pursuant to ORS 276.004 and 276.410. However, rental rates for space so assigned shall be computed as provided in ORS 276.575 and shall be subject to maintenance and necessary service charges. [1971 c.528 §10; 1977 c.598 §22]
Note:
Legislative Counsel has substituted "chapter 528, Oregon Laws 1971," for the words "this Act" in section 10, chapter 528, Oregon Laws 1971, compiled as 276.585. Specific ORS references have not been substituted pursuant to 173.160. These sections may be determined by referring to the 1971 Comparative Section Table located in Volume 22 of ORS.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 276 - Public Facilities › Section 276.587 - Control through State Court Administrator; contract for operation.

(1) The Supreme Court, acting through the State Court Administrator, shall exercise control over the use of the Supreme Court Building.
(2) The State Court Administrator may enter into a contract with the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to provide for insurance, operating, maintenance and security services for the Supreme Court Building. [1981 c.132 §1]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 276 - Public Facilities › Section 276.591 - Definition; state parking facilities policy.

(1) As used in ORS 276.591 to 276.601, "parking facility" includes any parking space, grounds, structure or lot used for motor vehicle parking that the state or any state agency owns or controls through a direct lease, lease purchase or installment purchase agreement.
(2) It is the state policy with regard to parking facilities:
(a) That each state agency that owns or controls parking facilities regulate their use and impose on users, whether or not state employees, equitable charges consistent with the state policy for such parking and with the policies as described in ORS 276.591 to 276.601.
(b) That use of alternative modes of transportation be encouraged.
(c) That traffic congestion and energy waste be minimized.
(d) That the use of single occupant vehicles be discouraged. [1981 c.591 §1; 1989 c.990 §1; 2021 c.107 §1]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 276 - Public Facilities › Section 276.592 - Taxation of facilities used by private individuals.

Any portion of the facilities used during the tax year for parking on a rental or fee basis to private individuals shall be subject to ad valorem taxation computed by determining that percentage that private use bears to the total use of the facilities. [Formerly 276.564; 1981 c.591 §5]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 276 - Public Facilities › Section 276.594 - Management of department facilities in Salem; use of parking receipts; rules.

(1) The Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall:
(a) Manage the parking facilities described in subsection (2) of this section; and
(b) Determine the conditions under which such parking facilities may be used.
(2) Except as provided in subsection (3) of this section, the parking facilities managed by the department under this section include parking facilities located on, in, adjacent to or in proximity to:
(a) Leased office quarters as defined in ORS 276.420;
(b) The Supreme Court Building;
(c) The buildings and properties described in ORS 276.004;
(d) The area described in ORS 276.054;
(e) The capitol area and Capitol Mall, as defined in ORS 276.010; and
(f) Any other areas within the City of Salem as included by the department by rule.
(3) This section does not apply to the State Capitol, to the parking facilities located in the garage of the State Capitol, to the area immediately north of the State Capitol but south of and separated from Court Street by a traffic island, painted markings or other traffic control devices or to the area immediately south of the State Capitol but north of and separated from State Street by a traffic island, painted markings or other traffic control devices.
(4) Based upon its findings, the department shall adopt rules for parking motor vehicles or for other transportation uses of the parking facilities described in subsection (1) of this section. The department shall provide notice of the rules by appropriate signs posted in the parking facilities. In adopting the rules, the department shall consider the state policy stated in ORS 276.591.
(5) Subject to ORS 276.601, the department may lease portions of parking facilities described in subsection (1) of this section for parking motor vehicles and for other transportation uses as it determines are appropriate. However, in such leasing, priority must be given to the needs of state officers and employees, and the department shall furnish a space without charge to each statewide elective officer, except those with offices in the State Capitol. Any spaces not required for leasing to state officers and employees, or for other state purposes, may be leased to other persons.
(6) The department shall retain receipts obtained under this section, except that the department may return to the appropriate agency any net receipts obtained from any parking facilities. [1977 c.598 §25; 1981 c.591 §2; 1989 c.224 §38; 1991 c.67 §67; 2005 c.217 §22; 2007 c.70 §60; 2007 c.175 §2; 2021 c.107 §2]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 276 - Public Facilities › Section 276.595 - Management of other facilities; rules.

(1) Except as provided in ORS 276.594, each state agency shall manage and determine under what conditions the agency’s parking facilities may be used by owners and operators of motor vehicles and for other transportation purposes.
(2) Based upon its findings, the state agency shall adopt rules for parking of motor vehicles or other transportation uses of such parking facilities for which it is responsible under subsection (1) of this section. The state agency shall provide notice of the rules by appropriate signs posted in the parking facilities. In adopting the rules, the state agency shall consider the state policy stated in ORS 276.591.
(3) Subject to ORS 276.601, the state agency may lease portions of the parking facilities described in subsection (1) of this section for the parking of motor vehicles and other transportation uses as it determines is appropriate. However, in such leasing, priority must be given to the needs of state officers and employees. Any spaces not required for leasing to state officers and employees or for other state purposes may be leased to other persons. [1981 c.591 §3; 1989 c.224 §39; 1991 c.67 §68; 2007 c.70 §61; 2021 c.107 §3]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 276 - Public Facilities › Section 276.598 - Carpools or vanpools; rules.

(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of ORS 283.395, the Oregon Department of Administrative Services may establish carpool or vanpool programs in which state-owned vehicles are used by state employees as commute vehicles, provided that a daily, weekly or monthly fee is charged that is adequate to reimburse the state for the cost of providing such vehicles for such purposes.
(2) The department shall prescribe rules that:
(a) Define the use of state-owned motor vehicles that constitutes use in the conduct of state business and distinguish such use from misappropriation for private use;
(b) Identify procedures for determining and collecting the appropriate charges from employees for the use of commute vehicles; and
(c) Identify procedures to be used in the operation of state-owned vehicles as commute vehicles in the state carpool or vanpool programs authorized in subsection (1) of this section.
(3) The department may authorize other state agencies to use state-owned vehicles under the control of such agencies for the purposes set forth in subsection (1) of this section. [1977 c.598 §25b; 1981 c.490 §5; 2023 c.9 §16]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 276 - Public Facilities › Section 276.601 - Establishment of rates for minimum parking fees; exceptions; use of receipts; rules.

(1) No less than once per biennium, the Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall study and determine the typical market parking rate for any area in which there is a parking facility.
(2) An agency responsible for leasing a space under ORS 276.594 and 276.595 shall establish a base rate for leasing a space at an amount no less than:
(a) The amount calculated by the agency to produce revenues that are expected to cover the agency’s costs to provide such parking facilities, including amounts necessary to operate, maintain and improve the parking facilities, to cover required depreciation and debt service expenditures and to offset any revenues lost through reductions or incentives under subsection (3) or (4) of this section; and
(b) The typical market parking rate for the area, as determined by the department under subsection (1) of this section.
(3) Subject to rules established by the department, and consistent with the policies under ORS 276.591, an agency may establish fees below the base rate, or provide reduced-cost or free parking:
(a) For employees who have been issued a disabled person parking permit by the Department of Transportation and require the use of their vehicle in traveling to and from work;
(b) For employees who have registered with and are participating in a carpool or vanpool;
(c) For employees participating in a program which encourages the use of parking spaces in noncongested areas;
(d) For motorcycles, bicycles and similar vehicles;
(e) To reduce a public hardship to those transacting business with the state agency or using the state agency services, but not including state employees; or
(f) Where conditions show that within the area there is no market or a reduced market for parking spaces.
(4) The state agency that controls the parking facility retains funds collected under this section. Funds collected under this section must be first used to cover the costs of parking as provided under subsection (2)(a) of this section. Agencies are encouraged to use additional receipts obtained under this section to offer programs to incentivize employee carpooling, vanpooling, transit use or other alternative commuting to support the goals under ORS 276.591.
(5) Subject to rules established by the department, an agency may establish fees in excess of the base rate for individually reserved parking spaces or parking spaces with greater desirability or quality.
(6) The state agency may designate spaces within a parking facility that are not leased as available to the public as free or metered spaces.
(7) Except as provided in this section, a state agency may not provide an employee with parking vouchers or reduced or free parking within a parking facility. [1981 c.591 §4; 2021 c.107 §4]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 276 - Public Facilities › Section 276.610 - State Building Fund.

There is established a fund in the State Treasury to be known as the State Building Fund which shall be used for the construction, alteration and repair of buildings required for use of institutions and activities under the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections, the Department of Human Services, the Oregon Health Authority, the governing boards of public universities listed in ORS 352.002 or the State Board of Education and for the furnishing and equipping of buildings so constructed, altered or repaired. [Amended by 1969 c.597 §51; 1987 c.320 §153; 2009 c.595 §195; 2013 c.768 §121; 2015 c.767 §77]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 276 - Public Facilities › Section 276.612 - Determining buildings to be constructed, altered, repaired, furnished and equipped.

The Department of Corrections, the Department of Human Services, the Oregon Health Authority and the State Board of Education each shall determine the buildings to be constructed, altered, repaired, furnished and equipped for the use of institutions and activities under their respective jurisdictions. The governing board of a public university listed in ORS 352.002 shall determine the buildings to be constructed, altered, repaired, furnished and equipped for the use of public universities or offices, departments or activities under its jurisdiction. [Amended by 1969 c.597 §52; 1987 c.320 §154; 1991 c.703 §4; 1995 c.79 §94; 2009 c.595 §196; 2011 c.637 §87; 2013 c.768 §122; 2015 c.767 §78]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 276 - Public Facilities › Section 276.625 - Authority to acquire options; contingency; legislative review agency approval.

The Oregon Department of Administrative Services may acquire options, enter into earnest money agreements and enter into similar arrangements to obtain the right to acquire real property, any improvements erected upon the property and any appurtenances connected with the property. However, the department’s exercise of any rights under such an option, agreement or arrangement, shall be made contingent upon the department first obtaining the approval of the legislative review agency as defined in ORS 291.371. Before removing the contingency, the department shall first obtain the approval of the proposed purchase from the legislative review agency as defined in ORS 291.371. [1985 c.276 §2; 2016 c.117 §45]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 276 - Public Facilities › Section 276.732 - Community houses in cities; constructing; financing; use.

Any incorporated city may purchase a necessary site within its boundaries and erect and maintain thereon a community house for the benefit of the soldiers, sailors and marines of the Army and Navy of the United States, or persons who have been inducted into the service of such army or navy. For that purpose the city may levy taxes or issue and sell bonds of such city when empowered so to do by the electors of such city as provided in ORS 276.734. Such city may, by ordinance, prescribe rules and regulations and conditions upon which such community house may be used, occupied and governed.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 276 - Public Facilities › Section 276.734 - Submission of issues to electors.

The council or other governing body of any city desiring to construct and maintain a community house under ORS 276.732 may submit the issues to the electors of the city at any regular or special election held within such city. At the election the electors of the city shall designate the maximum amount of money to be expended for the community house and shall specify the manner by which funds shall be secured for that purpose, whether by taxation or the sale of the bonds of the municipality.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 276 - Public Facilities › Section 276.736 - Levy of tax; sale of bonds; construction and maintenance of houses.

The council or other governing body of the city, when authorized by vote of the majority of the electors thereof, shall:
(1) Levy the tax or issue and sell bonds as directed by such vote, not to exceed the maximum amount authorized.
(2) Purchase a site and erect and thereafter maintain the community house.
(3) Adopt ordinances regulating and governing the use and occupancy of the community house.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 276 - Public Facilities › Section 276.900 - Policy.

It is the policy of the State of Oregon that facilities to be constructed or purchased by authorized state agencies be designed, constructed, renovated and operated so as to minimize the use of energy resources and to serve as models of energy efficiency. [1979 c.734 §1; 1989 c.556 §1; 2001 c.683 §1; 2008 c.26 §1]
Note:
276.900 to 276.915 were enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but were not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 276 or any series therein by legislative action. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 276 - Public Facilities › Section 276.905 - Definitions for ORS 276.900 to 276.915.

As used in ORS 276.900 to 276.915, unless the context requires otherwise:
(1) "Alternative energy system" means an environmentally sound energy system that uses power derived from renewable resources including, but not limited to, the sun, wind, geothermal sources and heat recovery.
(2) "Authorized state agency" means a state agency, board, commission, department or division that is authorized to finance the construction, purchase or renovation of a facility that is or will be used by the State of Oregon.
(3) "Cost-effective" means that an energy resource, facility or conservation measure during its life cycle results in delivered power costs to the ultimate consumer no greater than the comparable incremental cost of the least cost alternative new energy resource, facility or conservation measure. Cost comparison shall include, but need not be limited to:
(a) Cost escalations and future availability of fuels;
(b) Waste disposal and decommissioning costs;
(c) Transmission and distribution costs;
(d) Geographic, climatic and other differences in the state; and
(e) Environmental impact.
(4) "Energy conservation measure" means a measure primarily designed to reduce the use of energy resources in a facility.
(5) "Energy consumption analysis" means the evaluation of all energy systems and components by demand and type of energy including the internal energy load imposed on a major facility by its occupants, equipment and components and the external energy load imposed on a major facility by the climatic conditions of its location. "Energy consumption analysis" includes, but is not limited to:
(a) The comparison of a range of alternatives that is likely to include all reasonable, cost-effective energy conservation measures and alternative energy systems;
(b) The simulation of each system over the entire range of operation of a major facility for a year’s operating period;
(c) The evaluation of energy consumption of component equipment in each system considering the operation of such components at other than full or rated outputs; and
(d) The consideration of alternative energy systems.
(6) "Energy savings performance contract" has the meaning given that term in ORS 279A.010.
(7) "Energy systems" means all utilities, including but not limited to heating, cooling, ventilation, lighting and the supply of domestic hot water.
(8) "Facility" means a building or other structure owned or controlled by an authorized state agency that is used or occupied by employees of the authorized state agency or that is used for conducting public business.
(9) "Major facility" means a facility that has 10,000 square feet or more of usable floor space.
(10) "Renovation" means an addition to, alteration of or repair of a facility that adds to or alters the facility’s energy systems, provided that the affected energy systems account for 50 percent or more of the facility’s total energy use. [1979 c.734 §2; 1987 c.320 §155; 1989 c.556 §2; 2001 c.683 §2; 2008 c.26 §2]
Note:
See note under 276.900.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 276 - Public Facilities › Section 276.910 - Use of fuel cell power systems in state agency facilities; rules.

(1) Before constructing or renovating a major facility, an authorized state agency shall, after comparing various equipment options and to the greatest extent practicable, use fuel cell power systems for emergency backup power applications and for critical power applications in lieu of other equipment options.
(2)(a) The State Department of Energy shall, in consultation with the Oregon Department of Administrative Services, adopt rules establishing criteria for the comparison of fuel cell power systems and other equipment options required by subsection (1) of this section.
(b) Criteria to be established under this subsection must address:
(A) The impact of emissions, including but not limited to nitrous oxide, sulfur oxide, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and particulates, from various equipment options, on the environment, regardless of whether the equipment is installed indoors or installed outdoors;
(B) Life cycle costs, including but not limited to acquisition costs, installation and commissioning costs, siting and permitting costs, maintenance costs and fueling and decommissioning costs; and
(C) The complexity of equipment options and any ancillary equipment. [2009 c.748 §6]
Note:
276.910 was enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but was not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 276 or any series therein by legislative action. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 276 - Public Facilities › Section 276.990 - Penalties.

(1) Subject to ORS 153.022, a person who violates any rule lawfully promulgated under this chapter commits a Class A violation.
(2) Any agency or officer of the state having authority to regulate parking may enter into agreements or contracts with any county, city or political subdivision under such terms as the agency or officer considers advisable to prosecute violations of subsection (1) of this section.
(3) Any person who in any way intentionally or maliciously damages or obstructs any water line of the public buildings and grounds or state institution or in any way contaminates or renders the water impure or injurious is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction, be punished as provided in ORS 431.990 for violation of the statutes enumerated therein. [Amended by 1967 c.450 §4; 1969 c.199 §47; 1973 c.663 §1; 1977 c.50 §1; 1977 c.598 §27; 1999 c.1051 §170]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 276A - Information Technology › Section 276A.200 - Legislative findings on information resources.

The Legislative Assembly finds and declares that:
(1) Information is a strategic asset of the state that must be managed as a valuable state resource.
(2) The expanding need, use and importance of information resources in this state require strong and effective management by both individual agencies and the state as a whole.
(3) The state must establish management procedures to ensure a framework for the review, improvement, integration, development, security and use of information resources. Principal objectives for information resources management are improved productivity of state workers, better public access to public information, increased effectiveness in the delivery of services provided by the various agencies and enhancing development of the telecommunication infrastructure available to the public.
(4) Effective information resources management requires:
(a) An Enterprise Information Resources Management Strategy, including management and technical policy, that is developed, maintained or updated each biennium;
(b) Comprehensive planning of the design, acquisition, security and use of information resources;
(c) The operation of communications systems and information resources that respond to the management information needs of agencies and programs; and
(d) Consideration of the impact of information resources management activities on the development and vitality of telecommunications infrastructure available to the public.
(5) Although each agency is responsible for the agency’s information resources, centralized information resource management must also exist to:
(a) Provide statewide rules and standards;
(b) Monitor and ensure compliance with those rules and standards;
(c) Provide management and technical assistance; and
(d) Ensure that the information resources management needs of state government and state government programs are addressed along with the needs of the individual agencies. [Formerly 291.037]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 276A - Information Technology › Section 276A.209 - State Information Technology Operating Fund.

(1) There is established the State Information Technology Operating Fund in the State Treasury, separate and distinct from the General Fund. The moneys in the State Information Technology Operating Fund may be invested as provided in ORS 293.701 to 293.857. Interest earnings on the fund assets must be credited to the fund.
(2) The Director of the Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall deposit into the State Information Technology Operating Fund moneys for enterprise information technology and telecommunications that are appropriated to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services and that are necessary for the State Chief Information Officer to fulfill the duties, implement the functions and exercise the powers imposed upon, transferred to and vested in the State Chief Information Officer under section 1, chapter 807, Oregon Laws 2015.
(3) The State Information Technology Operating Fund consists of:
(a) Moneys deposited into the fund under subsection (2) of this section and ORS 276A.323 and 276A.335.
(b) Amounts donated to the fund.
(c) Amounts appropriated or otherwise transferred to the fund by the Legislative Assembly.
(d) Other amounts deposited into the fund from any source.
(4) Amounts in the fund are continuously appropriated to the State Chief Information Officer for the purposes authorized by law. [Formerly 291.041]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 276A - Information Technology › Section 276A.230 - Definitions.

As used in ORS 276A.233 and 276A.236:
(1) "Executive department" has the meaning given that term in ORS 174.112.
(2) "Information technology" includes, but is not limited to, all present and future forms of hardware, software and services for data processing, office automation and telecommunications.
(3) "State agency" means a board, commission, department, division, office or other entity within the executive department of state government, except:
(a) The Secretary of State;
(b) The State Treasurer;
(c) The Oregon State Lottery; and
(d) A public university that is listed in ORS 352.002. [Formerly 184.473]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 276A - Information Technology › Section 276A.233 - Information technology portfolio-based management; inventory; standards; rules; exception.

(1) The purposes of information technology portfolio-based management are to:
(a) Ensure that state agencies link the state agencies’ information technology investments with business plans;
(b) Facilitate risk assessment of information technology projects and investments;
(c) Ensure that state agencies justify information technology investments on the basis of sound business cases;
(d) Ensure that state agencies facilitate development and review of information technology performance related to business operations;
(e) Identify projects that can cross agency and program lines to leverage resources; and
(f) Assist in state government-wide planning for common, shared information technology infrastructure.
(2) The State Chief Information Officer shall integrate state agency strategic and business planning, technology planning and budgeting and project expenditure processes into the State Chief Information Officer’s portfolio-based management and oversight of state information technology resources.
(3) The State Chief Information Officer shall conduct and maintain a continuous inventory of each state agency’s current and planned investments in information technology, a compilation of information about the current and planned investments and the total life cycle cost of the current and planned investments. Each state agency shall cooperate with the State Chief Information Officer in conducting and maintaining the inventory. The State Chief Information Officer shall develop and implement state government-wide rules, policies and standards for conducting and maintaining the required inventory and for managing the state government-wide information technology portfolio. State agencies shall participate in the State Chief Information Officer’s information technology portfolio-based management program and shall comply with the rules, policies and standards that the State Chief Information Officer establishes under this subsection. The provisions of this subsection do not relieve any state agency from accountability for equipment, materials, supplies and tangible and intangible personal property under the state agency’s control.
(4) The State Chief Information Officer shall ensure that state agencies implement portfolio-based management of information technology resources in accordance with this section and with rules, policies and standards that the State Chief Information Officer adopts.
(5) Before adopting rules to implement the provisions of this section, the State Chief Information Officer shall present the proposed rules to the Joint Legislative Committee on Information Management and Technology. [Formerly 184.475]