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2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 10 - Highways, Military › Chapter 371 - Road Districts and Road Assessment Plans › Section 371.416 - Election procedures; initiative and referendum.

(1) ORS chapter 255 governs the following:
(a) The nomination and election of directors, except as provided in ORS 371.455.
(b) The conduct of district elections.
(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 §243]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 10 - Highways, Military › Chapter 371 - Road Districts and Road Assessment Plans › Section 371.450 - Election of district directors; terms; oath; qualifications; vacancies.

(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, the term of director is four years.
(2) The three directors elected as the first district board shall determine by lot the length of term each shall hold. The term of one director shall expire June 30 next following the first regular district election and the terms of two directors shall expire June 30 next following the second regular district election.
(3) Within 10 days after receiving certificates of election, the directors shall take and file their official oath which shall be filed in the office of the directors.
(4) A director shall be an elector of the district and shall have resided within the proposed district for more than 30 days immediately prior to the date of the election.
(5) The board of directors shall fill any vacancy on the board by appointment as provided in ORS 198.320. [Amended by 1969 c.669 §6; 1971 c.647 §73; 1971 c.727 §§106,194; 1973 c.796 §60; 1975 c.647 §33; 1983 c.350 §244]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 10 - Highways, Military › Chapter 371 - Road Districts and Road Assessment Plans › Section 371.455 - Nominees declared elected if number equals positions to be filled.

After expiration of the time for filing nominations for a regular district election, if the board of directors determines that the number of candidates nominated equals the number of positions to be filled on the board, the district need not hold the election. Instead, the board of directors, within 10 days after expiration of the time for filing nominations, shall declare the candidate or candidates elected. [Amended by 1955 c.227 §3; 1971 c.647 §74; 1983 c.350 §245]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 10 - Highways, Military › Chapter 371 - Road Districts and Road Assessment Plans › Section 371.470 - Selection of board of directors’ president and secretary; record of proceedings; meetings.

(1) Within the first 10 days of July in each year next following their election, excepting the year immediately after the election upon organization, the board of directors shall meet and choose one of their number president of the board and elect some suitable person as secretary. The secretary, who may or may not be a member of the board of directors, shall hold office during the pleasure of the board.
(2) The board of directors shall keep a record of all its proceedings, which shall be open to the inspection of all owners of property within the district.
(3) The secretary shall be paid such amount as the board of directors shall fix.
(4) The board of directors shall hold a regular monthly meeting at a time fixed by it and entered in its records and such special meetings as may be required for the proper transaction of business. Written notice of each special meeting shall be given to each member of the board at least 24 hours prior to the time of meeting, stating the particular business to come before such meeting. No business shall be transacted at special meetings other than as specified in the notice, unless by agreement of all the directors entered in the minutes. [Amended by 1955 c.227 §4; 1971 c.403 §5]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 10 - Highways, Military › Chapter 371 - Road Districts and Road Assessment Plans › Section 371.475 - General powers of board of directors.

The board of directors has the following powers and authority, which are not exclusive but are a general outline of powers to be construed liberally:
(1) To examine, supervise, order, construct, direct and control the repair, construction, maintenance and reconstruction of all the roads and highways within the district, except primary and secondary state highways and other highways under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation, to the end that such roads and highways shall be kept in the best condition and state of repair possible within their power, authority and the financial condition of the district.
(2) To levy and collect assessments as provided in ORS 371.500 and 371.505.
(3) To have surveys, estimates and plans made for improvement, maintenance and reconstruction of the roads of the district.
(4) To request the county court of the county in which the district is situated to provide to the district the services of the county engineer for the work of the district, and, if the county court does not provide for such district a duly qualified engineer, registered by the state, who has had not less than two years’ experience in the construction and maintenance of roads and highways, to employ a qualified engineer registered by the state, who has had not less than two years’ experience in the construction and maintenance of roads and highways, until such time as the county court may comply with the request of the district.
(5) To designate roads within the district for construction, improvement or repair, to request the county court of the county in which the district is situated to provide the right of way for the roads and to construct, repair and improve the roads in accordance with the plans formulated by the engineer employed by the directors. If the board of directors certifies to the county court that funds are available to defray the cost of acquiring such rights of way and the construction, improvement or repair of the road, the county court thereupon shall acquire the necessary right of way and proceed with the necessary construction, repair or improvement at the expense of the road assessment district.
(6) To contract under ORS 366.572 (1) or 366.576 with the approval of the county court of the county in which the district is situated.
(7) To disburse by order signed by the president and the secretary the funds of the district in payment of the expenses of the district or for the costs of road improvement, maintenance or reconstruction.
(8) To sue or be sued in the name of the district.
(9) Any and all authority and power necessary to carry out the particular powers and purposes of ORS 371.405 to 371.535.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 10 - Highways, Military › Chapter 371 - Road Districts and Road Assessment Plans › Section 371.480 - Contracts as to streets in cities.

The board of directors may contract with any city within or adjacent to the district for the repair, improvement and reconstruction of streets or public ways within the city, where the improvement of the streets is a part of the general road system of the district. The contract shall be upon terms mutually agreeable to the board of directors of the district and the governing body of the city. [Amended by 2003 c.802 §107]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 10 - Highways, Military › Chapter 371 - Road Districts and Road Assessment Plans › Section 371.485 - Authority of district over roads and highways.

A road assessment district has authority over all roads and highways within the district, except state primary and secondary highways, and streets, alleys or public ways within a city within the district other than as provided by ORS 371.480. [Amended by 2003 c.802 §108]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 10 - Highways, Military › Chapter 371 - Road Districts and Road Assessment Plans › Section 371.495 - Declaration of legislative intent.

It is the intent of the legislature that the districts authorized by ORS 371.405 to 371.535 shall be special assessment districts and all taxable properties therein located shall be benefited in proportion to the assessed valuations of the various taxable properties therein as from time to time determined by the county assessment roll of the property. [Amended by 1955 c.227 §5]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 10 - Highways, Military › Chapter 371 - Road Districts and Road Assessment Plans › Section 371.500 - Computing money to be raised by assessment; apportionment; assessment limited; tax not to interfere with others.

(1) The board of directors, in each fiscal year, shall make a computation of the total amount of money to be raised by the district through assessments for the ensuing fiscal year of July 1 to June 30, next following, for any and all purposes whatsoever in carrying out the provisions of ORS 371.405 to 371.535, including estimated delinquencies on assessments. This amount of money, when determined by the board of directors, shall be and constitute an assessment upon all the taxable property in the district and shall be apportioned by the board of directors to the property owned or held by each person, firm or corporation in proportion to the assessed valuation of all taxable property in the district as determined by the assessment roll of the county assessor last prepared.
(2) The assessment shall not exceed one-fourth of one percent (0.0025) of the real market value of the property, computed in accordance with ORS 308.207, unless authorized by a majority of those voting upon the proposition at a regular or special district election, but by such election no assessment in excess of one-fourth of one percent of the real market value of any property, over and above the one-fourth of one percent assessment above referred to, shall be levied in any one year.
(3) The levy of any tax under this section, ORS 371.505 or 371.515 shall not interfere with or prevent the county court from levying any tax for road purposes it may have the authority and power to do under any other law. [Amended by 1955 c.227 §6; 1963 c.9 §22; 1983 c.350 §246; 1991 c.459 §389]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 10 - Highways, Military › Chapter 371 - Road Districts and Road Assessment Plans › Section 371.505 - Copy of assessment resolution to county assessor; duty of assessor; collection and accounting; separate fund.

(1) The secretary of the board of directors shall, after the apportionment of the assessment, certify a copy of the resolution levying and apportioning the assessment, to the county assessor of the county in which the district is situated.
(2) The county assessor shall extend the assessment so made against all taxable property within the district in the same manner as county taxes are entered by the assessor on the assessment roll.
(3) The assessments shall be collected and accounted for and the collection enforced in the same manner as the taxes of the county, except that the tax collector shall collect and account for the district assessments separately.
(4) When paid to the county treasurer such moneys shall be held and carried in a fund to be designated "______Road Assessment Fund." All warrants of the district shall be drawn against and shall be paid from this fund. However, whenever the district secretary shall furnish bond as provided by ORS 198.220 the treasurer shall deliver all funds in the Road Assessment Fund to the secretary on demand. Thereafter the secretary shall disburse the funds on order of the board of directors. [Amended by 1955 c.227 §7; 1963 c.364 §3; 1969 c.345 §8; 1973 c.305 §15]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 10 - Highways, Military › Chapter 371 - Road Districts and Road Assessment Plans › Section 371.510 - County assessor to furnish certificate of assessed valuation.

The county assessor, upon request of the board of directors, shall furnish from time to time a certificate showing the total assessed valuation, according to the last completed assessment roll, of all the taxable property within the district. [Amended by 1955 c.227 §8]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 10 - Highways, Military › Chapter 371 - Road Districts and Road Assessment Plans › Section 371.512 - Filing boundary change with county assessor and Department of Revenue.

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. [2001 c.138 §23]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 10 - Highways, Military › Chapter 371 - Road Districts and Road Assessment Plans › Section 371.515 - District to pay county for expenses; proceedings on default.

The district shall pay the county for all the actual expenses and salary of the county engineer while the county engineer is engaged in work for and at the request of the board of directors, and for the cost of all work done by the county in the district at the request of the board of directors, which shall be the amount agreed upon between the county court and board of directors prior to the time such work is commenced or, if no agreement is made, the actual cost of the work done by the county, including a reasonable charge for depreciation of county equipment used. If, after written demand by the county court, the district fails to provide sufficient funds by taxation for the payment of all sums owing to the county, the county court may, by its order entered in its records, extend a special assessment against all the taxable property within the district in an amount sufficient to pay the amounts due the county. This assessment shall be extended upon the county tax roll and shall be assessed and collected in the same manner as the assessments levied by the district, but shall be credited by the county treasurer, when received, to a special fund, to be held for the payment of the indebtedness of the district to the county until such indebtedness is paid from this fund or other funds of the district. [Amended by 1955 c.227 §9]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 10 - Highways, Military › Chapter 371 - Road Districts and Road Assessment Plans › Section 371.520 - District excluded from other districts; certain unexpended funds credited to district; city within district may make levies.

(1) Upon the organization of a road assessment district the entire area thereof shall be excluded by such organization from any existing road district theretofore existing and shall not be included within any other road district thereafter created during the life of the road assessment district.
(2) Upon the organization of the road assessment district there shall be credited to it the portion of all special road district levies unexpended in the county treasurer’s office, or levied upon and uncollected, derived from the area within the road assessment district, except the amounts levied upon and remaining uncollected, or remaining unexpended in the county treasurer’s office, derived from assessments upon property within a city included within the road assessment district, which shall be paid to the city as provided by law prior to June 16, 1945, for use by the city upon its local streets.
(3) The inclusion of a city within the road assessment district shall not prevent the city from levying general or special taxes or assessments upon the property within the city for the purpose of improvement, maintenance, repair or reconstruction of the city streets as authorized or permitted by law or the charter of the city. [Amended by 2003 c.802 §109]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 10 - Highways, Military › Chapter 371 - Road Districts and Road Assessment Plans › Section 371.530 - Exclusion of land area from district.

A petition for exclusion of land from a district shall be approved only if the exclusion of the land does not reduce the remaining area of the district to less than an area of 20,000 acres and not less than $1 million assessed valuation of taxable property according to the most recent assessment roll prepared by the county assessor. [Amended by 1955 c.227 §10; 1971 c.727 §107]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 10 - Highways, Military › Chapter 371 - Road Districts and Road Assessment Plans › Section 371.535 - Disposition of funds of dissolved district.

If a district is dissolved, all funds then on hand or proceeds of assessments theretofore levied shall be held by the county court for the benefit of the roads within the area theretofore within the boundaries of the district. [Amended by 1971 c.727 §108]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 10 - Highways, Military › Chapter 371 - Road Districts and Road Assessment Plans › Section 371.605 - Definitions for ORS 371.605 to 371.660.

As used in ORS 371.605 to 371.660, unless the context requires otherwise:
(1) "Owner" means a vendee under a recorded land contract or if there is no such contract, the holder of the record title, which vendee or holder has a present interest equal to or greater than a life estate.
(2) "Engineer" means the county engineer, roadmaster, surveyor or other engineer selected by the county governing body.
(3) "Improvement" includes:
(a) The grading, graveling, paving or other surfacing of any road, or opening, laying out, widening, extending, altering, changing the grade of or constructing any road.
(b) The construction or reconstruction of sidewalks.
(c) The installation of ornamental street lights.
(d) The reconstruction or repair of any road improvement mentioned in this subsection.
(e) The acquisition, establishment, construction or reconstruction of any off-road motor vehicle parking facility.
(f) Installing, constructing, reconstructing, improving, extending or repairing lateral sewers, street mains, sewage disposal systems or similar facilities, and other facilities incidental thereto, within the right of way of a county road or public road.
(4) "Road," "county road" and "public road" have the meanings given those terms in ORS 368.001. [Amended by 1955 c.773 §1; 1973 c.461 §1; 1975 c.738 §2; 1983 c.305 §1]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 10 - Highways, Military › Chapter 371 - Road Districts and Road Assessment Plans › Section 371.610 - Inapplicability of ORS 371.605 to 371.660 to state highways; authority of county to supersede statutes.

(1) ORS 371.605 to 371.660 do not apply to any state highway.
(2) The county governing body may designate any public road improved under ORS 371.605 to 371.660 as a county road without invalidating the assessments levied for the purpose of the improvements.
(3) Except as otherwise provided in this section, a county may supersede any provision in ORS 371.605 to 371.660 by enacting an ordinance under ORS 203.030 to 203.065 authorizing the use of assessments to finance local improvements, as defined in ORS 223.001, and providing a procedure for levying such assessments. [Amended by 1955 c.773 §2; 1959 c.656 §1; 1983 c.305 §2; 1987 c.615 §3; 1991 c.902 §111]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 10 - Highways, Military › Chapter 371 - Road Districts and Road Assessment Plans › Section 371.615 - Petition or resolution for improvement of roads in unincorporated areas.

Proceedings to cause any improvement to be made or constructed in an unincorporated area may be initiated by the county governing body by resolution or by a petition signed by not less than 60 percent of the owners of the land representing not less than 60 percent of the land abutting on the proposed improvement and presented to the county governing body asking for the improvement. The resolution or petition shall indicate where the improvement shall be made and describe the nature of the improvement desired. [Amended by 1955 c.773 §3; 1961 c.432 §1; 1971 c.327 §1; 1983 c.305 §3]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 10 - Highways, Military › Chapter 371 - Road Districts and Road Assessment Plans › Section 371.620 - Signers of petition and objection in event of cotenancies.

In case of tenants by the entireties, joint tenants or tenants in common the parcel of land is considered as having one owner, which owner shall be deemed to have signed the petition provided for in ORS 371.615 or the objection provided for in ORS 371.630 only if every cotenant of the parcel has signed.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 10 - Highways, Military › Chapter 371 - Road Districts and Road Assessment Plans › Section 371.625 - Investigation and estimation of cost of improvement by engineer.

When the resolution is adopted or the petition is filed with it, the county court shall refer the resolution or petition to the engineer, who shall investigate the proposed improvement. If in the judgment of the engineer the improvement is feasible, the engineer shall make an estimate of the cost of the improvement and report the same to the county court. If the improvement is to be paid for in whole or in part by special assessments against property benefited by the improvement, the engineer shall include in the report:
(1) A recommendation as to the method of assessment to be used to arrive at a fair apportionment of the whole or any portion of the cost of the improvement to the properties specially benefited;
(2) The description and assessed value of each lot, parcel of land or portion thereof, to be specially benefited by the improvement, with the names of the record owners thereof; and
(3) Where the improvement petitioned for includes the construction and installation of lateral sewers, street mains or similar facilities, a separate statement of the estimated cost of the construction and installation of lateral sewers, street mains or similar facilities. [Amended by 1971 c.327 §2; 1973 c.461 §2]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 10 - Highways, Military › Chapter 371 - Road Districts and Road Assessment Plans › Section 371.630 - Notice to owners of engineer’s report; filing objections.

(1) If the engineer makes a favorable report on the proposed improvement, the county court shall mail to the owner of each parcel of land to be assessed for the proposed improvement a written notice of the favorable report, the estimated cost of the improvement and the estimated amount of the assessment against the land of the owner. The notice shall require the owner to file with the county court within 20 days after the mailing of the notice, a written objection, if any, to the further prosecution of the improvement.
(2) If objections are received by the county court signed by more than 50 percent of the owners of land representing more than 50 percent of the total amount of the assessment for the proposed improvement, the proposed improvement shall, by order of the court, be declared abandoned and no new petition may be filed and no new resolution may be adopted for the improvement within a period of one year after the date of the order. [Amended by 1955 c.773 §4; 1971 c.327 §3]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 10 - Highways, Military › Chapter 371 - Road Districts and Road Assessment Plans › Section 371.635 - Court order for improvement; recording; vacation of order and removal of lien.

(1) If the number of objections mentioned in ORS 371.630 is not received, the county court may, by order describing the land to be assessed, direct the improvement to be made by contract, or by force account. If by contract, it shall be awarded in the same manner as provided for other contracted county road improvement.
(2) The county court shall record the order for the improvement with the county clerk. The recorded order is notice that the land described in the order is subject to a lien of an assessment for the cost of the improvement, in an amount to be determined later by an order of the county court. The county clerk shall indorse upon the order the date of the filing thereof, and shall record and index the same in the County Clerk Lien Record.
(3) If the proposed improvement described in the order of the county court is not commenced within two years after the order for the improvement is recorded, the county court may by a new order vacate its former order for the proposed improvement. The county court shall record with the county clerk the order vacating the former order for the proposed improvement. Thereupon the land described shall be free of such lien and the effect of the former order. The county clerk shall indorse upon the new order the date of the filing thereof, and shall record and index the same in the County Clerk Lien Record. [Amended by 1955 c.549 §1; 1955 c.773 §5; 1971 c.327 §4; 2001 c.577 §3]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 10 - Highways, Military › Chapter 371 - Road Districts and Road Assessment Plans › Section 371.640 - Engineer to compile improvement cost; source of payment; reimbursement of source; additional work.

(1) After the improvement has been made, inspected by the engineer and accepted by the county court, the engineer shall compile the total cost of the improvement. When compiling the total cost of the improvement, the engineer may add the actual and estimated future costs for engineering and administration. Where the improvement includes the construction and installation of lateral sewers, street mains or similar facilities, the engineer shall separately compile the total cost of those improvements.
(2) Payment of the cost of the improvement other than for the construction and installation of lateral sewers and street mains or similar facilities shall be made from the general road funds or from any funds available for the construction or improvement of county roads. Payment of the cost of the construction and installation of lateral sewers and street mains or similar facilities shall be made from any funds available to the county for such improvements.
(3) The funds expended for the improvement shall be reimbursed or the improvement warrants shall be retired to the extent of the proceeds of an assessment against the land benefited by the improvement, but no assessment shall be made against any operating railroad right of way without the consent of the owner thereof. Each landowner shall be assessed a portion of the cost of the improvement corresponding to the relative benefit to the land of the landowner from the improvement.
(4) All of the cost of improvements within intersections connected with any improvement under ORS 371.605 to 371.660 may be borne by the county.
(5) Unless notified to the contrary by the owner prior to the acceptance of bids for improvements under ORS 371.605 to 371.660, an existing driveway shall be reconstructed to the property line to conform with the new grade. Additional driveways or other road connections, including retaining walls, may be constructed simultaneously with the improvements, when a written request is filed with the county court prior to the acceptance of bids by the affected abutting landowners. The cost of the driveway and all requested work shall be charged to the abutting owner and added to the assessment against the land of the owner. [Amended by 1953 c.573 §2; 1955 c.773 §6; 1961 c.432 §2; 1971 c.327 §5; 1973 c.461 §3; 1987 c.615 §4]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 10 - Highways, Military › Chapter 371 - Road Districts and Road Assessment Plans › Section 371.642 - Assessment of costs of sidewalk or curb construction and other improvements.

Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in ORS 371.605 to 371.660, the cost of construction of sidewalks under those sections shall be assessed in proportion to the front footage of the land or otherwise, as provided in those sections, to the owners of land abutting on the side of the street or road on which the sidewalks are constructed and fronting on such sidewalks. The cost of construction of all other improvements under those sections shall be assessed, in the manner provided in those sections, to the owners of land benefited by the improvement. [1955 c.773 §12; 1971 c.327 §6]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 10 - Highways, Military › Chapter 371 - Road Districts and Road Assessment Plans › Section 371.645 - Engineer to ascertain assessment; hearing on objections; court order.

(1) The engineer shall ascertain the amount of the assessment against each parcel of land assessed for the improvement and report the same to the county court.
(2) The county court by order shall thereupon set the time, not less than 10 days after the filing of the report, and place for a hearing of objections to the assessments as fixed in the report of the engineer.
(3) Not less than five days prior to the date of the hearing, the county court shall mail to the owner of each parcel of land proposed to be assessed, at the address of the owner as shown on the petition or on the latest tax roll of the county, a written notice of the time and place for the hearing of objections and of the amount of the proposed assessment against the land of the owner.
(4) After hearing objections, the county court shall by order find and determine from the evidence submitted the amount of assessment against each individual parcel of land. [Amended by 1955 c.773 §7; 1971 c.327 §7]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 10 - Highways, Military › Chapter 371 - Road Districts and Road Assessment Plans › Section 371.650 - Certification of assessment; recording order; lien.

(1) The county court shall certify a list and description of the ownership, stating the amount of assessment against each individual parcel of land, and shall record the order with the county clerk, who shall indorse thereon the date of the filing thereof and record and index it in the County Clerk Lien Record.
(2) The assessments and interest are a lien upon the land against which the same are assessed from the date of the filing with the county clerk of the order of the county court for the improvement, as provided in ORS 371.635. Each parcel of land is deemed to be benefited by the improvement to the full amount of the assessment levied thereon. No transfer, sale or division of any such parcel, or change in the legal description thereof, in any way divests the lien from the original parcel and the whole thereof. Failing to enter the name of the owner or a mistake in the name of the owner does not in any way render void any assessment and does not in any way affect the lien on the land described. The lien has priority over all other liens and encumbrances whatsoever, except tax liens.
(3) Upon payment of the assessment in full, the county court shall satisfy the same by recording the satisfaction of lien in the County Clerk Lien Record, and the parcel of land charged with such assessment is thereby discharged from the lien. [Amended by 1955 c.773 §8; 1959 c.656 §2; 2001 c.577 §4]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 10 - Highways, Military › Chapter 371 - Road Districts and Road Assessment Plans › Section 371.655 - When assessment due, payable and delinquent; application of other statutes.

(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, 30 days after the assessment is certified, the entire amount against each parcel of land shall be due and payable at the office designated by the governing body of the county and, if not so paid, shall be delinquent from that date and shall bear interest at a rate established by the governing body of the county.
(2) The owner of property assessed under ORS 371.605 to 371.660 shall have the right to apply for installment payment of the assessment as provided in ORS 223.210.
(3) The provisions of ORS 223.205 and 223.210 to 223.316 (Bancroft Bonding Act) and 223.770 relating to the assessment of property benefited by public improvements and to the issuance of bonds and other obligations for the cost of the improvements shall apply in so far as practicable and applicable in relation to the assessment by counties of the cost or any portion of the cost of improvements against the property benefited in accordance with ORS 371.605 to 371.660 and to the issuance of bonds and other obligations by the county.
(4) Where, in ORS 223.205 to 223.316 and 223.770, officials of local governments are referred to, the corresponding officials of counties where applicable and unless otherwise designated by charter shall perform the required functions. [Amended by 1955 c.773 §9; 1959 c.656 §3; 1961 c.432 §3; 1963 c.545 §1; 1965 c.227 §1; 1971 c.325 §3; 1981 c.322 §8; 1991 c.459 §391; 1991 c.902 §112; 1995 c.333 §17; 1997 c.249 §118; 2003 c.802 §64; 2009 c.538 §2]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 10 - Highways, Military › Chapter 371 - Road Districts and Road Assessment Plans › Section 371.660 - Delinquent list; execution and sale.

(1) One year from the date an assessment for improvements under ORS 371.605 to 371.660 is delinquent, or, in case the assessment has been spread in semiannual installments, one year from the date any semiannual installment of the assessment is delinquent, the county court shall prepare a delinquent list of all assessments not wholly paid. The list shall contain a description of the land, the name of the person to whom assessed and the amount of the assessment and interest due.
(2) The county court shall transmit the list to the county clerk, who shall issue a writ of execution thereon, directed to the county court.
(3) The county court shall proceed to collect the unpaid assessments named in the list by advertising and selling each parcel of land in the manner provided by law for the sale of real property on execution, but no parcel shall be sold for a sum less than the amount of the unpaid assessment plus interest thereon and the cost of advertising and sale. [Amended by 1955 c.773 §10; 1959 c.656 §4; 1961 c.432 §4]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 10 - Highways, Military › Chapter 372 - Highway Lighting Districts › Section 372.010 - Definitions.

As used in this chapter unless the context requires otherwise:
(1) "County board" means board of county commissioners or county court of a county.
(2) "County" means the county in which the district, or the greatest length of highway to be illuminated, is located.
(3) "District" means a highway lighting district formed under this chapter.
(4) "District board" or "board of commissioners" means the governing body of a district.
(5) "Highway" means any road or way open to public travel.
(6) "Owner" or "landowner" means the holder of record title to real property or the vendee under a recorded land sale contract, if there is such a contract. [Amended by 1955 c.80 §1; 1971 c.514 §1; 1983 c.83 §83]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 10 - Highways, Military › Chapter 372 - Highway Lighting Districts › Section 372.020 - Authority to organize district.

The abutting property owners or the electors resident along any highway may organize a highway lighting district for the purpose of illuminating the highway abutting their respective properties in the manner provided by this chapter. [Amended by 1971 c.514 §2; 1971 c.727 §109]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 10 - Highways, Military › Chapter 372 - Highway Lighting Districts › Section 372.030 - Location of district.

A highway lighting district may be entirely outside the limits of a city or it may be both outside and inside such limits. The boundary lines of the district shall include only territory that abuts a portion, not less than 600 feet in length, of a highway. [Amended by 1971 c.514 §3]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 10 - Highways, Military › Chapter 372 - Highway Lighting Districts › Section 372.040 - Petition for formation of district; contents.

A petition for the formation of a district, in addition to other matters required, shall set forth:
(1) The number of owners of property abutting the highway within the proposed district.
(2) The estimated initial cost of the acquisition and installation of the lighting equipment and the easements or permits necessary to carry out the purposes of the proposed district.
(3) The estimated annual cost of maintenance and operation.
(4) Further information as appropriate to fully inform the public of the plan of illumination of the highway. [Amended by 1971 c.514 §4; 1971 c.727 §110]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 10 - Highways, Military › Chapter 372 - Highway Lighting Districts › Section 372.045 - County board as district governing board; filing petition; landowners as signatories; transfer of records and files.

(1) The county board may be established as the governing board of a district. If the petition for formation filed under ORS 372.040 requests the county board to be the governing board of the district and the district is formed as provided by ORS 198.795 to 198.845, the county board shall act as the district board thereafter.
(2) After the formation of a district, the county board shall act as the district board if a petition is filed with the county board requesting that it do so. The petition may be presented by the district board or it may be presented by the landowners in the district. A petition presented by landowners shall be signed by landowners within the district owning not less than 50 percent of the front footage abutting the portion of highway included within the district. A copy of a landowners’ petition shall be sent to the district board before it is filed with the county board. When a county board becomes the governing body of a district under this subsection, the district board shall turn over to the county board the books, records, files, assets and obligations of the district and upon the delivery thereof, the county board shall become and thereafter act as the district board. [1971 c.514 §20b; 1987 c.158 §65]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 10 - Highways, Military › Chapter 372 - Highway Lighting Districts › Section 372.090 - Inspection and report by county engineer.

Upon the filing of the petition for formation, the county board shall, by order, direct the county engineer to:
(1) Make an inspection and investigation of the proposed lighting project and of the area described in the petition with respect to feasibility and public convenience and necessity.
(2) File a report for the proposed district with the county board on or before a day specified in the order, but not later than the day fixed for the hearing on the petition. [Amended by 1965 c.85 §1; 1971 c.514 §9; 1971 c.727 §111]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 10 - Highways, Military › Chapter 372 - Highway Lighting Districts › Section 372.140 - General powers of district.

A highway lighting district may:
(1) Make contracts.
(2) Hold, receive and dispose of real and personal property within and without its described boundaries.
(3) Do all other acts and things requisite, necessary or convenient in carrying out the objects of the district or exercising the powers expressly conferred upon it by this chapter.
(4) Sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in all actions and suits or other proceedings brought by or against it.
(5) Have and exercise within and without its boundaries the same rights and powers as other local governments as defined in ORS 174.116, in purchasing and selling real property and rights of way, to be exercised in the manner authorized.
(6) Purchase in the open market or obtain from other public utility corporations, electric energy for lighting purposes and poles, wires, conduits, lighting fixtures and all types of property necessary to enable the district to carry out its purposes.
(7) Enter into contracts with any person:
(a) For the construction, maintenance and operation, or any of these, of the lighting facilities or any one or more of such services.
(b) For the renewal, upkeep and maintenance of the lighting facilities or any part thereof.
(c) For the use of any lighting facilities if and when owned by such person.
(8) Contract with the state, by and through the Department of Transportation, and its successors in interest, with respect to any phases of the lighting of any highway within the district which is owned by the state or under its control. [Amended by 1971 c.514 §14; 2003 c.802 §110]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 10 - Highways, Military › Chapter 372 - Highway Lighting Districts › Section 372.150 - Plans for illumination of state highways; approval by Department of Transportation.

(1) The plans and specifications for the illumination of a state highway shall be submitted to and be approved by the Department of Transportation before a district is authorized to acquire the equipment for illumination or to install it on any state highway.
(2) A district shall maintain and operate illumination equipment on a state highway in cooperation with and with the approval of the Department of Transportation. [Amended by 1971 c.514 §15]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 10 - Highways, Military › Chapter 372 - Highway Lighting Districts › Section 372.170 - Power to assess, levy and collect taxes.

(1) The district may assess, levy and collect assessments upon all real property situate within its boundaries and which is by law taxable for state and county purposes in each year, on any reasonable basis of assessment. However, the assessment shall not exceed $1 per each front foot of the property abutting on the highway, or portion thereof, proposed to be or lighted. The proceeds of the assessment shall be applied in carrying out the objects and purposes of the district.
(2) The district may also assess, levy and collect a special assessment upon all such property in an amount sufficient to pay the initial construction and installation cost. [Amended by 1965 c.21 §1; 1971 c.514 §17]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 10 - Highways, Military › Chapter 372 - Highway Lighting Districts › Section 372.180 - Assessment, levy and collection procedure.

(1) The district board each year shall estimate assessments needed, and the amount thereof shall be levied and returned to the county officer whose duty it is to extend the tax roll at the time required by law for other taxes to be levied and returned.
(2) All assessments levied by the district shall become payable at the same time, be collected by the same officer who collects county taxes and be turned over to the district according to law.
(3) The county officer whose duty it is to extend the county levy shall extend the levy of the district in the same manner as city taxes are extended. The district levy is subject to the limits set forth in ORS 310.150.
(4) Property shall be subject to sale for the nonpayment of assessments levied by the district in like manner and with like effect as in the case of county and state taxes. [Amended by 1971 c.514 §18; 1991 c.459 §392]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 10 - Highways, Military › Chapter 372 - Highway Lighting Districts › Section 372.200 - District commissioners; qualifications; appointment.

(1) The power given to districts, except as otherwise provided by this chapter, is vested in and shall be exercised by a board of five commissioners. Except as provided by ORS 372.210, each commissioner shall be appointed to serve for a term of four years. The order by which the county board proclaims the formation of the district shall appoint five commissioners to serve as the first board of the district.
(2) Each commissioner shall be an elector of the district.
(3) Notwithstanding subsection (2) of this section, if there are fewer than 10 electors registered in the district, the county board may appoint as commissioner any owner of land within the district who also is an elector of the state as defined in ORS 246.012. [Amended by 1971 c.514 §20; 1983 c.48 §1]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 10 - Highways, Military › Chapter 372 - Highway Lighting Districts › Section 372.210 - Organization; terms of commissioners; disqualification; vacancies.

(1) Within 10 days after the issuance of the order proclaiming the formation of a district, the commissioners shall meet and organize by each first taking and subscribing an oath of office.
(2) After qualifying, the commissioners first appointed shall determine by lot the length of term each shall hold office. The term of one commissioner shall expire the first Monday in January next following the appointment of that commissioner and the terms of the other four shall expire one in one year, one in two years and two in three years after the first Monday in January next following their appointment.
(3) Each year during December the county board shall appoint a successor for any commissioner whose term expires the next following January.
(4) If a commissioner ceases to be an elector of the district, or if a commissioner who is not an elector of the district and who is appointed to serve under ORS 372.200 (3) or 372.360 (2) ceases to be an elector of the state or an owner of land within the district, the commissioner is automatically disqualified. If a vacancy occurs as provided by this subsection or for any other cause, the county board shall by order appoint a successor to hold office until the expiration of the predecessor’s term. [Amended by 1969 c.669 §7; 1971 c.514 §21; 1983 c.48 §2]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 10 - Highways, Military › Chapter 372 - Highway Lighting Districts › Section 372.220 - Meetings and officers of board.

(1) The district board shall hold meetings at the times and places within the district as it determines. It shall hold at least one regular meeting annually in January on a day to be fixed by the board. The board may hold special meetings as it may provide by rule.
(2) The board shall, at the time of organization, choose from the commissioners, a president, secretary and a treasurer, who shall hold their offices until the first regular meeting in January, or until a successor is appointed and qualified. The officers shall have the powers and perform the duties usual in such cases.
(3) A majority shall constitute a quorum to do business, and in the absence of the president any other member may preside at any meeting as provided by the rules of the board. [Amended by 1965 c.85 §3; 1971 c.514 §22]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 10 - Highways, Military › Chapter 372 - Highway Lighting Districts › Section 372.240 - District employees; expenses of board.

The district board may employ engineers, superintendents, mechanics, clerks, secretaries or other persons as requisite, necessary or convenient, in carrying on any of its work, at a rate of remuneration fixed by the board. [Amended by 1971 c.403 §6; 1971 c.514 §23]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 10 - Highways, Military › Chapter 372 - Highway Lighting Districts › Section 372.260 - Deposit and withdrawal of district moneys; annual reports.

(1) All moneys of a district shall be deposited in one or more banks designated by the district board. Moneys shall be paid out only when previously ordered by vote of the board and upon a check signed by the treasurer and countersigned by the president, or in the absence or inability of the president to act, by the secretary. A receipt or voucher, showing clearly the nature and items covered by each check drawn, shall be kept on file.
(2) Annual reports shall be made and filed by the president, secretary and treasurer, and at least once in each year a full and complete itemized statement of receipts and expenditures shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation, published in the county. [Amended by 1971 c.514 §24]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 10 - Highways, Military › Chapter 372 - Highway Lighting Districts › Section 372.270 - Preservation and inspection of records.

All the proceedings of the district board shall be entered at large in a record book. All books, maps, plans, documents, correspondence, vouchers, reports and other papers and records pertaining to the business of the district shall be carefully preserved, and shall be open to inspection as public records. [Amended by 1971 c.514 §25]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 10 - Highways, Military › Chapter 372 - Highway Lighting Districts › Section 372.280 - Initiative and referendum in districts.

The electors of a district may exercise the initiative and referendum powers with reference to legislation of the district, in accordance with ORS 255.135 to 255.205. [Amended by 1971 c.514 §26; 1983 c.350 §247]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 10 - Highways, Military › Chapter 372 - Highway Lighting Districts › Section 372.310 - Petition for annexation of land to district.

Land abutting a highway may be annexed to a highway lighting district. The petition shall set forth in addition to other matters the information required by ORS 372.040 as applied to the area proposed to be annexed. [1955 c.80 §3; 1971 c.514 §37; 1971 c.727 §112]