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2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 224 - City Sewers and Sanitation › Section 224.090 - Assessment lien on property outside city limits; priority.

No assessment under ORS 224.040 against property beyond the limits of the city shall be a lien on the property until a certified transcript of the assessment in so far as it affects such property has been filed with the county clerk or other person having custody and charge of the mortgage records of the county. From the date of such filing the assessment shall be a lien and charge against the property upon which it is imposed, prior and superior to all other liens and encumbrances whatsoever thereon, except general taxes.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 224 - City Sewers and Sanitation › Section 224.100 - Records and indexes of transcripts; effect of writ of review.

The clerk or officer referred to in ORS 224.090 shall record the transcript referred to in that section in the mortgage records of the county and properly index it. The issuance of a writ of review shall not prevent the recording and indexing of such transcript, but upon final determination of the review a further transcript shall be recorded showing the amount of the assessment. The second transcript shall be indexed and recorded and the same shall, for the amount specified therein, have the same force and effect as the first transcript would have had. [Amended by 1967 c.280 §4; 1999 c.654 §24]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 224 - City Sewers and Sanitation › Section 224.110 - Enforcing liens on property outside city limits.

The city, through its council, may collect and enforce or provide for collecting and enforcing payment of liens created by virtue of ORS 224.090 or 224.100 by a sale of the property in the same manner and with the same force and effect as is or may be provided with respect to property within the city, or a proceeding in court to foreclose such liens.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 224 - City Sewers and Sanitation › Section 224.120 - Sale without foreclosure.

In case of a sale without a foreclosure in court a duplicate certificate of sale shall be made by the city official making the sale and recorded with the county clerk or other officer having charge of mortgage records of the county. In case of redemption or issuance of a deed upon such certificate of sale a further certificate of such fact shall be made by the proper city official and shall be recorded in the same manner. [Amended by 1999 c.654 §25]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 224 - City Sewers and Sanitation › Section 224.130 - Assessment of property in drainage district.

Nothing contained in ORS 224.010 to 224.170 shall authorize the city to assess any property now included in any drainage district organized under ORS 547.005 to 547.030 and beyond the limits of the city unless the owner of such property or the officers of such district consent thereto. However, if the owner of property in such district at any time desires to connect with and utilize any sewer or drain constructed pursuant to ORS 224.020, a just and equitable assessment may be made and charged against the property owned by the owner and especially and peculiarly benefited by such connection.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 224 - City Sewers and Sanitation › Section 224.140 - Authority to control sewer system.

A city, through its council, may enact and enforce such ordinances and other provisions as may be necessary or essential for the proper policing, protection, management and control of sewers, ditches, canals and other works beyond the city limits and constructed by the city under or by virtue of ORS 224.010 to 224.170. The city may construct extensions, laterals and branches to such sewer system upon the terms and provisions applicable to original construction.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 224 - City Sewers and Sanitation › Section 224.160 - Procurement of funds for construction.

Pending the making of an assessment for all or part of any construction referred to in ORS 224.140, the city may make temporary loans or advances from the fund legally available under its charter in order to procure the federal aid or perform such construction, or both. Such loan shall be refunded from a local assessment when made and collected. If the city is without adequate funds to make such temporary loan it may from time to time borrow funds therefor and give its certificate of indebtedness for the money so borrowed. This certificate shall be paid only from funds collected from the local assessment authorized to be made for the construction. The rate of interest upon the certificates of indebtedness shall not exceed six percent per annum and no greater amount shall be borrowed than the amounts necessary for the purposes of construction.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 224 - City Sewers and Sanitation › Section 224.170 - Certain laws and charter provisions applicable to property beyond city limits.

The provisions of the city charter applicable to curative measures or reassessments shall be applicable to property without the city limits as well as to the property within the city. The owners of property beyond the city limits shall have like rights of objection, remonstrances, hearing and other remedies as the owners of property within the city or town. The right of review of any reassessment by the circuit court as provided by ORS 224.065 relative to an original assessment, and the provisions of ORS 224.065, 224.080 and 224.100 relative to review of an original assessment shall be applicable to review of a reassessment. [Amended by 1967 c.280 §5]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 224 - City Sewers and Sanitation › Section 224.270 - Validation of bond issues.

All proceedings and elections had prior to March 9, 1935, in cities of less than 100,000 population under ORS 224.232 and 224.270 are validated. All bonds voted prior to March 9, 1935, by any municipality, as defined in ORS 224.210 (1971 Replacement Part), for a sanitary disposal of sewage under ORS 224.210 to 224.260 (1971 Replacement Part) shall, when issued and sold, be legal and binding obligations of the municipality if the issuance of bonds for that purpose has been authorized and approved by a majority vote of the electors voting on the question and regardless of whether the question was submitted to the electors by the council or other governing body by resolution, ordinance or by charter amendment. The governing body of the municipality may, either before or after issuing the bonds, adopt plans, specifications and estimates for a sanitary disposal of sewage with or without following any previous plans, specifications, estimates or methods.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 224 - City Sewers and Sanitation › Section 224.310 - Definitions for ORS 224.310 to 224.420.

As used in ORS 224.310 to 224.420, unless the context requires otherwise:
(1) "Municipality" means a duly incorporated city or town having a population of not more than 3,500 inhabitants as determined from the latest official enumeration of inhabitants, either federal or state, made prior to the date of authorization of the construction and establishment by the municipality of a sewerage system or of an extension to an existing sewerage system.
(2) "Sewerage system" means complete or primary sewage treatment and disposal facilities, sewer mains, pumping stations, and all equipment and appurtenances necessary, useful or convenient for the treatment or disposal of sewage, or any portion of such a system, whether within or without the corporate limits of a municipality. [Amended by 1953 c.287 §9; 1959 c.157 §4]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 224 - City Sewers and Sanitation › Section 224.320 - Municipalities eligible for state help in financing sewerage systems.

Municipalities that have been certified by the Environmental Quality Commission as being in need of sewerage systems and that are unable to sell bonds upon the public market, or are unable to obtain satisfactory offers for bonds upon such market, for the purpose of financing the costs of construction thereof may apply to the State Treasurer for the purpose of financing such costs under ORS 224.310 to 224.420. The Environmental Quality Commission shall furnish to the State Treasurer in writing a list of the municipalities that are in the greatest need of sewerage and sanitation facilities. [Amended by 1955 c.593 §1]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 224 - City Sewers and Sanitation › Section 224.330 - Conditions precedent to financing application.

A municipality shall not apply to the State Treasurer for financing under ORS 224.320 unless:
(1) It submits to the State Treasurer plans and specifications prepared by competent registered engineers setting forth the type or character of sewer system or sewerage facilities proposed for the particular municipality and the estimated cost of the system and of the appurtenances thereto.
(2) It submits to the State Treasurer the proposed plan of the municipality for liquidation of indebtedness to be incurred for financing the cost of such system or facilities. [Amended by 1953 c.287 §9; 2009 c.259 §23]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 224 - City Sewers and Sanitation › Section 224.340 - Bonds; form and terms.

Notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act or of any city charter, the bonds issued by municipalities pursuant to ORS 224.350 and 224.370 shall bear such dates, be in such form, run for such periods of time, bear such rates of interest, and be sold by the municipalities at such prices as the State Treasurer may determine. [Amended by 1953 c.287 §9; 1955 c.593 §2; 1981 c.94 §12]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 224 - City Sewers and Sanitation › Section 224.350 - General powers of State Treasurer under ORS 224.310 to 224.420; rules.

(1) The State Treasurer shall be the sole judge as to whether state funds shall be invested in the project and as to which undertakings shall first be financed. The decision of the State Treasurer on the subject of investment and priority shall be final.
(2) The State Treasurer may enlist the technical services of any state officer or department in a study of the feasibility and cost of the sewerage project.
(3) The State Treasurer, in the discretion of the State Treasurer, may purchase, with funds subject to investment by the State Treasurer, or with moneys from the revolving fund as provided in ORS 224.390, general obligation sewerage system bonds of any municipality including bonds issued under statutory or charter authority pursuant to applications to pay assessments in installments. To facilitate the construction of a sewerage system for a municipality, the state may purchase at current market prices with such funds the outstanding water system bonds of the municipality. After the purchase of such bonds, the State Treasurer may agree with the municipality as to allocation of the net revenues of the water system of the municipality to the payment of the principal of and the interest upon the water system bonds, and upon the sewerage system bonds of the municipality. If the State Treasurer deems it expedient in the acquisition and construction of a sewerage system for a municipality to furnish sewerage service for territory that is contiguous to a municipality, or for territory outside the municipality that, in the judgment of the State Treasurer, can conveniently be served by the sewerage system thereof, the state may purchase the sewerage system bonds of a sanitary district or districts comprising such territory, or any part thereof, provided the public indebtedness for all purposes within said sanitary district or districts shall not exceed 12-1/2 percent of the real market value of all taxable property therein.
(4) The State Treasurer may authorize municipalities or sanitary districts, or both, to issue sewerage system bonds with the right reserved to them to redeem bonds at par value and accrued interest prior to the final maturity dates of the bonds.
(5) The State Treasurer, in the discretion of the State Treasurer, may authorize deferment of payment of interest upon the sewerage bonds of the municipality or district for a period not exceeding three years, and may provide for the issuance of such bonds with graduated rates of interest.
(6) The State Treasurer may adopt rules and regulations specifying the procedure to be followed by a municipality or sanitary district in availing itself of the provisions of ORS 224.310 to 224.420. [Amended by 1953 c.287 §9; 1967 c.293 §25; 1991 c.459 §352]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 224 - City Sewers and Sanitation › Section 224.370 - Municipality or district not to issue other bonds.

So long as any of the sewerage bonds of the municipality or district are owned by the state, the municipality or district shall not issue other bonds of any character without prior written approval of the State Treasurer. [Amended by 1953 c.287 §9]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 224 - City Sewers and Sanitation › Section 224.390 - State Sewer Bond Revolving Fund.

The State Sewer Bond Revolving Fund is created for investment under authority of ORS 224.310 to 224.420 and for payment of costs of the State Treasurer in carrying out the provisions of those sections. The State Treasurer may engage such assistance and incur such expenses as may be necessary for that purpose. The earnings of the revolving fund shall accrue to the General Fund, and the amounts received in payment of the principal of investments thereof shall be credited to the General Fund, to be available for the payment of general governmental expenses. [Amended by 1963 c.341 §3]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 224 - City Sewers and Sanitation › Section 224.400 - Approval by State Treasurer of rates, collection of charges and delinquent assessments; budget approval.

(1) Each municipality financing the cost of a sewerage system under authority of ORS 224.310 to 224.420 shall submit to the State Treasurer for approval a schedule of its rates and proposed method of collection of its sewerage charges. The rates shall be such as, in the judgment of the State Treasurer, shall provide sufficient funds with other revenues, if any, and ad valorem property taxes to liquidate, during the period approved by the State Treasurer, the indebtedness incurred by the municipality to defray the cost of the sewerage system and its appurtenances. Should the rates prove to be insufficient for such purpose, the State Treasurer may direct the municipality to increase the rates to the point at which the sewerage project becomes self-liquidating, and the municipality shall establish forthwith the rates prescribed by the State Treasurer.
(2) If the municipality does not have the ability to collect sewerage charges in connection with or as part of the charge for another service or utility that can be curtailed to secure collection, and if the State Treasurer so directs, delinquent assessments for sewerage charges shall be certified to the assessor of the county in which the municipality is located and shall be entered upon the tax rolls of the county and be collected and accounted for in the same manner in which city taxes are collected and accounted for. The charges shall constitute liens against the real property of the person against whom they are assessed.
(3) If required by the State Treasurer, the municipality shall obtain from the State Treasurer approval of the annual budgets and tax levies of the municipality, before they are certified to the clerk and assessor of the county in which the municipality is located, for extension upon the county tax rolls. [Amended by 1955 c.593 §5; 1991 c.459 §353a]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 224 - City Sewers and Sanitation › Section 224.410 - Authority to appoint receiver and withhold moneys from state sources on default.

If any municipality fails to meet, when due, any obligation sold to the state under authority of ORS 224.310 to 224.420, the State Treasurer, with the approval of the circuit court of the county in which the major portion of the assessed valuation of the municipality is located, may appoint a receiver to operate the system. The receiver shall act in the capacity of receiver so long as the circuit court deems receivership necessary to protect the interests of the state and of the municipality. In order to insure prompt payment of interest or principal of bonds acquired by the State Treasurer pursuant to ORS 224.380, the State Treasurer may withhold and apply to the payment of such obligations, any moneys which may accrue to the municipality from state sources. Moneys so withheld shall be repaid to the municipality when the funds with which to meet the obligations for the payment of which funds were withheld are paid by the municipality to the state. The right to withhold said moneys for the purpose provided in this section shall exist only so long as any of the sewage bonds of the municipality are owned by the state.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 224 - City Sewers and Sanitation › Section 224.420 - Duty of local treasurer to keep funds separate and withhold bond payments; liability of treasurer.

The treasurer of each municipality and of each sanitary district that finances the cost of a sewerage system or facilities under authority of ORS 224.310 to 224.420 shall keep collections or assessments for sewerage service separate and distinct from other funds of the municipality and shall withhold from tax receipts not less often than quarterly the full amounts proportionate to the elapsed portion of the tax year that have been levied for the payment of interest on and the principal of the sewerage system bonds of the city or sanitary district. For failure to account for sewerage revenues and taxes as provided in this section, such treasurers shall be liable upon their official bonds. [Amended by 1953 c.287 §9]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 224 - City Sewers and Sanitation › Section 224.450 - Validation of revenue bonds issued by cities of less than 100,000; sale of bonds to federal government.

All bonds or other obligations issued prior to November 15, 1936, by any city or town of less than 100,000 population, for the purpose of financing in whole or in part the construction, enlargement, extension, repair or improvement of a sewer system, including a sewage treatment or disposal plant and all facilities appurtenant to such system or connected therewith, where such bonds or other obligations are payable or will be payable solely from the gross or net revenues of such sewer system or any part thereof, including the revenues of improvements, additions and extensions thereto which may thereafter be constructed or acquired, as well as the revenues of the existing sewer systems, plants or properties, if any, so enlarged, extended, repaired or improved, and all proceedings for the authorization and issuance of such bonds or other obligations and the sale, execution and delivery thereof, hereby are validated, ratified, approved, authorized and confirmed, notwithstanding that the amount of such bonds or other obligations, together with the amount of bonds or other obligations of such city or town outstanding at the time of the issuance thereof, exceeds or will exceed any limitation or restriction on the amount or percentage of indebtedness or of outstanding bonds or other obligations of such city or town contained in the charter of such city or town or in any general or special law, and notwithstanding any defects or irregularities in such proceedings, and without regard to the fact that such bonds or other obligations may have been issued pursuant to the charter of such city or town or pursuant to any general or special law. Notwithstanding any provision in such proceedings that such bonds or other obligations shall be issued in manner and form satisfactory to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, or that such bonds or other obligations shall be sold to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, such bonds or other obligations may be sold to the United States of America, through the appropriate federal officer, agency or instrumentality in manner and form satisfactory to such officer, agency or instrumentality. The bonds or other obligations issued and sold prior to November 15, 1936, are the binding and legal obligations of the city or town issuing them in the actual form in which those bonds and obligations have been issued.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 224 - City Sewers and Sanitation › Section 224.510 - Sewage charge on water users.

(1) Unless prohibited by its charter, a city may impose on the users of water a sewage charge which shall be billed and collected by the city. The proceeds of the sewage charge may be used for paying, in whole or in part, the cost of planning, constructing or operating a sewage disposal system.
(2) The sewage charge shall be established and the rate fixed by the city’s governing body. [1957 c.400 §1]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 225 - Municipal Utilities › Section 225.020 - Ownership and operation of utilities by city within and without city limits.

(1) When the power to do so is conferred by or contained in its charter or act of incorporation, any city may build, own, operate and maintain waterworks, water systems, railways and railroads, electric light and power plants, within and without its boundaries for the benefit and use of its inhabitants and for profit. To that end it may:
(a) Acquire water systems and use, sell and dispose of its water for domestic, recreational, industrial, and public use and for irrigation and other purposes within and without its boundaries.
(b) Build, acquire, own and operate railways operated by steam, electric or other power within and without its boundaries and running from such city to other towns, cities and points without its boundaries.
(c) Acquire right of way, easements or real property within and without its boundaries for any such purpose.
(2) In exercising such powers, any city may bring actions for the condemnation or taking of private property for public use in the same manner as private corporations are now authorized or permitted by law to do. [Amended by 1967 c.306 §1]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 225 - Municipal Utilities › Section 225.030 - Utility may provide services within or without city limits.

Any city owning, controlling or operating a system of waterworks or electric light and power system for supplying water or electricity for its inhabitants and for general municipal purposes, and any person controlling or operating any water system or electric light and power system under contract, lease or private ownership, may sell, supply and dispose of water or electricity from such system to any person within or without the limits of the city in which the water or electric light and power system is operated, and may make contracts in reference to the sale and disposal of water or electricity from such system, for use within or without the corporate limits. [Amended by 2005 c.22 §167]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 225 - Municipal Utilities › Section 225.040 - Validation of prior municipal contracts.

All contracts or agreements made prior to May 20, 1911, and in effect as of that date, for sale and disposal of water or electricity by any city or person operating, controlling or owning water or electric light and power systems, to any person within or without the limits of the city in which the system is operated, are ratified and declared legal and valid contracts in so far as the right of the city to contract with reference to same is concerned. [Amended by 2005 c.22 §168]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 225 - Municipal Utilities › Section 225.050 - Joint construction, ownership and operation of waterworks; financing.

(1) Any or all cities may construct, own or operate jointly, in such proportion as they may agree, waterworks and water pipelines, water rights and water.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1) of this section, the cities may:
(a) Purchase, own, hold, appropriate and condemn land, rights of way, water or water rights in their own names or in the name of a joint or other commission or agency.
(b) Purchase one from the other or others waterworks, water pipelines, water rights or water or any interest therein or in either of them.
(c) Provide joint or other commissions or agencies for construction, operation or control of the matters listed in this section.
(d) Issue, sell or otherwise dispose of bonds or other securities of the city for the purpose of carrying out any of the provisions of this section.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 225 - Municipal Utilities › Section 225.060 - Several or joint ownership, operation and financing of municipal utilities in another state.

(1) Whenever authorized by their charter or incorporation law, cities and other municipal corporations may, either severally or in joint agreement, purchase, own, operate and maintain any works in an adjoining state necessary or pertinent to the furnishing of water supply or electric power, or both, for the benefit and use of their inhabitants and for profit, in so far as authorized and permitted by the laws of the adjoining state.
(2) For the purposes stated in subsection (1) of this section, and subject to its limitations, cities and other municipal corporations may purchase, own, appropriate and condemn land, rights of way, and water or water rights or both.
(3) Cities and other municipal corporations may also issue, sell and otherwise dispose of their bonds or other securities for the purposes of this section.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 225 - Municipal Utilities › Section 225.080 - Financing costs of municipal waterworks or water system; benefit assessments.

(1) In order to finance the cost of installing any improvement for waterworks or water systems authorized by ORS 225.020, a city council may provide for and make a local assessment for benefits, for all or part of the cost of such construction, against any and all property whether within or without the city or partially within or partially without the city and enforce collection of such assessments. An assessment shall not be levied under this section against property located outside the city, however, unless the governing body of the county where such property is located, by resolution, approved the assessment of the property to be assessed.
(2) ORS 224.010 to 224.170, applying to assessments for construction of sewer systems, apply to assessments authorized by this section. [1971 c.269 §2]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 225 - Municipal Utilities › Section 225.085 - Klamath Cogeneration Project; service contracts; prohibited transactions.

Notwithstanding any other law, the City of Klamath Falls, acting solely in connection with the ownership and operation of the Klamath Cogeneration Project, may enter into transactions with other persons or entities for the production, supply or delivery of electricity or fuel on an economic, dependable and cost-effective basis, including financial products contracts and other service contracts that reduce the risk of economic losses in the transactions. This section does not authorize any transaction that:
(1) Constitutes the investment of surplus funds for the purpose of receiving interest or other earnings from the investment; or
(2) Is intended or useful for any purpose other than the production, supply or delivery of electricity or fuel on a cost-effective basis. [1999 c.683 §2]
Note:
225.085 was enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but was not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 225 or any series therein by legislative action. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 225 - Municipal Utilities › Section 225.110 - Ownership and operation of telephone system by city within or without city limits.

When authorized by its charter or act of incorporation, a city may purchase, build, own, operate and maintain telephone or telegraph systems within or without its boundaries, for the benefit and use of its inhabitants at cost or for profit. [Amended by 2005 c.22 §169]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 225 - Municipal Utilities › Section 225.120 - Interconnections; cooperation with state.

For the purposes of ORS 225.110, a city may interconnect by agreement or otherwise with other public or private telephone systems and conduct both a local and long distance telephone business or it may cooperate with the state at any time that the state undertakes to handle the long distance telephone service for its cities, telephone districts or both.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 225 - Municipal Utilities › Section 225.140 - Condemnation of private property for telephone system.

Except as provided in ORS 225.150 and 225.160, in exercising the powers granted by ORS 225.110 to 225.130, a city may bring actions for condemnation or taking of any private property necessary for such public use, in the manner provided or permitted by law for private corporations, notwithstanding that the property may already be devoted to a public use.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 225 - Municipal Utilities › Section 225.220 - Enforcement of statutory requirements.

(1) The requirements of ORS 225.210 to 225.300 shall be enforced and observed by that officer who by the charter is charged with the administration of any electric light and power plant or distributing system owned or operated by the city.
(2) As used in this section, "officer" includes board or other public authority of the city.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 225 - Municipal Utilities › Section 225.230 - Rates set in accordance with estimates of annual expenses.

(1) The officer referred to in ORS 225.220 shall annually before January 1, make a written estimate of the probable expense of maintaining and conducting the electric light plant or distributing system during the next ensuing year, including the cost of any contemplated alterations, improvements, additions or extensions, together with the probable amount necessary for redemption of any unpaid warrants and the interest thereon, as well as the amount required for payment of interest and maturing principal on any outstanding bonds of the city issued for or in connection with any such electric light plant or distributing system.
(2) The officer shall thereupon ascertain and prescribe as near as can conveniently be done an electric current rate or rates for the ensuing year which will create a fund sufficient to meet all requirements in subsection (1) of this section.
(3) The officer may also include a further amount sufficient to create such fund, as in the judgment of the officer may be desirable or necessary to meet requirements of future contemplated additions, improvements or extensions to the plant or system.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 225 - Municipal Utilities › Section 225.250 - Application of earnings.

The earnings of the electric plant or distributing system shall be applied and used in payment of warrants and interest thereon issued in connection with operation of any such plant or system, and also in payment for alterations, improvements, additions or extensions and for redemption and retirement of outstanding bonds, together with interest thereon, and shall be expended only in connection with and for improving such plant or system and not for other municipal purposes, except as otherwise provided in ORS 225.270.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 225 - Municipal Utilities › Section 225.260 - Use of proceeds of bond issues.

The proceeds of bond issues issued after June 6, 1931, by authority of charter provisions of the city for the purpose of creating, acquiring, building, improving, enlarging, altering or repairing the plant or system referred to by ORS 225.210 shall be used exclusively for the purposes for which such bonds were authorized and issued.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 225 - Municipal Utilities › Section 225.270 - Use of surplus revenue.

When any city which owns or operates a municipal electric power plant or system or distributing system, has paid principal and interest to date on all indebtedness incurred in connection therewith, and has created and accumulated an adequate depreciation and replacement reserve in the judgment of the officer having control of such plant or system, the city shall, for the purpose of reducing general property taxes within such city, pay to itself not less than three percent of the annual gross operating revenue of such plant or system, or a volumetric charge based upon the amounts of electricity delivered, transmitted or distributed to retail electricity consumers regardless of the source. The volumetric charge shall not be less than the equivalent of three percent of the gross operating revenues of the municipality utility in 1999. The city shall adjust a volumetric charge to end users such that charges established for different customer classes bear the same approximate relationship as the gross revenues per kilowatt hour paid by the classes in 1999. [Amended by 1999 c.865 §32]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 225 - Municipal Utilities › Section 225.280 - Warrants on future income; limitations; retirement.

(1) When authorized by the city charter, the officer referred to in ORS 225.220 as having charge of the electric plant or distributing system may execute its warrants upon the city treasurer, drawn against the funds created by and for the benefit of such plant or system in excess of the current cash on hand but not in an amount exceeding one-half of the estimated annual income for the next ensuing year, from such plant or system. The estimate of annual income shall be made by the officer referred to in ORS 225.220.
(2) Warrants so drawn in excess of the cash on hand in any such fund shall be stamped "Not Paid for Want of Funds" by the city treasurer, shall bear the legal interest from the date of such indorsement until the date of payment and shall be paid from the current receipts of the plant or system. The warrant indebtedness shall not be considered or construed to be within the charter limitations respecting any municipal debt.
(3) Warrants issued pursuant to this section shall be retired in the order of their presentation for indorsement "Not Paid for Want of Funds" as funds are available.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 225 - Municipal Utilities › Section 225.290 - Right to acquire use of unappropriated state waters.

Any city which is authorized by its charter or by law to construct, acquire, maintain or operate an electric generating plant or distributing system may acquire in its own name the right to use the unappropriated waters of this state in accordance with laws of this state. [Amended by 1955 c.707 §32]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 225 - Municipal Utilities › Section 225.300 - Filing for use of unappropriated state waters; limitations; determination of reasonable requirements.

Any filing made by any city upon the unappropriated waters of this state for use in the future development of a hydroelectric plant by such city shall be reserved to such city and shall not be subject to appropriation by any other person, municipality or corporation unless it is judicially determined that the filing exceeds the reasonable present and future requirements of such city. In that event the surplus or excess may, by judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction, be released and discharged from the filing. Proceedings in court for the determination of whether or not the filing by any city exceeds its reasonable present and future requirements may be instituted by the State of Oregon, by the Water Resources Commission in the name of and for the State of Oregon, or by any other applicant for the right to use the waters involved. [Amended by 1955 c.707 §33; 2003 c.576 §400]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 225 - Municipal Utilities › Section 225.310 - Definitions for ORS 225.310 to 225.400.

As used in ORS 225.310 to 225.400, unless the context requires otherwise, "facilities" means a water supply for irrigation and for fire protection of property within the city together with a distribution system therefor, reservoirs, pumps, mains, stations, with all appurtenances necessary, useful or convenient for the treatment, storage and distribution of water supply.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 225 - Municipal Utilities › Section 225.330 - Acquisition of property for facilities.

(1) For the purposes of ORS 225.320, the city may acquire by gift, grant, purchase or condemnation necessary lands and rights of way within or without its statutory or corporate limits.
(2) For the purpose of acquiring property under subsection (1) of this section, the city may invoke and shall have the rights, powers and privileges granted public corporations by laws pertaining to this subject.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 225 - Municipal Utilities › Section 225.350 - Recovery of service charges.

If the service charges established under ORS 225.340 are not paid when due, the amounts thereof, together with such penalties, interests and costs as may be provided by the city governing body, may be recovered in an action at law. [Amended by 1991 c.459 §354]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 225 - Municipal Utilities › Section 225.360 - Approval, issuance, payment of bonds.

For the purposes of ORS 225.320, the city governing body may, after referring the question of acquiring and constructing the facilities to a vote of the electors of the city and after approval thereof by a majority of the electors, authorize the issuance of and cause to be issued bonds of the city for such purposes, either general obligation, limited obligation or self-liquidating in character, in a sum not more than the amount authorized at such election and subject to the provisions of ORS 225.370 and 225.380. Bonds so authorized and issued may provide for payment of both principal and interest thereon from service charges to be imposed by the city governing body for services to be extended and through employment and use of the irrigation and fire protection facilities. If service charges are imposed to be so paid, such portion thereof as may be deemed sufficient shall be set aside as a sinking fund for payment of interest on the bonds and the principal thereof at maturity.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 225 - Municipal Utilities › Section 225.370 - Terms of bonds.

The city governing body may determine the maturities and tenor of bonds issued under ORS 225.360. However, the bonds shall be serial in character and in accordance with any provisions of law or charter. The bonds shall:
(1) Be payable in not to exceed 30 years from the date of issuance thereof.
(2) Be sold at a price to net the city not less than the par value thereof with accrued interest.
(3) Bear interest at not to exceed six percent per annum. [Amended by 2005 c.22 §170]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 225 - Municipal Utilities › Section 225.380 - Application of debt limitations.

The amount of any self-liquidating bonds issued under ORS 225.360 shall not be within any limitation of indebtedness fixed by law or charter, but shall be in addition to the amount of the bonds within the limitation. However, the aggregate of the bonds, after deducting sinking funds applicable to payment of principal of the bonds, shall not exceed two and one-half percent of the latest real market value of the issuing city. [Amended by 1967 c.293 §27; 1981 c.804 §74; 1991 c.459 §355]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 225 - Municipal Utilities › Section 225.390 - Preparation and examination of plans.

Before calling any election for the purposes set forth in ORS 225.360, the city governing body shall cause to be prepared plans, specifications and estimates of costs of any proposed facilities to be voted upon, which may be examined by any elector of the city.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 225 - Municipal Utilities › Section 225.450 - Definitions for ORS 225.450 to 225.490.

As used in ORS 225.450 to 225.490, unless the context requires otherwise:
(1) "City" means a city organized under the law of California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington or Wyoming and owning and operating an electric light and power system.
(2) "Common facilities" means any works and facilities necessary or incidental to the generation, transmission, distribution or marketing of electric power and related goods and commodities.
(3) "District" means a people’s utility district organized under ORS chapter 261 or a similar public utility district organized under the law of California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Washington or Wyoming.
(4) "Electric cooperative" means a cooperative corporation organized under the law of California, Colorado, Idaho, Oregon, Montana, Nevada, Washington or Wyoming and owning and operating an electric generation, transmission or distribution system. [1967 c.603 §2; 1979 c.151 §1; 1993 c.141 §1; 1999 c.865 §34]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 225 - Municipal Utilities › Section 225.460 - Policy.

(1) The Legislative Assembly finds and declares it to be in the public interest and for a public purpose that cities, districts, electric cooperatives and electric utility companies participate as authorized in ORS 225.450 to 225.490 jointly and with other persons to:
(a) Achieve economies of scale in the generation of electricity;
(b) Meet the future power needs of this state and its inhabitants; and
(c) Participate in transactions useful for the development of an efficient system for the transmission and distribution or marketing of electric power and related goods and commodities.
(2) ORS 225.450 to 225.490 shall be construed liberally to effectuate the purposes set out in subsection (1) of this section. [1967 c.603 §3; 1999 c.865 §35]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 225 - Municipal Utilities › Section 225.470 - Authority of city to acquire interest in power facilities.

In addition to the powers otherwise conferred on cities of this state, a city that owns or operates an electric light and power system, or a city that owns or operates an electric cogeneration facility as defined in ORS 758.505, may plan, finance, construct, acquire, operate, own and maintain an undivided interest in common facilities within or without the state jointly with one or more other cities, with one or more districts, with one or more electric cooperatives or with one or more persons, or with any combination of such cities, districts, electric cooperatives or persons, and may make such plans and enter into such contracts and agreements as are necessary or appropriate for such joint planning, financing, construction, acquisition, operation, ownership or maintenance. [1967 c.603 §4; 1979 c.151 §2; 1993 c.141 §2; 1999 c.865 §36; 2001 c.733 §4]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 225 - Municipal Utilities › Section 225.480 - City liability; application of moneys; use of eminent domain prohibited.

(1) In carrying out the powers granted in ORS 225.470, a city of this state shall be liable only for its own acts with regard to the planning, financing, construction, acquisition, operation, ownership or maintenance of common facilities. No moneys or other contributions supplied by a city of this state for the planning, financing, construction, acquisition, operation or maintenance of common facilities shall be credited or applied otherwise to the account of any other participant in the common facilities.
(2) A city shall not exercise its power of eminent domain to acquire a then existing thermal power plant or any part thereof. [1967 c.603 §5]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 225 - Municipal Utilities › Section 225.490 - Use of municipal money or property; revenue bonds.

Any city of this state participating in common facilities under ORS 225.450 to 225.490 may furnish money and provide property, both real and personal, and to the extent and in the manner provided by its charter issue and notwithstanding any other provision of law, sell, either at public or privately negotiated sale, revenue bonds pledging revenues of its electric system and its interest or share of the revenues derived from the common facilities and any additions or betterments thereto, in order to pay its respective share of the cost of the planning, financing, acquisition and construction thereof. All moneys paid or property supplied by any such city for the purpose of carrying out the powers conferred by ORS 225.450 to 225.490 are declared to be for a public purpose. [1967 c.603 §6; 1969 c.341 §1; 1999 c.865 §37]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 06 - Local Government, Public Employees, Elections › Chapter 226 - City Parks, Memorials and Cemeteries › Section 226.010 - Control of municipal corporation over property outside boundaries.

Every incorporated city or municipal corporation owning or controlling any lands without its boundaries may enact any police or penal ordinance necessary to protect the same or preserve the peace and order therein or regulate the use of such park, enforce the ordinance by penalties of fine or imprisonment and make arrests and serve process of courts therein or upon persons therein or thereon in like manner and with like effect as the same might be enacted or enforced within its corporate limits.