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2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 261 - People’s Utility Districts › Section 261.460 - Legislative function of board.

(1) The board of directors shall constitute the legislative body of the district, and shall determine all questions of policy.
(2) All legislative acts of the board shall be expressed in written resolutions or ordinances. Every ordinance enacted by the board shall be preceded by an enacting clause substantially as follows: "Be It Enacted by the ______ People’s Utility District" and shall be voted upon by an "aye" and "nay" vote. All ordinances except emergency ordinances shall require affirmative votes of a majority of the board at a regular meeting or an adjourned regular meeting.
(3) All ordinances except emergency ordinances shall be subject to the referendum and shall become effective 30 days after the date of their passage, unless a later date is fixed in the ordinance itself, in which event they shall take effect at the later date.
(4) Emergency ordinances shall contain the statement that an emergency exists and specify with distinctness the facts and reasons constituting the emergency. The unanimous vote of all members of the board present is necessary to pass any emergency ordinance and no such ordinance shall be passed with less than four directors present.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 261 - People’s Utility Districts › Section 261.465 - Board supervision and regulation of district utilities; fixing rates.

(1) The board shall supervise and regulate every utility owned, operated or owned and operated by the district, including the fixing and adjusting of rates, rentals, charges and classifications, contracts, practices and schedules, for or in connection with any service, product or commodity owned or controlled by the district.
(2) Rates so fixed shall be sufficient to accomplish the following purposes:
(a) For proper operation and maintenance of the property or facilities owned by the district.
(b) To pay all taxes which may be levied upon property owned by the district or which it may be required to pay out of its gross revenues.
(c) For payment of principal and interest of all bonds, warrants or obligations of any character in accordance with terms and provisions thereof respecting time, manner and amount of payment.
(d) For payment of any other indebtedness or obligations which the district may be obligated to pay.
(e) To establish and maintain any special funds which the district has obligated itself to create for the purpose of paying bond issues or other obligations.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 261 - People’s Utility Districts › Section 261.470 - Accounting system adopted by board; annual reports; annual audit.

(1) The board shall adopt the effective uniform system of accounts prescribed by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and require that accounting for receipts and disbursements for the district be accomplished in accordance with said system of accounts.
(2) The board shall file with the Director of the State Department of Energy and with the county clerk of each county included within the boundaries of the district an annual report in the form required by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
(3) An annual audit shall be made in the manner provided in ORS 297.405 to 297.555. A copy of such audit shall be filed with each county clerk of the county in which the district or any portion of the boundaries of the district is located, and in the office of the Secretary of State and in the office of the Director of the State Department of Energy, where it shall remain a public record. [Amended by 1953 c.354 §2; 1977 c.774 §16; 1979 c.286 §3; 1985 c.474 §4]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 261 - People’s Utility Districts › Section 261.605 - Testing validity of certain commission and board proceedings.

(1) The board of directors of a people’s utility district may by petition commence proceedings in the circuit court of the county in which the district, or the greater portion thereof, is located, for the purpose of having a judicial examination and judgment of the court as to regularity and legality of proceedings in connection with creation of the district, including:
(a) Any action or proceeding of the county governing body proclaiming the creation of the district, or declaring the result of any general or special election therein.
(b) The proceedings of the board and district providing for and authorizing issue and sale of bonds of the district, whether such bonds or any of them have or have not been sold or disposed of.
(c) Any order of the board levying a tax.
(d) The legality of the authorization of any contract with the United States and the validity of such contract, whether or not it has been executed.
(2) All proceedings of the district may be judicially examined and determined in one special proceeding, or any part thereof may be separately examined and determined by the court. [Amended by 1979 c.558 §27]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 261 - People’s Utility Districts › Section 261.610 - Nature of proceeding; notice; appearance to contest; court determinations.

(1) The proceedings shall be in the nature of a proceeding in rem, and the practice and procedure therein shall follow the practice and procedure of an action not triable by right to a jury, so far as consistent with the determination sought to be obtained, except as provided in ORS 261.605 to 261.635.
(2) The jurisdiction of the district and of electors therein shall be obtained by publication of notice directed to the district, and to the electors individually. The notice shall be served on all parties in interest by publication thereof for at least once a week for three successive weeks in some newspaper of general circulation published in the county where the proceeding is pending. Jurisdiction shall be complete within 10 days after the full publication of the notice as provided in this section.
(3) Any person interested may at any time before the expiration of such 10 days appear and contest the validity of the proceeding, or of any of the acts or things therein enumerated.
(4) The proceedings shall be speedily tried and judgment rendered declaring the matter so contested to be either valid or invalid.
(5) Any order or judgment in the course of the proceeding may be made and rendered by the judge of the circuit court in vacation. For the purpose of any such order or judgment, the court shall be deemed at all times in session and the act of the judge in making such order or judgment shall be the act of the court. [Amended by 1979 c.284 §126]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 261 - People’s Utility Districts › Section 261.615 - Appeal to Court of Appeals.

Either party may appeal to the Court of Appeals at any time within 30 days after the rendering of the general judgment, which appeal must be heard and determined within three months from the time of taking such appeal. [Amended by 1979 c.562 §9; 2003 c.576 §408]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 261 - People’s Utility Districts › Section 261.620 - Guidance for court determination.

The court, in inquiring into the regularity, legality or correctness of any such proceedings, must disregard any error, irregularity or omission which does not affect the substantial rights of the parties to the special proceedings. It may approve the proceedings in part and disapprove and declare illegal or invalid other or subsequent proceedings in part. It may approve the proceedings in part and disapprove the remainder thereof.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 261 - People’s Utility Districts › Section 261.630 - Institution of proceeding by elector; directors as parties; notice.

(1) Any elector of the district within 30 days after the entry of any order, or the performance of any act mentioned in ORS 261.605, and for which a contest is provided by that section, may bring a like proceeding in the circuit court of the county where the district, or the greater portion thereof, is located, to determine the validity of any of the acts, orders or things enumerated in ORS 261.605 to 261.615 and concerning which the right of contest is given by those sections.
(2) In such proceedings the board of directors shall be made parties defendant. Service of summons shall be made on the members of the board personally if within the county where the district or any part thereof is situated. As to any directors not within such county, service may be had by publication of summons for a like time and in like manner as provided by ORS 261.610. Service shall be deemed complete within 10 days from the date of personal service within the county and within 10 days from the date of completion of the publication, as the case may be.
(3) Such proceedings shall be tried and determined in the same manner as proceedings brought by the district itself.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 261 - People’s Utility Districts › Section 261.635 - Procedure exclusive.

No contest of any proceeding, matter or thing by this chapter provided to be had or done by the board of directors, by the district, by the county governing body or by any elector of the district, shall be had or maintained at any time or in any manner except as provided in ORS 261.605 to 261.630. [Amended by 1979 c.558 §28; 1983 c.85 §36]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 261 - People’s Utility Districts › Section 261.705 - Authority to dissolve district; vote authorizing dissolution.

Any people’s utility district which has not received voter authorization within five years of its formation election to issue bonds in an amount sufficient to acquire or build a system to provide service within its district may be dissolved whenever a majority vote of the electors of the district voting at an election for such purpose favors the dissolution. [Amended by 1987 c.824 §1]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 261 - People’s Utility Districts › Section 261.710 - Call of election; effect of favorable vote.

(1) The dissolution election may be called by the board of directors on their own motion or by a petition filed with the directors of the district, signed by electors of the district equal in number to not less than three percent of the total number of votes cast for all candidates for Governor in the district at the most recent election at which a candidate for Governor was elected to a full term, requesting the directors of the district to submit to the electors of the district the proposition of dissolving the district and settling its affairs.
(2) The petition shall be referred to the county clerk of each county wherein the district or any part thereof is located. The county clerk of each of such counties shall examine the purported signatures on the petition of electors of the county and shall certify as to the regularity and sufficiency thereof. Where the district is located in more than one county, the certificate of the county clerk of each county as to the regularity of the signatures on the petition shall be filed with the Secretary of State, who shall accept the certificates by the county clerks as to the regularity of the signatures, and based thereon, shall certify as to the sufficiency of all signatures on the petition. Whenever a dissolution petition has been certified as sufficient, the certificate of sufficiency with copy of the petition shall be transmitted to the directors of the district, who shall immediately call an election to be held concurrently with a primary election or general election.
(3) If a majority of the electors of the district, voting at the election, votes in favor of dissolution, the directors shall issue their proclamation dissolving the district and shall file the proclamation in the office of the county clerk of the county wherein the district is located.
(4) The district shall thereafter continue to exist solely for the purpose of settling its affairs as provided in ORS 261.715 to 261.730. [Amended by 1973 c.796 §18; 1983 c.83 §37; 1989 c.174 §4; 1995 c.712 §99; 2003 c.14 §130]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 261 - People’s Utility Districts › Section 261.715 - Directors as trustees.

Upon dissolution the directors then in office shall be deemed to be, and thereafter be referred to as, the trustees of the district, with power and authority in the name and in behalf of the district to sell, transfer and dispose of any and all property and assets of the district and to do each and every thing necessary and needful or requisite for settlement and liquidation of the affairs of the district as provided in ORS 261.720 to 261.730.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 261 - People’s Utility Districts › Section 261.720 - Inventory and sale of district property.

The trustees shall proceed at once to take, or cause to be taken, an inventory of all property of the district, its assets and liabilities, and shall sell the same as a whole or any part thereof upon such terms and conditions as the trustees deem advisable.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 261 - People’s Utility Districts › Section 261.725 - Disposal of sale proceeds.

(1) The proceeds derived from the sale shall be used to pay the indebtedness of the district.
(2) If, after payment of all debts of the district, there remain any surplus funds to the credit of the district, such funds shall be turned over to the county treasurer of each county in which the district may be located, to become a part of the general fund of the county in the proportion that the assessed value of the property within the boundaries of the district in such county bears to the total assessed value of all property within the boundaries of the district as determined by the last assessment rolls.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 261 - People’s Utility Districts › Section 261.730 - Disposal of district books and records; termination of corporate existence.

After the affairs of the district have been fully settled, all books and records of the district shall be deposited by the trustees in the office of the county clerk of the county wherein the district or its principal part in area thereof is located, and the corporate existence of the district without further action is dissolved and terminated for all purposes.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 261 - People’s Utility Districts › Section 261.900 - Construction.

(1) The rule of strict construction shall have no application to ORS 261.007, 261.010, 261.030, 261.065 to 261.118, 261.131 to 261.171, 261.190, 261.200, 261.220, 261.225, 261.305 to 261.325, 261.345, 261.355, 261.371, 261.375, 261.605, 261.635 and this section; but the same shall be liberally construed, in order to carry out the purposes and objects for which ORS 261.007, 261.010, 261.030, 261.065 to 261.118, 261.131 to 261.171, 261.190, 261.200, 261.220, 261.225, 261.305 to 261.325, 261.345, 261.355, 261.371, 261.375, 261.605, 261.635 and this section are intended.
(2) When ORS 261.007, 261.010, 261.030, 261.065 to 261.118, 261.131 to 261.171, 261.190, 261.200, 261.220, 261.225, 261.305 to 261.325, 261.345, 261.355, 261.371, 261.375, 261.605, 261.635 and this section come in conflict with any provision, limitation or restriction in any other law, ORS 261.007, 261.010, 261.030, 261.065 to 261.118, 261.131 to 261.171, 261.190, 261.200, 261.220, 261.225, 261.305 to 261.325, 261.345, 261.355, 261.371, 261.375, 261.605, 261.635 and this section shall govern and control. [1979 c.558 §29]
Note:
261.900 was enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but was not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 261 or any series therein by legislative action. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 262 - Joint Operating Agencies for Electric Power › Section 262.005 - Definitions for ORS 262.015 to 262.105.

As used in ORS 262.015 to 262.105, unless the context requires otherwise:
(1) "Electric cooperative" means a cooperative corporation owning and operating an electric distribution system.
(2) "Joint operating agency" means an agency organized by three or more cities or people’s utility districts under the laws of this state for the purposes and according to ORS 262.005 to 262.105.
(3) "Privately owned electric utility company" means an electric utility operated for profit and subject to regulation by the Public Utility Commission of Oregon or the equivalent officer or commission of any other state.
(4) "Utility properties" means a plant, works or other property used for development, generation, storage, distribution or transmission of electricity. "Utility properties" does not include facilities for uranium refining, processing or reprocessing. [1973 c.722 §1; 2005 c.22 §190; 2007 c.301 §42; 2007 c.895 §13]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 262 - Joint Operating Agencies for Electric Power › Section 262.015 - Authority for joint operating agency formation; powers.

(1) Any three or more cities or people’s utility districts or combinations thereof, organized under the laws of this state, may form a joint operating agency to plan, acquire, construct, own, operate and otherwise promote the development of utility properties for the generation, transmission and marketing of electricity, electrical capacity or renewable energy certificates.
(2) A joint operating agency may participate with other publicly owned utilities, including other joint operating agencies, or with electric cooperatives, or with privately owned electric utility companies, or with any combination thereof, for any purpose set forth in subsection (1) of this section, whether such agencies or utilities are organized or incorporated under the laws of this state or any other jurisdiction. However, no joint operating agency may act alone or as the managing participant to acquire, construct, own or operate utility properties.
(3) Joint operating agencies, cities, people’s utility districts and privately owned utilities, or combinations thereof, may participate in joint ownership of common facilities in accordance with ORS 225.450 to 225.490 or 261.235 to 261.255. [1973 c.722 §2; 2007 c.301 §43; 2007 c.895 §14]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 262 - Joint Operating Agencies for Electric Power › Section 262.035 - Power of agency to require financial contributions from members restricted; members contracting with agency for services.

(1) A joint operating agency shall not have the right or power to levy taxes or to assess its members for financial contributions. Each member city and district shall have the power to contribute or advance to the joint operating agency, solely out of surplus funds derived from utility operations, such sums as may be duly authorized by the utility board of the city, if there is one and, if there is no utility board, by the legislative body of the city or the district.
(2) No member of a joint operating agency shall be required to obligate all or any portion of its revenues to a joint operating agency solely because of its membership.
(3) A member may, whenever authorized by its utility board if there is one and, if there is no utility board, by its legislative body, enter into contracts with the joint operating agency to purchase capacity, energy or services and, as a part of such contracts, may agree to pay to the joint operating agency such consideration and to provide such security as it may determine advisable. [1973 c.722 §4]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 262 - Joint Operating Agencies for Electric Power › Section 262.045 - Procedure for modification of or withdrawal from agency membership.

(1) After the formation of a joint operating agency, the legislative body of any city or district not a member of the joint operating agency may adopt an ordinance and apply to the joint operating agency for membership. Such an ordinance shall not be effective unless approved by electors of the city or people’s utility district as provided by ORS 262.025.
(2) Upon the affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the joint operating agency, as evidenced by resolutions adopted by their respective legislative bodies and filed with the joint operating agency, an application for membership shall be accepted. As a condition of approving such an application, the members of a joint operating agency may require the applicant to make contributions or commitments to place the applicant in substantial parity with the existing members.
(3) A member may not withdraw from a joint operating agency, nor may a joint operating agency be dissolved, while the agency has outstanding revenue obligations for which repayment provision has not been made. When a joint operating agency has no such outstanding revenue obligations:
(a) Any member may withdraw from the joint operating agency, but will thereby forfeit any and all rights and interests which it may have in the agency and the assets thereof unless the remaining members, by resolution of their respective legislative bodies and filed with the joint operating agency, unanimously consent otherwise; however, a member may not withdraw if, following its withdrawal, the joint operating agency would have less than three members. Any withdrawing member shall remain fully liable and responsible for all contractual obligations incurred by it to the joint operating agency during the period of its membership according to the terms of such obligations.
(b) The joint operating agency may be dissolved by the unanimous agreement of the members, as evidenced by resolutions adopted by their respective legislative bodies and filed with the joint operating agency. After provision has been made for the payment of all of the dissolved agency’s debts and obligations, the members shall hold its remaining assets as tenants in common. [1973 c.722 §5]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 262 - Joint Operating Agencies for Electric Power › Section 262.095 - Rates for energy furnished by agency.

The board of directors shall establish rates and collect charges for electric power and energy and related services sold, furnished or supplied by the joint operating agency. Such rates and charges shall be fair, nondiscriminatory and at least adequate to provide revenues sufficient for:
(1) Payment of the principal of and interest on those obligations of the joint operating agency for which payment has not otherwise been provided;
(2) All payments which the agency is obligated to set aside in any special fund for the repayment of obligations and to provide reserves therefor;
(3) Payment of taxes as provided by ORS 262.105; and
(4) Payments for the proper administration, operation, maintenance, repair, renewals and replacements of utility properties of the joint operating agency and to provide reserves therefor. [1973 c.722 §10]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 262 - Joint Operating Agencies for Electric Power › Section 262.105 - Taxation of agency property in same manner as private power corporations.

All property, real and personal, owned, used, operated or controlled by a joint operating agency for the transmission, production or furnishing of electric power or energy shall be assessed and taxed in the same manner and for the same purposes as similar property owned, used, operated or controlled by private corporations, other than electric cooperatives, for the purpose of furnishing electric power or energy to the public. The joint operating agency and its directors and officers shall be subject to the same requirements as are provided by law in respect to such assessment and taxation. All taxes so levied shall be payable by the joint operating agency out of its revenues as an expense of its operation. [1973 c.722 §11]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 262 - Joint Operating Agencies for Electric Power › Section 262.115 - Construction of ORS 262.005 to 262.115 and 308.505; severability.

ORS 262.005 to 262.115 and 308.505 shall be liberally construed to effect its purposes. In the event that any portion of ORS 262.005 to 262.115 and 308.505 is declared invalid or otherwise unenforceable by a court of record, the remaining provisions of ORS 262.005 to 262.115 and 308.505 shall nevertheless remain in full force and effect. [1973 c.722 §13]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 263 - Convention Facilities › Section 263.210 - Creation of sports and convention facilities commission by ballot measure.

(1) The governing body of a county may submit to a vote by the electors of that county a proposition for the creation of a sports and convention facilities commission.
(2) The ballot measure shall specify:
(a) The name of the commission, which shall be "The Multi-Event and Convention Facilities Commission of _____ County, Oregon" or other similar distinctive name.
(b) The number of commissioners, which shall be nine.
(3) Upon the approval by the voters of such a ballot measure in a county-wide election, the commission shall be deemed established as a municipal corporation of this state and as a body corporate and politic exercising public powers. [1985 c.654 §1; subsections (2) and (3) formerly 263.220]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 263 - Convention Facilities › Section 263.230 - Commission board of directors; meetings; vacancies; employees and agents.

(1) The commission shall be managed and controlled by a board of directors consisting of all nine commissioners, who shall be appointed by the governing body of a county. The governing body of a county shall appoint commissioners so as to assure fair representation of the various geographic areas of the county by the board of directors. The directors may be removed for cause or at the will of the governing body of a county.
(2) Immediately after January 15 of each year, the board shall hold its annual meeting. It shall elect one of the members president, another vice president, another treasurer and another secretary to perform the duties of those respective offices. The officers serve from the date of their election until their successors are elected and qualified.
(3) The board of directors shall adopt and may amend rules for calling and conducting its meetings and carrying out its business and may adopt an official seal. All decisions of the board shall be by motion or resolution and shall be recorded in the board’s minute book which shall be a public record. A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business and a majority of the board shall be sufficient for the passage of any such motion or resolution.
(4) If a vacancy occurs on the board, the governing body of the county shall appoint a new member, who shall serve for the remainder of the vacated term.
(5) The board may employ such employees and agents as it deems appropriate and provide for their compensation. [1985 c.654 §3]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 263 - Convention Facilities › Section 263.240 - General powers of commission.

A commission shall have all powers necessary to accomplish the purpose of providing sports and convention facilities for the people of Oregon including, without limitation, the power:
(1) To sue and be sued in its own name.
(2) To acquire by purchase, construction, exchange, gift, lease, lease-purchase, or otherwise, and to improve, extend, maintain, manage, operate, equip and furnish sports and convention facilities located within the corporate limits of the county in which the commission is created.
(3) To lease such sports and convention facilities to any private corporations which are operating or propose to operate a sports and convention facility upon such terms and conditions as the board of directors deems appropriate, to charge and collect rents and to terminate any such lease upon default of the lessee.
(4) To enter into options and agreements for the renewal or extension of such leases of such sports and convention facilities or for the conveyance of such sports and convention facilities.
(5) To lease, license or enter into agreements relating to the use of such sports and convention facilities and may fix, alter, charge and collect rentals, fees and charges for the use, occupancy and availability of all or a part of such sports and convention facilities.
(6) To sell, exchange, donate and convey any or all of its sports and convention facilities or other assets.
(7) To mortgage and pledge its assets, or any portion thereof, whether then owned or thereafter acquired, to pledge the revenues and receipts from such assets, to acquire, hold and dispose of mortgages and other similar documents relating to sports and convention facilities, and to arrange and provide for guaranty and other security agreements therefor.
(8) To enter into contracts, leases and other undertakings in its own name.
(9) To adopt and amend resolutions. [1985 c.654 §4]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 263 - Convention Facilities › Section 263.250 - Power to lease or contract for use of facilities; use of revenues to pay bonds.

In addition to the powers granted under ORS 263.240, the commission shall also have the power to lease to any municipality or person, or to contract for the use or operation by any municipality or person, of all or any part of the facilities authorized by this chapter, including but not limited to parking facilities, concession facilities of all kinds and any property or property rights appurtenant to such facilities for such period and under such terms and conditions and upon such rental, fees and charges as the commission may determine, and may pledge all or any portion of such rentals, fees and charges and all other revenue derived from the ownership or operation of such facilities to pay and secure the payment of general obligation bonds or revenue bonds issued for authorized purposes. [1985 c.654 §5]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 263 - Convention Facilities › Section 263.260 - Authority to issue revenue and general obligation bonds.

(1) For the purpose of providing sports and convention facilities for the people of Oregon and to exercise the powers granted by ORS 263.240 (2), the commission may issue revenue and bond anticipation notes or their equivalent, revenue bonds and general obligation bonds within the limitation now or hereafter prescribed by the laws of this state. Such notes and bonds shall be authorized, executed, issued and made payable in accordance with the applicable laws of this state. The commission may issue and sell such notes and bonds only when authorized to do so by a majority of the electors voting at a county-wide election other than the election at which the commission is established.
(2) The commission may provide that such bonds mature not more than 40 years from date of their issue and may provide that such bonds also be made payable from any otherwise unpledged revenues which may be derived from the ownership or operation of any sports and convention facilities. The commission shall also have the power to advance refund bonds issued hereunder in accordance with the laws of Oregon.
(3) The commission may include in the principal amount of any bonds issued to finance a sports and convention facility an amount for engineering, architectural, planning, financial, legal and other services and charges incident to the acquisition or construction of sports and convention facilities, an amount to establish necessary reserves and an amount necessary for interest during the period of construction of any facilities to be financed from the proceeds of such issue plus six months. [1985 c.654 §6]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 263 - Convention Facilities › Section 263.270 - Fund to pay principal and interest on bonds; pledge of revenues.

(1) When a commission issues revenue bonds under this chapter, the resolution authorizing the issuance of the revenue bonds shall create a special fund for the sole purpose of paying the principal of and interest on the bonds of each such issue, into which fund board of directors may obligate the commission to pay all or part of such amounts of the gross revenue of all or any part of the sports and convention facilities constructed, acquired, improved, added to, repaired or replaced pursuant to this chapter, or other designated revenues, as the board of directors of the commission shall determine.
(2) The principal of and interest on such bonds shall be payable only out of such special fund or funds and the owners of such bonds shall have a lien and charge against the gross revenue pledged to such fund or funds. [1985 c.654 §7]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 263 - Convention Facilities › Section 263.280 - Annual budget; approval by county.

The commission shall prepare a budget for each fiscal year covering the projected operating expenses of the commission and its sports and convention facilities and the estimated income to pay the operating expenses. It shall submit the budget for review and approval or rejection to the governing body of the county in which the commission was created. The commission may make expenditures only as provided in the budget as approved, unless additional expenditures are approved by the governing body of the county. Payments to users of any sports and convention facility that constitute a contractual share of box office receipts are neither an operating expense nor an expenditure within the meaning of this section. [1985 c.654 §8]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 264 - Domestic Water Supply Districts › Section 264.010 - Definitions.

As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise:
(1) "Board" or "board of commissioners" means the governing body of a district.
(2) "District" means a domestic water supply district formed under this chapter.
(3) "County" means the county in which the district, or the greater portion of the taxable assessed value of the district, is located.
(4) "County board" means the county court or board of county commissioners of the county.
(5) "County clerk" means the county clerk of the county.
(6) "Owner" means the holder of the record title to real property or the vendee under a land sale contract, if there is such a contract. [Amended by 1969 c.666 §1; 1983 c.83 §38]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 264 - Domestic Water Supply Districts › Section 264.015 - Application of ORS chapter 255.

(1) ORS chapter 255 governs the following:
(a) The nomination and election of commissioners.
(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 §105]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 264 - Domestic Water Supply Districts › Section 264.110 - Formation of domestic water supply district; sale of surplus water; exemptions.

A domestic water supply district may be formed for the purpose of supplying inhabitants of the district with water for domestic purposes as provided by this chapter; and, in connection therewith, may supply, furnish and sell for any use any surplus water over and above the domestic needs of its inhabitants to persons living outside the district, or to other water districts, school districts or other local governments as defined in ORS 174.116. All railroad rights of way or improvements thereon or rolling stock moving thereover shall be excluded from districts organized after June 9, 1943, and for purposes of ORS 264.210 to 264.320, 264.410, 264.420, 264.430, 264.470 and this section shall not be considered as property within the boundaries of such districts, unless the owner of the railroad property expressly consents to its inclusion. [Amended by 1969 c.666 §2; 2003 c.802 §81]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 264 - Domestic Water Supply Districts › Section 264.114 - Annexation where water supply affected by wildfire emergency; petition; provision of water.

(1) Notwithstanding ORS 198.750, 198.755, 198.760, 198.765, 198.775, 198.850, 198.855 and 198.857, land may be annexed to a district as provided in this section.
(2) The owner of a parcel of land may petition the county board to annex the land to a district if:
(a) The land is surrounded by the district; and
(b) The water supply for the land has become inadequate or contaminated, as determined by the local health department, as a result of conditions caused by a wildfire that is the subject of a state of emergency declared by the Governor.
(3) The petition must declare that the petition is filed pursuant to this section, state the name of the district and all affected counties, indicate the principal Act of the district, be signed by the owner of the parcel of land and state the conditions that caused the water supply for the land to become inadequate or contaminated.
(4) The county board shall immediately approve the petition if the county board determines that:
(a) The conditions described in subsection (2) of this section are met;
(b) The petition meets the requirements of subsection (3) of this section; and
(c) The district, or an independent water supply source of the district, has a water supply sufficient to provide water to the land.
(5) If the petition is approved under subsection (4) of this section, the county board shall enter an order describing the boundaries of the land and declaring the land annexed to the district.
(6) Subject to the provisions of ORS 264.306 and 264.314, the district, or an independent water supply source of the district, shall provide water to land annexed under this section. [2021 c.546 §2]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 264 - Domestic Water Supply Districts › Section 264.210 - General powers of district.

A district formed under this chapter shall have the power to make contracts, hold and receive and dispose of real and personal property within and without its described boundaries and do all other acts and things which may be requisite, necessary or convenient in carrying out the objects of the district or exercising the powers conferred upon it by this chapter, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in all actions and suits or other proceedings brought by or against it. [Amended by 1969 c.666 §51; 1971 c.727 §79]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 264 - Domestic Water Supply Districts › Section 264.220 - Disposal of taxes levied when organization declared invalid.

When an attempt has been made to organize a district under the provisions of this chapter and subsequently by a judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction it has been declared that the organization is invalid, but prior to such judgment the invalid organization has levied taxes, the funds derived from the levy shall be disposed of as follows:
(1) If the area embraced in the invalid organization is embraced in a subsequently created organization composed of unincorporated or incorporated territory, or combinations thereof, for the purpose of furnishing domestic water to the inhabitants thereof, the custodian of the taxes collected for the invalid organization shall turn them over to the subsequent organization to be used only for the purpose of furnishing domestic water to such inhabitants.
(2) If the subsequent organization does not embrace all territory embraced in the invalid organization, such taxes as have been collected from the levy upon property in areas not embraced in the subsequent organization shall be refunded to the payers thereof by the custodian of the taxes before the balance is turned over to the subsequent organization.
(3) If no such subsequent organization is created to provide domestic water for the inhabitants of such an area, within a period of two years after the entry of the judgment of invalidation, the taxes collected shall be refunded by the custodian of them to the taxpayers who paid them. [Amended by 2003 c.576 §409]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 264 - Domestic Water Supply Districts › Section 264.240 - Eminent domain authority; acquisition of property and property rights; obtaining or laying water pipelines.

A domestic water supply district created under this chapter may exercise the power of eminent domain both inside and outside of its boundaries, and may purchase, sell, condemn and appropriate real property, water, water rights and riparian rights. A district also has the right to purchase or obtain from other local governments as defined in ORS 174.116, water or water rights, or an interest in water or water rights, or an interest in a water pipeline owned or operated by any such local government, or to obtain jointly with any such local government, any right, or to lay and own individually or jointly with any local government, any water pipeline for the purposes specified in ORS 264.110. [Amended by 1969 c.666 §53; 2003 c.802 §82]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 264 - Domestic Water Supply Districts › Section 264.250 - Authority to borrow money and issue general obligation bonds; place of payment.

(1) For the purpose of carrying into effect all or any powers granted by this chapter, the district, when authorized at any properly called election held for that purpose, may borrow money and sell and dispose of general obligation bonds. Except as otherwise provided by this section, the bonds shall never exceed in the aggregate two and one-half percent of the real market value of all taxable property within the boundaries of the district, computed in accordance with ORS 308.207.
(2) The bonds shall be issued from time to time by the board of commissioners in behalf of the district as authorized by the electors. The bonds shall mature serially within not to exceed 30 years from issue date, and shall bear such rate of interest, payable semiannually, as the board shall determine. The bonds shall be so conditioned that the district agrees to pay to the bearer, at a place named, the principal sum of the bonds with interest at the rate named, payable semiannually in accordance with the tenor and terms of the interest coupons attached.
(3) If the district has within its boundaries a population of 300 or over, it may issue bonds in an amount that does not exceed in the aggregate 10 percent of the real market value referred to in subsection (1) of this section.
(4) For the purpose of providing additional security for the payment of the principal and interest on general obligation bonds issued under this section, the district may, by resolution of its board, pledge all or any part of the net revenue of its water system as provided in ORS chapter 287A. [Amended by 1963 c.9 §6; 1963 c.318 §1; 1969 c.666 §14; 1969 c.694 §4; 1971 c.36 §1; 1977 c.188 §2; 1981 c.94 §14; 1983 c.347 §18; 1991 c.459 §358; 2001 c.215 §2; 2003 c.802 §83; 2009 c.538 §1]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 264 - Domestic Water Supply Districts › Section 264.260 - Issuance of revenue bonds.

In addition to the authority to issue general obligation bonds, the district, when authorized at any properly called election, shall have the power to sell and dispose of revenue bonds, and to pledge as security therefor all or any part of the unobligated net revenue of the district or system, to purchase, acquire, lay out, construct, reconstruct, extend, enlarge or improve a water system, or to install hydrants for fire protection along its mains, or to perform any of those acts in combination, for the purpose of obtaining water for the domestic use of consumers, or for fire protection, or both, within or without the boundaries of the district. The revenue bonds shall be issued in the same manner and form as are general obligation bonds of the district, but they shall be payable, both as to principal and interest, from revenues only, as specified by this section. The revenue bonds shall not be subject to the percentage limitation applicable to general obligation bonds and shall not be a lien upon any of the taxable property within the boundaries of such district, but shall be payable solely from such part of the revenues of the district as remain after payment of obligations having a priority and of all expenses of operation and maintenance of the district, including any taxes levied against it. All revenue bonds shall contain a clause reciting that both the principal and interest are payable solely from operating revenues of the district remaining after paying such obligations and expenses. [Amended by 1969 c.666 §15; 2003 c.802 §84]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 264 - Domestic Water Supply Districts › Section 264.270 - Issuance of refunding bonds.

Refunding bonds of the same character and tenor as those replaced thereby may be issued pursuant to a resolution duly adopted by the board of commissioners without submitting to the electors the question of authorizing the issuance of such bonds. [Amended by 1969 c.666 §16]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 264 - Domestic Water Supply Districts › Section 264.280 - Bond sale procedure.

All general obligation and revenue bonds, including refunding bonds, issued under ORS 264.250 to 264.270 shall be advertised and sold in the manner prescribed in ORS chapter 287A for the sale of bonds of cities of this state. [Amended by 2009 c.538 §11]