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2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 267 - Mass Transit Districts; Transportation Districts › Section 267.305 - Levy, collection, enforcement of ad valorem taxes.

(1) A district may assess, levy and collect taxes each year on the assessed value of all taxable property within the limits of the district or the service area of the district. The proceeds of the tax shall be applied in carrying out the purposes of ORS 267.010 to 267.394.
(2) The district may annually also assess, levy and collect a tax without limitation upon all such property in an amount sufficient to pay the yearly interest on bonds theretofore issued by the district and then outstanding, together with any portion of the principal of the bonds maturing within the year. The tax shall be applied only in payment of interest and principal of bonds issued by the district, but the district may apply any funds it may have toward payment of principal and interest of bonds.
(3) Any taxes needed shall be levied in each year and returned to the county officer, whose duty it is to extend the tax roll, by the time required by law for city taxes to be levied and returned.
(4) All taxes levied by a district shall become payable at the same time and be collected by the same officer who collects county taxes, and shall be turned over to the district according to law. The county officer whose duty it is to extend the county levy shall extend the levy of the district in the same manner as city taxes are extended.
(5) Property shall be subject to sale for nonpayment of taxes levied by a district in like manner and with like effect as in the case of county and state taxes. [1969 c.643 §25; 1981 c.804 §77]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 267 - Mass Transit Districts; Transportation Districts › Section 267.310 - Revolving fund; authority to levy ad valorem taxes for fund.

For the purpose of establishing a revolving fund to provide money to finance the planning and construction, acquisition, purchase or lease of a mass transit system, a district board may levy an ad valorem tax of not to exceed in any one year three-twentieth of one percent (0.0015) of real market value of all taxable property within the district. The revenue derived from such taxes shall be credited to a revolving fund, and shall be disbursed by the district board and used only for the purpose for which levied. [1969 c.643 §27; 1991 c.459 §364]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 267 - Mass Transit Districts; Transportation Districts › Section 267.320 - User charges, fees and tolls; persons over 65.

(1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, to carry out the powers granted by ORS 267.010 to 267.394, the district board may by ordinance impose and may collect user charges, fees and tolls from those who are served by or use the transit system and other facilities and services of the district.
(2) The district shall not charge a person over 65 years of age a fee of more than 50 percent of the regular fee for transportation provided by the district. The maximum fee established by this subsection does not apply on any weekday, Monday through Friday, between the hours of 5 a.m. and 9 a.m. or between the hours of 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. [1969 c.643 §26; 1973 c.474 §1; 1975 c.124 §1; 1975 c.169 §1; 1981 c.634 §1; 2003 c.14 §131]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 267 - Mass Transit Districts; Transportation Districts › Section 267.325 - Lease purchase agreements.

For the purpose of financing the design, engineering, acquisition, construction and installation of any mass transit system, a district may enter into lease purchase agreements for such term of years as the board may determine. The lease purchase payments payable by a district under any such lease purchase agreement may be payable out of any funds of the district, including without limitation any operating revenues, tax revenues or grants. [1989 c.899 §2]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 267 - Mass Transit Districts; Transportation Districts › Section 267.330 - General obligation bonds; conditions; interest rate; payment of principal and interest; pledge of net revenue.

(1) To carry out any of the powers granted by ORS 267.010 to 267.394, a district, when authorized at any properly called election held for the purpose, may borrow money, and sell and dispose of general obligation bonds. Outstanding bonds shall never exceed in the aggregate two and one-half percent of the real market value of all taxable property within the district.
(2) The bonds shall be issued from time to time by the district board in behalf of the district as authorized by the electors thereof. The bonds shall mature serially within not to exceed 30 years from issue date. However, for an indebtedness to the federal government or this state, the district may issue one or more bonds of the denominations agreed upon. Bonds shall bear interest at a rate, payable semiannually, as the board shall determine. The bonds shall be so conditioned that the district shall promise and agree therein to pay to the bearer at a place named therein, the principal sum, with interest at the rate named therein, payable semiannually, in accordance with the tenor and terms of the interest coupons attached.
(3) For the purpose of additionally securing the payment of the principal and interest on general obligation bonds issued under this section, the district may by resolution of the board, which resolution shall constitute part of the contract with the holders of the bonds, pledge all or any part of the net revenue of the district. The district board may adopt such a resolution without submitting the question of the pledge to the electors of the district. [1969 c.643 §28; 1983 c.347 §19; 1991 c.459 §365]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 267 - Mass Transit Districts; Transportation Districts › Section 267.334 - Electoral approval for issuance of general obligation bonds by Tri-Met to fund extension of light rail.

(1) If the line extending Tri-Met’s regional light rail system north from Clackamas County, Oregon, is not part of a phased project that will serve both the Portland metropolitan region and Clark County, Washington, then prior to the issuance by Tri-Met of any general obligation bonds to fund its share of the line extending Tri-Met’s regional light rail system north from Clackamas County, Oregon, Tri-Met shall submit to its electors the question of the issuance of such general obligation bonds.
(2) As used in this section:
(a) "Portland metropolitan region" means the area within the urban growth boundary established by Metro as that boundary existed on July 1, 1995.
(b) "Metro" means the metropolitan service district created under ORS chapter 268 and exercising home rule charter powers.
(c) "Tri-Met" means the Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon, a mass transit district created under ORS chapter 267. [Formerly 197.587]
Note:
267.334 was enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but was not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 267 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 267 - Mass Transit Districts; Transportation Districts › Section 267.335 - Authority to issue revenue bonds; interest-bearing warrants.

(1) In addition to the authority to issue general obligation bonds, after a vote of the people, a district may issue and sell revenue bonds and pledge as security therefor all or any part of the unobligated net revenue of the district. Revenue bonds shall be issued in the same manner and form as are general obligation bonds of the district but they shall not be subject to the percentage limitation provided by ORS 267.330 applicable to issuance of general obligation bonds and shall not be a lien upon any property within the limits of the district. Such bonds shall be payable, both as to principal and interest, solely from the net revenues of the district remaining after payment of obligations having a priority and payment of all expenses of operation and maintenance of the district, including any taxes levied thereafter against the district. All revenue bonds shall contain a clause reciting that both the principal and interest are payable solely from net revenues of the district remaining after paying such obligations and expenses.
(2) In lieu of issuing bonds secured by unobligated net revenue under subsection (1) of this section, the treasurer, when authorized by the board, may execute and issue interest-bearing warrants drawn against funds created by and for operation and maintenance of the mass transit system in excess of current cash on hand, but not in an amount exceeding one-half of the estimated annual gross revenue for operation of the mass transit system for the next ensuing year. [1969 c.643 §29]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 267 - Mass Transit Districts; Transportation Districts › Section 267.340 - Refunding bonds.

Refunding bonds of the same character and tenor as those replaced thereby may be issued pursuant to a resolution adopted by the district board without submitting to the electors the question of authorizing the issuance of the bonds. [1969 c.643 §30]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 267 - Mass Transit Districts; Transportation Districts › Section 267.345 - Issuance of bonds.

All general obligation and revenue bonds, including refunding bonds, issued under ORS 267.330 to 267.345 shall be issued as prescribed in ORS chapter 287A. [1969 c.643 §31; 2007 c.783 §84]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 267 - Mass Transit Districts; Transportation Districts › Section 267.360 - Business, trade, occupational and professional licenses and fees; exceptions.

To carry out any of the powers granted by ORS 267.010 to 267.394, a district may by ordinance raise revenue by licensing and imposing a fee on any business, trade, occupation and profession carried on or practiced in the district. This section does not empower a district to require licenses of or impose fees on companies that are licensed by the state under ORS 731.358 or 731.362 to transact insurance, as defined in ORS 731.146, or to require licenses of or impose fees upon the representatives of such companies who are not residents of the district. [1969 c.643 §32]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 267 - Mass Transit Districts; Transportation Districts › Section 267.370 - District taxing authority.

(1) To carry out any of the powers granted by ORS 267.010 to 267.394, a district may by ordinance impose a tax:
(a) Upon the entire taxable income of every resident of the district subject to tax under ORS chapter 316 and upon the taxable income of every nonresident that is derived from sources within the district which income is subject to tax under ORS chapter 316; and
(b) On or measured by the net income of a mercantile, manufacturing, business, financial, centrally assessed, investment, insurance or other corporation or entity taxable as a corporation doing business, located, or having a place of business or office within or having income derived from sources within the district which income is subject to tax under ORS chapter 317 or 318.
(2) The rate of the tax imposed by ordinance adopted under authority of subsection (1) of this section shall not exceed one percent. The tax may be imposed and collected as a surtax upon the state income or excise tax.
(3) Any ordinance adopted pursuant to subsection (1) of this section shall require a nonresident, corporation or other entity taxable as a corporation having income from activity both within and without the district taxable by the State of Oregon to allocate and apportion such net income to the district in the manner required for allocation and apportionment of income under ORS 314.280 and 314.605 to 314.675.
(4) The district shall allow a credit against the tax imposed pursuant to this section, in an amount equal to the employer’s payroll tax paid to the district by the taxpayer.
(5) If a district adopts an ordinance under this section, the ordinance shall be consistent with any state law relating to the same subject, and with rules and regulations of the Department of Revenue prescribed under ORS 305.620.
(6) An ordinance adopted under this section shall not declare an emergency. [1969 c.643 §33; 1971 c.600 §1; 1975 c.752 §2]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 267 - Mass Transit Districts; Transportation Districts › Section 267.385 - Employer payroll tax; collection; enforcement.

(1) To carry out the powers granted by ORS 267.010 to 267.394, a district may by ordinance impose an excise tax on every employer equal to not more than eight-tenths of one percent of the wages paid with respect to the employment of individuals. For the same purposes, a district may by ordinance impose a tax on each individual equal to not more than eight-tenths of one percent of the individual’s net earnings from self-employment.
(2) No employer shall make a deduction from the wages of an employee to pay all or any portion of a tax imposed under this section.
(3) The provisions of ORS 305.620 are applicable to collection, enforcement, administration and distribution of a tax imposed under this section.
(4) At any time an employer or individual fails to remit the amount of taxes when due under an ordinance of the district board imposing a tax under this section, the Department of Revenue may enforce collection by the issuance of a distraint warrant for the collection of the delinquent amount and all penalties, interest and collection charges accrued thereon. Such warrant shall be issued and may be enforced in the same manner and have the same force and effect as prescribed with respect to warrants for the collection of delinquent state income taxes.
(5) Any ordinance adopted under subsection (1) of this section shall require an individual having net earnings from self-employment from activity both within and without the district taxable by the State of Oregon to allocate and apportion such net earnings to the district in the manner required for allocation and apportionment of income under ORS 314.280 and 314.605 to 314.675. Such ordinance shall give the individual the option of apportioning income based on a single factor designated by the ordinance.
(6) Any ordinance adopted under subsection (1) of this section with respect to net earnings from self-employment may impose a tax for a taxable year measured by each individual’s net earnings from self-employment for the prior taxable year, whether such prior taxable year begins before or after November 1, 1981, or such ordinance.
(7) Any ordinance imposing a tax authorized by subsection (1) of this section shall not apply to any business, trade, occupation or profession upon which a tax is imposed under ORS 267.360.
(8) The district board may not adopt an ordinance increasing a tax authorized by subsection (1) of this section unless the board makes a finding that the economy in the district has recovered to an extent sufficient to warrant the increase in tax. In making the finding, the board shall consider regional employment and income growth. [1969 c.643 §35; 1981 c.907 §3; 2003 c.576 §197; 2003 c.739 §7; 2009 c.253 §1]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 267 - Mass Transit Districts; Transportation Districts › Section 267.387 - Restrictions on increase in payroll tax.

Notwithstanding ORS 267.385 (1) and subject to ORS 267.260 (3) and (6), an increase in any tax imposed on wages or on net earnings from self-employment that is authorized by a mass transit district under ORS 267.385 (1) on or after January 1, 2010, must be phased in over a 10-year period. The district shall by ordinance set forth the increments by which the increase in tax is phased in. Subject to ORS 267.260 (3) and (6), each annual increment may not increase the rate of tax by more than 0.02 percent of the wages or net earnings from self-employment. [2009 c.253 §2]
Note:
267.387 was enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but was not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 267 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 267 - Mass Transit Districts; Transportation Districts › Section 267.390 - Acceptance of funds from United States.

The district may:
(1) Accept, without limitation by any other provision of ORS 267.010 to 267.394 requiring approval of indebtedness, any contributions or loans from the United States for the purpose of carrying out any provision of ORS 267.010 to 267.394; and
(2) Do anything that the board considers necessary in order to avail itself of aid, assistance or cooperation under this section under any federal law. [1969 c.643 §37]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 267 - Mass Transit Districts; Transportation Districts › Section 267.394 - Investment of certain funds held by TriMet.

Notwithstanding any provision of ORS chapter 294 or ORS 295.001 to 295.108, funds held in trust by TriMet, as defined in ORS 197A.500, for the purpose of paying post-employment benefits other than pensions, and any funds necessary to pay the reasonable expenses of administering the trust, are not surplus funds for purposes of ORS 294.004 and may be invested in accordance with the standard of judgment and care for the investment of investment funds as set forth in ORS 293.726. [2019 c.16 §2]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 267 - Mass Transit Districts; Transportation Districts › Section 267.410 - Certain districts authorized to impose employer payroll tax on state agencies and political subdivisions.

ORS 267.300, 267.380 and 267.410 to 267.430 apply only to a mass transit district situated in a metropolitan statistical area with a population exceeding 400,000. [1989 c.869 §7; 2009 c.11 §31]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 267 - Mass Transit Districts; Transportation Districts › Section 267.420 - Employer payroll tax on State of Oregon and political subdivisions; requirements for tax ordinance.

(1) Any ordinance imposing an employer payroll tax on an entity described in ORS 267.380 (1)(a)(C) shall be adopted not less than six months prior to the beginning of the fiscal year of the mass transit district within which the employer payroll tax becomes effective.
(2)(a) Any ordinance imposing an employer payroll tax on an entity described in ORS 267.380 (1)(a)(C) shall provide that for each of the four fiscal years after the fiscal year in which the employer payroll tax was first imposed, the entity shall pay the applicable percentage of the amount of employer payroll tax which, without regard to this section, it would have been required to pay under the law.
(b) The applicable percentage shall be determined in accordance with the following table:
______________________________________________________________________________
Number of fiscal years The applicable
after the fiscal year percentage is:
in which the employer
payroll tax is first
imposed:
One 20
Two 40
Three 60
Four 80
______________________________________________________________________________
(c) In the fifth fiscal year after the fiscal year in which the employer payroll tax is first imposed on an entity described in ORS 267.380 (1)(a)(C) and in any subsequent fiscal year, the applicable percentage shall be 100 percent. [1989 c.869 §4]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 267 - Mass Transit Districts; Transportation Districts › Section 267.430 - Certain state agencies exempt from employer payroll tax.

ORS 267.300, 267.380, 267.410 to 267.430 do not apply to entities described in ORS 267.380 (1)(a)(C) that made, and that continue to make, payments under the provisions of ORS 291.405 and 291.407 equivalent to the rate in effect on January 1, 1989. If a mass transit district or transportation district does not collect a tax under ORS 267.300 (1)(g) or 267.615 (1)(g), ORS 267.300, 267.380 and 267.410 to 267.430 do not affect payment under ORS 291.405 and 291.407. [1989 c.869 §6]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 267 - Mass Transit Districts; Transportation Districts › Section 267.480 - TriMet Crash Advisory Committee.

(1) The TriMet Crash Advisory Committee is established. The committee consists of seven members appointed by TriMet’s general manager. When selecting committee members, the general manager shall seek members with a wide variety of backgrounds, including expertise or experience in transportation safety. Members must include:
(a) One member who is an expert in transportation safety engineering, design or planning, including the efforts by the City of Portland to eliminate transportation-related deaths and serious injuries in Portland.
(b) One member who is an advocate for public transportation.
(c) One member who is an advocate for pedestrians or bicyclists.
(d) One member who is an advocate for transportation safety.
(e) One member who is an advocate for elderly persons or persons with disabilities.
(f) One member who is a state or local government official with responsibilities for transportation infrastructure or safety.
(g) One member who is on TriMet’s board of directors.
(2) The term of office of each member of the committee is four years. Before the expiration of the term of a member, the general manager shall appoint a successor. A member is eligible for reappointment. In case of a vacancy for any cause, the general manager shall appoint a person to fill the office for the unexpired term.
(3) A majority of the members of the committee constitutes a quorum for the transaction of business.
(4) Official action by the committee requires the approval of a majority of the members of the committee.
(5) The committee shall elect one of its members to serve as chairperson.
(6) The committee shall review crashes involving TriMet vehicles that result in injury or fatality. The committee may decline to review certain crashes or categories of crashes.
(7) The committee shall:
(a) Meet biannually; and
(b) Report to TriMet’s board of directors as needed, but no less than once per year.
(8) The general manager may use a currently existing TriMet committee for the purpose of complying with this section.
(9) As used in this section, "TriMet" means the Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon, a mass transit district created under ORS chapter 267. [2019 c.632 §1]
Note:
267.480 was enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but was not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 267 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 267 - Mass Transit Districts; Transportation Districts › Section 267.510 - Definitions for ORS 267.510 to 267.650.

As used in ORS 267.510 to 267.650:
(1) "District" means a transportation district established under ORS 267.510 to 267.650.
(2) "System" means the equipment, facilities and other property constructed, erected or acquired by the district and to be used in the transport of passengers. [1974 c.9 §1]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 267 - Mass Transit Districts; Transportation Districts › Section 267.515 - Application of ORS chapter 255 to district.

(1) ORS chapter 255 governs the following:
(a) The nomination and election of board members.
(b) The conduct of 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. [Amended by 1983 c.350 §128]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 267 - Mass Transit Districts; Transportation Districts › Section 267.517 - Use of alternative fuels for certain district vehicles; exceptions; annual report; application to all district vehicles.

(1) To the maximum extent possible, motor vehicles subject to the control of a transportation district established under ORS 267.510 to 267.650 having a city within the district with a population exceeding 30,000 shall use alternative fuel for operation.
(2) To the extent that it is economically and technologically possible, all motor vehicles purchased or leased by the board of the district shall be capable of using alternative fuel. However, this subsection does not apply if the vehicle will be primarily used in an area that does not have and cannot reasonably be expected to establish an alternative fuel refueling station or if the district is unable to secure financing sufficient to cover additional costs resulting from the requirement of this subsection.
(3) Prior to July 1 of each year, the board of the district shall submit an annual report to the Department of Environmental Quality and the State Department of Energy. The report shall contain at a minimum:
(a) The number of purchases and leases of vehicles capable of using alternative fuel;
(b) The number of conversions of vehicles from the use of gasoline or diesel fuel to the use of alternative fuel;
(c) The quantity of each type of alternative fuel used; and
(d) Any other information required by the Department of Environmental Quality and the State Department of Energy to carry out their functions under subsection (4) of this section.
(4) If the Department of Environmental Quality and State Department of Energy determine that the use of alternative fuel required by this section has been effective in reducing total annual motor vehicle emissions in the district, the motor vehicles subject to the control of the board of the district shall be capable of using alternative fuel, to the maximum extent possible.
(5) The board of the district shall comply with all safety standards established by the United States Department of Transportation in the conversion, operation and maintenance of vehicles using alternative fuel.
(6) As used in this section, "alternative fuel" means any fuel determined by the Department of Environmental Quality to be less polluting than conventional gasoline, including but not necessarily limited to reformulated gasoline, low sulfur diesel fuel, natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, methanol, ethanol, any fuel mixture containing at least 85 percent methanol or ethanol and electricity. [1991 c.730 §4; 2003 c.186 §13]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 267 - Mass Transit Districts; Transportation Districts › Section 267.520 - Method of forming district.

(1) In addition to initiatory action authorized by ORS 198.705 to 198.955, proceedings to establish a district may be initiated by a resolution adopted by the governing body of the most populous city in the proposed district and filed with the county governing body, petitioning that body to call the election; or
(2) The petition or resolution initiating formation shall request, if the district is to impose operating taxes, that the election to establish the district include a proposed permanent rate limit for operating taxes for the district within the meaning of section 11 (3), Article XI of the Oregon Constitution. If the petition or resolution does so, the proposition to be voted on at the election shall include a proposed permanent rate limit for the district, in accordance with the petition or resolution. [1974 c.9 §4; 1997 c.541 §360]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 267 - Mass Transit Districts; Transportation Districts › Section 267.530 - Establishment of permanent tax rate limit at time of formation.

If a district is to impose operating taxes, a permanent rate limit on operating taxes within the meaning of section 11 (3), Article XI of the Oregon Constitution, shall be established for a district at the same election at which the district is established. If the petition or resolution for initiating proceedings to establish the district contains a proposed permanent rate limit, the county governing body that calls the election shall confer about the rate limit with the governing bodies of all counties and cities having territory in the proposed district and shall then determine the rate limit to be proposed for the district. The proposition submitted to the electors of the district for the purpose of establishing the district shall propose the rate limit specified by the county governing body. The rate limit so proposed shall be the permanent rate limit for operating taxes for the district within the meaning of section 11 (3), Article XI of the Oregon Constitution, if the district is established in an election that is in compliance with section 11 (8), Article XI of the Oregon Constitution. [1974 c.9 §5; 1997 c.541 §361]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 267 - Mass Transit Districts; Transportation Districts › Section 267.540 - Governing body; term; vacancies; chairperson; rules of procedure; report to legislature.

(1) The governing body of a district shall consist of seven members elected from the district at large for four-year terms. Vacancies shall be filled by the governing body under ORS 198.320.
(2) The chairperson of the county governing body that calls the election on establishing the district shall convene the first meeting of the district governing body and shall serve as chairperson of the first meeting until the members choose a permanent chairperson.
(3) At its first meeting after July 1 each year the district governing body shall choose a chairperson for the ensuing year. The chairperson shall be the presiding officer of the governing body and have whatever additional functions the governing body prescribes.
(4) The governing body may adopt and enforce rules of procedure governing its proceedings.
(5) The district board shall report biennially to the Legislative Assembly the activities of the district. [1974 c.9 §6; 1975 c.737 §4; 1983 c.350 §125]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 267 - Mass Transit Districts; Transportation Districts › Section 267.550 - Status of district.

(1) A transportation district has full power to carry out the objectives of its formation and to that end may have and use a seal, have perpetual succession, sue and be sued in its own name, and enter into contracts.
(2) Except as ORS 267.510 to 267.650 provide to the contrary, the powers of the district shall be vested in the governing body of the district.
(3) A transportation district formed under ORS 267.510 to 267.650 shall be considered a district for all purposes in ORS chapter 198. [1974 c.9 §8; 1975 c.737 §5; 1983 c.350 §126; 2003 c.802 §95]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 267 - Mass Transit Districts; Transportation Districts › Section 267.560 - General powers.

A transportation district may provide public transportation and terminal facilities for public transportation including local aspects thereof transferred to the district by one or more other public bodies as defined in ORS 174.109, through agreements in accordance with ORS 267.510 to 267.650. [1974 c.9 §9; 2003 c.802 §96]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 267 - Mass Transit Districts; Transportation Districts › Section 267.570 - Powers relating to public transportation.

(1) For purposes of public transportation, a district may:
(a) Contract with the United States or with any county, city or state, or any of their departments or agencies, for the construction, preservation, improvement, operation or maintenance of any system.
(b) Build, construct, purchase, improve, operate and maintain, subject to other applicable provisions of law, all improvements, facilities or equipment necessary or desirable for the system of the district.
(c) Enter into contracts and employ agents, engineers, attorneys and other persons and fix their compensation.
(d) Fix and collect charges for the use of the system.
(e) Construct, acquire, maintain and operate passenger terminal facilities and motor vehicle parking facilities in connection with the system within or outside the district.
(f) Use a public thoroughfare in a manner mutually agreed to by the governing bodies of the district and of the thoroughfare or, if they cannot so agree upon how the district may use the thoroughfare, in a manner determined by an arbitrator appointed by the Governor.
(g) Do such other acts or things as may be necessary or convenient for the proper exercise of the powers granted to a district by ORS 267.510 to 267.650.
(2) A district shall be entitled to tax refunds under ORS 319.831, as if the district were a city. [1974 c.9 §10; 1979 c.344 §2]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 267 - Mass Transit Districts; Transportation Districts › Section 267.575 - Preparation of public transit system plan; contents; revision.

(1) A district shall, within a reasonable time after formation, prepare a broad, general plan for a public transit system for the district. The plan shall be prepared in cooperation with the Department of Transportation and cities and counties located within and adjacent to the district.
(2) The plan shall show existing and proposed transit systems of the district and of other public and private agencies relating to public transit. It shall demonstrate a basis for the coordination and planning of future construction, improvement and equipment acquisition of the district, governmental agencies and private interests to assure maximum efficiency and use of public transit in the district. The plans shall be based on the needs of the district and take into consideration the plans and programs, if any, developed by the Department of Transportation and cities and counties located within and adjacent to the district. The district may have access to all information, statistics, plans and data in the possession of or available to any state agency or public corporation which is pertinent to the preparation of the plan and may reimburse the agency or corporation for any expense incurred in cooperating with the board.
(3) The district board shall revise the plan as necessary for the proper control, utilization, development and improvement of the district transit system. [1975 c.737 §3]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 267 - Mass Transit Districts; Transportation Districts › Section 267.590 - Interagency agreements.

A district may contract with any public or private agency for the agency to operate any facility or perform any function that the district is authorized to operate or perform. By contract the district may assume any function of any public corporation, city or county in the district that the district has power to assume under ORS 267.510 to 267.650. [1974 c.9 §11]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 267 - Mass Transit Districts; Transportation Districts › Section 267.612 - Acquisition of district lands by adverse possession or operation of statute of limitations prohibited.

The rights of a transportation district to lands owned by the district are not extinguished by adverse possession. A person may not acquire title or property rights to lands owned by the district through operation of a statute of limitations. [2009 c.307 §2]
Note:
267.612 was enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but was not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 267 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 267 - Mass Transit Districts; Transportation Districts › Section 267.615 - Financing methods.

(1) For the purpose of performing any of the powers conferred by ORS 267.510 to 267.650, a transportation district may use any of the following methods of financing:
(a) Service charges and user fees collected under ORS 267.570 (1)(d).
(b) Levy ad valorem taxes under ORS 267.620.
(c) Use of a revolving fund as authorized for mass transit districts under ORS 267.310.
(d) Sale of bonds under ORS 267.630 and 267.640.
(e) Levy of business license fees as authorized for mass transit districts under ORS 267.360.
(f) Levy of a tax measured by net income as authorized for mass transit districts under ORS 267.370.
(g) Levy of a tax measured by employer payrolls as authorized for mass transit districts under ORS 267.380 and 267.385.
(h) Acceptance and use of any contributions or loans from the United States, without limitation by any other provision of ORS 267.510 to 267.650 requiring approval of indebtedness.
(i) Any combination of the provisions of paragraphs (a) to (h) of this subsection.
(2) A district shall not use any method of financing authorized under subsection (1)(c) to (g) of this section without first obtaining authorization at a properly called election held for that purpose. [1975 c.737 §2; 1981 c.512 §1]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 267 - Mass Transit Districts; Transportation Districts › Section 267.620 - Power to levy taxes.

(1) A district may levy annually an ad valorem tax on all taxable property within its boundaries not to exceed in any one year one-half percent (0.005) of the real market value of all taxable property within the boundaries of such district, computed in accordance with ORS 308.207. The district may also annually assess, levy and collect a special tax upon all such property in an amount sufficient to pay the yearly interest on bonds previously issued by the district and then outstanding, together with any portion of the principal of such bonds maturing within the year. The special tax shall be applied only in payment of the interest and principal of bonds issued by the corporation, but the corporation may apply any funds it may have toward the payment of principal and interest of any such bonds.
(2) Such taxes shall be levied in each year and returned to the county officer whose duty it is to extend the tax levy by the time required by law for city taxes to be levied and returned. All taxes levied by the district shall become payable at the same time and be collected by the same officer who collects county taxes and shall be turned over to the district according to law. The county officer whose duty it is to extend the county levy shall extend the levy of the district in the same manner as city taxes are extended. Property shall be subject to sale for nonpayment of taxes levied by the corporation in like manner and with like effect as in the case of county and state taxes.
(3) In taxation a district may classify property on the basis of services received from the district and prescribe different tax rates for the different classes of property. [1974 c.9 §12; 1991 c.459 §366]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 267 - Mass Transit Districts; Transportation Districts › Section 267.622 - Filing boundary change with county assessor and Department of Revenue.

For purposes of ad valorem taxation, a boundary change must be filed in final approved form with the county assessor and the Department of Revenue as provided in ORS 308.225. [2001 c.138 §13]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 267 - Mass Transit Districts; Transportation Districts › Section 267.630 - Issuance and sale of bonds.

(1) For the purpose of performing any service that the district has power to perform, the district, when authorized at any properly called election held for such purpose, shall have the power to borrow money by the issuance and sale of general obligation bonds. Such bonds shall never exceed in the aggregate 10 percent of the real market value of all taxable property within the district computed in accordance with ORS 308.207. The bonds shall be so conditioned that the district shall promise and agree therein to pay the bearer at a place named therein payable semiannually in accordance with the tenor and terms of the interest coupons attached. The bonds shall mature serially not to exceed 30 years from the date of issue.
(2) For the purpose of performing any of the powers conferred by ORS 267.510 to 267.650 a district, when authorized at any properly called election held for such purpose, shall have the power to borrow money by the issuance and sale also of revenue bonds and to pledge as security therefor, all or any part of the unobligated net income or revenue 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. The revenue bonds shall not be subject to the percentage limitation applicable to general obligation bonds and shall not be a lien on any of the taxable property within the corporate limits of the district and shall be payable solely from such part of revenues of the corporation as remains after the payment of obligations having a priority and of all expenses of operation and maintenance of the corporation. All revenue bonds shall contain a provision that both the principal and interest are payable solely from the operating revenues of the district remaining after paying such obligations and expenses.
(3) All general obligation bonds and revenue bonds shall be issued as prescribed in ORS chapter 287A. [1974 c.9 §13; 1983 c.347 §20; 1991 c.459 §367; 2007 c.783 §86]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 267 - Mass Transit Districts; Transportation Districts › Section 267.640 - Refunding bonds.

Refunding bonds of the same character and tenor as those replaced thereby may be issued pursuant to a resolution adopted by the district governing body without submitting to the electors the question of authorizing the issuance of the bonds. [1974 c.9 §14]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 268 - Metropolitan Service District › Section 268.020 - Definitions.

As used in this chapter:
(1) "District" means a metropolitan service district established under this chapter.
(2) "District charter" means a home rule charter enacted by the electors of a district under section 14, Article XI, Oregon Constitution.
(3) "Metropolitan area" means that area which on October 4, 1997, lies within the boundaries of Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington Counties.
(4) "Improvement" means the facilities and other property constructed, erected or acquired by and to be used in the performance of services authorized to be performed by a district.
(5) "Metropolitan significance" means having major or significant district-wide impact.
(6) "Person" means a public body as defined in ORS 174.109, individual, corporation, partnership, association, firm, trust, estate or any other legal entity.
(7) "Regional framework plan" means the Metro regional framework plan defined in ORS 197.015 and any district ordinances that implement the plan. [1969 c.700 §2; 1977 c.665 §2; 1979 c.531 §3; 1987 c.349 §1; 1997 c.833 §4; 2003 c.802 §97]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 268 - Metropolitan Service District › Section 268.030 - Purpose of chapter; limitation on number of districts; purpose of districts.

(1) This chapter is enacted in order to provide a method of making available in metropolitan areas public services not adequately available through previously authorized governmental agencies.
(2) To this end not more than one district may be established under this chapter in any metropolitan area.
(3) Subject to the provisions of a district charter, a district, where formed, shall provide for those aspects of land use planning having metropolitan significance. [1969 c.700 §3; 1975 c.510 §1; 1977 c.95 §16; 1977 c.665 §3; 1977 c.782 §3; 1997 c.833 §5]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 268 - Metropolitan Service District › Section 268.040 - Exemption from public utility regulation.

Transportation facilities operated by a district, including the rates and charges made by the district and the equipment operated by the district, and transportation facilities operated for a district by a private operator pursuant to a contract between the operator and the district, including the rates and charges made by the operator pursuant to the contract, and the equipment operated pursuant to the contract, shall not be subject to the laws of this state regulating public utilities, including those laws administered by the Public Utility Commission of Oregon. [1969 c.700 §31]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 268 - Metropolitan Service District › Section 268.060 - Costs of elections.

(1) The cost of elections to nominate or elect elected officials of the district shall be paid by the district.
(2) When a district election is held on a district measure, the election shall be conducted under ORS chapter 255. [1977 c.665 §6a (enacted in lieu of 268.200); 1997 c.833 §6]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 268 - Metropolitan Service District › Section 268.220 - Employees’ rights when district assumes a function of another public corporation, city or county.

Except as otherwise provided by ORS 268.230, a district shall offer to employ every person who, on the date the district takes over a function of a public corporation, city or county in the district, is employed by the corporation, city or county to carry on the function. Where the district employs such a person, the employee shall remain an employee of the corporation, city or county for purposes of any pension or retirement plan the employee has been included in by the corporation, city or county and shall continue to have rights and benefits thereunder as if the person had remained an employee of the corporation, city or county, until the district provides a similar plan for its employees and the employee is included in the plan. Until the employee is so included, the district shall deduct from the compensation of the employee the amount the employee is required to pay under the plan of the corporation, city or county; shall pay that amount to the corporation, city or county, which shall credit the amount to the employee under the plan; and shall make whatever payments the plan calls for the employer to make. [1969 c.700 §30]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 268 - Metropolitan Service District › Section 268.230 - District to protect employees’ rights when an operating public transportation system is acquired.

When the district acquires an operating public transportation system, it shall make fair and equitable arrangements to protect the interests of employees and retired employees of the system. Such protective arrangements shall include, but shall not be limited to:
(1) Preservation of rights, privileges and benefits, including continuation of pension rights and payment of benefits, existing under collective bargaining agreements, or otherwise;
(2) Continuation of collective bargaining rights;
(3) Protection of individual employees against a worsening of their positions with respect to their employment; and
(4) Assurance of employment to persons employed by the mass transportation system acquired and priority of reemployment to persons previously employed. [1969 c.700 §29a]