2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 294 - County and Municipal Financial Administration › Section 294.338 - Compliance with Local Budget Law required prior to expenditure or tax certification; exceptions.

(1) A municipal corporation may not expend money or certify to the assessor an ad valorem tax rate or estimated amount of ad valorem taxes to be imposed in any year unless the municipal corporation has complied with ORS 294.305 to 294.565.
(2) Subsection (1) of this section does not apply to the expenditure of grants, gifts, bequests or devises transferred to a municipal corporation in trust for specific purposes or to other special purpose trust funds at the disposal of municipal corporations. A municipal corporation may not make an expenditure under this subsection unless the governing body of the municipal corporation enacts appropriation ordinances or resolutions authorizing the expenditure.
(3) Subsection (1) of this section does not apply:
(a) To the extent that maintenance, repair or self-insurance reserves authorized by ORS 294.373 or nontax funds are available or may be made available; and
(b) If the governing body of a municipal corporation:
(A) Adopts an ordinance or resolution to appropriate excess expenditures for a specific purpose or purposes; and
(B)(i) Declares the existence of an occurrence or condition that could not have been foreseen at the time of the preparation of the budget for the current year or current budget period;
(ii) Could not have foreseen a pressing necessity for the expenditure at the time of the preparation of the budget for the current year or current budget period; or
(iii) Receives a request for services or facilities, the cost of which is supplied by a private individual, corporation or company or by another governmental unit necessitating a greater expenditure of public money for any specific purpose or purposes than the amount budgeted in order to provide the services for which the governing body of the municipal corporation was responsible.
(4) Subsection (1) of this section does not apply to the expenditure during the current year or current budget period of the proceeds of the sale of the following bonds, as defined in ORS 287A.001, or to the expenditure during the current year or current budget period of other funds to pay debt service on those bonds:
(a) Bonds that are issued under ORS 287A.150 and for which the referral period described in ORS 287A.150 ended after the preparation of the budget of the current year or current budget period;
(b) Bonds that were approved by the electors during the current year or current budget period; or
(c) Bonds issued during the current year or current budget period to refund previously issued bonds or obligations.
(5) Subsection (1) of this section does not apply to:
(a) Expenditures of funds received from the sale of conduit revenue bonds or other borrowings issued for private business entities or nonprofit corporations by public bodies, as defined in ORS 287A.001, or the State of Oregon or to pay debt service on the bonds;
(b) Expenditures of funds that have been irrevocably placed in escrow for the purpose of defeasing and paying bonds;
(c) Expenditures of assessments or other revenues to redeem bonds that are payable from the assessments or other revenues, when the assessments or other revenues are received as a result of prepayments or other unforeseen circumstances; or
(d) Expenditures of funds that are held as debt service reserves for bonds if the expenditures are made to:
(A) Pay debt service on the bonds;
(B) Redeem the bonds; or
(C) Fund an escrow or trust account to defease or pay the bonds.
(6) Subsection (1) of this section does not apply to expenditures of funds received from assessments against benefited property for local improvements as defined in ORS 223.001 to the extent that the cost of the improvements is payable by owners of benefited property.
(7) Subsection (1) of this section does not apply to the expenditure of funds accumulated to pay deferred employee compensation.
(8) Subsection (1) of this section does not apply to refunds or the interest on refunds granted by counties under ORS 311.806.
(9) Subsection (1) of this section does not apply to refunds received by a municipal corporation when purchased items are returned after an expenditure has been made. A municipal corporation may not make an expenditure under this subsection unless the governing body of the municipal corporation enacts appropriate appropriation ordinances or resolutions authorizing the expenditure.
(10) Subsection (1) of this section does not apply to a newly formed municipal corporation during the fiscal year in which it was formed. If a new municipal corporation is formed between March 1 and June 30, subsection (1) of this section does not apply to the municipal corporation during the fiscal year immediately following the fiscal year in which it was formed. [Formerly 294.326]