Oregon Statutes - Chapter 224 - City Sewers and Sanitation

• 224.010   Definitions for ORS 224.010 to 224.170.
  As used in ORS 224.010 to 224.170, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) “City” means any incorporated city or town. (2) “Council” means the council...
• 224.020   Authority of city to construct sewage system.
  Whenever the council of any city deems it necessary or expedient to construct a sewer partially within and partially without the city, or to construct...
• 224.030   Authority of city to alter water flow; limitations.
  A city, through its council, may divert water and waterways, fill or drain lakes, ponds or other waters, increase or diminish the flow of waters...
• 224.040   Assessment of property; collection.
  The council may provide for and make a local assessment for benefits against any and all property whether within or without the city or partially...
• 224.050   Rights of owners outside city limits.
  The owners of property without the city shall be given like notice and shall have like opportunities of remonstrance and have all other rights and...
• 224.060   [Amended by 1959 c.220 §1; repealed by 1967 c.280 §1 (224.065 enacted in lieu of 224.060)]
• 224.065   Writ of review.
  Notwithstanding any of the provisions of ORS 224.010 to 224.170, owners of any property against which an assessment for a local improvement under this chapter...
• 224.070   [Amended by 1959 c.220 §2; repealed by 1967 c.280 §1 (224.065 enacted in lieu of 224.070)]
• 224.080   Record and effect of judgment.
  Upon final determination of the review a transcript of the judgment shall be filed with the auditor, clerk or other official of the city having...
• 224.090   Assessment lien on property outside city limits; priority.
  No assessment under ORS 224.040 against property beyond the limits of the city shall be a lien on the property until a certified transcript of...
• 224.100   Records and indexes of transcripts; effect of writ of review.
  The clerk or officer referred to in ORS 224.090 shall record the transcript referred to in that section in the mortgage records of the county...
• 224.110   Enforcing liens on property outside city limits.
  The city, through its council, may collect and enforce or provide for collecting and enforcing payment of liens created by virtue of ORS 224.090 or...
• 224.120   Sale without foreclosure.
  In case of a sale without a foreclosure in court a duplicate certificate of sale shall be made by the city official making the sale...
• 224.130   Assessment of property in drainage district.
  Nothing contained in ORS 224.010 to 224.170 shall authorize the city to assess any property now included in any drainage district organized under ORS 547.005...
• 224.140   Authority to control sewer system.
  A city, through its council, may enact and enforce such ordinances and other provisions as may be necessary or essential for the proper policing, protection,...
• 224.150   Federal aid.
  The city may negotiate and obtain from the federal government financial aid in construction referred to in ORS 224.140 by a work relief program, grant,...
• 224.160   Procurement of funds for construction.
  Pending the making of an assessment for all or part of any construction referred to in ORS 224.140, the city may make temporary loans or...
• 224.170   Laws and charter provisions applicable to reassessments.
  The provisions of the city charter applicable to curative measures or reassessments shall be applicable to property without the city limits as well as to...
• 224.210   [Repealed by 1973 c.213 §9]
• 224.220   [Amended by 1971 c.573 §1; repealed by 1973 c.213 §9]
• 224.230   [Amended by 1967 c.427 §1; repealed by 1973 c.213 §9; amended by 1973 c.835 §162; amendment treated as reenactment, see 224.232]
• 224.232   Bond election; Environmental Quality Commission order; court enforcement; issuance of bonds without elector approval.
  (1) The governing body of the municipality, by proposed charter amendment or ordinance, may refer the question of acquiring and constructing the facilities to a...
• 224.240   [Amended by 1965 c.283 §1; repealed by 1973 c.213 §9]
• 224.250   [Amended by 1967 c.293 §23; 1967 c.427 §2; repealed by 1973 c.213 §9]
• 224.260   [Repealed by 1973 c.213 §9]
• 224.270   Validation of bond issues.
  All proceedings and elections had prior to March 9, 1935, in cities of less than 100,000 population under ORS 224.232 and 224.270 are validated. All...
• 224.310   Definitions for ORS 224.310 to 224.420.
  As used in ORS 224.310 to 224.420, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) “Municipality” means a duly incorporated city or town having a population of...
• 224.320   Municipalities eligible for state help in financing sewer systems.
  Municipalities that have been certified by the Environmental Quality Commission as being in need of sewerage systems and that are unable to sell bonds upon...
• 224.330   Conditions precedent to financing application.
  A municipality shall not apply to the State Treasurer for financing under ORS 224.320 unless: (1) It submits to the State Treasurer plans and specifications...
• 224.340   Bonds; form; interest; sale price.
  Notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act or of any city charter, the bonds issued by municipalities pursuant to ORS 224.350 and 224.370 shall bear...
• 224.350   General powers of the State Treasurer under ORS 224.310 to 224.420; rules.
  (1) The State Treasurer shall be the sole judge as to whether state funds shall be invested in the project and as to which undertakings...
• 224.360   [Amended by 1953 c.287 §9; 1955 c.593 §3; repealed by 1967 c.335 §60]
• 224.370   Municipality not to assume further obligations.
  So long as any of the sewerage bonds of the municipality or district are owned by the state, the municipality or district shall not issue...
• 224.380   Limitations on authority of State Treasurer to purchase bonds.
  The State Treasurer may purchase sewerage bonds from a municipality or sanitary district at private sale if the municipality or district does not receive any...
• 224.390   State Sewer Bond Revolving Fund.
  The State Sewer Bond Revolving Fund is created for investment under authority of ORS 224.310 to 224.420 and for payment of costs of the State...
• 224.400   Control of State Treasurer over rates, collection of charges and delinquent assessments; budget approval.
  (1) Each municipality financing the cost of a sewerage system under authority of ORS 224.310 to 224.420 shall submit to the State Treasurer for approval...
• 224.410   Authority to appoint receiver and withhold earmarked moneys on default.
  If any municipality fails to meet, when due, any obligation sold to the state under authority of ORS 224.310 to 224.420, the State Treasurer, with...
• 224.420   Duty of local treasurer to keep funds separate and withhold bond payments; liability of treasurer.
  The treasurer of each municipality and of each sanitary district that finances the cost of a sewerage system or facilities under authority of ORS 224.310...
• 224.450   Validation of revenue bonds issued by cities of less than 100,000; sale of bonds to the federal government.
  All bonds or other obligations issued prior to November 15, 1936, by any city or town of less than 100,000 population, for the purpose of...
• 224.510   Sewage charge on water users.
  (1) Unless prohibited by its charter, a city may impose on the users of water a sewage charge which shall be billed and collected by...

Last modified: August 7, 2008