Oregon Statutes - Chapter 553 - Water Control Districts

• 553.010   Definitions.
  As used in this chapter, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning: (1) “Board” means the board of directors of a water control...
• 553.020   Creation of water control districts; purposes; limits.
  (1) Water control districts may be created as provided in this chapter for the purpose of acquiring, purchasing, constructing, improving, operating and maintaining drainage, irrigation,...
• 553.030   [Amended by 1965 c.623 §2; repealed by 1971 c.727 §203]
• 553.035   Application of election laws.
  (1) ORS chapter 255 governs the following: (a) The nomination and election of directors of the district board. (b) The conduct of district elections. (2)...
• 553.040   [Amended by 1965 c.623 §2a; repealed by 1971 c.727 §203]
• 553.050   [Repealed by 1971 c.727 §203]
• 553.060   [Amended by 1965 c.623 §3; repealed by 1971 c.727 §203]
• 553.065   [1965 c.623 §8a; 1969 c.691 §3; repealed by 1971 c.727 §203]
• 553.070   Boundary change; consent.
  If any contract has been entered into between the district and the United States or the State of Oregon or any agency of either of...
• 553.080   [Amended by 1959 c.71 §1; 1967 c.609 §12; 1969 c.691 §3a; repealed by 1971 c.647 §149]
• 553.090   Nature and powers of district.
  A water control district formed under the provisions of this chapter has full power to carry out the objects of its creation and to that...
• 553.095   Entry upon land; notice.
  The board of directors, its officers, agents or employees shall have the right to enter upon any land to make surveys for the purposes of...
• 553.100   [Repealed by 1975 c.326 §5]
• 553.105   Districts coterminous with 1969 districts; abolishment of existing districts.
  (1) There hereby is created a water control district territorially coterminous with each water control district existing on June 16, 1969, if such district was...
• 553.107   Effect of creation of districts under ORS 553.105.
  Each water control district created by ORS 553.105 shall in all respects succeed to and replace the territorially coterminous water control district abolished by ORS...
• 553.110   Vested water rights; inclusion of land in district or assessment; consent.
  (1) This chapter shall not be construed to affect, amend or repeal any other law of Oregon or to affect or impair the vested rights...
• 553.210   Election of directors; qualifications; terms; vacancies; change in number of directors.
  (1) The electors of a district shall elect a board of directors whose number shall be fixed at five, seven or nine by the county...
• 553.220   Organization meeting; officers; duties; meetings.
  As soon as possible after an election of directors, the directors shall meet for the purpose of qualifying all persons elected as directors and for...
• 553.230   Powers and duties of board.
  The board shall: (1) Manage and conduct the affairs of the district. (2) Adopt a seal. (3) Make and execute all necessary contracts. (4) Employ...
• 553.240   County court as governing body.
  (1) The county court may be established as the governing body of a water control district as provided by this section if the boundaries of...
• 553.250   Authority to acquire and dispose of water works; sale of water.
  (1) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, any water control district, whenever it appears necessary, proper or beneficial to its inhabitants, may acquire, construct,...
• 553.260   [1963 c.363 §3; repealed by 1969 c.691 §13]
• 553.270   Procedure on condemnation; property subject to and exempted from condemnation.
  The right to condemn property, given pursuant to ORS 553.090 (4) shall include property already devoted to public use, including state and county property, which...
• 553.280   Undertaking prior to entry as part of condemnation proceedings.
  Prior to any party, officer or agent of a water control district entering upon any land sought to be condemned, there shall be furnished to...
• 553.290   Possession of land after commencement of proceedings.
  At any time after the board of directors of a water control district has commenced proceedings to acquire title to any land necessary for rights...
• 553.310   Creation of subdistrict; change in subdistrict boundaries; procedure.
  (1) Whenever the owners of more than 50 percent of the acreage, exclusive of state and federally owned land, in a body of land located...
• 553.320   Engineering plan; notice of completion; inspection; hearing; changes in plan; approval; rejection upon objections of landowners.
  After the creation of a subdistrict, the board shall secure an engineering plan for the improvements requested in the petition for the creation of the...
• 553.330   Assessment for cost of works.
  The cost of building, constructing, purchasing, operating, maintaining and improving the works described in an engineering plan for a subdistrict shall be charged to the...
• 553.340   Determination of benefits; board of appraisers; exception.
  (1) The board, with such assistance as it deems necessary, shall prepare a benefit roll and determine the benefits that will accrue to each tract...
• 553.350   Assessment of benefits and damages by appraisers; benefits less than costs; recommendation to amend engineering plan; final report and certificate.
  (1) The appraisers shall assess the amount of benefits and the amount of damages, if any, that will accrue to each tract of land which...
• 553.360   Hearing on report of appraisers; exceptions; entry of order; appeal.
  (1) After the filing of the report of the appraisers, the court shall enter an order fixing the time and place for a hearing on...
• 553.370   Reappraisal after construction of works; when authorized.
  In the event that it is determined, after the construction of any works within a subdistrict, that any lands within the subdistrict are benefited and...
• 553.380   Reduction of benefits.
  In the event that it is determined after the construction of any works within a subdistrict that the benefits received by any tract of land...
• 553.510   Special assessments.
  In order to raise the funds required by a district for the construction, purchase, operation, maintenance and improvement of works and facilities for purposes set...
• 553.520   Apportioning assessments; adjustment of benefits.
  (1) After determining the sum of money to be raised by any assessment, except a preliminary assessment, the board shall apportion the same among the...
• 553.530   Disposition of funds received.
  (1) All sums of money received by a district in payment of any assessment shall be kept in a separate fund for each subdistrict from...
• 553.535   Collection of charges and assessments by resolution of board.
  (1) In lieu of the provisions and methods contained in ORS 553.535 to 553.580, the board of directors of a district may provide by resolution...
• 553.540   Assessments to be levied by order of board; filing copy thereof; notice; lien; time for payment; interest.
  (1) All assessments shall be levied by an order of the board. The order shall state the description of the land assessed, the name of...
• 553.550   Loans; assignment of assessments as security for.
  A district may borrow money and secure repayment of the same by the assignment of any assessments theretofore levied. Whenever a levied assessment is assigned...
• 553.560   Foreclosure of assessment; procedure; district may bid and purchase; deed; right of redemption.
  (1) After the date fixed as the time when an assessment shall become due, the board, by resolution, shall direct that all delinquent assessments then...
• 553.570   Withdrawal of land from foreclosure sale; payment of lien, taxes and proportion of costs.
  At any time prior to sale or at the time of sale as provided by ORS 553.560, the former owner, assessment payer or holder of...
• 553.580   Payment of state and county taxes by district.
  At any time after any assessment levied under this chapter becomes delinquent, the district may pay any state and county taxes due or delinquent against...
• 553.585   Claims; presentation; payment.
  All claims against the district shall be presented to the district board for allowance or rejection. Upon allowance, the claim shall be attached to a...
• 553.590   [Renumbered 553.585]
• 553.592   [1965 c.623 §42; repealed by 1991 c.459 §431c]
• 553.595   [1965 c.623 §43; repealed by 1991 c.459 §431c]
• 553.600   [1965 c.623 §44; repealed by 1991 c.459 §431c]
• 553.610   Assessments or taxes upon bond issue.
  Any water control district issuing bonds may, after an affirmative vote at any regular or special election called or held pursuant to the Water Control...
• 553.615   Assessments by order of board.
  In lieu of the provisions contained in ORS 553.535 to 553.580, a district may levy any one or all of the assessments provided in this...
• 553.620   Ad valorem tax in lieu of assessment.
  (1) A water control district may, in lieu of any or all of the assessments provided in this chapter, levy an ad valorem tax upon...
• 553.623   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...
• 553.625   Levy and collection of tax authorized by ORS 553.620.
  The ad valorem tax provided for in ORS 553.620 shall be levied and collected in the manner otherwise provided by law for the levy and...
• 553.630   Terms and conditions of bonds; bond register.
  (1) The bonds issued shall be numbered consecutively, commencing with number 1. They shall mature serially in annual amounts so as to be approximately equal,...
• 553.635   Contract provisions for payment of government construction charges.
  The contract provisions for the payment of construction charges to the United States, and the bonds securing the payment of the same, if any are...
• 553.640   Sale of bonds; cancellation.
  (1) The board may sell from time to time the bonds which have been authorized by the electors and in such quantities as may be...
• 553.643   Bond given for federal loan; form; terms.
  The district may borrow from the United States or an agency thereof, by furnishing the agency with a single bond or other evidence of indebtedness...
• 553.645   Payment from annual taxes and assessments of bond-related amounts due government.
  The bonds and the interest thereon and all payments due or to become due to the United States under any contract between the district and...
• 553.650   Property liable for indebtedness of district.
  In addition to the provisions for the payment of bonds and interest by taxation and other provisions of this chapter, all the property of the...
• 553.655   Bond elections in subdistricts.
  (1) Upon order of the board, an election shall be held in the subdistrict to determine whether bonds in any amount the board may deem...
• 553.660   Tax or assessment as lien on property.
  Any tax or assessment upon land shall be a lien against the property assessed or taxed, and such lien for all payments due or to...
• 553.665   Bond Fund; Bond and United States Contract Fund; Construction Fund; General Fund.
  The treasurer shall keep a “Bond Fund” account or a “Bond and United States Contract Fund” account, as the case may be, into which shall...
• 553.670   Process for issuance of bonds.
  Bonds authorized by this chapter shall be issued in the manner prescribed in ORS chapter 287A. [1965 c.623 §27; 1997 c.171 §21; 2007 c.783 §220]...
• 553.710   Intergovernmental agreements; levy of tax to meet obligations.
  After the creation of a subdistrict, and with the approval of the electors of the subdistrict, a water control district may enter into intergovernmental agreements...
• 553.720   Manner of collecting tax; budget; equalizing levy.
  The ad valorem tax provided for in ORS 553.710 shall be levied and collected in the manner otherwise provided by law for the levy and...
• 553.730   Limitation on tax levy.
  No levy of an ad valorem tax under ORS 553.710 for any one year shall exceed one-half of one percent (0.005) of the real market...
• 553.740   Issuance of warrants.
  After the amount of a levy under ORS 553.710 is determined and turned over to the county assessor, a district may issue warrants to an...
• 553.750   Loan contracts with state or federal agencies; obligation of district; recording certificates.
  (1) Whenever a district has adopted, as the engineering plan for a subdistrict, a project work plan prepared for the subdistrict by a department of...
• 553.760   When land benefited by irrigation project.
  No tract of land shall be considered to be benefited by the construction, operation, maintenance or improvement of irrigation works unless the owner of such...
• 553.810   [Repealed by 1969 c.691 §13]
• 553.815   Judicial review of tax or assessment.
  Owners of any property against which an assessment or tax has been levied may seek a review thereof under ORS 34.010 to 34.100. [1969 c.691
• 553.820   [Repealed by 1969 c.691 §13]
• 553.850   Dissolution upon majority vote.
  Any water control district may be dissolved whenever a majority vote of the electors of the district voting at an election for such purpose favors...
• 553.855   [1965 c.623 §29; repealed by 1971 c.727 §203]
• 553.860   [1965 c.623 §30; repealed by 1971 c.727 §203]
• 553.865   [1965 c.623 §31; repealed by 1971 c.647 §149]
• 553.870   [1965 c.623 §32; repealed by 1971 c.727 §203]
• 553.875   [1965 c.623 §33; repealed by 1971 c.727 §203]
• 553.880   [1965 c.623 §34; repealed by 1971 c.727 §203]
• 553.885   [1965 c.623 §§35,36; repealed by 1971 c.727 §203]
• 553.890   [1965 c.623 §37; repealed by 1971 c.727 §203]
• 553.895   [1965 c.623 §38; repealed by 1971 c.727 §203]
• 553.900   [1965 c.623 §39; repealed by 1971 c.727 §203]
• 553.905   [1965 c.623 §40; repealed by 1971 c.727 §203]
• 553.910   [1965 c.623 §41; repealed by 1971 c.727 §203]

Last modified: August 7, 2008