Oregon Statutes - Chapter 225 - Municipal Utilities

• 225.010   Definition.
  As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise, “city” means any incorporated city or town.
• 225.020   Authority of cities to acquire, own and operate utilities within and without city limits.
  (1) When the power to do so is conferred by or contained in its charter or act of incorporation, any city may build, own, operate...
• 225.030   Utility may provide services outside city limits.
  Any city owning, controlling or operating a system of waterworks or electric light and power system for supplying water or electricity for its inhabitants and...
• 225.040   Validation of prior municipal contracts.
  All contracts or agreements made prior to May 20, 1911, and in effect as of that date, for sale and disposal of water or electricity...
• 225.050   Joint acquisition, ownership and operation of waterworks; joint financing.
  (1) Any or all cities may construct, own or operate jointly, in such proportion as they may agree, waterworks and water pipelines, water rights and...
• 225.060   Joint ownership, operation and financing of municipal utilities with another state.
  (1) Whenever authorized by their charter or incorporation law, cities and other municipal corporations may, either severally or in joint agreement, purchase, own, operate and...
• 225.070   Use of surplus city waters for federal military purposes.
  The governing body of any city may contract with and permit the United States of America to use for military purposes within or without the...
• 225.080   Financing costs of municipal waterworks or water system; benefit assessments.
  (1) In order to finance the cost of installing any improvement for waterworks or water systems authorized by ORS 225.020, a city council may provide...
• 225.085   Klamath Cogeneration Project; service contracts; prohibited transactions.
  Notwithstanding any other law, the City of Klamath Falls, acting solely in connection with the ownership and operation of the Klamath Cogeneration Project, may enter...
• 225.110   Ownership and operation of telephone system within or without city limits.
  When authorized by its charter or act of incorporation, a city may purchase, build, own, operate and maintain telephone or telegraph systems within or without...
• 225.120   Interconnections; cooperation with state.
  For the purposes of ORS 225.110, a city may interconnect by agreement or otherwise with other public or private telephone systems and conduct both a...
• 225.130   Right to acquire property.
  For any of the purposes of ORS 225.110 and 225.120, a city may acquire rights of way, easements and real property within or without its
• 225.140   Condemnation of private property for telephone system.
  Except as provided in ORS 225.150 and 225.160, in exercising the powers granted by ORS 225.110 to 225.130, a city may bring actions for condemnation...
• 225.150   Compensation.
  The city shall pay compensation by deposit in court of an order drawn on the city treasurer for the amount of compensation fixed by the...
• 225.160   Alternate condemnation proceeding.
  In lieu of proceeding under ORS 225.140, a city may elect to proceed with condemnation in the manner provided by law for condemnation of land...
• 225.210   Compliance with rate regulations.
  Each city which owns and operates an electric light and power system or which distributes electric energy for hire, shall charge such rates therefor as...
• 225.220   Enforcement of statutory requirements.
  (1) The requirements of ORS 225.210 to 225.300 shall be enforced and observed by that officer who by the charter is charged with the administration...
• 225.230   Rates set in accordance with estimates of annual expenses.
  (1) The officer referred to in ORS 225.220 shall annually before January 1, make a written estimate of the probable expense of maintaining and conducting...
• 225.240   Exclusive authority to set rates.
  The officer referred to in ORS 225.220 shall be the sole judge of what rates or charges shall be exacted for the electric current furnished...
• 225.250   Application of earnings.
  The earnings of the electric plant or distributing system shall be applied and used in payment of warrants and interest thereon issued in connection with...
• 225.260   Use of proceeds of bond issues.
  The proceeds of bond issues issued after June 6, 1931, by authority of charter provisions of the city for the purpose of creating, acquiring, building,...
• 225.270   Use of surplus earnings.
  When any city which owns or operates a municipal electric power plant or system or distributing system, has paid principal and interest to date on...
• 225.280   Warrants on future income; limitations; retirement.
  (1) When authorized by the city charter, the officer referred to in ORS 225.220 as having charge of the electric plant or distributing system may...
• 225.290   Use of unappropriated state waters.
  Any city which is authorized by its charter or by law to construct, acquire, maintain or operate an electric generating plant or distributing system may...
• 225.300   Privilege of filing for use of state waters; limitations; determination of reasonable needs.
  Any filing made by any city upon the unappropriated waters of this state for use in the future development of a hydroelectric plant by such...
• 225.310   Definitions for ORS 225.310 to 225.400.
  As used in ORS 225.310 to 225.400, unless the context requires otherwise, “facilities” means a water supply for irrigation and for fire protection of property...
• 225.320   Ownership and operation of irrigation and fire protection facilities.
  Any city may own, acquire, construct, equip, operate and maintain within or without its statutory or corporate limits, in whole or in part, facilities for...
• 225.330   Acquisition of property for the facilities.
  (1) For the purposes of ORS 225.320, the city may acquire by gift, grant, purchase or condemnation necessary lands and rights of way within or...
• 225.340   Fixing of rates.
  The city governing body may establish just and equitable rates or charges to be paid for the use of the irrigation and fire protection facilities...
• 225.350   Recovery and collection of service charges.
  If the service charges established under ORS 225.340 are not paid when due, the amounts thereof, together with such penalties, interests and costs as may...
• 225.360   Approval, issuance, payment of bonds.
  For the purposes of ORS 225.320, the city governing body may, after referring the question of acquiring and constructing the facilities to a vote of...
• 225.370   Character, maturities, sale price of bonds.
  The city governing body may determine the maturities and tenor of bonds issued under ORS 225.360. However, the bonds shall be serial in character and...
• 225.380   Application of debt limitations.
  The amount of any self-liquidating bonds issued under ORS 225.360 shall not be within any limitation of indebtedness fixed by law or charter, but shall...
• 225.390   Preparation and examination of plans.
  Before calling any election for the purposes set forth in ORS 225.360, the city governing body shall cause to be prepared plans, specifications and estimates...
• 225.400   Scope of municipal authority.
  The authority given by ORS 225.310 to 225.390 shall be in addition to and not in derogation of any power existing in any city under...
• 225.450   Definitions for ORS 225.450 to 225.490.
  As used in ORS 225.450 to 225.490, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) “City” means a city organized under the law of California, Colorado, Idaho,...
• 225.460   Policy.
  (1) The Legislative Assembly finds and declares it to be in the public interest and for a public purpose that cities, districts, electric cooperatives and...
• 225.470   Authority of city to acquire interest in power facilities.
  In addition to the powers otherwise conferred on cities of this state, a city that owns or operates an electric light and power system, or...
• 225.480   City liability; application of moneys; use of power of eminent domain prohibited.
  (1) In carrying out the powers granted in ORS 225.470, a city of this state shall be liable only for its own acts with regard...
• 225.490   Use of municipal money or property; revenue bonds.
  Any city of this state participating in common facilities under ORS 225.450 to 225.490 may furnish money and provide property, both real and personal, and...

Last modified: August 7, 2008