Oregon Statutes - Chapter 264 - Domestic Water Supply Districts

• 264.010   Definitions.
  As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) “Board” or “board of commissioners” means the governing body of a district. (2) “District”...
• 264.015   Application of ORS chapter 255.
  (1) ORS chapter 255 governs the following: (a) The nomination and election of commissioners. (b) The conduct of district elections. (2) The electors of a...
• 264.020   [1955 c.676 §3; 1969 c.666 §49; repealed by 1971 c.647 §149]
• 264.110   Formation of domestic water supply district; sale of surplus; exemptions.
  A domestic water supply district may be formed for the purpose of supplying inhabitants of the district with water for domestic purposes as provided by...
• 264.115   [1953 c.681 §2; 1955 c.213 §1; 1969 c.666 §3; repealed by 1971 c.727 §203]
• 264.118   [1953 c.681 §3; 1955 c.110 §1; 1969 c.666 §4; repealed by 1971 c.727 §203]
• 264.120   [Repealed by 1953 c.681 §13]
• 264.121   [1953 c.681 §4; 1969 c.666 §5; repealed by 1971 c.727 §203]
• 264.124   [1953 c.681 §§5, 7; 1969 c.666 §6; repealed by 1971 c.727 §203]
• 264.127   [1953 c.681 §6; 1969 c.666 §50; repealed by 1971 c.647 §149 and by 1971 c.727 §203]
• 264.130   [Repealed by 1953 c.681 §13]
• 264.140   [Amended by 1955 c.213 §2; repealed by 1971 c.647 §149]
• 264.142   [1953 c.681 §8; 1969 c.666 §7; repealed by 1971 c.647 §149]
• 264.144   [1953 c.681 §9; 1969 c.666 §8; repealed by 1971 c.647 §149]
• 264.148   [1953 c.681 §10; repealed by 1971 c.647 §149 and by 1971 c.727 §263]
• 264.150   [Repealed by 1953 c.681 §13]
• 264.154   [1953 c.681 §11; 1969 c.666 §9; repealed by 1971 c.727 §203]
• 264.156   [1953 c.681 §12; 1969 c.666 §10; repealed by 1971 c.647 §149 and by 1971 c.727 §203]
• 264.160   [Amended by 1969 c.666 §11; repealed by 1971 c.727 §203]
• 264.170   [Amended by 1955 c.676 §1; 1961 c.369 §1; 1969 c.666 §12; repealed by 1971 c.647 §149]
• 264.180   [1955 c.676 §4; 1969 c.666 §13; repealed by 1971 c.647 §149 and by 1971 c.727 §203]
• 264.190   [Formerly 264.415; repealed by 1983 c.350 §331a]
• 264.210   General powers of district.
  A district formed under this chapter shall have the power to make contracts, hold and receive and dispose of real and personal property within and...
• 264.220   Disposal of taxes levied when organization declared invalid.
  When an attempt has been made to organize a district under the provisions of this chapter and subsequently by a judgment of a court of...
• 264.230   [Amended by 1969 c.666 §52; repealed by 1971 c.727 §203]
• 264.240   Eminent domain authority; acquisition of property and property rights; obtaining or laying water pipelines.
  A domestic water supply district created under this chapter may exercise the power of eminent domain both inside and outside of its boundaries, and may...
• 264.250   Power to borrow money and issue general obligation bonds; place of payment.
  (1) For the purpose of carrying into effect all or any powers granted by this chapter, the district, when authorized at any properly called election...
• 264.260   Issuance of revenue bonds.
  In addition to the authority to issue general obligation bonds, the district, when authorized at any properly called election, shall have the power to sell...
• 264.270   Issuance of refunding bonds.
  Refunding bonds of the same character and tenor as those replaced thereby may be issued pursuant to a resolution duly adopted by the board of...
• 264.280   Bond sale procedure.
  All general obligation and revenue bonds, including refunding bonds, issued under ORS 264.250 to 264.270 shall be advertised and sold in the manner prescribed in...
• 264.290   [Amended by 1969 c.666 §17; repealed by 1971 c.647 §149]
• 264.300   Tax assessment, levy and collection.
  (1) A district may assess, levy and collect taxes in an amount each year not to exceed one-fourth of one percent (0.0025) of the real...
• 264.306   Regulations concerning use of water and district property; shutoff of water for noncompliance; notice.
  (1) Any district may adopt and promulgate regulations concerning the use of water and the property of the district. The board of commissioners may refuse...
• 264.308   Requiring cash deposits of water users.
  Any district may require a reasonable cash deposit to insure payment for the use or rent of water to be furnished by the district. [1953...
• 264.310   Rates for water furnished; contracts to sell surplus water.
  A district shall charge consumers for the water furnished and fix and collect the rates therefor. Rates charged may be fixed and classified according to...
• 264.312   Increasing water rates; hearing; notice.
  (1) Whenever any increase is proposed in the existing rates charged water consumers by a district pursuant to ORS 264.310, the board of commissioners shall...
• 264.314   Shutting off water if delinquent in payment of water bill.
  In case prompt payment of water rent or charge is not made, a district may shut off the water supply to the building, place or...
• 264.320   Refund of cost of water main extension.
  If any person is required by a district to pay the cost of extending a water main adjacent to property other than the person’s own...
• 264.330   Hydrants for fire protection; regulations; rates.
  Any district may install hydrants for fire protection along its mains at such points as its board of commissioners may determine, and furnish water for...
• 264.335   Authority to exercise powers of sanitary district.
  In addition to the other powers granted to districts under this chapter, a district may exercise the powers granted to sanitary districts under ORS 450.005...
• 264.340   Purchase and maintenance of fire equipment; contracting for fire protection; elections to authorize; tax levy to defray expense; application of section.
  (1) Any district, when authorized by the electors as provided by this subsection, may purchase fire apparatus and equipment and maintain, service and operate the...
• 264.342   Adoption of fire prevention code.
  A district which has provided fire protection under ORS 264.340 may, in accordance with ORS 198.510 to 198.600, adopt a fire prevention code. [1953 c.206...
• 264.344   Scope of fire prevention code.
  The fire prevention code referred to in ORS 264.342 may provide reasonable regulations relating to: (1) Prevention of fires. (2) Storage and use of combustibles...
• 264.346   Violation of code or failure to remove hazards prohibited.
  When a fire prevention code has been adopted as provided in ORS 264.342, no person shall violate the provisions of the code or fail to...
• 264.348   Copies of code to be filed with State Fire Marshal and posted at fire stations.
  Copies of the fire prevention code referred to in ORS 264.342 shall be filed with the State Fire Marshal’s office and a copy shall be...
• 264.349   Revoking authority to furnish fire protection services; consequences.
  (1) The authority of a district to furnish fire protection service under ORS 264.340 may be revoked by a majority vote of the electors voting...
• 264.350   Street lighting system; contracts for electricity; tax levy and service charges to maintain and purchase electric energy.
  (1) Any district, when authorized by the electors, may install, maintain and operate a system, or systems, of street, road and highway lights. Lights shall...
• 264.352   Drainage work.
  Any district may perform drainage work for the purpose of reclaiming real property located within the district, protecting real or personal property located within the...
• 264.360   Cooperative agreements; bonding power.
  (1) Districts may enter into cooperative agreements with each other providing for the joint acquisition, construction, ownership, use or control of facilities for the collection,...
• 264.362   Initiation of proceedings; survey and report of project.
  Whenever the district board considers it necessary, upon its own motion, or upon the petition of the owners of one-half of the property that benefits...
• 264.364   Board action on report.
  After the report has been filed with the secretary, the district board may by motion approve the report, modify the report and approve it as...
• 264.366   Resolution of intention; notice of improvement and hearing.
  After the district board approves the report as submitted or modified, the board shall, by resolution, declare its intention to make the improvement, provide the...
• 264.368   Manner of doing work.
  The district board may provide in the improvement resolution that the construction work will be done in whole, or in part, by the district, by...
• 264.370   Hearing; assessment ordinance.
  (1) At the time of the public hearing on the proposed improvement, if the written remonstrances represent less than the amount of property required to...
• 264.372   Methods of assessment; alternative financing.
  The district board in adopting a method of assessment of the costs of the improvement may: (1) Use any just and reasonable method of determining...
• 264.374   Appeal from assessment.
  Any person feeling aggrieved by the assessments made under an assessment ordinance may, within 20 days after the passage of the ordinance levying the assessment...
• 264.376   Notice of assessment.
  Within 10 days after the ordinance levying assessments is adopted, the secretary of the district shall send by registered or certified mail a notice of...
• 264.378   Assessment lien records; foreclosure proceedings.
  After passage of the assessment ordinance by the district board, the secretary shall enter in the docket of district liens a statement of the amounts...
• 264.380   Errors in assessment calculations.
  Claimed errors in the calculation of assessments shall be called to the attention of the secretary of the district, who shall determine whether there has...
• 264.382   Deficit assessment.
  In the event that an assessment is made before the total cost of the improvement is ascertained, and if it is found that the amount...
• 264.384   Excess assessment; rebate.
  Upon the completion of the improvement project, if it is found that the assessment previously levied upon any property is more than sufficient to pay...
• 264.386   Abandonment of proceedings.
  The district board may abandon proceedings for an improvement at any time prior to the final completion of the improvement. If liens have been assessed...
• 264.388   Guides in testing validity of proceedings; proceedings to correct.
  No improvement assessment shall be rendered invalid by reason of a failure of the improvement report to contain all of the information required by ORS...
• 264.390   Reassessment.
  Whenever any assessment, deficit assessment or reassessment for any improvement which has been made by the district is set aside, or its enforcement restrained by...
• 264.392   [1969 c.686 §18; repealed by 1995 c.333 §37]
• 264.394   Enforcement of assessment lien.
  (1) In case the whole or any portion of the cost of an improvement is assessed against the property directly benefited and the owner of...
• 264.410   Board; qualification; terms.
  (1) Except as otherwise provided by this chapter, the power and authority given to districts is vested in and shall be exercised by a board...
• 264.415   [Formerly subsection (3) of 264.410; 1971 c.647 §40; 1973 c.796 §20; 1975 c.647 §23; renumbered 264.190]
• 264.417   Position numbers for commissioners; certification of position number.
  (1) Each office of commissioner shall be designated by number as Position No. 1, Position No. 2 and so forth. (2) The secretary of a...
• 264.420   Calling of special elections.
  The board of commissioners at any regular meeting may call a special election of the electors of the district. [Amended by 1969 c.666 §31; 1971...
• 264.430   Proceedings of board; election of officers; employment of personnel.
  (1) The board of commissioners shall hold meetings at such time and place within the district as it may determine. The board shall hold at...
• 264.440   [Repealed by 1969 c.666 §70]
• 264.450   [Amended by 1969 c.666 §33; repealed by 1969 c.666 §68 and by 1969 c.669 §21]
• 264.455   [1961 c.564 §2; amended by 1969 c.666 §57; repealed by 1969 c.325 §4 and by 1969 c.666 §67]
• 264.460   [Amended by 1969 c.666 §58; 1975 c.647 §24; repealed by 1983 c.350 §331a]
• 264.470   Deposit and withdrawal of moneys; annual reports; records.
  (1) The money of a district shall be deposited in one or more depositories, as defined in ORS 295.001, to be designated by the board...
• 264.480   Board of commissioners after merger or consolidation; duties; terms; filing boundary change with county assessor and Department of Revenue.
  (1) Notwithstanding ORS 198.910 and 198.915, when, at an election on consolidation or merger, a majority of the votes cast in each affected district is...
• 264.505   Agreement to supply additional water prior to approval of annexation petition.
  Before approval of the board of commissioners is given to a petition for annexation, the board shall secure from the independent water supply source of...
• 264.510   [Repealed by 1953 c.682 §7]
• 264.511   [1969 c.79 §3; 1969 c.666 §69; repealed by 1971 c.727 §203]
• 264.520   [Amended by 1955 c.163 §3; 1969 c.666 §36; repealed by 1971 c.727 §203]
• 264.530   [Amended by 1969 c.666 §37; repealed by 1971 c.727 §203]
• 264.540   Fire hydrants in city joined or annexed to district; reversion of water system in city to district.
  (1) If a city has been annexed to a district under ORS 198.866 and 198.867 or has been joined to a district under ORS 198.910,...
• 264.550   Contracts between district and city joined or annexed to district.
  If a city has been annexed to a district under ORS 198.866 and 198.867 or has been joined to a district under ORS 198.910, the...
• 264.575   [1961 c.476 §§2, 3; 1965 c.135 §1; 1969 c.666 §39; repealed by 1971 c.727 §203]
• 264.580   [1961 c.476 §4; 1969 c.666 §60; repealed by 1971 c.727 §203]
• 264.585   [1961 c.476 §6; 1969 c.666 §61; repealed by 1971 c.727 §203]
• 264.590   [1961 c.476 §5; 1969 c.666 §62; repealed by 1971 c.727 §203]
• 264.610   [Amended by 1969 c.666 §40; 1971 c.601 §1; repealed by 1971 c.727 §203]
• 264.620   [Amended by 1969 c.666 §41; repealed by 1971 c.727 §203]
• 264.630   [Amended by 1969 c.666 §42; 1971 c.601 §3; repealed by 1971 c.727 §203]
• 264.710   [1953 c.683 §1; repealed by 1969 c.666 §70]
• 264.715   [1953 c.683 §2; 1969 c.666 §43; repealed by 1971 c.727 §203]
• 264.720   [1953 c.683 §3; 1969 c.666 §63; repealed by 1971 c.727 §203]
• 264.725   [1953 c.683 §§4, 5; 1969 c.666 §44; repealed by 1971 c.727 §203]
• 264.730   [1953 c.683 §6; 1969 c.666 §45; repealed by 1971 c.727 §203]
• 264.735   [1953 c.683 §7; 1969 c.666 §46; repealed by 1971 c.727 §203]
• 264.740   [1953 c.683 §8; 1969 c.666 §64; repealed by 1971 c.647 §149]
• 264.745   [1953 c.683 §9; 1969 c.666 §47; repealed by 1971 c.727 §203]
• 264.750   [1953 c.683 §10; 1969 c.666 §65; repealed by 1971 c.727 §203]
• 264.810   Employees’ retirement system authorized.
  (1) A district may establish an employees’ retirement system. The board of commissioners may enter into agreements necessary to establish the system and carry out...
• 264.820   District to budget for retirement system.
  The district may budget and provide for payment into the fund of the retirement plan an amount sufficient: (1) To provide on an actuarial reserve...
• 264.830   Employee contributions.
  The district may collect, as a contribution from any employee, that percentage of the salary received by the employee which is necessary to fund on...
• 264.840   Limitation on membership.
  Nothing in this chapter authorizes the district to budget, provide for payments or collect contributions to fund retirement benefits for an individual who is not...
• 264.875   Assumption of debts and obligations of district upon dissolution.
  (1) An irrigation district within which a water district is situated, or a city supplying water to a water district, may enter into a written...
• 264.990   Penalties.
  Violation of any provision of ORS 264.346 is a Class D violation. Each day’s refusal to remove fire hazards after notice by the inspecting officer...

Last modified: August 7, 2008