Oregon Statutes - Chapter 548 - Provisions Applicable Both to Drainage Districts and to Irrigation Districts

• 548.005   Organization of irrigation, drainage or flood control district by owners of lands subject to assessment by district improvement company or improvement district; assumption of obligations.
  Where any lands are subject to assessment by a corporation under the provisions of ORS 554.005 to 554.340, or by a corporation organized before March...
• 548.010   Sale or disposal of lands.
  Whenever any drainage or irrigation district has acquired any lands, by gift, purchase, eminent domain or otherwise, for the uses and purposes of the district,...
• 548.015   Board of directors to transfer unnecessary funds.
  When the necessity for maintaining any fund of an irrigation or drainage district has ceased to exist and a balance remains in the fund, the...
• 548.050   Insurance for district employees.
  (1) The board of directors of an irrigation district or the board of supervisors of a drainage district may enter into contracts of insurance covering...
• 548.105   Authority of boards to maintain proceedings for judicial determination as to organization of district and other matters; scope of inquiry.
  (1) The board of directors of an irrigation district organized under ORS chapter 545, or the board of supervisors of a drainage district organized under...
• 548.110   Nature of proceedings; notice; contest; judgment; appeal; nonprejudicial errors; costs.
  (1) The proceedings under ORS 548.105 shall be in the nature of a proceeding in rem. The practice and procedure therein shall follow the practice...
• 548.115   Elector’s right to maintain proceedings; procedure; exclusiveness of remedy.
  (1) Any qualified elector of an irrigation district or drainage district, within 30 days after the entry of any order or the performance of any...
• 548.120   Validation of judgments entered in proceedings by directors.
  In all cases where the board of directors of any irrigation district or the board of supervisors of any drainage district has instituted proceedings for...
• 548.205   [Repealed by 1989 c.182 §49]
• 548.210   [Repealed by 1989 c.182 §49]
• 548.215   [Repealed by 1989 c.182 §49]
• 548.220   [Repealed by 1989 c.182 §49]
• 548.225   [Repealed by 1989 c.182 §49]
• 548.230   [Amended by 1967 c.359 §695; repealed by 1989 c.182 §49]
• 548.235   [Repealed by 1989 c.182 §49]
• 548.300   Contracts for state loans; purposes for which authorized; amount of loan.
  (1) The board of supervisors of any drainage district or the board of directors of any irrigation district may, whenever it is determined by such...
• 548.305   Contracts for federal loans; purposes for which authorized; amount of loan.
  (1) The board of supervisors of any drainage district or the board of directors of any irrigation district may, whenever it is determined by such...
• 548.310   Validation of prior contracts and bonds.
  All contracts entered into before November 15, 1935, by any drainage district or irrigation district with any governmental agency of the United States, and any...
• 548.315   Issuance of bonds; funds for payment; charges or assessments; release of land from lien; relief from payment of assessments.
  For the purpose of carrying into effect provisions contained in any contract so to be executed, the board of such district may, with the approval...
• 548.320   Lien on lands; lien docket; priority; sale of land for taxes not to extinguish lien.
  The contract may provide for a lien docket which shall be furnished by the district to the county clerk of each county in which lands...
• 548.325   Charges or assessments; emergency fund.
  In addition to the annual charges or assessments provided for in ORS 548.315, and in addition to the charges or assessments authorized by law for...
• 548.330   Bonds for refunding indebtedness; validity not affected by irregularities of refunded obligations.
  All bonds of any irrigation or drainage district authorized or issued by the district in the manner provided by ORS 548.305 to 548.325, for the...
• 548.335   Consent of holders of outstanding indebtedness; initiation of proceedings to obtain constructive consent; petition.
  When any irrigation or drainage district has adopted a plan for refunding and compromising any or all of its outstanding indebtedness, and pursuant to ORS...
• 548.340   Contents of petition.
  The petition shall set forth the plan for refunding and compromising the indebtedness and shall further recite what percentage in amount of the holders of...
• 548.345   Notice; failure of holder to object constitutes consent.
  (1) Upon presentation of the petition to the judge of the court, the judge shall, if it appears that diligent efforts have been made by...
• 548.350   Hearing; judgment; county treasurer as trustee.
  (1) After the expiration of 90 days from the date of the first publication of the notice and the service and mailing thereof, as set...
• 548.355   Nature of proceedings; appeal; nonprejudicial errors; costs.
  The procedure in the circuit court under the provisions of ORS 548.340 to 548.350 shall be in the nature of an action in rem not...
• 548.360   Moneys and securities; custody.
  All moneys and securities received under ORS 548.350 may be deposited with the State Treasurer for safekeeping. [Amended by 1989 c.182 §36]
• 548.365   Depositary for bonds, warrants; authority of State Treasurer.
  Whenever any governmental agency of the United States has authorized a loan to or for the benefit of any irrigation or drainage district in Oregon...
• 548.370   Cancellation or compromise of assessments by districts refunding indebtedness through federal agencies.
  The board of supervisors of any drainage district or the board of directors of any irrigation district may cancel or compromise any special assessments assessed...
• 548.400   Deposit of bonds, warrants and other evidence of indebtedness of irrigation and drainage districts being reorganized.
  (1) The county treasurer of the county in which the district is headquartered may accept deposits of bonds, warrants or other evidences of indebtedness of...
• 548.405   Loss of certificates or receipts issued by county treasurer for securities; surrender of securities by county treasurer.
  Whenever one claiming to be a lawful owner of a certificate of deposit or receipt issued by the county treasurer, covering securities issued by an...
• 548.410   Surrender of securities to claimant to whom certificate or receipt has not been issued or assigned.
  Whenever one in possession of a certificate of deposit or receipt issued by the county treasurer as evidence of the deposit of securities issued by...
• 548.415   Surety bond; amount; conditions.
  The surety bond to be filed under ORS 548.405 or 548.410 shall be for double the amount of the face value of the securities described...
• 548.505   Relevy and reassessment; manner and time.
  If any drainage or irrigation district assessment levied on any property liable thereto is prevented from being collected for any year by reason of any...
• 548.510   Judgment declaring assessments void; reassessment and relevy of similar assessments; time; crediting payments under void assessment.
  If any such levy of assessment is declared void by a court of competent jurisdiction, then all similar assessments levied in the same or other...
• 548.515   Manner of relevy and reassessment; officers authorized.
  The relevy and reassessment of drainage and irrigation district assessments provided for by law shall be made in the same manner, and by the same...
• 548.520   Cancellation or compromise.
  The provisions of ORS 548.370 relating to the authority of drainage and irrigation districts to cancel or compromise any special assessment shall apply to any...
• 548.605   [Repealed by 1969 c.595 §17]
• 548.610   [Repealed by 1997 c.170 §48]
• 548.615   [Repealed by 1997 c.170 §48]
• 548.620   [Amended by 1981 c.897 §62; 1995 c.696 §28; repealed by 1997 c.170 §48]
• 548.625   [Repealed by 1997 c.170 §48]
• 548.630   [Repealed by 1997 c.170 §48]
• 548.635   [Repealed by 1997 c.170 §48]
• 548.640   [Repealed by 1997 c.170 §48]
• 548.645   [Repealed by 1997 c.170 §48]
• 548.650   [Repealed by 1997 c.170 §48]
• 548.655   [Repealed by 1997 c.170 §48]
• 548.660   [Amended by 1981 c.897 §63; 1995 c.696 §29; repealed by 1997 c.170 §48]
• 548.665   [Repealed by 1997 c.170 §48]
• 548.670   [Repealed by 1997 c.170 §48]
• 548.675   [Repealed by 1997 c.170 §48]
• 548.705   Irrigation or drainage district may file bankruptcy petition; confirmation of proceedings; composition of debts.
  At any time subsequent to default in the payment of principal or interest upon the bonded or warrant indebtedness of any irrigation or drainage district...
• 548.710   Bonds of district; use and delivery to creditors.
  Whenever any irrigation or drainage district files its petition in bankruptcy pursuant to the provisions of the Act of Congress approved May 24, 1934, authorizing...
• 548.715   Debt refunding agreements; obtaining consent of unknown or nonconsenting creditors.
  Whenever any irrigation or drainage district engaged in the refunding of its indebtedness has entered into a contract for such purposes with 80 percent or...
• 548.810   [Formerly 544.030; repealed by 1989 c.182 §49]
• 548.900   Definitions for ORS 548.900 to 548.955.
  As used in ORS 548.900 to 548.955, except as otherwise expressly provided: (1) “District” means an irrigation district organized under ORS chapter 545 or a...
• 548.905   Petition for dissolution or reorganization; contents; effect of dissolution or reorganization on creditors.
  (1) A majority of the qualified electors and landowners of a district, representing at least one-half of the acres of land assessed by the district,...
• 548.910   Manner of signing petition; form of petition; withdrawal of signature after filing of petition prohibited.
  (1) Each person signing a petition shall add after the signature of the person the date of signing and place of residence, giving street and...
• 548.915   Determining qualified petition signatures; certificate of county clerk and district secretary.
  (1) A petition shall not be accepted for filing unless the signatures thereon have been secured within six months of the date on which the...
• 548.920   Notice of petition filing; contents; election petition; signature requirements.
  (1) If the petition is accepted and filed by the district secretary, the secretary shall, within 30 days thereafter, cause a notice of the filing...
• 548.925   Special election; notice; ballot form.
  (1) Within 10 days after the filing of a petition that meets the requirements of ORS 548.920 (3) and 548.920 (2)(c), the district board shall...
• 548.930   Vote result requirements; filing petition with circuit court if vote favors reorganization or dissolution or if no election petition is filed.
  (1) Upon canvass of the votes, if it is found and declared by the district board that a majority of the qualified electors and landowners...
• 548.935   Circuit court proceeding on petition; contents of court order.
  Proceedings in the circuit court upon the petition shall be in the nature of a proceeding in rem and shall be conducted as an action...
• 548.940   Jurisdiction of parties; service of summons and petition.
  (1) Jurisdiction of all interested parties may be had by the publication of summons in the manner provided by ORCP 7. Copies of the summons...
• 548.945   Written assent of Secretary of Interior required before judgment if district has federal contract.
  If a contract authorized by law has been made between the district and the United States for the construction, operation or maintenance of necessary works...
• 548.950   Appearance of interested parties; costs and disbursements.
  Any interested party may appear in the proceedings. Costs and disbursements may be allowed and divided between the parties or taxed to the losing party...
• 548.955   Contents of judgment; filing with county treasurer and assessor, Secretary of State and Water Resources Commission.
  The judgment of the court shall order the clerk of the court to file certified copies of the judgment with the county treasurer and the...

Last modified: August 7, 2008