ORS 271.405 — Transfer of property by city or town to county for public institutions and works. Whenever any property or rights therein required by any county in carrying out public purposes is owned by an incorporated city or town within such county, the city or town may, if in the judgment of the governing body of the city or town the public may be benefited thereby, convey and transfer to such county by proper conveyances, and the county may accept, such property or rights. [Amended by 1981 c.153 §59]