95 sections in this chapter.
ORS 199.110 [1963 c.516 §1; 1965 c.69 §1; repealed by 1969 c.130 §3]
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ORS 199.120 [1963 c.516 §2; 1965 c.69 §2; repealed by 1969 c.130 §3]
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ORS 199.130 [1963 c.516 §3; repealed by 1969 c.130 §3]
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ORS 199.140 [1963 c.516 §4; repealed by 1969 c.130 §3]
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ORS 199.150 [1963 c.516 §§5,6,19; 1969 c.130 §1; repealed by 1969 c.130 §3]
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ORS 199.160 [1963 c.516 §7; repealed by 1969 c.130 §3]
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ORS 199.170 [1963 c.516 §8; repealed by 1969 c.130 §3]
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ORS 199.180 [1963 c.516 §9; 1969 c.130 §2; repealed by 1969 c.130 §3]
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ORS 199.210 [1963 c.516 §10; repealed by 1969 c.130 §3]
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ORS 199.220 [1963 c.516 §11; repealed by 1969 c.130 §3]
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ORS 199.230 [1963 c.516 §§12,13; repealed by 1969 c.130 §3]
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ORS 199.240 [1963 c.516 §14(1); repealed by 1969 c.130 §3]
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ORS 199.250 [1963 c.516 §15; repealed by 1969 c.130 §3]
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ORS 199.260 [1963 c.516 §14(2); repealed by 1969 c.130 §3]
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ORS 199.270 [1963 c.516 §16; repealed by 1969 c.130 §3]
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ORS 199.280 [1963 c.516 §17; repealed by 1969 c.130 §3]
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ORS 199.310 [1963 c.516 §18; repealed by 1969 c.130 §3]
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LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOUNDARY COMMISSIONS (Temporary provisions relating to requirements for annexation of certain industrial lands) Note: Sections 3, 4 and 11, chapter 539, Oregon Laws 2005, provide: Sec. 3. Section 4 of this 2005 Act is added to and made a part of ORS 199.410 to 19…
ORS 199.410 Policy. (1) The Legislative Assembly finds that
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(a) A fragmented approach has developed to public services provided by local government. Fragmentation results in duplications in services and resistance to cooperation and is a barrier to planning implementation. Such an approach has limited the orderly development and growth of…
ORS 199.415 Definitions for ORS 199.410 to 199.534. As used in ORS 199.410 to 199.534, unless the context requires otherwise
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(1) “Affected city” means a city, city-county or cities, named in a petition, for which a boundary change is proposed or a city, city-county or cities, named in a final order, for which a boundary change is ordered. (2) “Affected district” means a district or districts, named in …
ORS 199.420 “District” defined for ORS 199.410 to 199.534. As used in ORS 199.410 to 199.534, unless the context requires otherwise, “district” means one of the following
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(1) Domestic water supply district organized under ORS chapter 264. (2) Park and recreation district organized under ORS chapter 266. (3) Metropolitan service district organized under ORS chapter 268. (4) Highway lighting district organized under ORS chapter 372. (5) Sanitary dis…
ORS 199.425 [1969 c.494 §4; 1979 c.152 §1; 1981 c.265 §2; 1997 c.516 §1; repealed by 2007 c.239 §15]
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ORS 199.427 [1993 c.424 §1; repealed by 1997 c.516 §15]
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(Commission)
ORS 199.430 Procedure for creating commissions by local resolution or petition. (1) A boundary commission may be created as provided by this section with territorial jurisdiction in one county or in two or more contiguous counties. A commission may be created by
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(a) Similar resolutions creating a commission adopted by the county board of each of the counties within the jurisdiction of the commission; or (b) Similar petitions, signed by the electors of each county within the jurisdiction of the proposed commission, requesting the creation…
ORS 199.432 Status of commission as state agency; application of certain laws. (1) A boundary commission created under ORS 199.430 may sue and be sued, enter into contracts and perform such other actions as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of ORS 199.410 to 199.534
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(2) A boundary commission is a state agency as defined in ORS 291.002 and is not subject to the provisions of ORS 291.201 to 291.224, 291.232 to 291.260, 291.371, 291.373 or 291.375. (3) A boundary commission employing personnel under ORS 199.455 shall provide employee benefits p…
ORS 199.435 Organization of commission created under ORS 199.430. (1) The members of the first board of a commission formed under ORS 199.430 shall be appointed within 90 days after the commission is created
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(2) Notwithstanding ORS 199.440, of the first appointees to a commission formed under ORS 199.430, one shall serve for one year, two for two years, two for three years and two for four years. The respective terms of the first appointees shall be determined by lot at the first mee…
ORS 199.440 Membership; appointment; qualifications; term; vacancy. (1) A boundary commission shall have seven members
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(2) The Governor may appoint all members of a commission from a list of names obtained from cities, counties and districts within the area of jurisdiction of the boundary commission. The Governor shall prepare the list annually and keep it current so timely appointments will be m…
ORS 199.445 Quorum; voting requirements for certain matters. A majority of the members of a commission constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and a majority of a quorum may act for the commission. However, the approval of a majority of the members of the commission is required to
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(1) Adopt a final order under ORS 199.461. (2) Adopt rules under ORS 199.452. [1969 c.494 §9; 1971 c.462 §4]
ORS 199.450 Advisory committee; membership; function; term. (1) Each boundary commission shall appoint an advisory committee to advise and assist the commission in carrying out the purposes of ORS 199.410 to 199.534. An advisory committee shall consist of nine members who are residents within the jurisdiction of the commission. Except for the public members, to be qualified to serve on a committee a person shall be a member of the governing body of a city, county or district located within the jurisdiction of the commission. The members shall include two city officers, two county officers, two district officers and three public members, one of whom shall serve as chairperson of the advisory committee. A governing body shall not have more than one member on the advisory committee. When only one county is under the jurisdiction of a boundary commission, then the committee shall consist of three city officers, one county officer, three district officers and the two public members. Any member of the committee may designate a representative who is an officer or employee of the member’s city, county or district to appear and act for that member at any meeting of the committee
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(2) The advisory committee shall meet as necessary. The advisory committee shall also meet on the call of the commission. (3)(a) The committee may review each petition filed with the commission except a petition filed under ORS 199.495. If the committee reviews a petition, it may…
ORS 199.452 Adoption of rules. A commission shall adopt, and may from time to time amend, rules to govern the proceedings before the commission. Except as provided in ORS 183.315 (1), a commission shall adopt and amend its rules in accordance with ORS chapter 183. [Formerly 199.525; 1983 c.336 §4]
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ORS 199.455 Expenses of members; employees; cooperation of local governments. (1) Each member of a boundary commission may receive travel and other expenses incidental to the performance of duties
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(2) A commission shall employ an executive officer and may employ administrative, clerical and technical assistants for carrying on its functions and it shall fix their compensation. (3) The governing bodies of cities, counties and districts located within the area of jurisdictio…
ORS 199.457 Finances; tax levy by county; donations; service charges; assessments. (1) Any county located within the jurisdiction of a boundary commission may levy taxes and expend funds for the purposes of ORS 199.410 to 199.534
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(2) A boundary commission may accept any funds, property or services, or the use of any property donated by any person, district, city or county in carrying out the purposes of ORS 199.410 to 199.534. (3) A boundary commission, with the approval of the advisory committee appointe…
ORS 199.458 [1987 c.882 §6; 1997 c.516 §4; repealed by 2007 c.239 §15]
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ORS 199.459 [1981 c.793 §1; 1997 c.516 §5; repealed by 2007 c.239 §15]
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(Jurisdiction; General Procedure)
ORS 199.460 Jurisdiction of boundary commission over boundary changes. (1) A boundary commission has jurisdiction of a proceeding to consider a boundary change if any part of the territory included or proposed to be included within the affected city or district is within the jurisdiction of the commission
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(2) If the territory subject to the proceeding is within the jurisdiction of two or more commissions, the highest assessed value commission shall have primary jurisdiction in the conduct of the proceeding under ORS 199.410 to 199.534, and all other commissions having jurisdiction…
ORS 199.461 Study of proposed boundary change or other action; hearing; action by commission; judicial review; notice to public officials. (1) When the boundary commission receives a petition in a boundary change proceeding or an application for any proceeding allowed under ORS 199.464, it shall
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(a) Cause a study to be made of the proposal. (b) Conduct one or more public hearings on the proposal. (2) After the study and hearings, the boundary commission may alter the boundaries set out in a petition for formation or a minor boundary change of a city or district or in a p…
ORS 199.462 Standards for review of boundary changes; territory that may not be included in certain boundary changes. (1) In order to carry out the purposes described by ORS 199.410 when reviewing a petition for a boundary change or application under ORS 199.464, a boundary commission shall consider local comprehensive planning for the area, economic, demographic and sociological trends and projections pertinent to the proposal, past and prospective physical development of land that would directly or indirectly be affected by the proposed boundary change or application under ORS 199.464 and the goals adopted under ORS 197.225
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(2) Subject to any provision to the contrary in the principal Act of the affected district or city and subject to the process of transfer of territory: (a) Territory within a city may not be included within or annexed to a district without the consent of the city council; (b) Ter…
ORS 199.463 Notice; hearing. (1) Notice of a public hearing conducted by a boundary commission under ORS 199.461 shall be published by at least one insertion in a newspaper of general circulation in the affected city, district or territory not more than 25 days nor less than 15 days before the hearing. A second notice may be published either by a second insertion in a newspaper of general circulation in the affected city, district or territory or by letter sent first-class mail addressed to each owner of land in the affected territory not more than 15 days nor less than 8 days before the hearing. The commission may also cause the notice to be posted in not less than three public places within the affected city, district or territory at least 15 days before the hearing. The commission may provide for publication by broadcasting on radio or television stations
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(2) Notice of a hearing shall describe the proposed boundary change or application under ORS 199.464, state the time and place of the hearing and that any interested person may appear and shall be given a reasonable opportunity to be heard. (3) A hearing may be adjourned or conti…
ORS 199.464 Commission approval for exercise of additional district function, to extraterritorially extend district or city sewer or water line or to establish privately owned community water system. (1) Approval or disapproval under this section shall be based on the policy stated in ORS 199.410
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(2) Without the approval of a boundary commission, a district with territory in the jurisdiction of the commission may not initiate an additional function of the district. Any proposal by a district to initiate an additional function shall be referred immediately to the boundary …
ORS 199.465 [1969 c.494 §11; 1971 c.462 §10; 1973 c.433 §1; 1981 c.890 §6; renumbered 199.476]
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(Boundary Change Procedure)
ORS 199.466 Approval of annexation or extraterritorial extension without study or hearing; conditions; appeal. (1) When filing an annexation petition or application under ORS 199.464 (3) or (4) with a boundary commission, the principal petitioner may request that the petition or application be approved without the study, public hearing and adoption of a final order required under ORS 199.461. If such request is made, the executive officer of the commission, not later than the 15th day after the filing of the petition or application, shall prepare a brief analysis of the petition or application and a recommendation for disposition of the proceeding, and send a copy of the analysis and recommendation to each commission member, to the governing body of each city, county and district with territory affected by the annexation or extension, to the owners of the affected territory and to such other persons as may be required by the commission. If the executive officer fails to prepare the analysis and recommendation by the 15th day after the filing of the petition or application, then the petition or application shall be approved only after the study, public hearing and adoption of the final order required under ORS 199.461
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(2) If, within 25 days after the filing of an annexation petition or application for an extraterritorial water or sewer line extension, a person or governing body that received a copy of the executive officer’s analysis and recommendation under subsection (1) of this section does…
ORS 199.468 Effective date of application submitted under ORS 199.464. If the boundary commission by its final order approves any application submitted pursuant to ORS 199.464, the application shall be effective at the time specified in the final order except that the effective date shall not be more than one year after the date the final order is adopted. If no effective date is specified in the final order, the order shall take effect on the date the order is adopted. [1983 c.336 §11]
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ORS 199.470 [1969 c.494 §12; repealed by 1971 c.462 §20]
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ORS 199.475 [1969 c.494 §13; 1971 c.462 §7; renumbered 199.461]
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ORS 199.476 When petition for major boundary change required; when economic feasibility statement required; effect of filing petition; effect of appeal. (1) When a major boundary change is initiated by a legally sufficient petition as provided by the principal Act, if the territory subject to the petition is within the jurisdiction of a boundary commission, the filing agency notwithstanding the principal Act, shall file, within 10 days after the petition is filed, a certified copy of the petition with the boundary commission having jurisdiction of the change. If the petition proposes formation, consolidation or merger of a city or district it shall be accompanied by the economic feasibility analysis and an estimate of the tax rate derived from the feasibility analysis that will be required to provide the services or functions of the proposed city or district. The analysis and estimate of the tax rate shall be prepared in cooperation with the county assessor and the Department of Revenue. The analysis shall include among other items a description of the services or functions to be performed or provided by the new unit and an analysis of their relationship to other existing or needed government services. The analysis shall also include a first year line item operating budget and a projected third year line item operating budget
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(2) The proceeding under the principal Act shall be suspended from the date the petition is filed with the filing agency until the date the commission files a certified copy of its final order with the filing agency. Suspension of the proceeding under this section shall not conti…
ORS 199.480 Filing of major boundary change order; effect of filing. In a proceeding for a major boundary change, a certified copy of the final order of the boundary commission shall be filed with the filing agency from which the commission received the petition. If the copy is so filed and
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(1) If the commission approved the petition as presented or as modified, the proceeding shall continue as provided by the principal Act; except that when a commission considers and enters a final order on a petition: (a) The city council or county or district board need not call …
ORS 199.483 [1987 c.882 §9; repealed by 1989 c.92 §39]
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ORS 199.485 Commission authority to initiate major boundary change; resolution as petition; content and filing of resolution. (1) A boundary commission may initiate a proceeding for a major boundary change in territory subject to its jurisdiction by adopting and within 10 days thereafter filing with the proper filing agency a resolution proposing the change and by proceeding in accordance with the principal Act of the affected city or district, ORS 199.476, 199.480 and this section. When the resolution is filed with the filing agency, thereafter for all purposes the resolution shall be considered as if it were a petition filed in accordance with the principal Act
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(2) The resolution shall: (a) Identify the affected city or district; (b) State the kind of boundary change proposed; (c) Contain a legal description of the boundaries of the affected territory; (d) If the proposal concerns a district, designate the principal Act of the affected …
ORS 199.487 Commission authority to initiate minor boundary change; nonapplicability of certain boundary change procedures; effect of commission action. (1) Within the jurisdiction of a boundary commission, a minor boundary change proceeding may be initiated as provided by ORS 199.490. In addition, a city annexation proceeding may be initiated as provided by ORS 222.750 or 222.840 to 222.915. Minor boundary change proceedings shall be conducted as provided by this section and ORS 199.490 to 199.534
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(2) ORS 222.111 to 222.180, 222.460 and the statutes of the state that govern annexation of territory to, or withdrawal of territory from, districts do not apply in territory subject to the jurisdiction of a boundary commission. However, a city annexation proposal initiated under…
ORS 199.490 Procedure for minor boundary changes or transfers of territory. (1) A proceeding for a minor boundary change other than a transfer of territory may be initiated
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(a) By resolution of the governing body of the affected city or district; (b) By petition signed by 10 percent of the electors registered in the affected territory; (c) By petition signed by the owners of at least one-half the land area in the affected territory; (d) By resolutio…
ORS 199.495 Effective date of certain annexations; nonapplicability of certain health hazard annexation procedures. In a proceeding initiated as provided by ORS 199.490 (2) and (5)
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(1) If the proposed annexation is approved by the commission, the final order shall be effective at the time specified in the final order except that the effective date for an annexation initiated as provided by ORS 199.490 (5) shall not be more than one year after the date the f…