226 sections in this chapter.
ORS 223.235 Issuance of bonds; limitations. (1) When in any local government a bond lien docket is made up, as provided in ORS 223.230, as to the final assessments for any local improvement, the local government shall by ordinance or resolution of the governing body authorize the issue of its bonds pursuant to the applicable provisions of ORS chapter 287A and in accordance with this section
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(2) The bonds authorized to be issued under this section must be issued in an amount that does not exceed the unpaid balance of all final assessments for the related local improvements, plus the amounts necessary to fund any debt service reserve and to pay any other financing cos…
ORS 223.240 [Amended by 1959 c.653 §5; 1971 c.100 §2; 1975 c.320 §3; 1975 c.642 §3; repealed by 1991 c.902 §121]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 223.245 Budget to include bond payments. The interest on the bonds and the amounts of the installments of maturing bonds shall be included in the annual budget of the issuing local government. There shall be deducted in the budget the amount that the governing body conservatively estimates will be received from payments of the principal of and interest on installments of final assessments appertaining to the particular bond issue, and from receipts from sales and rentals of property acquired by the local government pursuant to the assessments, during the fiscal year. [Amended by 1983 c.349 §3; 1991 c.902 §15; 2003 c.802 §9]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 223.250 [Amended by 1971 c.183 §1; 1975 c.642 §4; 1981 c.94 §11; 1983 c.349 §4; repealed by 1991 c.902 §121]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 223.255 [Amended by 1957 c.103 §8; 1967 c.239 §2; 1983 c.349 §5; repealed by 1991 c.902 §121]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 223.260 Sale of bonds; disposition of proceeds from bond sales. (1) The proceeds of any bonds or notes authorized to be issued under ORS 223.235 shall be paid by the purchaser to the treasurer of the issuing local government. Accrued interest and any premium may be credited to any account designated by the issuing local government. The balance of the proceeds shall be credited to the local improvement fund or funds for which the bonds or notes are issued
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(2) A local government may create, within the Bancroft Bond Redemption Fund maintained by the local government as required by ORS 223.285, separate accounts for separate issues of bonds or notes issued as provided in ORS 223.235, and may pledge any amounts deposited in the separa…
ORS 223.262 Assessment contracts; transfer of contract rights by local government; use of proceeds. (1) As used in ORS 223.205 and 223.210 to 223.295
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(a) “Assessment contract” means the obligation to pay final assessments in installments that arise when a property owner submits an application to pay assessments in installments under ORS 223.210 or a similar provision of a local charter. (b) “Assessment contract rights” include…
ORS 223.265 Payment of installments; due dates. (1) The installments due and payable under an assessment contract shall be due and payable periodically as the governing body of the local government shall determine but shall not be due and payable over a term in excess of 30 years. Each installment is due and payable with interest as described under subsection (3) of this section
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(2) The installments and interest are payable to the treasurer by the property owner whose application to pay the cost of the local improvement by installments has been filed as provided in ORS 223.210. (3) The amount of each installment (percentage of the total final assessment)…
ORS 223.270 Procedure for collection on default. (1) If the owner neglects or refuses to pay installments under ORS 223.265 as they become due and payable for a period of one year, then the governing body of the local government may, by reason of the neglect or refusal to pay the installments, and while the neglect and refusal to pay continues, pass a resolution
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(a) Giving the name of the owner then in default in the payment of the sums due; (b) Stating the sums due, either principal or interest and any unpaid late payment penalties or charges; (c) Containing a description of the property upon which the sums are owing; and (d) Declaring …
ORS 223.275 Notice to pay; receipts and entries on lien docket. The recorder of a local government shall, when installments and interest on any final assessment in the bond lien docket are due, make the proper extensions of the installments and interest on the bond lien docket and turn the same over to the treasurer of the local government. The treasurer then shall notify the property owner that the installments are due and payable, but a failure of any owner to receive the notice shall not prevent collection of the installment as provided in ORS 223.270. The treasurer shall issue a receipt to the person paying the installments and interest, and shall file duplicates of the receipts with the recorder. When the treasurer returns the bond lien docket, the recorder shall make the proper entries on the bond lien docket showing the amount of each payment and the date of the payment. [Amended by 1991 c.902 §20; 2003 c.802 §14]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 223.280 Right of owner to prepay balance and discharge lien. At any time after issuance of bonds under ORS 223.235, any owner of a lot against which the final assessment is made and lien docketed may pay into the treasury of the issuing local government the whole amount of the final assessment for which the lien is docketed, together with the full amount of interest and late payment penalties and charges accrued thereon to the date of payment. Upon producing to the recorder of the local government the receipt of the treasurer, the recorder shall enter in the lien docket opposite the entry of the lien the fact and date of the payment and that the lien is discharged. [Amended by 1991 c.902 §21; 2003 c.802 §15]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 223.285 Separate funds kept for moneys received; investments authorized. Any treasurer receiving any payments of final assessments or interest on unpaid installments by virtue of the Bancroft Bonding Act, shall account for the payments separately from other funds of the local government. The amount of the moneys paid on account of installments, interest on unpaid installments and late payment penalties or charges, shall be placed to the credit of a fund to be known and designated as “Bancroft Bond Redemption Fund” or in any designated account of the redemption fund that may be established by the local government under this section. All interest and principal due on bonds issued under ORS 223.235 shall be paid from the redemption fund or from a designated account of the redemption fund. The amount placed to the credit of the redemption fund or any account of the fund shall from time to time, under the direction of the governing body of the issuing local government, be invested as provided in ORS 294.035 or 294.805 to 294.895. [Amended by 1975 c.495 §1; 1991 c.902 §22; 2003 c.802 §16]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 223.290 Payments entered on lien docket; lien discharge. Entries of payments of installments, interest and late payment penalties or charges, made under the Bancroft Bonding Act, shall be made in the lien docket as they are received, with the date of payment. The payments so made and entered shall discharge the lien to the amount of the payment and from the date of the payment. [Amended by 1991 c.902 §23; 1995 c.709 §3; 1997 c.840 §3]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 223.295 Limit on city indebtedness. (1) A city may incur indebtedness in the form of general obligation bonds and general obligation interim financing notes pursuant to ORS 223.235 to an amount which shall not exceed 0.03 of the latest real market valuation of the city
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(2) The general obligation bonds and general obligation interim financing notes issued pursuant to ORS 223.235 shall be determined by deducting from the sum total of outstanding general obligation bonds and general obligation interim financing notes issued pursuant to ORS 223.235…
ORS 223.297 Policy. The purpose of ORS 223.297 to 223.316 is to provide a uniform framework for the imposition of system development charges by local governments, to provide equitable funding for orderly growth and development in Oregon’s communities and to establish that the charges may be used only for capital improvements. [1989 c.449 §1; 1991 c.902 §25; 2003 c.765 §1; 2003 c.802 §17]
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Note: 223.297 to 223.316 were added to and made a part of 223.205 to 223.295 by legislative action, but were not added to and made a part of the Bancroft Bonding Act. See section 10, chapter 449, Oregon Laws 1989.
ORS 223.299 Definitions for ORS 223.297 to 223.316. As used in ORS 223.297 to 223.316
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(1)(a) “Capital improvement” means facilities or assets used for the following: (A) Water supply, treatment and distribution; (B) Waste water collection, transmission, treatment and disposal; (C) Drainage and flood control; (D) Transportation; or (E) Parks and recreation. (b) “Ca…
ORS 223.300 [Repealed by 1975 c.642 §26]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 223.301 Certain system development charges and methodologies prohibited. (1) As used in this section, “employer” means any person who contracts to pay remuneration for, and secures the right to direct and control the services of, any person
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(2) A local government may not establish or impose a system development charge that requires an employer to pay a reimbursement fee or an improvement fee based on: (a) The number of individuals hired by the employer after a specified date; or (b) A methodology that assumes that c…
ORS 223.302 System development charges; use of revenues; review procedures. (1) Local governments are authorized to establish system development charges, but the revenues produced therefrom must be expended only in accordance with ORS 223.297 to 223.316. If a local government expends revenues from system development charges in violation of the limitations described in ORS 223.307, the local government shall replace the misspent amount with moneys derived from sources other than system development charges. Replacement moneys must be deposited in a fund designated for the system development charge revenues not later than one year following a determination that the funds were misspent
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(2) Local governments shall adopt administrative review procedures by which any citizen or other interested person may challenge an expenditure of system development charge revenues. Such procedures shall provide that such a challenge must be filed within two years of the expendi…
ORS 223.304 Determination of amount of system development charges; methodology; credit allowed against charge; limitation of action contesting methodology for imposing charge; notification request. (1)(a) Reimbursement fees must be established or modified by ordinance or resolution setting forth a methodology that is, when applicable, based on
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(A) Ratemaking principles employed to finance publicly owned capital improvements; (B) Prior contributions by existing users; (C) Gifts or grants from federal or state government or private persons; (D) The value of unused capacity available to future system users or the cost of …
ORS 223.305 [Repealed by 1971 c.325 §1]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 223.307 Authorized expenditure of system development charges. (1) Reimbursement fees may be spent only on capital improvements associated with the systems for which the fees are assessed including expenditures relating to repayment of indebtedness
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(2) Improvement fees may be spent only on capacity increasing capital improvements, including expenditures relating to repayment of debt for such improvements. An increase in system capacity may be established if a capital improvement increases the level of performance or service…
ORS 223.309 Preparation of plan for capital improvements financed by system development charges; modification. (1) Prior to the establishment of a system development charge by ordinance or resolution, a local government shall prepare a capital improvement plan, public facilities plan, master plan or comparable plan that includes a list of the capital improvements that the local government intends to fund, in whole or in part, with revenues from an improvement fee and the estimated cost, timing and percentage of costs eligible to be funded with revenues from the improvement fee for each improvement
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(2) A local government that has prepared a plan and the list described in subsection (1) of this section may modify the plan and list at any time. If a system development charge will be increased by a proposed modification of the list to include a capacity increasing capital impr…
ORS 223.310 [Amended by 1957 c.397 §3; repealed by 1971 c.325 §1]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 223.311 Deposit of system development charge revenues; annual accounting. (1) System development charge revenues must be deposited in accounts designated for such moneys. The local government shall provide an annual accounting, to be completed by January 1 of each year, for system development charges showing the total amount of system development charge revenues collected for each system and the projects that were funded in the previous fiscal year
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(2) The local government shall include in the annual accounting: (a) A list of the amount spent on each project funded, in whole or in part, with system development charge revenues; and (b) The amount of revenue collected by the local government from system development charges an…
ORS 223.312 [1957 c.95 §4; repealed by 1971 c.325 §1]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 223.313 Applicability of ORS 223.297 to 223.316. (1) ORS 223.297 to 223.316 shall apply only to system development charges in effect on or after July 1, 1991
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(2) The provisions of ORS 223.297 to 223.316 shall not be applicable if they are construed to impair bond obligations for which system development charges have been pledged or to impair the ability of local governments to issue new bonds or other financing as provided by law for …
ORS 223.314 Establishment or modification of system development charge not a land use decision. The establishment, modification or implementation of a system development charge, or a plan or list adopted pursuant to ORS 223.309, or any modification of a plan or list, is not a land use decision pursuant to ORS chapters 195, 197 and 197A. [1989 c.449 §9; 2001 c.662 §6; 2003 c.765 §9]
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Note: See note under 223.297.
ORS 223.315 [Repealed by 1971 c.325 §1]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 223.316 Local governments required to make system development charge information public. (1) Any city, county or special district that maintains a public website shall include the following information on its website in a manner that is readily accessible to the general public, for system development charges that it assesses
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(a) The current system development charge fee rates for each type of development; (b) Details of the methodology used to determine the fee rates set forth pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subsection; (c) A list of capital improvement projects that will receive funding from syste…
ORS 223.317 Apportionment of special assessment among parcels in subsequent partition of tract. (1) Notwithstanding any other law, a local government may apportion a final assessment levied by it against a single tract or parcel of real property among all the parcels formed from a subsequent partition or other division of that tract or parcel, if the subsequent partition or division is in accordance with ORS 92.010 to 92.192 and is consistent with all applicable comprehensive plans as acknowledged by the Land Conservation and Development Commission under ORS 197.251. The proportionate distribution of a final assessment authorized under this subsection may be made whenever the final assessment remains wholly or partially unpaid, and full payment or an installment payment is not due
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(2) A local government shall apportion a final assessment under this section when requested to do so by any owner, mortgagee or lienholder of a parcel of real property that was formed from the partition or other division of the larger tract of real property against which the fina…
ORS 223.320 [Amended by 1957 c.397 §4; repealed by 1971 c.325 §1]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 223.322 Proration of unpaid installments. When a final assessment is being paid in installments under the Bancroft Bonding Act or ORS 450.897, if the final assessment is apportioned among smaller parcels of real property under ORS 223.317 to 223.327, the installments remaining unpaid shall be prorated among those smaller parcels so that each parcel shall be charged with that percentage of the remaining installment payments equal to the percentage of the unpaid final assessment charged to the parcel upon apportionment. [Formerly 308.145; 1991 c.902 §34; 1995 c.333 §22; 1997 c.833 §21]
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Note: See note under 223.317.
ORS 223.325 [Repealed by 1971 c.325 §1]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 223.327 Procedure for equitable apportionment by ordinance or regulation. A local government that imposes final assessments shall adopt an ordinance or other regulations establishing procedures for the equitable apportionment of final assessments under ORS 223.317 to 223.327. The ordinance or regulations shall authorize the local government to establish fees reasonably calculated to reimburse it for its actual costs in apportioning final assessments under ORS 223.317 to 223.327. The provisions of ORS 223.317 to 223.327 relating to apportionment of final assessments shall apply to estimated assessments with respect to any tract or parcel divided into smaller parcels prior to the levy of the final assessment. [Formerly 308.150; 1991 c.902 §35; 2003 c.802 §27]
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Note: See note under 223.317.
ORS 223.330 [Amended by 1969 c.531 §4; repealed by 1971 c.325 §1]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 223.335 [Repealed by 1971 c.325 §1]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 223.340 [Repealed by 1971 c.325 §1]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 223.345 [Repealed by 1971 c.325 §1]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 223.350 [Repealed by 1971 c.325 §1]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 223.355 [Amended by 1969 c.531 §5; repealed by 1971 c.325 §1]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 223.360 [Repealed by 1971 c.325 §1]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 223.365 [Repealed by 1971 c.325 §1]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 223.370 [Repealed by 1971 c.325 §1]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 223.375 [Repealed by 1971 c.325 §1]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 223.380 [Repealed by 1971 c.325 §1]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 223.385 [Repealed by 1971 c.325 §1]
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ASSESSMENTS FOR LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS
ORS 223.387 Description of real property; effect of error in name of owner. In levying, collecting and enforcing assessments for local improvement, the following shall apply
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(1) Real property may be described by giving the subdivision according to the United States survey when coincident with the boundaries thereof, or by lots, blocks and addition names, or by giving the boundaries thereof by metes and bounds, or by reference to the book and page of …
ORS 223.389 Procedure for making local assessments for local improvements; intergovernmental agreement to allocate jurisdiction for local improvement. (1)(a) The governing body of a local government may prescribe by ordinance or resolution the procedure to be followed in making estimated assessments and final assessments for benefits from a local improvement upon the lots that have been benefited by all or part of the local improvement, to the extent that the charter of the local government does not prescribe the method of procedure
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(b) If the charter of a local government specifies a method of procedure that does not comply or is not consistent with the requirements of the Oregon Constitution, the governing body of the local government may prescribe by ordinance or resolution the procedure that shall comply…
ORS 223.391 Notice of proposed assessment to owner of affected lot. If a notice is required to be sent to the owner of a lot affected by a proposed assessment, the notice shall be addressed to the owner or the owner’s agent. If the address of the owner or of the owner’s agent is unknown to the recorder, the recorder shall mail the notice addressed to the owner or the owner’s agent at the address where the property is located. Any mistake, error, omission or failure with respect to the mailing shall not be jurisdictional or invalidate the assessment proceedings, but there shall be no foreclosure or legal action to collect until notice has been given by personal service upon the property owner, or, if personal service cannot be had, then by publication once a week for two successive weeks in a newspaper designated by the governing body and having general circulation within the boundaries of the local government where the property is located. [1959 c.219 §3; 1991 c.902 §38; 2003 c.802 §29]
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[Repealed or reserved.]