Title 28, Public Financial Administration

The Oregon Department of Administrative Services may adopt rules and regulations defining “encumbrances” as used in ORS chapters 291, 292 and 293 and the manner in which they are to be charged to appropriations and expenditure limitations. [1971 c.341 §2] GIFTS, DEVISES AND BEQUE…

All property given, devised or bequeathed to the State of Oregon or to any state agency as defined in ORS 293.235 shall belong to the state and shall be devoted to the agency or purpose specified in the terms of the gift, devise or bequest. A grant to a particular agency, not oth…

The state may abolish agencies, change or transfer agency functions or rename any state agency. Notwithstanding any such action, property acquired by the state through gift, devise or bequest, when the purpose of the grant is stated or implied as provided in ORS 293.090, shall co…

Subject to ORS 293.115, the following moneys shall be placed by the State Treasurer to the credit of and shall constitute the General Fund of the State of Oregon: (1) All moneys arising from direct taxation and paid into the State Treasury by the several counties of the state. (2…

(1) All payments of money into the State Treasury by virtue of any statute providing for, creating, authorizing or continuing any of the funds and accounts enumerated in subsection (2) of this section shall be paid into and become a part of the General Fund. (2) The following fun…

The following moneys shall be separate and distinct from the General Fund: (1) Moneys paid into the State Treasury for fiduciary purposes and moneys that are in trust funds, as defined in ORS 291.002. (2) Moneys by law directed and required to be placed by the State Treasurer to …

(1) Moneys in a trust fund that are not otherwise appropriated by law are continuously appropriated to the agency that administers the trust in order to carry out the purposes of the trust. (2) As used in this section, “trust fund” has the meaning given that term in ORS 291.002. …

The Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall, by appropriate entries made at monthly periods, credit the several objects with the amounts which may be received respectively from the several sources and charge against the same any claims incurred in pursuance of authorit…

The State Treasurer shall enter upon all records created by the State Treasurer for moneys paid into the State Treasury such necessary information as shall: (1) Enable the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to credit the moneys to a fund or account in such amounts as ar…

All warrants issued against any special fund that is a part of the General Fund hereby are made payable out of the General Fund. Such payment shall be made by the State Treasurer to the holders of such warrants upon demand. [Formerly 291.364]

Except as otherwise provided by law, all interest received on deposits of state funds shall accrue to and become a part of the General Fund. [Formerly 291.366; 1981 c.194 §1] (Oregon Rainy Day Fund)

(1) The Oregon Rainy Day Fund is established as an account in the General Fund. (2) The Legislative Assembly may appropriate moneys from the Oregon Rainy Day Fund only if the appropriation is approved by three-fifths of the members serving in each house of the Legislative Assembl…

(1) As used in this section: (a) “Ending balance” means the difference between the amount of General Fund revenues collected during a biennium and the amount of General Fund appropriations for the biennium. (b) “General Fund appropriations” means the amount of moneys appropriated…

(1) If the moneys in the Oregon Rainy Day Fund established by ORS 293.144 just prior to the time of a transfer scheduled under ORS 293.144 (3)(c) or 293.146 equal at least 12.5 percent of the amount of General Fund revenues collected during the prior biennium, moneys that would o…

(1) If the moneys in the General Fund become exhausted, the State Treasurer shall borrow from the most advantageous sources the amounts necessary to pay warrants drawn against the General Fund in pursuance of law, other than warrants drawn against funds whose use is restricted to…

(1) For the purposes of this section: (a) Exhaustion of the General Fund has the meaning described in ORS 293.165 (2). (b) “Restricted fund” means a fund in the General Fund whose use is restricted to particular purposes by the Constitution of Oregon or by federal law. (2) Instea…

(1) The State Treasurer may notify a state agency that it must stop issuing checks or warrants on, or initiating electronic funds transfers from, a specified fund or account if: (a) The General Fund is exhausted as described in ORS 293.165 (2); (b) Warrants drawn on the General F…

(1) If a check, warrant or demand for payment by electronic funds transfer is presented to the State Treasurer for payment and at the time of presentment the account or fund from which payment should be drawn has insufficient moneys to pay in full the amount presented, the State …

(1) If the appropriation for an agency or the limitation on expenditures of an agency, as enacted by the Legislative Assembly, includes an amount for a petty cash fund, the fund shall be established and administered as provided in this section. (2) The agency for which a petty ca…

(1) On December 31 in each odd-numbered year, all General Fund appropriation balances as recorded on the records of the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for the prior biennium shall revert to the General Fund except for capital construction, continuing contracts, cont…

(1) Any difference between the amount appropriated from the General Fund for a biennium to the judicial department as defined in ORS 174.113, including amounts appropriated to any agency of the judicial department, and the amount of the appropriation actually expended on or befor…

(1) As used in this section: (a) “Biennium” means a two-year period beginning on July 1 of an odd-numbered year. (b) “Borrowing agency” means the State Forestry Department or the Department of the State Fire Marshal. (c) “Borrowing fund” has the meaning given that term in ORS 293…

As used in ORS 293.205 to 293.225: (1) “Borrowing fund” means the fund to which money is initially transferred under ORS 293.210. (2) “Lending fund” means the fund from which money is initially transferred under ORS 293.210. [Formerly 291.402]

If there is insufficient money to the credit of any fund in the State Treasury to pay the obligations against such fund and there is money to the credit of one or more other state funds that is not then required to meet the respective obligations against such funds, the State Tre…

(1) If the Department of Transportation determines that there is insufficient money in any of its funds to pay the obligations against that fund, the department may request the State Treasurer to transfer money from one or more other funds to the fund that has insufficient money.…

(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, a state agency may establish with the State Treasurer lines of credit for funds under its administration, upon a certificate by the agency’s department head and chief financial officer to the State Treasurer representing and satisfac…

(1) All transfers from lending to borrowing funds under ORS 293.210 shall be evidenced by proper bookkeeping accounts kept by the State Treasurer showing appropriate credits to the lending funds. All retransfers shall be evidenced in like manner. (2) When funds are transferred un…

All moneys or credits transferred under ORS 293.210 or 293.214 shall bear interest, until retransferred, at such rate not less than two percent per annum as shall be agreed upon between the State Treasurer and the officer, state department, commission, or board in charge of the b…

ORS 293.205 to 293.220 shall not be construed as an appropriation Act and no appropriation made for any purpose shall be exceeded or increased by reason of any of the provisions of such sections, nor shall any budgetary designation be altered or affected by such sections. [Former…

(1) Subject to subsection (2) of this section, a state agency may request that a person voluntarily supply the person’s Social Security number for use in collecting debts owed to the State of Oregon on any document relating to any monetary obligation or transaction. A state agenc…

As used in ORS 293.227 to 293.233, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) “Payment” means a voluntary amount of money paid by a debtor to a state agency or an involuntary amount of money paid by a debtor through offset or garnishment. (2) “State agency” has the meaning given …

(1) Not later than October 1 of each fiscal year, each state agency shall submit a report to the Legislative Fiscal Office that describes the status of that agency’s liquidated and delinquent accounts and efforts made by that agency to collect liquidated and delinquent accounts d…

(1) Except as provided in subsections (4) to (7) of this section, a state agency, unless otherwise prohibited by law, shall offer for assignment every liquidated and delinquent account to the Department of Revenue as provided in ORS 293.250 not later than: (a) Ninety days from th…

(1) A state agency may use rules adopted by the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for exempting liquidated and delinquent accounts from assignment to the Department of Revenue or a private collection agency. The state agency shall provide documentation and justificatio…

(1) The Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall, no later than December 31 of each year and in the manner provided by ORS 192.245, report to the Legislative Assembly the amounts of liquidated and delinquent debt that, in the previous fiscal year: (a) Were written off b…

As used in ORS 293.240 and 293.245, “state agency” has the meaning given that term in ORS 293.226. [1965 c.448 §1; 2019 c.278 §18]

(1) If a state agency has made all reasonable efforts to collect money owed to the agency and has determined that the money and any interest or penalties on the money are uncollectible, the agency may write off the debt on its accounts. (2) Before determining that money is uncoll…

If a debt previously written off pursuant to ORS 293.240 subsequently becomes collectible, the state agency to which the money is owed shall proceed to collect the money due. The agency shall credit the money so collected to the accounts or funds to which the debt was originally …

(1) There is created a Collections Unit in the Department of Revenue. (2) The Department of Revenue may render assistance in the collection of any delinquent account owing to any of the following entities, if the account is assigned by the entity to the department for collection:…

(1) The Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall monitor state agency debt collection functions described by law and assist state agencies in efforts to improve the collection of delinquent debts owed to state agencies. The department’s duties under this subsection incl…

(1) Subject to ORS 293.250, a state agency shall make all reasonable efforts to collect liquidated and delinquent accounts owing to the state agency, including the use of Social Security numbers made available by state agencies pursuant to ORS 293.226, and the setoff of any refun…

(1) The Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall estimate in advance the expenses that the department will incur during a biennium in carrying out the provisions of ORS 293.226 and 293.252 to 293.256. (2) The department shall charge each state agency for the agency’s sh…

(1) The Delinquent Accounts Administration Fund is established in the State Treasury, separate and distinct from the General Fund. Interest earned by the Delinquent Accounts Administration Fund shall be credited to the fund. Moneys in the fund are continuously appropriated to the…

(1) Except as otherwise specifically provided by law, the Secretary of State shall require all persons who have received any moneys or property belonging to the state and who have not accounted therefor to settle their accounts and to return the moneys or property to the state. (…

(1) The Secretary of State may require any person to answer orally or in writing, under oath or affirmation, as to any facts relating to an account, presented to the Secretary of State for settlement, of a person who has received any moneys or property belonging to the state. (2)…

(1)(a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this subsection and subsection (5) of this section, it is the duty of the officer or other person or agent collecting, receiving, in possession of, or having the control of any state moneys or other funds, contributions or donations c…

(1) The State Treasurer shall create a record of the moneys deposited with the State Treasurer pursuant to ORS 293.265 and shall place all moneys so deposited, except money which forms all or part of any private donation or contribution, to the credit of appropriate funds or acco…

Disbursements of the moneys transferred or deposited pursuant to ORS 293.265 shall be made only on warrants issued in payment of authorized claims and expenses, as provided by law. Disbursements of moneys so deposited, which were placed in separate trust funds, shall be made only…

Except as otherwise provided by law, ORS 293.265 to 293.275 do not apply to: (1) State funds advanced to meet payrolls or to pay current expenses or emergency claims. (2) Federal funds the control of which is otherwise directed by federal law or regulation. (3) Funds of any state…

(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of ORS 293.275 or any other statute relating to interagency payments, the Oregon Department of Administrative Services may effect interagency payments for goods and services by transfer from the funds, accounts or appropriations of the agency re…