Title 30, Education and Culture

As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) “Academic year” means the year beginning July 1 of each year and ending June 30 of the following year running concurrently with the fiscal year. (2) “Board” means the board of education of a community college dis…

The Legislative Assembly finds that: (1) The community college is an educational institution that is intended to fill the institutional gap in education by offering broad, comprehensive programs in academic subjects and in career and technical education subjects. It is primarily …

(1) Each community college operated under ORS chapter 341 that offers a form of associate degree, including an Associate of Arts Transfer degree or an Associate of Science Transfer degree, that either requires or permits a student to take a cluster of courses in the social scienc…

(1) As used in this section: (a) “Applied baccalaureate degree” has the meaning given that term in ORS 348.910. (b) “Bachelor of Science: Nursing degree” means a post-licensure degree program in which individuals who have already received an associate degree in nursing receive a …

The Higher Education Coordinating Commission shall adopt guidelines for the orderly development and management of community college districts, including guidelines for personnel policy formulation, student record keeping and privacy procedures. [1971 c.233 §§1,2; 1987 c.474 §5; 1…

(1) All areas within this state shall be served by a community college district. Such services may be provided either: (a) Directly by formation of a community college district; or (b) Indirectly by contract with an existing community college district. (2) The Office of Community…

(1) The Office of Community Colleges and Workforce Development shall invite existing community college districts to submit proposals for the provision of service to an area that has officially indicated its interest in receiving service. (2) The responsibilities of the host commu…

Annual state reimbursable enrollments under an agreement with a nondistrict area shall not exceed 300 full-time equivalent students. [1987 c.191 §4]

The Higher Education Coordinating Commission shall adopt rules to implement ORS 341.019 to 341.024. The rules shall provide: (1) Standards for accepting proposals for service; (2) Procedures providing the form of agreements and for recording them; (3) Standards for cash and in-ki…

(1) Whenever the electors registered in contiguous territory desire the formation of a community college district, they may sign a petition requesting the formation of such a district and present it to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission. (2) The petition must be substan…

(1) A petition submitted pursuant to ORS 341.025 may specify that the proposed district be organized as a community college service district. The formation of a community college service district shall comply with the provisions of ORS 341.025 to 341.125. A petition affecting a t…

Notwithstanding ORS 341.039 (3) and (4), on July 1, 2001, all community college service districts formed prior to July 1, 1997, shall become community college districts and on and after July 1, 2001, shall operate as community college districts. [2001 c.168 §2]

The Higher Education Coordinating Commission shall make available to the public on the commission’s website a record of the boundaries of all community college districts and community college service districts in this state. [2023 c.8 §4]

(1) The Higher Education Coordinating Commission shall examine the petition to determine whether it is complete. If the petition is complete and if formation of the district is consistent with the overall plan for all education in the state, the commission shall undertake a study…

(1) At the time designated in the notice given under ORS 341.045, the Higher Education Coordinating Commission or its authorized representative shall conduct a public hearing on the study and may adjourn the hearing from time to time. The commission may alter the boundaries set f…

If, in the opinion of the Higher Education Coordinating Commission, the study conducted under ORS 341.045 and the testimony presented at the hearing or hearings held under ORS 341.055 indicate that the formation of a community college district as petitioned is not warranted under…

(1) If, upon final hearing under ORS 341.055, the Higher Education Coordinating Commission approves formation of a community college district, with boundaries either as originally presented or as altered pursuant to the hearing, the commission shall make its recommendation to the…

(1) An election for the purpose of presenting the question of formation of a district and establishing a permanent rate limit for operating taxes and the boundaries of the zones, if the zones were recommended by the Higher Education Coordinating Commission, shall be held to submi…

(1) The Higher Education Coordinating Commission shall include as a part of the election called for formation of a district the question of a permanent rate limit for operating taxes to finance the district’s share of operating and capital expenses. The rate limit shall be specif…

If the Legislative Assembly approves the recommendation submitted under ORS 341.076, 341.565 or 341.579, the Legislative Assembly shall appropriate to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for the purpose of allocation to the Office of Community Colleges and Workforce Deve…

When at the request of the Higher Education Coordinating Commission the county clerk of the principal county, in consultation with county clerks of the affected counties, prepares a list or lists of names and addresses of the electors registered in the proposed district, the Offi…

(1) If the vote is in favor of the formation of the community college district and establishes a permanent rate limit for operating taxes for the district, the Higher Education Coordinating Commission: (a) Shall proclaim the commission’s determination from the election results th…

Except as provided in ORS 255.400 to 255.424: (1) The first board of education of a district shall be elected at the same election as the election at which votes are cast for the formation of the district. Nominations for the board of education positions to be filled by nominatio…

Except as provided in ORS 255.400 to 255.424, the board shall adjust the boundaries of zones established within a district as necessary to make them as nearly equal in population as is feasible according to the latest federal census. The board also shall adjust boundaries of zone…

Except as provided in ORS 255.400 to 255.424, any elector of a district aggrieved by the adjustment of or failure to adjust boundaries of a zone pursuant to ORS 341.175 on the basis that population is not as nearly equal as is feasible is entitled to appear before the board at a …

(1) The board shall be composed of seven members. (2) No person who is an employee of the community college district shall be eligible to serve as a member of the board for the district by which the employee is employed. [Formerly 341.790; 1967 c.605 §19; 1969 c.220 §6; 1971 c.51…

(1) After July 1 of each year, the board of a district shall meet and organize by electing a chairperson and a vice chairperson from its members. (2) The board shall provide for the time and place of its regular meetings, at any of which it may adjourn to the next succeeding regu…

(1) Districts are bodies corporate, and the board is authorized to sue and be sued in the corporate name. (2) The members of the board of a district in their official capacity shall be known as the board of education of the community college district. [1971 c.513 §3] (Powers)

The board of education of a community college district shall be responsible for the general supervision and control of any and all community colleges operated by the district. Consistent with any applicable rules of the Higher Education Coordinating Commission, the board of educa…

(1) The board may adopt such regulations as it considers necessary to provide for the policing, control and regulations of traffic and parking of vehicles on property under the jurisdiction of the board. Such regulations may provide for the registration of vehicles, the designati…

Subject to the Local Budget Law (ORS 294.305 to 294.565) and sections 11 and 11b, Article XI of the Oregon Constitution, each community college district shall prepare annually an estimate of the amount of funds necessary to carry out the purposes of the district and may levy a ta…

A community college district, upon approval of a majority of the electors voting upon the question at the election held to approve formation of a district, may certify operating taxes to the assessor under ORS 310.060 that are within the district’s permanent rate limit establishe…

A community college district may enter into discussions with county governments or other similar county-wide public organizations in bordering states for the purpose of discussing the feasibility of establishing interstate taxing authority for the district through an interstate a…

A board may obtain by condemnation the title to any land it is authorized to acquire. Condemnation proceedings instituted by the board shall be conducted in accordance with and subject to the provisions of ORS chapter 35 except that the relator therein shall be the board. [1971 c…

(1) A board of education of a community college district may operate a self-insurance program to provide its employees with health insurance benefits. (2) A board may operate a self-insurance program under this section for liability covering all activities of the community colleg…

Any school district, education service district, institution of higher education, county, municipality or private organization may contract with a community college district to provide services of an educational nature that are subject to the approval of the Higher Education Coor…

(1) Reimbursement from the Community College Support Fund established in ORS 341.620 may be made available to community colleges that deliver educational services to adults in custody confined to the state-operated correctional facilities and to locally operated correctional faci…

(1) A board may acquire by gift or by purchase interests in intellectual property of any kind, whether patentable or copyrightable or not, including patents, copyrights, inventions, discoveries, processes and ideas. The board may also agree to aid in the development of property a…

Notwithstanding any other statutory provisions, any board of education of a community college district by resolution may establish a reserve fund by making transfers from the district’s general fund. Transfers to the reserve fund shall be included in the district budget prepared …

Except as provided in ORS 255.400 to 255.424: (1) At each regular district election, board members shall be elected for a term of four years to succeed the board members whose terms of office expire on June 30 of that year. (2) A person shall be qualified to be a candidate for el…

Except as provided in ORS 255.400 to 255.424: (1) The board members may be elected in one of the following methods or a combination thereof: (a) Elected by electors of zones as nearly equal in population as possible according to the latest federal census. (b) Elected at large by …

Except as provided in ORS 255.400 to 255.424: (1) This section establishes the procedure for determining whether the method adopted in a district for nominating and electing board members should be changed to another method described in ORS 341.327. The question shall be decided …

(1) The board shall declare the office of a board member vacant if it finds any of the following: (a) The incumbent has died or resigned. (b) The incumbent has been removed or recalled from office or the election of the incumbent thereto has been declared void by the judgment of …

(1) The positions of board members elected at-large, and their respective successors in office, shall be designated by numbers as Position No. 1, Position No. 2, and so on. (2) This section applies to any district that elects any board member to an at-large position. [1971 c.513 …

Position numbers for board members elected at-large, and their respective successors in office in the event of vacancies before the expiration of their terms, in districts changing the method of election of any of the board members shall be determined by drawing by the affected b…

Except as provided in ORS 255.400 to 255.424: (1) ORS chapter 255 governs the following: (a) The nomination and election of board members. (b) The conduct of district elections. (2) The electors of a community college district may exercise the powers of the initiative and referen…

(1) Except as provided by ORS chapter 255 and ORS 294.448 (Local Budget Law) and 341.670, notice of community college district organization and merger, community college district budgets and community college district purchasing shall be given only as provided in this section. (2…

The board may call a special election upon questions as to the issuance of bonds, the levy of taxes which may not be levied without the affirmative vote of the people and any other questions which may be submitted to the electors of such districts. [1971 c.513 §17; 1973 c.796 §57…

Any of the questions to be submitted to the electors of any district must be submitted in the form of a resolution of its board. The resolution shall specify the questions to be voted upon and the date for holding any special election. The board may adopt any such resolution on i…

During the period following an election or other action resulting in a boundary change in a district and prior to the date the change becomes effective, the district or districts from which an area will be separated as a result of the boundary change may hold elections for all le…