Title 21, Cities

For the purposes of ORS 223.005, a city may enter upon, survey and examine property in the manner provided by ORS 35.220 and may select any such property or rights for the purpose of constructing any ditch, drain, dam, dike, canal, flume, sewer, reservoir, septic tank, filter bed…

After selection of such rights and property under ORS 223.010 in such manner as the council provides, the city seeking to make the appropriation may proceed in the manner prescribed by the statutes for the appropriation of land for corporate purposes, and not otherwise, unless ot…

Appropriation of property under ORS 223.005 may extend beyond the corporate limits of the city to or along and including any lake, spring, stream or power site.

(1) The provisions of this section apply to every city, whether organized under general law or otherwise. (2) Whenever the council of any incorporated city deems it necessary to take or damage private property for the purpose of establishing, laying out, extending or widening str…

As used in ORS 223.112 to 223.132, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) “Council” means the city council or other controlling body of a city. (2) “Economic improvement” means: (a) The planning or management of development or improvement activities. (b) Landscaping or other …

(1) A council may enact an ordinance establishing a procedure to be followed by the city in making assessments for the cost of an economic improvement upon the lots which are specially benefited by all or part of the improvement. (2) In any ordinance adopted under subsection (1) …

(1) An ordinance adopted under ORS 223.114, shall provide for enactment of an assessment ordinance that: (a) Describes the economic improvement project to be undertaken or constructed. (b) Contains a preliminary estimate of the probable cost of the economic improvement and the pr…

(1) In addition to the requirements listed in ORS 223.117 (2), an assessment ordinance adopted under ORS 223.114 and 223.117 may, at the discretion of the council, provide that: (a) When the council receives written objections at the public hearing only from owners of property up…

An ordinance adopted under ORS 223.114, may require creation, for each economic improvement district, of an advisory committee to allocate expenditure of moneys for economic improvement activities within the scope of ORS 223.112 to 223.132. If an advisory committee is created, th…

The existence of local improvement districts or urban renewal districts in a city does not affect the creation of economic improvement districts under ORS 223.112 to 223.132. [1985 c.576 §5]

When the council considers it necessary to levy assessments upon property in an economic improvement district for longer than the period of time specified in the assessment ordinance that created the district, the council shall enact an ordinance that provides for continued asses…

(1) ORS 223.387 and 223.391 to 223.395 apply to economic improvement districts created by a city in accordance with ORS 223.112 to 223.132. (2) The rights and duties accorded local governments and the owners of property for financing assessments under ORS 223.205 and 223.210 to 2…

(1) A city council shall not expend any moneys derived from assessments levied under ORS 223.112 to 223.132 for any purpose different from the purpose described in the ordinance adopted under ORS 223.114. (2) Any public official who expends any moneys derived from assessments lev…

The authority granted to cities by ORS 223.112 to 223.132, is in addition to any other authority a city may have under state law, its charter or its ordinances to create or finance economic improvement districts. [1989 c.1018 §2]

As used in ORS 223.141 to 223.161, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) “Business license fee” means any fee paid by a person to a city for any form of license that is required by the city in order to conduct business in that city. (2) “Conducting business” means to engage …

(1) A council, on its own motion or after receiving a petition for the formation of an economic improvement district signed by 33 percent or more of persons conducting business within the proposed district, may enact an ordinance establishing a procedure to be followed by the cit…

(1) An ordinance adopted under ORS 223.144, shall provide for enactment of a business license fee ordinance that: (a) Describes the economic improvement project to be undertaken or constructed. (b) Contains a preliminary estimate of the probable cost of the economic improvement. …

An ordinance adopted under ORS 223.144, may require creation, for each economic improvement district, of an advisory committee to develop a plan and to allocate expenditure of moneys for economic improvement activities within the scope of ORS 223.141 to 223.161. If an advisory co…

When the council considers it necessary to impose business license fees upon persons conducting business in an economic improvement district for longer than the period of time specified in the ordinance that created the district, the council shall enact an ordinance that provides…

(1) A city council shall not expend any moneys derived from business license fees levied under ORS 223.141 to 223.161 for any purpose different from the purpose described in the ordinance adopted under ORS 223.144. (2) Any public official who expends any moneys derived from busin…

(1) The existence of local improvement districts or urban renewal districts in a city does not affect the creation of economic improvement districts under ORS 223.141 to 223.161. (2) The authority granted to cities by ORS 223.141 to 223.161 is in addition to any other authority a…

(1) ORS 223.205 and 223.210 to 223.295 may be cited as the Bancroft Bonding Act. (2) The provisions of the Bancroft Bonding Act are not mandatory. Any governmental body having charter provisions, or ordinance provisions authorized by charter, for bonding improvement assessments a…

The Legislative Assembly hereby declares that the purpose of ORS 223.208 and this section is to provide purchasers of homes or multifamily dwellings with Bancroft financing of system development charges as an alternative to absorbing those charges into the long-term permanent fin…

(1) Subject to subsection (2) of this section, the rights and duties accorded local governments and the owners of property for financing and assessments under ORS 223.205 to 223.775 shall apply to the following: (a) A system development charge designed to finance the purchase or …

(1) If the governing body of a local government has proceeded to cause any local improvement to be constructed or made within the corporate limits of the local government, and has determined the final assessment for the local improvement against the property benefited thereby or …

Any educational, religious, fraternal or charitable organization or public corporation owning property assessed for its proportionate share of the cost of constructing a local improvement shall have the same right to bond the final assessment therefor and having bonded the final …

(1)(a) The installment application shall state that the applicant does thereby waive all irregularities or defects, jurisdictional or otherwise, in the proceedings to cause the local improvement for which the final assessment is levied and in the apportionment of the actual cost …

The recorder of the local government shall: (1) Keep all applications filed under ORS 223.210 in convenient form for examination. The applications received for each local improvement shall be separate. (2) Enter in a book kept for that purpose, under separate heads for each local…

(1) After expiration of the time for filing application under ORS 223.210, the local government shall enter in a docket kept for that purpose, under separate heads for each local improvement, by name or number, a description of each lot or parcel of land or other property against…

(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 applicab…

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…

(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 balanc…

(1) As used in ORS 223.205 and 223.210 to 223.295: (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 loca…

(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 inter…

(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 …

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. T…

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 …

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, intere…

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 th…

(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. (2) The general obligation bonds and general …

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 onl…

As used in ORS 223.297 to 223.316: (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; o…

(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. (2) A local government may not establish or impose a system development charge that requires an employer to pay…

(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 limitation…

(1)(a) Reimbursement fees must be established or modified by ordinance or resolution setting forth a methodology that is, when applicable, based on: (A) Ratemaking principles employed to finance publicly owned capital improvements; (B) Prior contributions by existing users; (C) G…

(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. (2) Improvement fees may be spent only on capacity increasing capital improvements, including…