Title 29, Revenue and Taxation

(1) The property value appeals board may convene on or after the first Monday in February of each year, but not later than the date necessary for the board to complete the functions of the board by April 15. The board shall meet at the courthouse or courthouse annex. If the meeti…

(1) The county governing body shall appoint: (a) A pool of members of the county governing body or the governing body’s designees who are eligible and willing to serve as members of the county property value appeals board. (b) A pool of residents of the county who are not officer…

Before proceeding to the functions and duties required by this chapter, each member of the property value appeals board shall take and subscribe to an oath to faithfully and honestly discharge the duties of the board. The oath shall be administered by a member of the board and sh…

The meetings, qualification, sittings and adjournment of the property value appeals boards shall be recorded in the journal of the county governing body. [Formerly 309.140; 1995 c.226 §10; 1997 c.541 §231; 2023 c.29 §26]

(1) Except as provided in ORS 305.403, the owner or an owner of any taxable property or any person who holds an interest in the property that obligates the person to pay taxes imposed on the property, may petition the property value appeals board for relief as authorized under OR…

The Department of Revenue may prescribe rules that provide for the filing of a petition under ORS 309.100 and related written material, including signatures and verifications, by electronic means and may prescribe the conditions and requirements that must be met in order for an e…

(1) The disposition of every petition before a property value appeals board, other than a petition that is resolved by stipulation under ORS 308.242, and the board’s determination thereon shall be recorded by formal order and entered in the record of the board. A copy of the orde…

(1) If the Department of Revenue, the property value appeals board or the tax court or other court enters an order correcting the real market value of a separate assessment of property and there is no further appeal from that order, except as provided under subsection (2) or (3) …

Corrections, additions to, or changes in the roll shall be entered in the roll by the officer in charge of the roll in a manner clearly showing that the assessor’s prior entry, if any, has been superseded, and showing the entry ordered by the property value appeals board, indicat…

Appeals of the value of personal property, on which the tax is required to be paid as provided in ORS 311.465 and 311.480, shall be heard by a property value appeals board in the same manner that other assessments of property are heard. [Amended by 1975 c.365 §2; 1981 c.804 §22; …

(1) Between January 1 and December 31 of each year the county assessor shall collect sales data for a ratio study. (2) The assessor shall prepare and complete a certified ratio study in the time and manner provided by the rules adopted by the Department of Revenue. A copy of the …

(1) On or before June 15 of each year, the Department of Revenue shall give specific written recommendations or orders to the county assessor as to the actions which, in the department’s judgment, should be taken by the assessor in order to achieve compliance with the real market…

(1) After the assessment roll of any county has been delivered to the tax collector as required by ORS 311.115, the county assessor shall transmit to the Director of the Department of Revenue within 10 days after the roll is delivered to the tax collector, but not later than Nove…

Upon the receipt of tabulated summaries of the assessment rolls, the Department of Revenue shall record the summaries in a book provided and kept in its office for that purpose and shall, subject to the instructions of the Director of the Department of Revenue, compile the summar…

The Department of Revenue shall examine and compare the summaries of the assessment rolls as certified by the county assessors and may obtain such other information as the department considers necessary to ascertain and determine the true and relative value of all the taxable pro…

After the Department of Revenue has examined and compared the summaries and obtained the other necessary information, the department shall combine the result in a table. When approved by the Director of the Department of Revenue, a table shall be signed by the director and retain…

(1) The Department of Revenue may order any officer in charge of the assessment roll to raise or lower the valuation of any taxable property and to add property to the assessment roll. (2) If an officer fails to comply with any order or requirement of the department, the departme…

Any person who willfully and knowingly presents or furnishes to the Director of the Department of Revenue, or any member of the director’s staff, any statement required by the director, or representatives or agents of the director, under ORS 309.360 that is false or fraudulent is…

The county court or board of county commissioners of each county shall, in July of each year, estimate and determine the amount of money to be raised for county purposes for the current fiscal year, and also the several amounts to be raised in the county for other purposes, as re…

The county court or board of county commissioners for each county in the state shall, in July of each year, levy a tax upon all taxable property in the county sufficient in amount to defray the expenses of the county for the current fiscal year.

The county court or board of county commissioners shall, in July of each year, levy all taxes which by law it is required to levy, and any other taxes which it may determine to levy and by law it is permitted to levy.

If after a tax levy has been made by any county court or board of county commissioners and before the extension of the levy upon the tax rolls, the necessity for any item contained in the budget upon which the levy is based is eliminated by act of the Legislative Assembly, the co…

(1) As used in the property tax laws of this state, “operating taxes” means ad valorem property taxes that are subject to a permanent rate limit under section 11, Article XI of the Oregon Constitution, or statutory rate limit under ORS 310.236 (4) or 310.237, if applicable. (2) F…

(1) Not later than July 15 of each year, a city, school district or other public corporation authorized to levy or impose a tax on property shall file a written notice certifying the ad valorem property tax rate or the estimated amount of ad valorem property taxes to be imposed b…

(1) If a school district certifies a rate pursuant to ORS 310.060 that is less than the maximum rate of operating taxes allowed by law, the county assessor for each county within which the school district is located shall determine the amount of operating taxes that would have be…

If the written notice of a taxing district’s ad valorem property tax or other tax is not given to the county assessor at the time specified, or as extended, under ORS 310.060, the assessor shall not include the tax in the computation of the total district tax rate under ORS 310.0…

(1) If the ad valorem property taxes reported to the clerk, assessor or tax supervising and conservation commission under ORS 310.060 are in excess of the constitutional or statutory limitations, or both, the assessor, upon the advice of the Department of Revenue, shall extend up…

(1) Subject to ORS 310.070, the county assessor shall compute the rate for each item of ad valorem property taxes, the category rate of ad valorem property taxes for each category described in ORS 310.150 and the total rate of ad valorem property taxes for each taxing district as…

Each ad valorem property tax of a taxing district shall apply to all the taxable property of the district, or to all the taxable property in a tax zone of a district that has established two or more tax zones within the district, as shown by the assessment roll last compiled by t…

(1) If a taxing district lying in two or more counties is entitled to offsets which have been provided by statute, the rates determined under ORS 310.090 shall be further adjusted to reflect the offsets. (2) Adjustments under this section shall be made to ensure that the rate of …

(1) If a taxing district lies in two or more counties, and the district certifies an item of ad valorem property tax as an amount in the notice required under ORS 310.060, the amount certified by the district shall be apportioned on the basis of the assessed value used to compute…

(1) The Legislative Assembly finds that Article XI, section 11b, of the Oregon Constitution, was drafted by citizens and placed before the voters of the State of Oregon by initiative petition. Article XI, section 11b, of the Oregon Constitution, uses terms that do not have establ…

(1) Any tax on property that is imposed on property that is subject to ad valorem taxation by any unit of local government shall be certified to the assessor each year, as provided under ORS 310.060. Except as otherwise specifically provided by law, any tax, fee, charge or assess…

(1) Each unit of local government that imposes a tax, fee, charge or assessment may adopt an ordinance or resolution classifying all or any of the taxes, fees, charges and assessments it imposes as being in one or more of the following categories: (a) Taxes on property subject to…

(1) Each year, the county assessor shall establish a system of code areas, identified by code numbers, which shall represent all of the various combinations of taxing districts, or tax zones of taxing districts in which district taxes differ, as of July 1 of that year in which a …

(1) The three categories within which ad valorem property tax items are to be categorized in the notice to be filed under ORS 310.060 and for which category rates of ad valorem property taxes are to be computed under ORS 310.090 and tentative consolidated category rates are to be…

(1) The assessor shall determine the total amount to be raised for each taxing district in the code area and, for the total amount for each taxing district, the amount for each item that is listed in the taxing district’s notice filed under ORS 310.060. (2) The amounts determined…

(1) For purposes of ORS 310.150, taxes are levied or imposed to fund the public school system if the taxes will be used exclusively for educational services, including support services, provided by any unit of government, at any level from prekindergarten through post-graduate tr…

(1) Notwithstanding ORS 310.155 and for purposes of ORS 310.150, taxes levied or imposed by a community college district to provide a public library system established prior to September 9, 1995, shall be considered to be levied or imposed for the purpose of funding government op…

(1) For purposes of determining whether the taxes on property to be imposed on any property exceed the limits imposed by section 11b, Article XI of the Oregon Constitution, the unit of property to be considered shall consist of all contiguous property within a single code area in…

(1) For any unit of property partially exempt from tax under ORS 307.250, 307.370 or 308.459 or any other law, the assessor shall determine the maximum amount of taxes on property to be imposed on such unit of property under ORS 310.150, by using the lesser of the real market val…

If any taxing district certifies for levy or imposition under ORS 310.060 more than one tax subject to the limits of section 11b, Article XI of the Oregon Constitution, and receives distributions from the unsegregated tax collections account in an amount that is less than the tot…

(1) If a challenge has been filed under ORS 258.016 (7), any tax that was authorized by the election shall not be extended on the assessment and tax roll until the challenge has been resolved. (2) If a challenge is resolved so that the contested election is determined to be valid…

A taxing district that has received notice of a challenge to one of the district’s elections under ORS 258.016 shall notify the assessor of the filing of the challenge and of the resolution of the challenge. [1997 c.541 §319] (Calculation of 1997 Measure 50 Permanent and Suppleme…

The purpose of ORS 310.200 to 310.242 is to set forth the procedure by which tax reductions caused by implementation of section 11, Article XI of the Oregon Constitution, and caused by additional statutory reductions, for the tax year beginning July 1, 1997, are to be distributed…

As used in ORS 310.200 to 310.242: (1) “Local option taxes” means taxes described under section 11 (4) or (7)(c), Article XI of the Oregon Constitution, and does not include serial levies or continuing levies first imposed in the tax year beginning July 1, 1997, that merely repla…

In order to determine if ad valorem property taxes are used to support a hospital facility and therefore are subject to section 11 (6), Article XI of the Oregon Constitution, the term “hospital facility” means a facility with an organized medical staff, with permanent facilities …

(1) Notwithstanding ORS 310.060, for the tax year beginning July 1, 1997, the notice required under ORS 310.060 shall be as provided in this section. (2) Every city, school district or other public corporation authorized to levy or impose a tax on property shall file a notice in …

(1) Notwithstanding ORS 457.440, for the tax year beginning July 1, 1997, an urban renewal agency shall certify to the assessor for each urban renewal plan the amount that would have been certified under ORS 457.440 (1995 Edition) and the other laws of this state applicable to th…

(1) After the assessor has received all certifications of levy under ORS 310.206 for the tax year beginning July 1, 1997, the assessor shall first calculate the Measure 5 imposed tax estimate under this section. (2) The assessor shall compute ad valorem property taxes on each pro…