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2019 Oregon Revised Statutes
Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food
Chapter 547 - Drainage Districts
ORGANIZATION OF DRAINAGE DISTRICTS; SCOPE OF LAW
- Section 547.005 - Authority to form drainage district.
- Section 547.010 - Petition to form district; contents.
- Section 547.015 - Verification and filing of petition.
- Section 547.020 - Fixing time and place of hearing; notice; jurisdiction over district.
- Section 547.025 - Filing of objections.
- Section 547.030 - Evidence at hearing; findings; appeal.
- Section 547.035 [Repealed by 1975 c.326 §5]
- Section 547.040 - Application of Act of 1915 and amendments to districts organized under earlier laws.
- Section 547.045 - Public lands within district; authority to sign petition or objections; liability of lands; assessments.
- Section 547.050 - Signing of petition by Governor.
- Section 547.055 - Attack on validity or boundaries of district; time for commencement of suit.
- Section 547.057 - Drainage district activity as urban service.
- Section 547.060 - Scope of Drainage District Act.
- Section 547.063 - Definitions.
- Section 547.065 - Public hearing required.
- Section 547.067 - Powers of drainage district.
- Section 547.069 - Formation of drainage district by owners of certain lands permitted.
- Section 547.071 - Powers of drainage district officers and employees.
- Section 547.073 - Powers of board of supervisors.
- Section 547.075 - Contracts with federal government permitted.
- Section 547.077 - Powers of boards of supervisors west of the Cascade Mountains.
- Section 547.079 - Clogged or obstructed conditions; notice to owner or occupant.
- Section 547.081 - Repair of clogged or obstructed condition.
- Section 547.083 - Owner or occupant liable for repair expense; notice and recordation of lien.
- Section 547.105 - Election of supervisors; qualifications and terms of office; quorum for transaction of business at owners’ meetings.
- Section 547.110 - Annual meeting; election of supervisors; owners entitled to vote.
- Section 547.112 - Change in number of supervisors.
- Section 547.115 - Supervisor’s oath of office.
- Section 547.120 - Board of supervisors; officers; secretary; seal; record of proceedings; report.
- Section 547.125 - Secretary as treasurer; duties; audit of books and report to landowners; compensation.
- Section 547.130 - Record of meetings, proceedings, certificates, bonds, acts.
- Section 547.135 - Removal of employees.
- Section 547.140 - Uniform charge to pay expenses of organizing district, surveys, assessing benefits and damages; collection; surplus funds; refunding in case of dissolution.
- Section 547.145 [Repealed by 1969 c.345 §20]
- Section 547.150 - Payment of claims; warrants; nonpayment; interest-bearing warrants; charge or levy of tax to pay.
- Section 547.205 - Appointment of engineer; duties; surveys; report; maps.
- Section 547.210 - Engineer’s report; adoption by supervisors; report constitutes "Plan for Reclamation"; exclusion of lands not benefited; certain irrigated lands deemed to be benefited.
- Section 547.215 - Commissioners; appointment; qualifications; quorum; continuing existence.
- Section 547.220 - Notice of appointment of commissioners; meeting; secretary of board of supervisors to furnish certain information; oath; officers.
- Section 547.225 - Assessment of benefits and damages by commissioners; report; compensation.
- Section 547.230 - Notice of report of commissioners; publication; form.
- Section 547.235 - Exceptions to report or assessment; hearing by court; modifications; transmission of judgment and report to supervisors and county clerks; appeal from judgment.
- Section 547.240 - Dissolution of district if cost exceeds benefits; obligations and expenses; additional charges.
- Section 547.245 - Reassessment of benefits.
- Section 547.250 - Changes in plan for reclamation; petition for amendment of plan; notice.
- Section 547.255 - Objections to petition; findings; judgment; recording.
- Section 547.260 - Appointment of commissioners when plan amended; subsequent proceedings; court costs.
- Section 547.265 - Amendment of plan where works or charge insufficient; additional charge.
- Section 547.305 - Entry on land; acquisition of property; water filings and appropriations; condemnation of property devoted to public use; right of way across state lands.
- Section 547.310 - Board authority regarding reclamation works; contracts; engineer’s duties.
- Section 547.315 - Connecting existing improvements; procedure; connection with improvements outside district.
- Section 547.320 - Powers of districts regarding irrigation works; bonds.
- Section 547.325 - Powers of districts under 1,000 acres regarding domestic water supply.
- Section 547.355 - Contracts with United States for reclamation by drainage or irrigation authorized.
- Section 547.360 - Payment of amounts due; assessments on lands; lien thereof; collection.
- Section 547.405 - Districts west of Cascades; control of supervisors over improvements.
- Section 547.410 - Maintaining improvements; notice to owner or occupant of premises.
- Section 547.415 - Failure of owner or occupant to act; maintenance by supervisors.
- Section 547.420 - Liability for cost of work; notice of claim of lien; foreclosure; sale of land.
- Section 547.425 - Prohibited practices.
- Section 547.430 - Civil liability for expense of removal of filth or obstruction; recovery by action.
- Section 547.455 - Annual charge or assessment; computation; apportionment; liability of state lands; payment of assessments by bonds, coupons or warrants.
- Section 547.460 - County, city and town lands subject to taxation, assessment or charges.
- Section 547.465 - Assessment or charge of low lands used for growing crops.
- Section 547.470 - Extra assessment or charge for lake drainage.
- Section 547.475 - List of assessments and apportionments.
- Section 547.480 - Collection of tax; disposition.
- Section 547.482 - Filing boundary change with county assessor and Department of Revenue.
- Section 547.485 - Governing body of county to make assessment and levy upon failure of supervisors to do so.
- Section 547.490 - Waiver of penalty or interest by certain districts.
- Section 547.492 - Alternative charge or assessment method.
- Section 547.495 - Crops bound by lien; exceptions.
- Section 547.500 - Notice or claim of crop lien; filing; contents.
- Section 547.505 - Recording of crop lien claim by clerk; indexing.
- Section 547.510 - Form of crop lien claim; foreclosure.
- Section 547.515 - Removal of crops to another county; recording of notice in latter county; rights of purchasers and mortgagees.
- Section 547.520 [Repealed by 1989 c.182 §49]
- Section 547.555 - Bonds; issuance; interest; place of payment; maturities.
- Section 547.560 - Sale of bonds; procedure.
- Section 547.565 - Payment of bonds from assessments.
- Section 547.570 - Bond proceeds; depository.
- Section 547.575 - Bond fund account; general fund.
- Section 547.580 - Retirement of bonds before maturity; call provisions.
- Section 547.605 - Funding and refunding of debt; bonds; place of payment.
- Section 547.610 - Sale or exchange of bonds; application of proceeds; cancellation of retired obligations; record of transactions.
- Section 547.615 - Tax for payment of interest and principal; sinking fund.
- Section 547.620 - Retirement of outstanding bonds; notice to bondholders to submit propositions; premium; calling of bonds.
- Section 547.655 - Authority to adopt alternative procedure.
- Section 547.660 - Exchange of refunding bonds for outstanding indebtedness.
- Section 547.665 - Numbering; maturities; negotiability; interest; place of payment; denominations; execution; registration; authority to retire bonds.
- Section 547.670 - Offer by holders of indebtedness to surrender evidences thereof or accept proportional payment; sale of bonds; notice; publication.
- Section 547.675 - Lien on land assessed for bond payment.
- Section 547.680 - Emergency fund; assessments for; use of.
- Section 547.685 - Retirement of bonds before maturity; notice of call; date of payment; cessation of interest.
- Section 547.690 - Judicial confirmation.
- Section 547.695 - Sale of lands for delinquent charges; district as purchaser; resale; payment of proceeds into emergency fund; district to bid at tax sale.
- Section 547.697 - Bond fund separate from district general fund; deposits to bond fund and district general fund; expenditures from bond fund and district general fund.
- Section 547.755 - Part of district annexed to city to be withdrawn from district only by consent of voters.
- Section 547.760 [Amended by 1955 c.359 §1; repealed by 1973 c.415 §14]
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