2021 Oregon Revised Statutes
Chapter 310 - Property Tax Rates and Amounts; Tax Limitations; Tax Reduction Programs
Section 310.206 - tax certification notice.

(2) Every city, school district or other public corporation authorized to levy or impose a tax on property shall file a notice in writing of the ad valorem property tax levy made by it and any other taxes on property imposed by it on property subject to ad valorem property taxation that is required or authorized to be placed on the assessment and tax roll for the current fiscal year. The notice shall be accompanied by a copy of a lawfully adopted ordinance or resolution that categorizes the tax, fee, charge, assessment or toll as subject to or not subject to the limits of section 11b, Article XI of the Oregon Constitution, identified by the categories set forth in ORS 310.150.
(3) For any ad valorem property taxes levied by the taxing district, the notice shall state as a separate item:
(a) The total amount of money, prior to reduction under section 11 (3), Article XI of the Oregon Constitution, that the taxing district would have been entitled to levy under the property tax laws of this state as described in ORS 310.210 (2);
(b) If the taxing district is a taxing district other than a city, county or school district:
(A) The amount of the levy that is used to support a hospital facility; and
(B) The amount of any levy certified in the tax year beginning July 1, 1995, that was used to support a hospital facility;
(c) The amount of any levy of ad valorem property taxes that is not subject to constitutional reduction because the levy is described in section 11 (7)(a), Article XI of the Oregon Constitution;
(d) The amount of any serial or one-year levy that replaces an existing serial or one-year levy approved by a majority of the voters voting on the question in an election held on or after December 5, 1996, and first imposed for a tax year beginning on July 1, 1997, if the rate or the amount of the levy is not greater than the rate or amount of the levy replaced;
(e) The total rate or amount of the taxing district’s local option tax that is imposed pursuant to ORS 280.040 to 280.145 or that is treated as a local option tax under section 11 (7)(c), Article XI of the Oregon Constitution, and the date the local option tax was approved by voters;
(f) The amount levied for the payment of exempt bonded indebtedness or interest thereon that is not subject to limitation under section 11 (11) or section 11b, Article XI of the Oregon Constitution;
(g) The amount levied to pay qualified taxing district obligations, identifying the extent to which the amount levied is to be used to repay:
(A) Principal and interest for any bond issued before December 5, 1996, and secured by a pledge or explicit commitment of ad valorem property taxes or a covenant to levy or collect ad valorem property taxes;
(B) Principal and interest for any other formal, written borrowing of moneys executed before December 5, 1996, for which ad valorem property tax revenues have been pledged or explicitly committed, or that are secured by a covenant to levy or collect ad valorem property taxes;
(C) Principal and interest for any bond issued to refund an obligation described in subparagraph (A) or (B) of this paragraph; or
(D) Local government pension and disability plan obligations that commit ad valorem property taxes and the ad valorem property taxes imposed to fulfill those obligations; and
(h) For any levy certified under paragraph (g) of this subsection, the amount levied to pay the same qualified obligation (or a predecessor obligation that has been refunded by the current qualified obligation) in the tax year beginning July 1, 1995.
(4)(a) If the taxing district chooses not to levy the entire amount that the taxing district would have been entitled to levy under subsection (3)(a) of this section, the taxing district shall state the amount as prescribed in subsection (3)(a) of this section under the heading "For Permanent Rate Limit Determination Only."
(b) The taxing district shall then state the lesser amount that the district has determined as the maximum amount to be raised for operating tax purposes for the tax year beginning July 1, 1997, under the heading "1997-1998 Operating Tax Amount."
(5)(a) The notice shall also list each rate or amount subject to the limits of section 11b, Article XI of the Oregon Constitution, identified by the categories set forth in ORS 310.150.
(b) If an item as described in subsection (3) of this section is allocable to more than one category under ORS 310.150, then notwithstanding subsection (3) of this section, the notice shall list as a separate item each portion that is allocable to a category.
(6) The notice and the taxing district filing the notice shall comply with ORS 310.060 (3). [1997 c.541 §22]