2021 Oregon Revised Statutes
Chapter 547 - Drainage Districts
Section 547.675 - Lien on land assessed for bond payment.


(a) A certified copy of the resolution of the board authorizing the bonds, of the resolution of the board fixing the annual per acre payments to be made in payment of the principal and interest of the bonds, and of the district treasurer’s registration record;
(b) A certified statement of the lands within the district liable under the bonds, described in subdivisions of 40 acres except where the individual ownership thereof requires a description in lesser subdivisions or by metes and bounds or by calls; and
(c) A certified statement of the total amount of refunding bonds charged against each parcel of land, the amount of the annual payment thereof, the date of payment and the rate of interest.
(2) The county clerk shall record such information in a book to be provided by the county clerk for that purpose, which shall then be a bond lien docket of the drainage district for the lands of the district within the county and shall constitute the total of such charges or assessments and the maximum of the lien against the lands by reason of the bonds. This sum shall not be increased or enlarged by any subsequent assessment because of any delinquencies in payment of the bond lien and interest charge against any other tract or parcel of land in the district. Unpaid annual assessments or charges docketed therein shall bear interest at the rate of six percent per annum. All unpaid annual payments, principal and interest, shall remain a lien on the tract or parcel of land in favor of the district and shall have priority over all other liens and encumbrances except the lien of state, county and municipal taxes.
(3) Any time after issuance of the bonds, the owner of any tract or parcel of land may relieve the tract or parcel of the lien by paying to the county clerk, for the benefit of the district, the amount of the principal and interest remaining unpaid thereon. The clerk shall thereupon pay the money over to the district treasurer to be credited to the district’s bond fund. The clerk shall note on the bond lien record the fact of such payment and of the satisfaction and discharge of the lien. Upon such payment of the lien on any tract or parcel of land, the tract or parcel shall forever thereafter be relieved from taxation or assessment for the payment of the bonds or of any bonds issued to refund the bonds, except for such assessment or charge as may be levied by the board of supervisors to create an emergency fund, as provided in ORS 547.680.
(4) The collector of the district’s assessment and taxes shall receive any past due bond of the district or any past due coupon on any bond of the district in payment of any of the charges and payments referred to in this section.
(5) The lien of the annual payments or charges shall be foreclosed as other drainage district liens are foreclosed. [Amended by 1969 c.694 §45; 2001 c.215 §27]

Structure 2021 Oregon Revised Statutes

2021 Oregon Revised Statutes

Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food

Chapter 547 - Drainage Districts

Section 547.010 - Petition to form district; contents.

Section 547.020 - Fixing time and place of hearing; notice; jurisdiction over district.

Section 547.030 - Evidence at hearing; findings; appeal.

Section 547.045 - Public lands within district; authority to sign petition or objections; liability of lands; assessments.

Section 547.057 - Drainage district activity as urban service.

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 547.112 - Change in number of supervisors.

Section 547.125 - Secretary as treasurer; duties; audit of books and report to landowners; compensation.

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 547.205 - 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 547.225 - Assessment of benefits and damages by commissioners; report; compensation.

Section 547.230 - Notice of report of commissioners; publication; form.

Section 547.250 - Changes in plan for reclamation; petition for amendment of plan; notice.

Section 547.260 - Appointment of commissioners when plan amended; subsequent proceedings; court costs.

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 547.325 - Powers of districts under 1,000 acres regarding domestic water supply.

Section 547.410 - Maintaining improvements; notice to owner or occupant of premises.

Section 547.420 - Liability for cost of work; notice of claim of lien; foreclosure; sale of land.

Section 547.425 - Prohibited practices.

Section 547.455 - Annual charge or assessment; computation; apportionment; liability of state lands; payment of assessments by bonds, coupons or warrants.

Section 547.482 - Filing boundary change with county assessor and Department of Revenue.

Section 547.492 - Alternative charge or assessment method.

Section 547.510 - Form of crop lien claim; foreclosure.

Section 547.555 - Bonds; issuance; interest; place of payment; maturities.

Section 547.570 - Bond proceeds; depository.

Section 547.580 - Retirement of bonds before maturity; call provisions.

Section 547.610 - Sale or exchange of bonds; application of proceeds; cancellation of retired obligations; record of transactions.

Section 547.620 - Retirement of outstanding bonds; notice to bondholders to submit propositions; premium; calling of bonds.

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 547.697 - Bond fund separate from district general fund; deposits to bond fund and district general fund; expenditures from bond fund and district general fund.