2021 Oregon Revised Statutes
Chapter 554 - Corporations for Irrigation, Drainage, Water Supply or Flood Control
Section 554.375 - Dissolution of district and reorganization as corporation; meeting of landowners; approval of reorganization by landowners.


(2) At least 10 days before the date of the meeting, notice of the meeting shall be given by publication in a newspaper of general circulation published in each county in which lands of the district are situated.
(3) The landowners, assembled at the place and time required by the notice, shall consider the question whether or not the district shall dissolve and reorganize as provided in this section. Each owner is entitled to one vote in person or by proxy for each acre of land owned by the owner in the district.
(4) Members representing more than 75 percent of the votes entitled to be cast within the district constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, including voting on the question of dissolution and reorganization, at the meeting.
(5) If members representing two-thirds or more of the votes entitled to be cast within the district approve dissolving the district and reorganizing the district as a corporation under this chapter, the board of supervisors or the advisory board of the district shall adopt an order so proclaiming and enter the order upon the minutes of the meeting. The chairperson of the meeting shall deliver to the Secretary of State a certified copy of the order proclaiming the results of the vote on the question of dissolution and reorganization.
(6) The board of supervisors or the advisory board of the district shall thereupon proceed with dissolution and reorganization as provided in ORS 554.380 and 554.385. [1993 c.502 §1; 1995 c.233 §7]

Structure 2021 Oregon Revised Statutes

2021 Oregon Revised Statutes

Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food

Chapter 554 - Corporations for Irrigation, Drainage, Water Supply or Flood Control

Section 554.005 - Filing requirements.

Section 554.007 - Effective time and date of document.

Section 554.009 - Correcting filed document.

Section 554.011 - Penalty for signing false document.

Section 554.015 - Filing duty of Secretary of State.

Section 554.018 - Evidentiary effect of copy of filed document.

Section 554.019 - Certificate of existence.

Section 554.020 - Articles of incorporation; filing.

Section 554.040 - Contents of articles.

Section 554.060 - Challenge to validity of organization; effect of defects or omissions.

Section 554.070 - Membership; meetings; voting; proxies; voting trusts; quorum; removal of officers.

Section 554.080 - Corporate existence; powers of corporation.

Section 554.082 - Registered office and registered agent.

Section 554.084 - Change of registered office or registered agent.

Section 554.086 - Resignation of registered agent.

Section 554.088 - Service on corporation.

Section 554.090 - Directors; qualifications; president; seal; secretary-treasurer; exercise of corporate powers; indemnification.

Section 554.110 - Powers of directors.

Section 554.120 - Records of proceedings of directors; lien docket; deposit of moneys; segregation of funds; accounting; warrant and bond register.

Section 554.130 - Assessments; certification; collections; lien; foreclosure; service charges; disposition of proceeds.

Section 554.135 - Alternative method for collecting assessments.

Section 554.140 - Directors’ duty to institute proceedings to enforce lien; attorney fees.

Section 554.160 - Assessments to provide funds to meet obligations; custody, disbursement and disposal of funds; general operating expenses.

Section 554.180 - Landowners’ notice; contents.

Section 554.190 - Recording notice; effect; lien on land; priority.

Section 554.210 - Plans and specifications; how adopted.

Section 554.220 - Bonds; denominations; interest; maturities; execution; coupons; amortized installment obligations.

Section 554.230 - Bonds; recitals; payment; liability of land.

Section 554.240 - Retirement of bonds; conditions of sale; resolution authorizing bond issue; surrender of bonds in payment of assessments; debts not to exceed assessments or benefits.

Section 554.270 - Purchase or lease of works and water rights; provision as to payment; serial coupon obligations.

Section 554.275 - Activity of corporation as urban service.

Section 554.280 - Resolution for serial coupon obligations; maturities; interest; retirement; recitals; fund for payment; assessments.

Section 554.300 - Amendment of articles; approval by members; dissolution of corporation by members; inclusion of lands by irrigation, drainage or flood control district.

Section 554.302 - Dissolution of corporation by Secretary of State; conditions.

Section 554.305 - Notice of grounds for dissolution; opportunity for correction; effect of dissolution.

Section 554.307 - Reinstatement of dissolved corporation.

Section 554.309 - Denial of reinstatement; appeal.

Section 554.315 - Annual report; contents; filing with Secretary of State; amended report.

Section 554.340 - Judicial determination of legality of proceedings.

Section 554.350 - Service to lands outside district; findings; tax exemption.

Section 554.375 - Dissolution of district and reorganization as corporation; meeting of landowners; approval of reorganization by landowners.

Section 554.380 - Articles of incorporation for corporation formed from dissolved district; required provisions; membership.

Section 554.385 - Findings by board of reorganizing district; plan of dissolution; transfer of district assets to corporation; statement of dissolution.

Section 554.420 - Amendment of articles, and landowners’ notice, of corporation organized under 1911 Act.

Section 554.440 - Malheur Improvement Company; exclusion or inclusion of land.

Section 554.530 - Application; contents; deposit; filing.

Section 554.570 - Effect of exclusion on existing debts.

Section 554.580 - Condition of approval of inclusion.

Section 554.590 - Articles of amendment; filing; effective date.