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Section 545.002 - Definitions. - (1) "Board" or "board of directors" means the governing body...
Section 545.007 - Voting rights. - (a) If ownership is in estates by the entirety, tenants...
Section 545.025 - Purposes of irrigation district; process for formation. - (2) The petition shall set forth: (a) A statement that...
Section 545.029 - Hearing of petition by county court; authority as to boundaries of district; lands included; order; formation of district without election. - (a) An irrigation district may not include land that is...
Section 545.033 - Naming and division of districts. - (2) If the petition provides for a five-member board of...
Section 545.037 - Notice of election for determining organization of district; contents; publication; mailing. - (2) In lieu of including a description of the lands...
Section 545.041 - Conduct of election; contents of nominating petition; verification of electors by county assessor; order declaring result; inclusion of portion of district in another district; commencement of duties by directors. - (2)(a) Nominations for candidates for the board of directors may...
Section 545.043 - Qualifications of directors; terms of office; oath. - (2) Within 10 days after receiving the certificate of election...
Section 545.075 - Requirements that may be imposed upon petitioners in western Oregon district; charges or assessments. - (a) Their pro rata share of all bonds and the...
Section 545.079 - Recording of order including lands in district; effect of order; appeal. - (2) An appeal may be taken from the order of...
Section 545.089 - Redivision of district; election of directors. - (2) If redivision of the district under subsection (1) of...
Section 545.091 - Inclusion of lands not subject to charges of district. - Note: 545.091 was added to and made a part of...
Section 545.093 - Creation of subdistricts; purpose; change in subdistrict boundaries. - (2) When the owners of more than 50 percent of...
Section 545.094 - Engineering plan for improvements within subdistricts; notice; hearing; remonstrance. - Note: See note under 545.093.
Section 545.095 - Charges or assessments for improvements within subdistrict. - Note: See note under 545.093.
Section 545.099 - Petition for exclusion of lands from district; approval by board; payment of costs of exclusion. - (2) Upon receipt of a petition for exclusion, the board...
Section 545.101 - Exclusion of subdivisions with three or more tracts on each acre of land; exceptions. - (2) The exclusion provided in subsection (1) of this section...
Section 545.113 - State agency to pay assessment and charges or to petition for exclusion. - (1) Pay all assessments and other charges that may be...
Section 545.123 - Redivision of district; election of director. - (2) If redivision results in the creation of a division...
Section 545.135 - Elections subsequent to organization of district; election of directors. - (2) In districts organized prior to May 21, 1917, a...
Section 545.137 - Notices of election; board of election; place of holding election; nomination of candidates; advertising openings on district board; certificate of election to sole candidate; ballots. - (2) Prior to the publishing and posting of the notices...
Section 545.139 - Board of election; polls; ballots. - (2) The polls shall be open on the day of...
Section 545.141 - Conduct of election; challenge and verification of qualifications of elector; counting ballots. - (2) A person who offers to vote and claims to...
Section 545.153 - Statement of result; contents; certificate of election; effect of informalities in conduct of election. - (a) The whole number of votes cast in the district...
Section 545.163 - Procedures for conducting election by mail. - (2) At an election by mail held for the purpose...
Section 545.167 - Division of district for election of directors; procedure. - (a) In the judgment of the board it is necessary...
Section 545.169 - Election of directors from newly created divisions. - (2) If there are two divisions without representation, then a...
Section 545.181 - Organization of board; officers; establishment of meeting dates; collection, custody and disbursement of moneys. - (a) Elect a president from among the directors and appoint...
Section 545.188 - Filling vacancy in office of director. - (1) If the district has been divided, appoint a resident...
Section 545.189 - Recall of director; procedure; required number of signatures for recall petition. - (a) Fifteen percent of the total number of votes that...
Section 545.199 - Increase in number of directors upon determination of board or petition; election on increase. - (a) In the judgment of the board of directors, it...
Section 545.221 - Powers and duties of board as to management of district; water deliveries. - (a) Manage and conduct the business and affairs of the...
Section 545.225 - Contracts; conveyances; suits; judicial knowledge concerning district; audit reports. - (a) Enter into contracts and take conveyances or other assurances...
Section 545.237 - Right to enter upon lands for inspection and maintenance of water works. - (2) Any person exercising the right of entry granted under...
Section 545.239 - Right to enter upon and acquire lands and water rights; right of condemnation. - (2) In the acquisition of property under subsection (1) of...
Section 545.257 - Authority of irrigation district to acquire domestic or municipal water works; assumption of obligations; sale of surplus water; impairment of irrigation service forbidden. - (1) Acquire by gift, lease, purchase, condemnation or other legal...
Section 545.275 - Lien on crops for water supplied for irrigation; enforcement; attorney fees. - (2) The person or irrigation district so supplying water, within...
Section 545.279 - District may require water control devices and measuring devices; notice to water user; objections; hearing. - (a) To install and maintain a lockable and controllable headgate...
Section 545.283 - Joinder of districts in acquisition or construction of irrigation or other water use works. - (2) Agreements entered into under this section may be evidenced...
Section 545.287 - Directors may construct or maintain improvements, levy assessments or provide for charges. - (a) When a parcel of land lying within an irrigation...
Section 545.293 - Resolution for water distribution works or services; hearing of objections; construction, repair or maintenance of improvement; apportionment of costs; assessment. - (2) A resolution shall be posted in three public places...
Section 545.295 - Conditions required in certain districts before delivering water to additional lands; order; charges and assessments. - (a) That the delivery of water to the lands will...
Section 545.303 - Water works system to be self-sustaining; payment of indebtedness; rates; separate accounts. - (2) The district shall establish and maintain separate accounts covering...
Section 545.305 - Election concerning acquisition of water works. - (a) Whether or not bonds in any amount designated by...
Section 545.315 - Petition to construct improvements for irrigation; contents; assent of petitioners to assessment of cost of improvement. - (2) The petition shall contain: (a) A general description of...
Section 545.319 - Elections on question of constructing improvement; resolution of directors. - (2) The board at the time of calling the election...
Section 545.343 - Obligations or contracts with United States under Reclamation Act; acquisition of federal lands. - (a) The construction, operation and maintenance of the necessary works...
Section 545.359 - Contracts with federal government for flood control works. - (a) To provide without cost to the United States all...
Section 545.367 - Authorization of sale of property, excess water or hydroelectric power. - (1) A general description of property to be sold. (2)...
Section 545.373 - Proceeds of sale; special fund; uses of moneys. - (1) First, to the construction or reconstruction of the drainage...
Section 545.375 - Purchaser rights; power of directors respecting contracts and instruments relating to transfer. - (2) If the contracts or instruments are considered advantageous to...
Section 545.381 - Annual assessments; computation of amount to be raised; apportionment; determination of acreage and assessments; credit for water rights. - (2) The board of directors shall determine the number of...
Section 545.385 - Certain lands may be assessed at different amounts; additional service charge. - (a) Lies above the level of the canals or ditches...
Section 545.389 - Deduction for rights or property required by district; assessments pending construction. - (2) Before completion of the project, the board may adjust...
Section 545.391 - Assessments for contracts with United States. - (2) In irrigation districts which enter into a contract with...
Section 545.420 - Certification of assessments to county assessors; entry on assessment roll; collection of taxes; deposit of sums collected; disbursements from fund; taxation of state and federal lands. - (2) The taxes shall be collected and accounted for in...
Section 545.468 - Exemption of parcel of land from payment of charge or assessment; qualification of owner of excluded parcel as district elector. - (a) The parcel of land is unable to receive water...
Section 545.471 - Charges for water supply; rates; collections and disbursements; basis of charges. - (2) The board may designate the time and manner of...
Section 545.484 - Computation of amount to be raised; apportionment of charges; fixing due date and delinquency date; fee for other services. - (a) The care, operation and maintenance of district facilities; (b)...
Section 545.487 - Pressurization charge; application to certain lands; apportionment. - (2) The board may apportion a pressurization charge allowed under...
Section 545.494 - Unpaid charge as lien on land; priority respecting other liens and claims. - (a) The name of the water user to whom the...
Section 545.496 - Collection of incurred charges; withholding of water until payment; interest on unpaid charges. - (2) If an incurred charge, or any installment of an...
Section 545.502 - Foreclosure; procedure; redemption after sale; attorney fees. - (2) Property sold under this section may be redeemed within...
Section 545.507 - Borrowing for payment of operation and maintenance costs. - (1) Borrow moneys for payment of its operation and maintenance...
Section 545.508 - Moneys collected; deposit; separation of funds; disbursements. - (2) Moneys in the funds shall be paid out only...
Section 545.511 - Authorization of bonds, including refunding bonds; contract with state or with United States; election; notice. - (a) Whether bonds in any amount the board may consider...
Section 545.513 - Resubmission of questions to electors; contracts not requiring vote. - (2) A district may, without a vote of the district...
Section 545.519 - Issuance of bonds; cancellation of bonds. - (2) Nothing in this section shall inhibit the district from...
Section 545.521 - Bonds of districts organized before 1925 with indebtedness of $50,000; retirement of outstanding bonds as condition of further indebtedness; authorization and sale of refunding bonds; application of proceeds; redemption. - (2) The district may issue refunding bonds to redeem or...
Section 545.539 - Bond sinking funds; other funds. - (2) Money received from the sale of bonds and otherwise...
Section 545.541 - Retirement of bonds prior to maturity. - (2) The board may call for payment and retire before...
Section 545.545 - Determination of liability of individual tracts for bonded indebtedness; acceptance of bonds and cash in payment. - (2) Except in case of default of the district, the...
Section 545.555 - Holding election; notice. - (1) The maximum time in which the bonds may mature...
Section 545.557 - Bonds; maturities; reserves; interest; trustees. - (2) The board of directors by resolution authorizing the issuance...
Section 545.571 - Notice of determination; publication; contents. - (1) The time and place for hearing objections or remonstrances...
Section 545.575 - Order determining benefits; order of assessment; "benefit surplus" defined. - (2) The order issued under subsection (1) of this section...
Section 545.577 - Notice of proceedings; appeal to circuit court; notice and summons. - (2) Upon the expiration of the time for service and...
Section 545.579 - Pleadings; trial; appeal; finality of assessment order. - (2) Upon the entry of a judgment, any person aggrieved...
Section 545.585 - Bonds; issuance; purposes; form; amortization; maturities; negotiability; numbering; interest; denomination; registration; amount maturing annually; retirement. - (2) The bonds shall bear interest at a rate determined...
Section 545.589 - Recording of assessments; bond lien docket; payment by bonds or coupons; interest on unpaid assessments; lien on land; priority. - (2) The bond lien docket shall thereafter be a docket...
Section 545.599 - Five-year additional assessment; emergency assessments; emergency fund. - (2) Following the five-year period described in subsection (1) of...
Section 545.607 - Retirement of bonds before maturity. - (2) Notice of intention to call in any bonds shall...
Section 545.631 - Consent of creditors to refunding of indebtedness. - (a) To deliver and surrender all evidences of indebtedness in...
Section 545.635 - Notice of court proceeding to obtain constructive consent; effect of failure to file objection. - (2) The notice shall contain a general description of the...
Section 545.637 - Hearing on petition; judgment; trustee. - (2) In the judgment the court shall direct the officers...
Section 545.645 - Terms of contract; parties; execution. - (2) The parties to the contract shall include: (a) The...
Section 545.651 - Constructive consent of holders of outstanding indebtedness; procedure for obtaining consent; petition. - (2) The petition shall further state what percentage of owners...
Section 545.655 - Notice of petition and terms of contract; failure to file dissent; effect. - (2) The notice shall contain a general description of the...
Section 545.659 - Hearing on petition; judgment; trustee. - (2) In the judgment, the court shall direct that the...
Section 545.675 - Parties to contract; execution. - (a) The irrigation district; and (b) The owners or holders...
Section 545.683 - Submission of claims to board; drawing of warrants; payment; lack of funds; interest on warrants; debts payable by warrants; receipt of warrants, bonds and interest coupons in payment of charges; amount of outstanding warrants; mont... - (2) The warrants shall be receivable by the tax collector...
Section 545.685 - Establishing bank account for payment of labor and emergency expenses. - (2) The account established under this section shall be used...