ORS 553.010
Definitions


As used in this chapter, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

(1)

“Board” means the board of directors of a water control district created under the provisions of this chapter.

(2)

“District” means a water control district created under this chapter.

(3)

“Court” means the county court having jurisdiction over a water control district and includes the board of county commissioners.

(4)

“Land” or “tract of land” means real property, together with improvements thereon, whether publicly or privately owned, within a district.

(5)

“Landowner,” “owner,” “owner of land” and “owner in fee” are synonymous and mean a person, public body as defined in ORS 174.109 (“Public body” defined), or the federal government or any agency thereof, owning a tract of land situated within a district, or within the boundaries of a proposed district. The vendee named in a bona fide contract of sale of a tract of land situated within a district shall be considered as a landowner to the exclusion of the vendor. Whenever two or more persons own a tract of land as tenants in common or by entirety, each such person shall be regarded as a landowner. The guardian, administrator or executor authorized to act as such of a person or estate owning land within a district shall be considered a landowner.

(6)

“Works” means dams, storage reservoirs, canals, ditches, dikes, levees, revetments, and all other structures, facilities, improvements and property necessary or convenient for draining land, controlling flood or surface waters, or supplying lands with water for irrigation, domestic or other purposes.

(7)

“Notice by publication” means the giving of notice by publication in a newspaper defined as a legal publication under the laws of Oregon in each county in which lands within a district are located. A notice of a hearing to be held before the board of a district or the court shall be published once each week for four consecutive weeks making four publications and the last publication of such notice shall be at least 10 days before the date set for the hearing. All other notices required to be published under the provisions of this chapter shall be published once each week for two consecutive weeks making two publications, and the last publication shall be at least five days before the date of the event for which the notice is given. This subsection does not apply to provision of notice for an election.

(8)

“Engineering plan” means the plans and specifications for the works to be constructed or purchased within any subdistrict, including such maps, profiles, plans and other data as may be necessary to set forth the location, character of the work, the property benefited, taken or damaged, showing any and all rights of way or other property which may be required for the construction of any works, together with the estimates of the cost of the works and an estimate of the benefits and damages which will accrue to each tract of land within a subdistrict upon the construction or purchase of the works. A project work plan prepared for a subdistrict in cooperation with a soil and water conservation district may be adopted as the engineering plan, even though such project work plan is not the final construction plan, and does not give an estimate of the benefits and damages which will accrue to each tract.

(9)

“Apportion” means to determine the proportionate share of any assessment which is to be borne by a tract of land subject to assessment or to determine the proportionate share of any charge which is to be borne by the owner or occupant of a tract of land. The determination shall be made by calculating the percentage ratio of the appraised benefits of a tract of land to the total appraised benefits accruing to all tracts of land, or owners and occupants thereof, subject to the assessment or charge and allocating to the tracts of land, or owners and occupants, the same percentage of the total sum of money to be raised by the assessment or charge.

(10)

“New assessed valuation” means the assessed valuation of a tract of land as assessed by the county assessor for the county in which the land is located for the year in which an adjustment of benefits is made by a district.

(11)

“Original appraised benefits” means the benefits determined to accrue to a tract of land by an appraisal.

(12)

“Original assessed valuation” means the assessed valuation of a tract of land as assessed by the county assessor for the county in which the land is located for the year in which the original benefits were determined.

(13)

“Record” means to file a document for recording with the county clerk of each county in which the lands within a district or subdistrict are located. [Amended by 1961 c.186 §4; 1965 c.623 §1; 1969 c.691 §1; 1983 c.83 §102; 1983 c.350 §307; 1991 c.459 §430c; 2003 c.802 §138]

Source: Section 553.010 — Definitions, https://www.­oregonlegislature.­gov/bills_laws/ors/ors553.­html.

553.010
Definitions
553.020
Creation of water control districts
553.035
Application of election laws
553.070
Boundary change
553.090
Nature and powers of district
553.095
Entry upon land
553.105
Districts coterminous with 1969 districts
553.107
Effect of creation of districts under ORS 553.105
553.110
Vested water rights
553.210
Election of directors
553.220
Organization meeting
553.230
Powers and duties of board
553.240
County court as governing body
553.250
Authority to acquire and dispose of water works
553.270
Procedure on condemnation
553.280
Undertaking prior to entry as part of condemnation proceedings
553.290
Possession of land after commencement of proceedings
553.310
Creation of subdistrict
553.320
Engineering plan
553.330
Assessment for cost of works
553.340
Determination of benefits
553.350
Assessment of benefits and damages by appraisers
553.360
Hearing on report of appraisers
553.370
Reappraisal after construction of works
553.380
Reduction of benefits
553.510
Special assessments
553.520
Apportioning assessments
553.530
Disposition of funds received
553.535
Collection of charges and assessments by resolution of board
553.540
Assessments to be levied by order of board
553.550
Loans
553.560
Foreclosure of assessment
553.570
Withdrawal of land from foreclosure sale
553.580
Payment of state and county taxes by district
553.585
Claims
553.610
Assessments or taxes upon bond issue
553.615
Assessments by order of board
553.620
Ad valorem tax in lieu of assessment
553.623
Filing boundary change with county assessor and Department of Revenue
553.625
Levy and collection of tax authorized by ORS 553.620
553.630
Terms and conditions of bonds
553.635
Contract provisions for payment of government construction charges
553.640
Sale of bonds
553.643
Bond given for federal loan
553.645
Payment from annual taxes and assessments of bond-related amounts due government
553.650
Property liable for indebtedness of district
553.655
Bond elections in subdistricts
553.660
Tax or assessment as lien on property
553.665
Bond Fund
553.670
Process for issuance of bonds
553.710
Intergovernmental agreements
553.720
Manner of collecting tax
553.730
Limitation on tax levy
553.740
Issuance of warrants
553.750
Loan contracts with state or federal agencies
553.760
When land benefited by irrigation project
553.815
Judicial review of tax or assessment
553.850
Dissolution upon majority vote
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