Oregon Statutes 261.110 – Areas includable in district; description of district in petition for election
(1) People’s utility districts may consist of territory, contiguous or otherwise, within one or more counties, and may consist of one or more cities, or a portion of a city, with or without unincorporated territory.
Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 261.110
- City: includes any incorporated village or town. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
- district: means an incorporated people's utility district, created under the provisions of this chapter. See Oregon Statutes 261.010
- Electric cooperative: means a cooperative corporation owning and operating an electric distribution system. See Oregon Statutes 261.010
- Parcel of territory: means a portion of unincorporated territory, or an area in a city comprised of less than the entire city. See Oregon Statutes 261.010
- Separate parcel of territory: means unincorporated territory that is not contiguous to other territory that is a part of a district or that is described in a petition filed with the county clerk in pursuance of the provisions of this chapter, but when a proposed district includes territory in more than one county, the contiguous territory in each such county shall be considered as a separate parcel of territory. See Oregon Statutes 261.010
- Utility: means a plant, works or other property used for development, generation, storage, distribution or transmission of electricity, or development or transmission of water for domestic or municipal purposes, but transmission of water shall not include water for irrigation or reclamation purposes, except as secondary to and when used in conjunction with a hydroelectric plant. See Oregon Statutes 261.010
(2) Petitions asking that an election be held to determine whether or not a district shall be created shall set forth and particularly describe the boundaries of the proposed people’s utility district, and shall state that in the event the people within any one or more cities or separate parcels of territory within the proposed district vote against its formation, then that portion of the district which voted in favor of organization of a people’s utility district may be organized into the district.
(3) The name of a city is a sufficient description of its boundaries.
(4) When any city or separate parcel of territory voting at a formation election casts a majority vote against formation of the district, the city or separate parcel of territory shall not be included in any district formed as a result of the election.
(5) A city that owns or operates a publicly owned utility for development or distribution of electric energy or the territory served by the city within or without the boundaries of the city at the time of a proposed formation of a people’s utility district may not be included in any election for the formation of the district unless the inclusion is agreed to at an election by the electors of the city.
(6) No entire township, except when needed for location of plant or impounding purposes, or both, shall be included in formation of any district, unless the township contains not less than 10 electors. No portion of any township in excess of six sections shall be included, unless the portion contains a proportionate number of electors.
(7) No territory that is part of another people’s utility district shall be included in the formation of any district, except under the conditions provided in ORS § 198.720 (2), nor shall the proposed district include any territory which at the time of the proposed district’s formation is being served by an electric cooperative. [Amended by 1979 c.558 § 8; 1981 c.758 § 1; 2003 c.802 § 69]