(1) The management of a people’s utility district shall be vested in a board of five directors.

Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 261.405

  • board: means the governing body of a people's utility district, elected and functioning under the provisions of this chapter. See Oregon Statutes 261.010
  • district: means an incorporated people's utility district, created under the provisions of this chapter. See Oregon Statutes 261.010
  • United States: includes territories, outlying possessions and the District of Columbia. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
  • 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) Upon formation of a district, annexation, consolidation, merger and after each decennial United States Census, the board of directors shall by ordinance divide the district into five subdivisions, as nearly equal in population as possible, and where practicable fix the boundaries in conformance with adjacent precinct boundaries. One director shall be elected from each of the five subdivisions.

(3) Directors shall be electors, shall reside in the subdivision from which they are respectively nominated and elected and shall have resided in the district continuously for two years immediately preceding the date of their election as directors. [Amended by 1977 c.210 § 1]

 

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