Oregon Statutes 261.141 – Formation, annexation or consolidation by resolution; contents of resolution
(1) In addition to the initiation of a people’s utility district formation, annexation or consolidation by electors’ petition:
Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 261.141
- Affected territory: means that territory proposed to be formed into, annexed to or consolidated with a district. See Oregon Statutes 261.010
- 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
- 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
- petition: means a petition addressed to the county governing body and filed with the county clerk, containing the signatures of electors registered in the affected territory, equal to not less than three percent of the total number of votes cast for all candidates for Governor within the affected territory at the most recent election at which a candidate for Governor was elected to a full term, setting forth and particularly describing the boundaries of the parcel of territory, separate parcels of territory, city and district, or any of them, referred to therein, and requesting the county governing body to call an election to be held within the boundaries of the parcel of territory, separate parcels of territory, city and district, or any of them, for the formation of a district, the annexation of a parcel of territory or a city to a district, or the consolidation of two or more districts. 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
(a) Formation of a district may be initiated by resolution of the governing body of each county in which territory of the proposed district is situated or, if a city proposes to create a district, by resolution of the city governing body;
(b) Annexation to an existing district may be initiated by resolution of the board of directors of that district; and
(c) Consolidation of two or more districts may be initiated by resolution of the board of each of the districts proposed to be consolidated.
(2) Resolutions authorized under this section shall describe the boundaries of the affected territory and, if for formation or consolidation of a district or districts, the name by which the proposed district is to be known. [1979 c.558 § 11; 2003 c.802 § 70]
[Repealed by 1979 c.558 § 30]