(1) If the State Treasurer determines that revenue bonds should be issued:

Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 289.200

  • Authority: means the Oregon Facilities Authority created by this chapter. See Oregon Statutes 289.005
  • Cost: means the cost of:

    (A) Construction, acquisition, alteration, enlargement, reconstruction and remodeling of a project, including all lands, structures, real or personal property, rights, rights of way, air rights, franchises, easements and interests acquired or used for or in connection with a project;

    (B) Demolition or removal of buildings or structures on land as acquired, including the cost of acquiring lands to which the buildings or structures may be moved;

    (C) All machinery and equipment;

    (D) Financing charges, interest prior to, during and for a period after completion of construction and acquisition, reasonably required amounts to make the project operational, provisions for reserves for principal and interest and for extensions, enlargements, additions, replacements, renovations and improvements;

    (E) Architectural, actuarial engineering, financial and legal services, plans specifications, studies, surveys, estimates of costs and of revenues, administrative expenses, expenses necessary or incident to determining the feasibility or practicability of constructing the project;

    (F) Management, operation or funding of a qualified program; and

    (G) Other expenses that are necessary or incident to a project, the financing of the project or the placing of the project in operation. See Oregon Statutes 289.005

  • Project: means the financing or refinancing of the costs, including, without limitation, acquisition, construction, enlargement, remodeling, renovation, improvement, furnishing and equipping, of the following:

    (i) In the case of a participating institution that is an institution for higher education, an institution for prekindergarten through grade 12 education or a school for persons with disabilities, a structure, within this state or outside this state, that is suitable for use as a dormitory or other multiunit housing facility for students, faculty, officers or employees, or a dining hall, student union, administration building, academic building, library, laboratory, research facility, classroom, athletic facility, health care facility, maintenance, storage or utility facility and other structures or facilities, within this state or outside this state, that are related to any of the structures required or used for the instruction of students, the conducting of research or the operation of an institution for higher education, an institution for prekindergarten through grade 12 education or a school for persons with disabilities. See Oregon Statutes 289.005

  • revenue bonds: means revenue bonds, as defined in ORS § 286A. See Oregon Statutes 289.005
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.

(a) The State Treasurer may authorize and issue in the name of the State of Oregon revenue bonds secured by revenues from eligible projects to finance or refinance in whole or part the cost of acquisition, purchase, construction, reconstruction, installations improvement, betterment, extension, management, operation or funding of projects. The bonds shall be identified by project and issued in the manner prescribed by ORS Chapter 286A.

(b) The State Treasurer shall designate the trustee, financial advisor and bond counsel, if any, and enter into appropriate agreements with each to carry out the provisions of this chapter. An agreement with bond counsel designated by the State Treasurer under this section is subject to the provisions related to services provided by bond counsel under ORS § 286A.130. The powers conferred on a related agency under ORS Chapter 286A do not apply to the Oregon Facilities Authority with respect to the designation of trustee, financial advisor and bond counsel.

(2) Any trustee designated by the State Treasurer to carry out all or part of the powers specified in ORS § 289.110 must agree to furnish financial statements and audit reports for each bond issue.

(3) The State Treasurer is the applicable elected representative for purposes of approving the issuance of revenue bonds under this chapter to the extent approval is required under section 147(f) of the Internal Revenue Code.

(4) The State Treasurer shall collect data from the authority regarding the amount and nature of bonded indebtedness in Oregon health care institutions financed through the authority. [1989 c.820 § 9; 1991 c.408 § 6; 1995 c.727 § 14; 2001 c.536 § 8; 2007 c.783 § 114; 2010 c.3 § 3]