Oregon Statutes 309.115 – Term of order correcting real market value; permissible adjustments; exceptions

(1) If the Department of Revenue, the property value appeals board or the tax court or other court enters an order correcting the real market value of a separate assessment of property and there is no further appeal from that order, except as provided under subsection (2) or (3) of this section, the value so entered shall be the real market value entered on the assessment and tax rolls for the five assessment years next following the year for which the order is entered.

Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 309.115

Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
Personal property: All property that is not real property.

(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, the following adjustments may be made to the real market value during the period described in subsection (1) of this section:

(a) Annual trending or indexing applied to all properties of the same property class in the county, or within clearly defined areas of the county under this chapter.

(b) Annual trending or depreciation factors applied to similar property.

(d) Additions, retirements or economic trending from the annual valuations under ORS § 308.505 to 308.674.

(e) Increases directly related to additions, remodeling or rehabilitation made to property.

(f) Changes directly related to subdividing or partitioning the property.

(g) Changes directly related to rezoning the property and using the property consistent with the rezoning.

(h) Property damaged, destroyed or otherwise subject to loss of real market value.

(i) Changes indicated by a subsequent sale of the property.

(3) In the case of state-appraised industrial property as defined in ORS § 306.126, subsection (1) of this section does not apply to changes in real market value as a result of:

(a) Annual trending or depreciation factors applied by type of property to industrial or personal property;

(b) Additions or retirements based upon returns filed under ORS § 308.290; or

(4) If, during the five-year period described in subsection (1) of this section, another order correcting the real market value of the property subject to subsection (1) of this section is entered, subsection (1) of this section shall apply for the five assessment years next following the year the later order is entered. [1989 c.678 § 2; 1991 c.459 § 198a; 1995 c.650 § 65; 1997 c.154 45,46; 1997 c.541 234,235; 1999 c.579 § 28; 2001 c.6 § 1; 2015 c.36 § 12; 2019 c.380 § 1; 2023 c.29 § 29]

The amendments to 309.115 by section 29, chapter 29, Oregon Laws 2023, become operative July 1, 2024. See section 43, chapter 29, Oregon Laws 2023. The text that is operative until July 1, 2024, is set forth for the user’s convenience.

(1) If the Department of Revenue, the board of property tax appeals or the tax court or other court enters an order correcting the real market value of a separate assessment of property and there is no further appeal from that order, except as provided under subsection (2) or (3) of this section, the value so entered shall be the real market value entered on the assessment and tax rolls for the five assessment years next following the year for which the order is entered.