Oregon Statutes 199.415 – Definitions for ORS 199.410 to 199.534
As used in ORS § 199.410 to 199.534, unless the context requires otherwise:
Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 199.415
- City: includes any incorporated village or town. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- County court: includes board of county commissioners. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- local government: means all cities, counties and local service districts located in this state, and all administrative subdivisions of those cities, counties and local service districts. See Oregon Statutes 174.116
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
(1) ‘Affected city‘ means a city, city-county or cities, named in a petition, for which a boundary change is proposed or a city, city-county or cities, named in a final order, for which a boundary change is ordered.
(2) ‘Affected district’ means a district or districts, named in a petition, for which a boundary change is proposed or a district or districts, named in a final order, for which a boundary change is ordered.
(3) ‘Affected territory’ means territory described in a petition.
(4) ‘Boundary change’ means a major or minor boundary change.
(5) ‘Boundary commission’ or ‘commission’ means a local government boundary commission formed under ORS § 199.410 to 199.534.
(6) ‘City council’ means the governing body of a city.
(7) ‘County board’ means the county court or board of county commissioners of a county located within the jurisdiction of a boundary commission or proposed boundary commission.
(8) ‘District’ means one of the districts named in ORS § 199.420.
(9) ‘District board’ means the governing body of a district.
(10) ‘Filing agency’ means the county board, district board, city council or other public officer or agency designated by the principal Act to receive or take the first action on a petition for a boundary change.
(11) ‘Major boundary change’ means formation, merger, consolidation or dissolution of a city or district.
(12) ‘Minor boundary change’ means an annexation, withdrawal or transfer of territory to or from a city or district or a transfer of territory from a city-county to a city.
(13) ‘Owner’ means the owner of the title to real property or the contract purchaser of real property, of record as shown on the last available complete assessment roll.
(14) ‘Petition’ includes resolution, order, articles of incorporation and any other form of initiatory action for a boundary change.
(15) ‘Principal Act’ means, with reference to a city, ORS chapters 221, except ORS § 221.230, and 222 and, with reference to a district, the statutes, other than ORS § 199.410 to 199.534, which describe the powers of an affected district including but not limited to the statutes under which a district is proposed or is operating.
(16) ‘Proceeding’ means a proceeding to consider a boundary change.
(17) ‘Transfer of territory’ means the process of simultaneous withdrawal and annexation of territory from one district to another district organized under the same principal Act other than ORS § 198.705 to 198.955, or the simultaneous withdrawal and annexation of territory from one city or city-county to another city.
(18) ‘Withdrawal’ includes the detachment, disconnection or exclusion of territory from an existing city or district. [1969 c.494 § 2; 1971 c.462 § 1; 1973 c.664 § 1; 1975 c.361 § 1; 1989 c.92 § 9; 1997 c.494 § 18]