Terms Used In Oregon Statutes > Chapter 372 - Highway Lighting Districts

• Assessment: means any charge imposed or levied by the association of unit owners on or against a unit owner or unit pursuant to provisions of the declaration or the bylaws of the condominium or provisions of this chapter. See Oregon Statutes 100.005
• association: means the association provided for under ORS § 100. See Oregon Statutes 100.005
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Blanket encumbrance: means a trust deed or mortgage or any other lien or encumbrance, mechanic's lien or otherwise, securing or evidencing the payment of money and affecting more than one unit in a condominium, or an agreement affecting more than one such unit by which the developer holds such condominium under an option, contract to sell or trust agreement. See Oregon Statutes 100.005
• Building: means a multiple-unit building or single-unit buildings, or any combination thereof, comprising a part of the property. See Oregon Statutes 100.005
• Commissioner: means the Real Estate Commissioner. See Oregon Statutes 100.005
• Common elements: means the general common elements and the limited common elements. See Oregon Statutes 100.005
• condominium unit: means a part of the property which:

  (a) Is described in ORS § 100. See Oregon Statutes 100.005

• Conversion condominium: means real property that a declarant intends to submit to the condominium form of ownership under this chapter on which there is a building, improvement or structure that was occupied prior to any negotiation and that is:

  (a) Residential in nature, at least in part; and

  (b) Not wholly commercial or industrial, or commercial and industrial, in nature. See Oregon Statutes 100.005

• County: means the county in which the district, or the greatest length of highway to be illuminated, is located. See Oregon Statutes 372.010
• County board: means board of county commissioners or county court of a county. See Oregon Statutes 372.010
• Declarant: means a person who records a declaration under ORS § 100. See Oregon Statutes 100.005
• Declaration: means the instrument described in ORS § 100. See Oregon Statutes 100.005
• Developer: means a declarant or any person that acquires an interest in a condominium from declarant, successor declarant or subsequent developer for the primary purpose of resale. See Oregon Statutes 100.005
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• District: means a highway lighting district formed under this chapter. See Oregon Statutes 372.010
• Electronic meeting: means a meeting that is conducted through telephone, teleconference, video conference, web conference or any other live electronic means where at least one participant is not physically present. See Oregon Statutes 100.005
• Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
• executed by the association: means signed by the secretary and the president or chairperson of the association. See Oregon Statutes 100.005
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• Flexible condominium: means a condominium containing variable property that may be redesignated, reclassified or withdrawn from the condominium pursuant to ORS § 100. See Oregon Statutes 100.005
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Highway: means any road or way open to public travel. See Oregon Statutes 372.010
• Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Leasehold: means the interest of a person, firm or corporation that is the lessee under a lease from the owner in fee and that files a declaration creating a condominium under ORS § 100. See Oregon Statutes 100.005
• Legacy: A gift of property made by will.
• Limited common elements: means those common elements designated in the declaration, as reserved for the use of a certain unit or number of units, to the exclusion of the other units. See Oregon Statutes 100.005
• majority of unit owners: means more than 50 percent of the voting rights allocated to the units by the declaration. See Oregon Statutes 100.005
• Mortgagee: means any person who is:

  (a) A mortgagee under a mortgage;

  (b) A beneficiary under a trust deed; or

  (c) The vendor under a land sale contract. See Oregon Statutes 100.005

• Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
• Nonwithdrawable variable property: means property which pursuant to ORS § 100. See Oregon Statutes 100.005
• Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Purchaser: means an actual or prospective purchaser of a condominium unit pursuant to a sale. See Oregon Statutes 100.005
• Recorded: means to cause to be recorded by the county officer in the real property records for each county in which the condominium is located. See Oregon Statutes 100.005
• Recording officer: means the county officer charged with the duty of filing and recording deeds and mortgages or any other instruments or documents affecting the title to real property. See Oregon Statutes 100.005
• Sale: means any disposition or transfer of a condominium unit, or an interest or estate therein, by a developer, including the offering of the property as a prize or gift when a monetary charge or consideration for whatever purpose is required by the developer. See Oregon Statutes 100.005
• Special declarant right: means any right, in addition to the regular rights of the declarant as a unit owner, reserved for the benefit of or created by the declarant under the declaration, bylaws or the provisions of this chapter. See Oregon Statutes 100.005
• Staged condominium: means a condominium that provides for annexation of additional property pursuant to ORS § 100. See Oregon Statutes 100.005
• Successor declarant: means the transferee of any special declarant right. See Oregon Statutes 100.005
• Termination date: means that date described in ORS § 100. See Oregon Statutes 100.005
• Transitional committee: means the committee provided for under ORS § 100. See Oregon Statutes 100.005
• Turnover meeting: means the meeting provided for under ORS § 100. See Oregon Statutes 100.005
• Unit designation: means the number, letter or combination thereof designating a unit in the declaration and on the plat. See Oregon Statutes 100.005
• Variable property: means property described in ORS § 100. See Oregon Statutes 100.005
• Voting rights: means the portion of the votes allocated to a unit by the declaration in accordance with ORS § 100. See Oregon Statutes 100.005