Terms Used In Oregon Statutes > Chapter 552 - Water Improvement Districts

• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Condemner: means the state, any city, county, school district, municipal or public corporation, political subdivision or any instrumentality or any agency thereof or a private corporation that has the power to exercise the right of eminent domain. See Oregon Statutes 35.215
• Counterclaim: A claim that a defendant makes against a plaintiff.
• County board: means the county court or the board of county commissioners of a county. See Oregon Statutes 552.013
• County court: includes board of county commissioners. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• District: means a water improvement district proposed or created under this chapter. See Oregon Statutes 552.013
• District board: means the board of directors of a district. See Oregon Statutes 552.013
• Engineering plan: means the plans and specifications for the works to be constructed including:

  (a) Maps, profiles, plans and other data necessary to show the location and character of the work, and the property benefited, taken or damaged;

  (b) All rights of way or other property which may be required for the construction of the works; and

  (c) Estimates of the cost of the works and of the benefits and damages which will accrue to each tract of land upon the construction of the works. See Oregon Statutes 552.013

• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Filed for record: means to file a document for recording with the county clerk of each county in which the lands within a district are located. See Oregon Statutes 552.013
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Property: means real or personal property or any interest therein of any kind or nature that is subject to condemnation. See Oregon Statutes 35.215
• public body: means state government bodies, local government bodies and special government bodies. See Oregon Statutes 174.109
• public notice: means any legal publication which requires an affidavit of publication as required in ORS § 193. See Oregon Statutes 174.104
• Real market value: means real market value computed in accordance with ORS § 308. See Oregon Statutes 552.013
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• tract of land: means real property, together with improvements thereon, within a district. See Oregon Statutes 552.013
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• User fees: Fees charged to users of goods or services provided by the government. In levying or authorizing these fees, the legislature determines whether the revenue should go into the treasury or should be available to the agency providing the goods or services.
• Works: means dams, storage reservoirs, canals, ditches, dikes, levees, revetments, and all other structures, facilities, improvements and property necessary or convenient for draining land, controlling flood or surface waters, or supplying water for irrigation, domestic supply or other purposes. See Oregon Statutes 552.013
• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.