Oregon · statute · Or. Rev. Stat. ch. 226 · 44 active provisions
Every incorporated city or municipal corporation owning or controlling any lands without its boundaries may enact any police or penal ordinance necessary to protect the same or preserve the peace and order therein or regulate the use of such park, enforce the ordinance by penalties of fine or imprisonment and make arre…
As used in ORS 226.120 to 226.240, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) “Board” means board of city park commissioners. (2) “City” means incorporated city containing not less than 3,000 inhabitants. (3) “Commissioner” means city park commissioner.
The board of park commissioners of the city shall be composed of the mayor and city engineer, if there is one, and if not, the city auditor, together with five citizens thereof, to be appointed by the circuit court in which the city is located. If there is more than one circuit judge in the circuit in which the city is…
The question whether ORS 226.110 to 226.240 shall take effect in a city shall be decided by election as provided in this section. The governing body may submit the question to the electors of the city at an election on a date specified in ORS 221.230. The election shall be conducted under ORS chapters 246 to 260.
The commissioners shall organize at a meeting thereof, to be called by the mayor not less than 30 nor more than 60 days after appointment of the commissioners is complete. The mayor shall be chairperson of the board. Whenever a vacancy occurs in the board appointed under ORS 226.120, the proper judge or judges shall fi…
The board shall appoint a secretary, who shall keep an accurate record of all proceedings of the board, including all rules and regulations adopted for government or use of the parks.
The city treasurer shall be treasurer of the board. The treasurer shall keep an accurate account of all moneys received and paid out on account of the board apart from all other accounts, and shall pay out no moneys on account of the board, except upon a warrant drawn upon the treasurer by the chairperson or acting cha…
The rules and regulations of the board for violation of which penalties are fixed shall be made public, as the board determines.
Regular meetings of the board shall be held on the first Tuesday of each month. Special meetings may be called by the chairperson upon application of three members of the board. No business shall be transacted at any meeting of the board without the presence of three or more of the commissioners. No land shall be purch…
No commissioner shall be interested in any contract to which the board of which the commissioner is a member is a party or in which it is interested.
(1) The board shall have full and exclusive control of all parks within or connected with its respective city. For that purpose it may: (a) Lay out and improve such parks. (b) Appoint all necessary engineers, surveyors and all other employees, including a police force to act in the parks and fix the amount of their com…
(1) If necessary, the board may provide for payment of land purchases under ORS 226.210 (1)(f) by a special tax, not to exceed one-half mill on the dollar in any one year, on taxable property in the city, to be levied by the board and collected like other city taxes. (2) Before such tax shall be levied and upon written…
If the governing body of a city with a park board created under ORS 226.120 decides that the city should abolish the board and transfer its powers, functions and duties, as defined in ORS 226.110 to 226.220, to the governing body of the city, the governing body shall submit the question of the transfer to the electors…
If the electors of the city approve abolition of the park board under ORS 226.230, the park commission shall cease and the offices of park commissioner terminate within 30 days after the returns of the election have been canvassed. Thereafter, all powers, functions and duties of the park commission shall be exercised a…
(1) As used in ORS 226.320 to 226.400, “city” means any incorporated city having 5,000 inhabitants or more. (2) The taking, using, acquiring and appropriating of private property for any purpose specified in ORS 226.320 to 226.390 is declared to be done for public use.
Whenever the municipal authorities determine by ordinance to do so, the city may purchase, acquire, take, use, enter upon and appropriate land and property within or without its corporate limits for the purpose of: (1) Public squares, parks, memorial monuments or buildings, pioneer memorials, pioneer museums, memorials…
The city may purchase, acquire, take, use, enter upon and appropriate land and property in excess of what may be needed for any public squares, parks or playgrounds.
(1) In the ordinance providing for an appropriation under ORS 226.330, the municipal authorities shall specify and describe the land authorized to be taken, purchased, acquired, used and appropriated. Such land shall not embrace more than 200 feet beyond the boundary line of the property to be used for the public squar…
After so much land and property referred to in ORS 226.330 as is needed has been appropriated for public squares, parks or playgrounds, the municipal authorities of the city may by ordinance authorize the sale of the remainder of such land or property and impose such restrictions in any deed of resale as may be deemed…
The proceeds from resale of any neighboring property taken in excess of what may be necessary for actual construction, opening, widening, extending and laying out of any public square, park or playground as provided in ORS 226.310 to 226.390 shall be deposited in the city treasury and used in payment of interest and as…
Before selling the neighboring lands or property acquired under ORS 226.320 to 226.360, or any part thereof or any right or interest therein, the municipal authorities of the city shall give a notice of such sale by publication for five successive days in one or more daily newspapers of the city having a general circul…
When it is intended by the municipal authorities of the city to take, use and appropriate private property for any of the purposes mentioned in ORS 226.320 to 226.340 and the owners and the municipal authorities cannot agree upon compensation and damages arising therefrom, compensation and damages shall be considered,…
The municipal authorities may issue bonds for the costs and expenses of acquiring the private property for any of the purposes mentioned in ORS 226.320 to 226.380. The bonds shall be at such rate of interest and for such length of time as the municipal authorities determine, shall be advertised and sold in such manner…
The city may permit and authorize the following uses of parks, which are lawful uses of any grounds or premises dedicated as public parks, unless the use thereof for such purposes is forbidden by the terms of the conveyance creating such parks: (1) The erection and construction of memorial monuments and buildings. (2)…
Any incorporated city may acquire, own, maintain and operate cemeteries, crematoria and other facilities authorized for the disposition of human remains either inside or outside its corporate limits, in accordance with such plans as the city governing body deems best.