Oregon · statute · Or. Rev. Stat. ch. 293 · 158 active provisions
The Oregon Department of Administrative Services may adopt rules and regulations defining “encumbrances” as used in ORS chapters 291, 292 and 293 and the manner in which they are to be charged to appropriations and expenditure limitations.
All property given, devised or bequeathed to the State of Oregon or to any state agency as defined in ORS 293.235 shall belong to the state and shall be devoted to the agency or purpose specified in the terms of the gift, devise or bequest. A grant to a particular agency, not otherwise specifying the purpose of the gra…
The state may abolish agencies, change or transfer agency functions or rename any state agency. Notwithstanding any such action, property acquired by the state through gift, devise or bequest, when the purpose of the grant is stated or implied as provided in ORS 293.090, shall continue to be used by any successor agenc…
Subject to ORS 293.115, the following moneys shall be placed by the State Treasurer to the credit of and shall constitute the General Fund of the State of Oregon: (1) All moneys arising from direct taxation and paid into the State Treasury by the several counties of the state. (2) All moneys arising from the imposition…
(1) All payments of money into the State Treasury by virtue of any statute providing for, creating, authorizing or continuing any of the funds and accounts enumerated in subsection (2) of this section shall be paid into and become a part of the General Fund. (2) The following funds and accounts shall be a part of the G…
The following moneys shall be separate and distinct from the General Fund: (1) Moneys paid into the State Treasury for fiduciary purposes and moneys that are in trust funds, as defined in ORS 291.002. (2) Moneys by law directed and required to be placed by the State Treasurer to the credit of: (a) The Agricultural Coll…
(1) Moneys in a trust fund that are not otherwise appropriated by law are continuously appropriated to the agency that administers the trust in order to carry out the purposes of the trust. (2) As used in this section, “trust fund” has the meaning given that term in ORS 291.002.
The Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall, by appropriate entries made at monthly periods, credit the several objects with the amounts which may be received respectively from the several sources and charge against the same any claims incurred in pursuance of authority of law, in the same manner as is provi…
The State Treasurer shall enter upon all records created by the State Treasurer for moneys paid into the State Treasury such necessary information as shall: (1) Enable the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to credit the moneys to a fund or account in such amounts as are applicable under the law. (2) Permit a…
All warrants issued against any special fund that is a part of the General Fund hereby are made payable out of the General Fund. Such payment shall be made by the State Treasurer to the holders of such warrants upon demand.
Except as otherwise provided by law, all interest received on deposits of state funds shall accrue to and become a part of the General Fund. [Formerly 291.366; 1981 c.194 §1] (Oregon Rainy Day Fund)
(1) The Oregon Rainy Day Fund is established as an account in the General Fund. (2) The Legislative Assembly may appropriate moneys from the Oregon Rainy Day Fund only if the appropriation is approved by three-fifths of the members serving in each house of the Legislative Assembly and the Legislative Assembly finds one…
(1) As used in this section: (a) “Ending balance” means the difference between the amount of General Fund revenues collected during a biennium and the amount of General Fund appropriations for the biennium. (b) “General Fund appropriations” means the amount of moneys appropriated from the General Fund for a biennium in…
(1) If the moneys in the Oregon Rainy Day Fund established by ORS 293.144 just prior to the time of a transfer scheduled under ORS 293.144 (3)(c) or 293.146 equal at least 12.5 percent of the amount of General Fund revenues collected during the prior biennium, moneys that would otherwise be transferred to the Oregon Ra…
(1) If the moneys in the General Fund become exhausted, the State Treasurer shall borrow from the most advantageous sources the amounts necessary to pay warrants drawn against the General Fund in pursuance of law, other than warrants drawn against funds whose use is restricted to particular purposes by the Constitution…
(1) For the purposes of this section: (a) Exhaustion of the General Fund has the meaning described in ORS 293.165 (2). (b) “Restricted fund” means a fund in the General Fund whose use is restricted to particular purposes by the Constitution of Oregon or by federal law. (2) Instead of paying warrants drawn on the Genera…
(1) The State Treasurer may notify a state agency that it must stop issuing checks or warrants on, or initiating electronic funds transfers from, a specified fund or account if: (a) The General Fund is exhausted as described in ORS 293.165 (2); (b) Warrants drawn on the General Fund are being registered under ORS 293.1…
(1) If a check, warrant or demand for payment by electronic funds transfer is presented to the State Treasurer for payment and at the time of presentment the account or fund from which payment should be drawn has insufficient moneys to pay in full the amount presented, the State Treasurer may transfer the overdraft amo…
(1) If the appropriation for an agency or the limitation on expenditures of an agency, as enacted by the Legislative Assembly, includes an amount for a petty cash fund, the fund shall be established and administered as provided in this section. (2) The agency for which a petty cash fund has been authorized may prepare…
(1) On December 31 in each odd-numbered year, all General Fund appropriation balances as recorded on the records of the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for the prior biennium shall revert to the General Fund except for capital construction, continuing contracts, contested claims, special appropriations des…
(1) Any difference between the amount appropriated from the General Fund for a biennium to the judicial department as defined in ORS 174.113, including amounts appropriated to any agency of the judicial department, and the amount of the appropriation actually expended on or before the end of the biennium, is appropriat…
(1) As used in this section: (a) “Biennium” means a two-year period beginning on July 1 of an odd-numbered year. (b) “Borrowing agency” means the State Forestry Department or the Department of the State Fire Marshal. (c) “Borrowing fund” has the meaning given that term in ORS 293.205. (d) “Lending fund” has the meaning…
As used in ORS 293.205 to 293.225: (1) “Borrowing fund” means the fund to which money is initially transferred under ORS 293.210. (2) “Lending fund” means the fund from which money is initially transferred under ORS 293.210.
If there is insufficient money to the credit of any fund in the State Treasury to pay the obligations against such fund and there is money to the credit of one or more other state funds that is not then required to meet the respective obligations against such funds, the State Treasurer shall transfer so much as the Sta…
(1) If the Department of Transportation determines that there is insufficient money in any of its funds to pay the obligations against that fund, the department may request the State Treasurer to transfer money from one or more other funds to the fund that has insufficient money. The treasurer shall transfer the money…