198.745. ����� (4) The order adopted by the assembly may include a plan for zoning or subdistricting the surviving or successor district for the purpose of nominating or electing members of its board

198.745.

����� (4) The order adopted by the assembly may include a plan for zoning or subdistricting the surviving or successor district for the purpose of nominating or electing members of its board if the principal Act for the district provides for election or representation by zone or subdistrict. The plan must describe the proposed boundaries of the zones or subdistricts. If required by the principal Act, the plan also must include a map of the proposed zone or subdistrict boundaries.

����� (5) If the merger or consolidation is initiated by petition and the petition includes a debt distribution plan, the order adopted under this section shall include that plan. [1983 c.142 �10; 1983 c.350 �7b]

����� 198.905 Certification of election results. The governing body of each affected entity shall meet separately not later than the fifth day after receiving from the county clerk the abstract of the votes cast in the entity in an election on consolidation or merger. At the meeting, the governing body of the entity shall determine the result of the election and certify the result to the governing body of each of the affected entities. [1971 c.727 �46; 1983 c.142 �11]

����� 198.910 Joint meeting of governing bodies of merged or consolidated districts and cities; election of board members for surviving or successor district; terms. (1) If the proposal for merger or consolidation is approved by a majority of the votes cast in each affected entity required for approval of the proposal, the governing body of the affected entity with the largest population according to the most recent federal decennial census shall call a joint meeting of the governing bodies of the affected entities. The meeting shall be held at a time and place designated by the governing body calling the meeting, not later than 10 days after the canvass of the vote in the entity last canvassed. The secretary of the entity calling the meeting shall give notice of the time and place of the meeting to each member of the governing body of each affected entity.

����� (2) At the joint meeting, a majority of the members of the governing body of each affected entity constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. The members so assembled shall from among the members elect a number of persons consistent with the principal Act to serve as board members of the surviving or successor district. The board so elected shall immediately meet and organize as provided by the principal Act and shall by resolution declare the districts merged or consolidated and each affected city joined, as the case may be. From the date of adoption of the resolution the merger or consolidation is complete, and the city territory, together with any territory thereafter annexed to the city, is included in the boundaries of the surviving or successor district and shall be subject to all the liabilities of the district in the same manner and to the same extent as other territory included in the district.

����� (3) Of the persons elected under subsection (2) of this section to serve as board members of the surviving or successor district, three shall serve until June 30 following the next regular district election as defined in ORS 255.005 and the remaining members shall serve until June 30 next following the second regular district election. However, if the principal Act provides for a board of directors of three members for the surviving or successor district, then two members shall serve until June 30 following the next regular district election as defined in ORS 255.005 and the remaining member shall serve until June 30 next following the second regular district election. The terms of office of the members shall be determined by lot. [1971 c.727 �47; 1983 c.142 �12; 1989 c.503 �1; 1993 c.424 �4]

����� 198.912 Apportionment of board members for certain surviving or successor districts. Notwithstanding ORS 198.910, when, at an election on consolidation or merger, a majority of the votes cast in each affected district is in favor of merger or consolidation or when merger or consolidation of districts is approved by a final order of a local government boundary commission, if two or more of the affected districts each have 20 percent or more of the electors or owners of land within the successor or surviving district, then each such affected district shall be represented on the board elected under ORS 198.910 as follows:

����� (1) By one member when the percentage of electors or owners of land in the affected district is at least 20 percent but less than 40 percent of the electors or owners of land within the successor or surviving district.

����� (2) By two members when the percentage of electors or owners of land in the affected district is at least 40 percent but less than 60 percent of the electors or owners of land within the successor or surviving district.

����� (3) By the number of board members remaining after apportionment of board members under subsections (1) and (2) of this section when, among all of the affected districts, the percentage of electors or owners of land in the affected district is the highest percentage of electors or owners of land within the successor or surviving district. [1997 c.590 �5]

����� 198.915 Election of board members at regular district election. At the first regular election held in the surviving or successor district, two or three district board members shall be elected as provided by ORS 198.910 (3). [1971 c.727 �48; 1993 c.424 �5]

(Dissolution)

����� 198.920 Dissolution procedure. (1) Dissolution of a district may be initiated:

����� (a) By a petition of the electors requesting dissolution of the district, filed with the county board.

����� (b) By resolution of the district board filed with the county board when the district board determines that it is in the best interest of the inhabitants of the district that the district be dissolved and liquidated.

����� (c) By resolution of the county board:

����� (A)(i) If the district at the time of the regular district election has not elected district board members, as required by the principal Act, to fill vacancies on the district board; or

����� (ii) If the territory within the district is uninhabited; and

����� (B) If the county board determines that it is in the best interest of the people of the county that the district be dissolved and liquidated.

����� (2) Within five days after a petition is filed or a resolution of a county board is adopted under this section, a copy shall be filed with the district secretary, if any, or with any other district officer who can with reasonable diligence be located.

����� (3) If there are no qualified district board members, the county board shall act as or appoint a board of trustees to act in behalf of the district. [1971 c.727 �49; 2011 c.9 �20]

����� 198.925 Findings of fact by district board. (1) When dissolution proceedings have been initiated, the district board shall make findings of fact that include:

����� (a) The amount of each outstanding bond, coupon and other indebtedness, with a general description of the indebtedness and the name of the holder and owner of each, if known.

����� (b) A description of each parcel of real property and interest in real property and, if the property was acquired for delinquent taxes or assessments, the amount of such taxes and assessments on each parcel of property.

����� (c) The amount of uncollected taxes, assessments and charges levied by the district and the amount upon each lot or tract of land.

����� (d) A description of the personal property and of all other assets of the district.

����� (e) The estimated cost of dissolution.

����� (2) The district board shall propose a plan of dissolution and liquidation.

����� (3) Within 30 days after initiation of the dissolution proceeding, the findings of fact and the proposed plan of dissolution and liquidation shall be filed in the office of the county clerk and shall be available for inspection by any interested person. [1971 c.727 �50; 2011 c.9 �21]

����� 198.927 Annexation of dissolved district. Upon dissolution of a district pursuant to ORS 198.920, a district that was formed under the same principal Act as the district that was dissolved may annex, pursuant to ORS 198.850 to 198.869, all or any part of the territory of the dissolved district. [2011 c.369 �2]

����� Note: 198.927 was added to and made a part of ORS chapter 198 by legislative action but was not added to any smaller series therein. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.

����� 198.930 Plan for dissolution and liquidation. The plan of dissolution and liquidation may include provision for transfer and conveyance of all assets of the district to any other district or, in the case of a county service district, to the county in which the district is located, which has the authority to and agrees to assume the outstanding indebtedness of the dissolving district, if any, and to continue to furnish similar services to the inhabitants of the district. [1971 c.727 �51; 1987 c.504 �8]

����� 198.935 Election on dissolution; consent of creditors; content of notice. (1) When the district to be dissolved is within the jurisdiction of a local government boundary commission, within 10 days after the district board files the plan of dissolution and liquidation required by ORS 198.925, the district board shall file the documents initiating dissolution with the boundary commission in accordance with ORS