198.895. ����� (2) A proposal to merge or consolidate districts may provide that a city be joined to the surviving or successor district for the purpose of receiving service from the district. �����

198.895.

����� (2) A proposal to merge or consolidate districts may provide that a city be joined to the surviving or successor district for the purpose of receiving service from the district.

����� (3) If a proposal to merge or consolidate districts includes a proposal to join a city to the surviving or successor district, the proposal may be initiated as provided in ORS 198.895. [1983 c.142 �5]

����� 198.730 Notice. (1) Except as otherwise provided by ORS 198.705 to 198.955, when notice is required or authorized to be published, posted or mailed, it shall be published, posted or mailed as provided by this section. When notice is required to be given and the duty of giving the notice is not specifically enjoined upon some officer, agency or person, the county clerk or the secretary of the district board, as the case may be, shall give notice or cause it to be given.

����� (2) Notice required to be published shall be published in one or more newspapers of general circulation within the affected district. If any newspaper is of general circulation in two or more affected districts, publication in one such newspaper is sufficient publication for all such affected districts. If no newspaper is of general circulation within the affected district, the publication shall be made in a newspaper of general circulation within the principal county. Published notice of a hearing shall be commenced at least 15 days prior to the date specified in the notice for the hearing, and the last publication shall be made at least five days prior to the hearing.

����� (3) Notice required to be posted shall be posted on or near the doors of the meeting room of the district board or of the county board, or upon any official public bulletin board customarily used for the purpose of posting public notices by or pertaining to the district or county. Posted notice shall be posted not less than five successive days. If posted notice is notice of a hearing, posting shall be commenced not less than 15 days prior to the date specified in the notice for the hearing.

����� (4) Mailed notice shall be sent first class and deposited, postage prepaid, in the United States mails and shall be considered to have been given when so deposited. If mailed notice is a notice of a hearing, mailing shall be made not more than 15 days nor less than five days prior to the date specified in the notice for the hearing.

����� (5) Notice authorized or required to be given by publication, posting or mailing shall contain all matters required by ORS 198.705 to 198.955. If a petition, ordinance, resolution or order of a district board giving notice contains all matters required to be contained in the notice, the county clerk or district secretary may, and shall if required, cause a copy of such petition, ordinance, resolution or order to be published, posted or mailed, in which case no other notice need be given by the clerk or secretary. [1971 c.727 �8; 1983 c.350 �4]

����� 198.735 Right of interested person to appear; written statements. (1) On or before the date set for a hearing on a petition, any person interested in the proposed formation or change of organization of the district may appear and present written statements for or against the granting of the petition or the proposed change.

����� (2) A written statement for or against a proposed formation or change of organization or a request for an election must be in writing, must clearly specify the defect, error, irregularity or omission to which objection, if any, is made and must be filed within the time and in the manner provided by ORS 198.705 to 198.955. Any statement not so made and filed shall be considered voluntarily waived. [1971 c.727 ��9,10]

����� 198.740 Election procedure governed by law under which district operates; omission governed by district or general election law. When ORS 198.705 to 198.955 require an election to be called within a district, the election shall be conducted as provided by the principal Act of the district or as provided by the principal Act for an election on formation. However, to the extent of an omission in the principal Act:

����� (1) If the district or territory is defined as a district under ORS 255.012, ORS chapter 255 applies.

����� (2) If the district is not named in ORS 255.012, the general election laws apply. [1971 c.727 �11; 1983 c.350 �5]

����� 198.745 Content of resolution calling election. A resolution or order calling an election on a proposed formation or change of organization shall:

����� (1) Provide for giving notice of the special election or elections upon the question.

����� (2) Designate each district or other territory within which the election or elections are to be held.

����� (3) Fix a date for the election, which date shall be the same for each election when an election is called upon the same question within more than one territory or district.

����� (4) State the substance of the question or questions to be submitted to the electors.

����� (5) Specify any terms and conditions provided for in the formation or change of organization.

����� (6) Contain such other matters as may be necessary to call, provide for and give notice of the election or elections and to provide for the conduct thereof and the canvass of the returns thereupon. [1971 c.727 �12]

����� 198.747 Effective date of boundary change; filing boundary change with county assessor and Department of Revenue. (1) Notwithstanding any provision of ORS 198.705 to 198.955 that provides a different effective date, an annexation, withdrawal, consolidation or merger shall not become effective during the period:

����� (a) Beginning after the 90th day before a primary election or general election and ending on the day after the election; or

����� (b) Beginning after the deadline for filing the notice of election before any other election held by any district or other municipal corporation involved in the annexation, withdrawal, consolidation or merger and ending on the day after the election.

����� (2) If the effective date established for an annexation, withdrawal, consolidation or merger is a date that is prohibited under this section, the annexation, withdrawal, consolidation or merger shall become effective on the day after the election.

����� (3) For the purposes of ORS 308.225 only, the effective date of an annexation shall be the date of the order declaring the annexation under ORS 198.855.

����� (4) For purposes of ad valorem taxation, a boundary change must be filed in final approved form with the county assessor and the Department of Revenue as provided in ORS