Section 454.365 – Safety net program to provide financial relief.
(1) Any municipality providing sewage collection, treatment and disposal services within an affected area shall approve and adopt a safety net program designed to provide financial relief to eligible property owners who would experience extreme financial hardship if required to pay costs associated with the construction of and connection to treatment works. (2) A safety […]
Section 454.370 – Citizens sewer advisory committee; membership; duties.
(1) Each municipality providing sewage collection, treatment and disposal services within an affected area shall, after consultation with elected officials of the affected area, establish a citizens sewer advisory committee composed of persons directly affected by the order issued under ORS 454.305. The committee shall advise the Environmental Quality Commission and the governing body of […]
Section 454.375 – Filing documentation of sewer charges; prohibited charges.
(1) Before any property owner is required to pay for construction of or connection to treatment works constructed pursuant to ORS 454.275 to 454.380, the local governing body shall file with the Environmental Quality Commission documentation that connection charges and user charges levied for sewer service are based upon the cost of providing sewer service, […]
Section 454.380 – Limitation on spending for nonconstruction items; exception.
(1) Not more than 20 percent of an assessment imposed by a municipality through a local improvement district for the construction of treatment works in an affected area pursuant to an order of the Environmental Quality Commission under ORS 454.305 shall be used to pay for nonconstruction items. (2) As used in subsection (1) of […]
Section 454.415
[Formerly 449.395; 1975 c.248 §2; renumbered 468.742 and then 468B.055]
Section 454.320 – Hearing on resolution or ordinance; notice of levy.
(1) The governing body shall give notice of the time and place of the hearing on the resolution or ordinance by publishing the notice of the intent to adopt the resolution or ordinance in a newspaper of general circulation within the affected area once each week for four successive weeks and by such other means […]
Section 454.330 – County to collect seepage charge for municipality.
(1) The county in which a municipality is levying a seepage charge under ORS 454.317 to 454.350 shall collect the seepage charge for the municipality. (2) The county shall establish a separate account for each ordinance or resolution adopted by a municipality and imposing a seepage charge within the county. The seepage charges collected under […]
Section 454.340 – Use of seepage charge; credit for system development charge; seepage charge to cease if user fee imposed.
(1) All seepage charges levied and collected by the governing body shall be used for the construction of treatment works. (2) System development charges for the installation or replacement of cesspools or septic tanks shall not be imposed by a municipality in any area in which seepage charges are imposed and collected under ORS 454.317 […]
Section 454.350 – Effect of ORS 454.317 to 454.350 on contracts between municipalities.
Nothing in ORS 454.317 to 454.350 prohibits contracts between municipalities under which a municipality may provide treatment facilities or services to another municipality. [1983 c.235 §5]
Section 454.360 – Areawide 208 Plan as master plan for provision of sewage services.
The Areawide 208 Plan, adopted pursuant to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972, P.L. 92-500, as amended, and any sewer implementation plan approved by the Environmental Quality Commission under ORS 454.275 to 454.380 shall be the governing master plan for the provision of sewage collection, treatment and disposal services by municipalities in an […]