ORS 294.440¹
School or community college district expending federal or state funds in emergency

Whenever the board of directors of any school district or the board of education of any community college district has declared the existence of an emergency necessitating a greater expenditure of public money for any specific purpose or purposes than the amount appropriated therefor in order to provide or maintain and operate, or both, adequate school or college facilities, supplies and personnel for the proper instruction of the pupils who are attending or will attend the public schools or college within such district during the remainder of the budget year, such board may make excess expenditures for such specific purpose or purposes beyond the amount appropriated therefor to the extent that all funds for such excess expenditures are:

(1) Advanced or committed to such district by apportionment, grant, contribution or allocation from the United States, or any agency thereof. In connection therewith, the district may enter into and carry out any plan of financing sponsored by the United States, or any agency thereof, upon such terms and conditions and subject to such lawful rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the United States, or a proper agency thereof;

(2) Made available to a common or union high school district by the education service district board from an emergency aid fund established under ORS 334.370 (Emergency aid fund). [1963 c.576 §26; 1971 c.513 §58; 1983 c.740 §84]

§§ 294.305 (Sections constituting Local Budget Law) to 294.520 (Priority of appeals under Local Budget Law)

Notes of Decisions

Tax court properly invalidated sanitary authority's proposed tax where authority had sufficient federal grant and other funds available to meet pay­ments due on its bonds without tax. Bashaw, Dept. of Rev. v. Bear Creek Valley San. Auth., 287 Or 113, 597 P2d 822 (1979)

Atty. Gen. Opinions

Budgeting deferred compensa­tion assets and liabilities, (1976) Vol 37, p 1284; exclusion of municipal financial activities with respect to urban renewal agency projects, (1977) Vol 38, p 1062

1 Legislative Counsel Committee, CHAPTER 294—County and Municipal Financial Administration, https://­www.­oregonlegislature.­gov/­bills_laws/­Archive/­2007ors294.­pdf (2007) (last ac­cessed Feb. 12, 2009).
 
2 Legislative Counsel Committee, Annotations to the Oregon Revised Stat­utes, Cumulative Supplement - 2007, Chapter 294, https://­www.­oregonlegislature.­gov/­bills_laws/­ors/­294ano.­htm (2007) (last ac­cessed Feb. 12, 2009).
 
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