2015 ORS 294.321¹
Purposes

The purposes of ORS 294.305 (Sections constituting Local Budget Law) to 294.565 (Failure to file copy of required budget, reports or other documents) are:

(1) To establish standard procedures for the preparation, presentation, administration and appraisal of budgets of municipal corporations;

(2) To provide for a brief description of the programs of a municipal corporation and the fiscal policy which is to accomplish these programs;

(3) To provide for estimation of revenues, expenditures and proposed taxes;

(4) To provide specific methods for obtaining public views in the preparation of fiscal policy;

(5) To provide for the control of revenues and expenditures for the promotion of efficiency and economy in the expenditure of public funds; and

(6) To enable the public, taxpayers and investors to be apprised of the financial policies and administration of the municipal corporation in which they are interested. [1963 c.576 §2; 1997 c.308 §4; 1997 c.541 §323]

Atty. Gen. Opinions

Board of Educa­tion's rules manual's compliance with this sec­tion, (1977) Vol 38, p 786

§§ 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/­ors/­ors294.­html (2015) (last ac­cessed Jul. 16, 2016).
 
2 Legislative Counsel Committee, Annotations to the Oregon Revised Stat­utes, Cumulative Supplement - 2015, Chapter 294, https://­www.­oregonlegislature.­gov/­bills_laws/­ors/­ano294.­html (2015) (last ac­cessed Jul. 16, 2016).
 
3 OregonLaws.org assembles these lists by analyzing references between Sections. Each listed item refers back to the current Section in its own text. The result reveals relationships in the code that may not have otherwise been apparent.