ORS 554.070
Membership

  • meetings
  • voting
  • proxies
  • voting trusts
  • quorum
  • removal of officers

(1)

Every owner of land described in the articles of incorporation is a member of the corporation, and membership is lost or gained through a sale or purchase of any of said land, as the case may be, by which the legal title is transferred. In case of sale or purchase under contract without transfer of legal title, the parties may agree with respect to voting such land as provided in the bylaws, and unless so agreed and determined pursuant thereto the holder of the legal title shall be entitled to vote. Corporate owners may by resolution of their board of directors appoint and designate a proxy as provided by the bylaws.

(2)

At all meetings of the members of the corporation each member who attends in person, or by proxy appointed in writing, shall be entitled to vote as provided in the articles of incorporation. In the absence of a provision in the articles of incorporation, each member shall be entitled to vote the amount of acreage of the land owned by the member on the basis of one vote for each acre of land. Nothing in the laws of Oregon shall be construed to prevent any owners of land, or members of the corporation, from joining in a voting trust or from giving a proxy or power of attorney to vote such membership for a term of years or until the happening or performance of a named contingency or condition. Except as provided in subsection (4) of this section or ORS 554.560 (Quorum for meeting), members representing a majority of the votes entitled to be cast shall be necessary to constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at all landowners’ meetings, and a majority vote shall govern in all cases except as otherwise specially provided by law.

(3)

At any meeting of the members of the corporation any officer may be removed and another elected in the place of the officer. There must be at least one regular meeting of the members in each year, to be fixed by the bylaws, and there shall be such other meetings as may be called under the provisions of the bylaws.

(4)

When members representing a majority of the votes entitled to be cast or their appointed proxies do not attend the regular annual meeting of the members of the corporation or any other meeting called under the bylaws, the directors of the corporation may call another meeting of the members on a date that is not later than 60 days after the date of the meeting at which a quorum was not obtained. At such subsequent meeting, members representing 25 percent or more of the votes entitled to be cast shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. [Amended by 1985 c.466 §1; 1995 c.233 §2]

Source: Section 554.070 — Membership; meetings; voting; proxies; voting trusts; quorum; removal of officers, https://www.­oregonlegislature.­gov/bills_laws/ors/ors554.­html.

554.005
Filing requirements
554.007
Effective time and date of document
554.009
Correcting filed document
554.011
Penalty for signing false document
554.012
Forms
554.015
Filing duty of Secretary of State
554.016
Filing, service, copying and certification fees
554.017
Appeal from Secretary of State’s refusal to file document
554.018
Evidentiary effect of copy of filed document
554.019
Certificate of existence
554.020
Articles of incorporation
554.030
Evidence of corporate existence
554.040
Contents of articles
554.060
Challenge to validity of organization
554.070
Membership
554.080
Corporate existence
554.082
Registered office and registered agent
554.084
Change of registered office or registered agent
554.086
Resignation of registered agent
554.088
Service on corporation
554.090
Directors
554.100
Oath of office
554.110
Powers of directors
554.120
Records of proceedings of directors
554.130
Assessments
554.135
Alternative method for collecting assessments
554.140
Directors’ duty to institute proceedings to enforce lien
554.150
Action to compel assessment
554.160
Assessments to provide funds to meet obligations
554.170
Covenants by landowners
554.180
Landowners’ notice
554.190
Recording notice
554.200
Incurring indebtedness before notice recorded
554.210
Plans and specifications
554.220
Bonds
554.230
Bonds
554.240
Retirement of bonds
554.250
Refunding bonds
554.260
Contracts with governmental agencies or others for financial assistance or cooperative action
554.270
Purchase or lease of works and water rights
554.275
Activity of corporation as urban service
554.280
Resolution for serial coupon obligations
554.290
Warrants to pay claims
554.300
Amendment of articles
554.302
Dissolution of corporation by Secretary of State
554.305
Notice of grounds for dissolution
554.307
Reinstatement of dissolved corporation
554.309
Denial of reinstatement
554.315
Annual report
554.320
Exemption from taxation
554.340
Judicial determination of legality of proceedings
554.350
Service to lands outside district
554.375
Dissolution of district and reorganization as corporation
554.380
Articles of incorporation for corporation formed from dissolved district
554.385
Findings by board of reorganizing district
554.390
Dissolution of district and reorganization as corporation under ORS 554.320 and 554.375 to 554.390 prohibited after 2004
554.410
Applicability of ORS 554.005 to 554.340 to corporations organized under 1911 Act
554.420
Amendment of articles, and landowners’ notice, of corporation organized under 1911 Act
554.430
Applicability of 1911 Act, as amended, to corporations organized under that Act
554.440
Malheur Improvement Company
554.510
Authority to include or exclude lands
554.520
Application for inclusion or exclusion
554.530
Application
554.540
Meeting date
554.550
Notice of meeting
554.560
Quorum for meeting
554.570
Effect of exclusion on existing debts
554.580
Condition of approval of inclusion
554.590
Articles of amendment
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