Charter

Section 1. TITLE. This revision of the Drain Charter of 1954 may be referred to as the Drain Charter of 1981.

Section 2. NAME OF CITY. The City of Drain, Douglas County, Oregon, continues under this Charter to be a municipal corporation, with the name "CITY OF DRAIN".

Section 4. POWERS OF THE CITY. The city has all powers which the constitution, statutes, or common law of the United States or of this state expressly or impliedly grant or allow municipalities as fully as though this charter specifically enumerated each of those powers.

Section 7. COUNCIL. The council is composed of a mayor and four councilors elected from the city at large.

Section 8. COUNCILORS. The councilors shall be elected for four years.  Two councilors shall be elected at each biennial general election.  Each councilor shall hold office until his or her successor is elected and qualified.

Section 9. MAYOR. At each biennial general election a mayor shall be elected for a term of two years and shall hold office until his or her successor is elected and qualified.

Section 13. MEETINGS. The council shall prescribe the time and place of its regular meetings, at least one of which shall be held each month.  The mayor or three councilors may call special meetings of the council in a manner prescribed by ordinance.

Section 19. JUDGES, POWERS, PROCEDURE.

Section 20. CITY ADMINISTRATOR.

Section 22. NOTICE.  The officer in charge of city elections shall give ten days' public notice of each city election.  The notice shall be submitted at the elections, and the time and place for the election.

Section 28. An office becomes vacant upon the incumbent's death, removal from office, resignation or ceasing to possess the qualifications necessary for office.  An elective office becomes vacant whenever its incumbent is absent from the city for a period of thirty days or fails to attend two consecutive regular meetings of the council without the prior consent of the council and upon a declaration by the council of the vacancy.

Section 30. ENACTING CLAUSE.  The enacting clause of all ordinances hereafter enacted shall be "The City of Drain ordains as follows."

Section 31. ADOPTION.

Section 34. PROCEDURE.  The procedure for making, altering, vacating or abandoning a public improvement is governed by general ordinance or to the extent not so governed by the applicable general laws of the state.  The procedure for levying, collecting and enforcing the payment of special assessments for public improvements or other services to be charged against real property shall be governed by general ordinance.

 

Section 35. DEBT LIMIT.

  1. Indebtedness of the City may not exceed the limits on the city indebtedness under state law.
  2. Approval by the voters of city indebtedness need not be in the form of a charter amendment.