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…

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…

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.

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Section 19. JUDGES, POWERS, PROCEDURE.

1. The city council may appoint a municipal judge, for a term and at a salary it specifies.  The municipal judge shall hold within the city a court known as municipal court for the City of Drain.  The court shall be open…

Section 20. CITY ADMINISTRATOR.

1. The city council may appoint a city administrator and fix his or her compensation and conditions of employment.
2. If the office of city administrator becomes vacant, the mayor may appoint a city administrator pro tem.  The…

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 23. REGULATION OF ELECTIONS.…

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…

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

Section 31. ADOPTION.

1. Except as subsection (3) of this section provides for reading by title or bill…

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…

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.

Section 36. PRESUMPTION OF VALIDITY OF CITY ACTION.  In every proceeding in any any court concerning the exercise or enforcement by the city or any of its officers or agencies of any power by this act given to the city or any of its officers or agencies, all acts by the…