Oregon § 547.670 Offer by holders of indebtedness to surrender evidences thereof or accept proportional payment; sale of bonds; notice; publication

Oregon Statutes

§ 547.670 — Offer by holders of indebtedness to surrender evidences thereof or accept proportional payment; sale of bonds; notice; publication

Oregon § 547.670

Vol.15

Title 45Water Resources; Irrigation, Drainage, Flood Control, Reclamation

Ch. 547Drainage Districts

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Or. Rev. Stat. § 547.670 (2026).

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(1)Before authorizing the issuance of such bonds, the board of supervisors shall require that the known holders, or their representatives, of all evidences of indebtedness to be refunded, shall submit to the board for its acceptance an offer to deliver and surrender all such evidences of indebtedness in exchange for bonds not exceeding the amount of the claim or debt owned by such creditor, or in lieu thereof, to accept in full payment of all such outstanding indebtedness so held by any such creditor a sum of money representing the proportion which the proposed refunding bond issue shall bear to the total outstanding indebtedness proposed to be refunded, compromised, satisfied and discharged, based on the par value of such proposed refunding bonds; the creditors and owners of the indebted

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(1) Before authorizing the issuance of such bonds, the board of supervisors shall require that the known holders, or their representatives, of all evidences of indebtedness to be refunded, shall submit to the board for its acceptance an offer to deliver and surrender all such evidences of indebtedness in exchange for bonds not exceeding the amount of the claim or debt owned by such creditor, or in lieu thereof, to accept in full payment of all such outstanding indebtedness so held by any such creditor a sum of money representing the proportion which the proposed refunding bond issue shall bear to the total outstanding indebtedness proposed to be refunded, compromised, satisfied and discharged, based on the par value of such proposed refunding bonds; the creditors and owners of the indebtedness to agree to absorb the loss between the amount of the outstanding indebtedness to be refunded and the amount of the refunding bonds at par and to receive such refunding bonds in full payment, satisfaction and discharge of the outstanding indebtedness.
(2) The offer shall be in writing and shall, upon being submitted to the board, be irrevocable until such time as the board, under ORS 547.655 to 547.695, has a reasonable opportunity to issue, sell and deliver such refunding bonds to replace and discharge the outstanding indebtedness on acceptance of the offer; provided, that the offer shall not be revoked while any suit, action or proceeding involving the issuance, sale or delivery of such refunding bonds is in process of determination nor until a reasonable time after the final determination of such suit, action or proceeding.
(3) When authorized by a majority vote of the electors of the district, the exchange may be made on a basis of less than par for the refunding bonds, in which event the board of supervisors shall, in its resolution declaring its intention to sell the refunding bonds, also require the secretary of the board to give notice of the proposed sale by publication thereof for four consecutive weeks in three newspapers within the state, one of which shall be in the county in which the district is situated.