(1) "Affected city" means a city, city-county or cities, named in a petition, for which a boundary change is proposed or a city, city-county or cities, named in a final order, for which a boundary change is ordered.

(2) "Affected district" means a district or districts, named in a petition, for which a boundary change is proposed or a district or districts, named in a final order, for which a boundary change is ordered.

(3) "Affected territory" means territory described in a petition.

(4) "Boundary change" means a major or minor boundary change.

(5) "Boundary commission" or "commission" means a local government boundary commission formed under ORS 199.410 to 199.534.

(6) "City council" means the governing body of a city.

(7) "County board" means the county court or board of county commissioners of a county located within the jurisdiction of a boundary commission or proposed boundary commission.

(8) "District" means one of the districts named in ORS 199.420.

(9) "District board" means the governing body of a district.

(10) "Filing agency" means the county board, district board, city council or other public officer or agency designated by the principal Act to receive or take the first action on a petition for a boundary change.

(11) "Major boundary change" means formation, merger, consolidation or dissolution of a city or district.

(12) "Minor boundary change" means an annexation, withdrawal or transfer of territory to or from a city or district or a transfer of territory from a city-county to a city.

(13) "Owner" means the owner of the title to real property or the contract purchaser of real property, of record as shown on the last available complete assessment roll.

(14) "Petition" includes resolution, order, articles of incorporation and any other form of initiatory action for a boundary change.

(15) "Principal Act" means, with reference to a city, ORS chapters 221, except ORS 221.230, and 222 and, with reference to a district, the statutes, other than ORS 199.410 to 199.534, which describe the powers of an affected district including but not limited to the statutes under which a district is proposed or is operating.

(16) "Proceeding" means a proceeding to consider a boundary change.

(17) "Transfer of territory" means the process of simultaneous withdrawal and annexation of territory from one district to another district organized under the same principal Act other than ORS 198.705 to 198.955, or the simultaneous withdrawal and annexation of territory from one city or city-county to another city.

(18) "Withdrawal" includes the detachment, disconnection or exclusion of territory from an existing city or district. [1969 c.494 §2; 1971 c.462 §1; 1973 c.664 §1; 1975 c.361 §1; 1989 c.92 §9; 1997 c.494 §18]