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Changes to credit and debit card processing fees

Starting June 3, 2025, customers who use a credit or debit card to pay their sewer, stormwater, and water bill will pay a 2.95% processing fee. To avoid this fee, customers can make an electronic payment directly from their bank account. Learn more.

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Portland is a Sanctuary City

6.04.050 Exemptions.

City Code Section

(Amended by Ordinances 162647, 188170, and 191957, effective January 1, 2025.)  

  1. No tax imposed under this Chapter will be imposed upon:
  2. A.  Any occupant for more than 30 successive calendar days (a person who pays for lodging on a calendar month basis, irrespective of the number of days in such a month, will not be deemed a transient);
  3. B.  Any occupant in a hospital room, medical or mental health facility, convalescent home, skilled nursing facility, assisted living facility, foster home, rehabilitation center or a government owned and operated public institution;
  4. C.  Any person housed through an emergency shelter or disaster program where the rent is paid with government assistance funds; or
  5. D.  Any Federal Government employee traveling on official government business, who presents an official Government Exemption Certificate or official travel authorization.  An exemption may also be granted for direct bills to a Federal Government department, agency or instrumentality.  An exemption may not be granted for rents paid by contractors of the Federal Government, even if the occupancy was for a Federal Government employee on official business, and notwithstanding the fact that such rents may be reimbursed by the Federal Government or paid under the contract with the Federal Government.
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