Oak Lodge Sanitary District v. General Insurance

This is an action, brought pursuant to ORS 279.536, upon a public-works bond. The action is brought by the plaintiff on the behalf of an unpaid supplier of labor and materials used in the construction of a sewage-treatment plant. Plolding that the claim was not filed within the six months required by ORS 279.526, the trial court denied recovery. The plaintiff appeals.

Any supplier of labor or materials who has a claim upon a public-works bond must file his notice of claim within six months following “the acceptance of the work by the affirmative action of the public body which let the…