Terms Used In Oregon Statutes > Chapter 278 > General Provisions

• agency: means each state branch, institution, department, board, commission or activity of whatever nature. See Oregon Statutes 278.005
• Data: means information previously converted to language or symbols in a form which can be directly read by the information processing equipment. See Oregon Statutes 278.005
• Department: means the Oregon Department of Administrative Services. See Oregon Statutes 278.005
• Engineering specifications: means those records which provide detailed documentation of the construction, wiring, arrangement and related engineering details of the information processing equipment. See Oregon Statutes 278.005
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Media: means all active information processing material including all forms of data, program material and related engineering specifications employed in the agency's information processing operation except property which the agency elects not to cover. See Oregon Statutes 278.005
• Personal property: means tangible personal property owned, leased, controlled or possessed by a state agency and includes all chattels and movables, such as merchandise, furniture, goods, livestock, vehicles, aircraft, movable machinery, movable tools, movable equipment, general operating supplies and media. See Oregon Statutes 278.005
• Program material: means stored data used to direct the information processing equipment as to which input or memory to use, how to use it, and the type of results to obtain, including any diagrams or other records which can be used to reproduce such instructions. See Oregon Statutes 278.005
• Property: means real and personal property as defined in this section, and any other property under the control of the state in which the state has an insurable interest as determined by the department. See Oregon Statutes 278.005
• public body: means state government bodies, local government bodies and special government bodies. See Oregon Statutes 174.109