Oregon Statutes 243.005 – Definitions for ORS 243.005 to 243.045
As used in ORS § 243.005 to 243.045:
Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 243.005
- City: includes any incorporated village or town. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
- Probation officers: Screen applicants for pretrial release and monitor convicted offenders released under court supervision.
(1) ‘Firefighter’ means persons employed by a city, county or district whose duties involve fire fighting and includes a volunteer firefighter whose position normally requires less than 600 hours of service per year.
(2)(a) ‘Police officer’ includes:
(A) Police chiefs and police officers of a city who are classified as police officers by the council or other governing body of the city;
(B) Police officers commissioned by a university under ORS § 352.121 who are classified as police officers by the university;
(C) Sheriffs and those deputy sheriffs whose duties, as classified by the county governing body are the regular duties of police officers;
(D) Employees of districts, whose duties, as classified by the governing body of the district are the regular duties of police officers;
(E) Employees of the Department of State Police who are classified as police officers by the Superintendent of State Police;
(F) Employees of the Criminal Justice Division of the Department of Justice who are classified by the Attorney General as criminal investigators or criminal financial investigators;
(G) Employees of the Oregon State Lottery Commission who are classified by the Director of the Oregon State Lottery as enforcement agents;
(H) Employees of Department of Corrections institutions as defined in ORS § 421.005 whose duties, as assigned by the superintendent, include the custody of persons committed to the custody of or transferred to the Department of Corrections institution; and
(I) Parole and probation officers employed by the Department of Corrections.
(b) ‘Police officer’ does not include:
(A) Volunteer or reserve police officers; or
(B) Persons considered by the respective governing bodies to be civil deputies or clerical personnel.
(3) ‘Public employer’ means a city, a county or the state, or one of its agencies or political subdivisions that employs police officers or firefighters. [1971 c.692 § 6; 1985 c.302 § 11; 1987 c.320 § 149; 1991 c.67 § 61; 2001 c.33 § 1; 2011 c.506 § 35; 2019 c.5 § 1]
[Amended by 1955 c.203 § 1; 1959 c.162 § 1; 1969 c.597 § 141; repealed by 1971 c.692 § 14]