Oregon Statutes 682.035 – Application of ORS chapter 682
ORS 820.330 to 820.380 and this chapter do not apply to:
Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 682.035
- Highway: means every public way, thoroughfare and place, including bridges, viaducts and other structures within the boundaries of this state, used or intended for the use of the general public for vehicles. See Oregon Statutes 682.025
- Patient: means a person who is ill or injured or who has a disability and who receives emergency or nonemergency care from an emergency medical services provider. See Oregon Statutes 682.025
- Person: includes individuals, corporations, associations, firms, partnerships, limited liability companies and joint stock companies. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
- United States: includes territories, outlying possessions and the District of Columbia. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
(1) Ambulances owned by or operated, and emergency medical service providers who operate, under the control of the United States Government.
(2) Vehicles being used to render temporary assistance in the case of a major catastrophe or emergency with which the ambulance services of the surrounding locality are unable to cope, or when directed to be used to render temporary assistance by an official at the scene of an accident.
(3) Vehicles operated solely on private property or within the confines of institutional grounds, whether or not the incidental crossing of any highway through the property or grounds is involved.
(4) Vehicles operated by lumber industries solely for the transportation of lumber industry employees.
(5) Any person who drives or attends a patient, if the patient is transported in a vehicle described in subsections (2) to (4) of this section.
(6) Any person who otherwise by license is authorized to attend patients. [Formerly 823.030; 2007 c.70 § 310; 2019 c.456 § 52]
[1997 c.208 § 1; renumbered 682.056 in 2003]