Terms Used In Oregon Statutes > Chapter 163A - Sex Offender Reporting and Classification

• Accession: means goods that are physically united with other goods in such a manner that the identity of the original goods is not lost. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• Account debtor: means a person obligated on an account, chattel paper or general intangible. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• Applicant: means an applicant for a loan to construct a small scale local energy project. See Oregon Statutes 470.050
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• Bank: means an organization that is engaged in the business of banking. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• Base efficiency package: means the package of energy efficiency upgrades or renewable energy projects for a property that, when energy savings, project repayment costs, tax or other incentives, loan offset grants and other relevant economic factors are considered, is estimated to not increase the utility bill of the customer over the loan repayment term. See Oregon Statutes 470.050
• Buyer: means a person who buys or contracts to buy goods. See Oregon Statutes 72.1030
• Chattel paper: means a record or records that evidence both a monetary obligation and a security interest in specific goods, a security interest in specific goods and software used in the goods, a security interest in specific goods and license of software used in the goods, a lease of specific goods, or a lease of specific goods and license of software used in the goods. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• Collateral: means the property subject to a security interest or agricultural lien. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• Commercial establishment: means a place of business:

  (a) Where food is cooked and served;

  (b) That has kitchen facilities adequate for the preparation and serving of meals;

  (c) That has dining facilities adequate for the serving and consumption of meals; and

  (d) That:

  (A) If not a for-profit private club, serves meals to the general public; or

  (B) If a for-profit private club, serves meals to the club's members and guests and complies with any minimum membership and food service requirements established by Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission rules. See Oregon Statutes 471.001

• Commission: means the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission. See Oregon Statutes 471.001
• Commodity account: means an account maintained by a commodity intermediary in which a commodity contract is carried for a commodity customer. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• Consignor: means a person that delivers goods to a consignee in a consignment. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• Consumer goods: means goods that are used or bought for use primarily for personal, family or household purposes. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Contract for sale: includes both a present sale of goods and a contract to sell goods at a future time. See Oregon Statutes 72.1060
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Defense attorney: Represent defendants in criminal matters.
• Director: means the Director of the State Department of Energy appointed under ORS § 469. See Oregon Statutes 470.050
• Distilled liquor: includes distilled spirits. See Oregon Statutes 471.001
• Energy efficiency and sustainable technology loan: means a loan for a small scale local energy project that is repayable by means of:

  (a) A charge included with the participant's utility customer account billing; or

  (b) An alternative repayment method identified by the department and the borrower and specified in the loan agreement. See Oregon Statutes 470.050

• Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
• Goods: means all things that are movable when a security interest attaches. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Instrument: means a negotiable instrument or any other writing that evidences a right to the payment of a monetary obligation, is not itself a security agreement or lease, and is of a type that in ordinary course of business is transferred by delivery with any necessary indorsement or assignment. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• Investment property: means a security, whether certificated or uncertificated, security entitlement, securities account, commodity contract or commodity account. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• licensed premises: includes areas outside of a building that the commission has specifically designated as approved for alcoholic beverage service or consumption. See Oregon Statutes 471.001
• Licensee: means any person holding a license issued under this chapter. See Oregon Statutes 471.001
• Loan: includes the purchase or other acquisition of evidence of indebtedness and money used for the purchase or other acquisition of evidence of indebtedness. See Oregon Statutes 470.050
• Loan offset grant: means moneys from the Jobs, Energy and Schools Fund that are used to help offset the initial project costs or loan payments for energy efficiency, renewable energy and energy conservation projects. See Oregon Statutes 470.050
• Loan repayment charge: means an amount charged to a utility customer account through on-bill financing as a mechanism for the repayment of an energy efficiency and sustainable technology loan. See Oregon Statutes 470.050
• Malt beverage: means beer, ale, porter, stout and other similar fermented beverages that contain more than one-half of one percent and not more than 16 percent of alcohol by volume and that are brewed or produced from malt, wholly or in part, or from rice, grain, bran, glucose, sugar or molasses as a substitute for malt. See Oregon Statutes 471.001
• Manufacturer: means every person who produces, brews, ferments, manufactures or blends an alcoholic beverage within this state or who imports or causes to be imported into this state an alcoholic beverage for sale or distribution within the state. See Oregon Statutes 471.001
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• New debtor: means a person that becomes bound as debtor under ORS § 79. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• Obligor: means a person that, with respect to an obligation secured by a security interest in or an agricultural lien on the collateral:

  (i) Owes payment or other performance of the obligation;

  (ii) Has provided property other than the collateral to secure payment or other performance of the obligation; or

  (iii) Is otherwise accountable in whole or in part for payment or other performance of the obligation. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102

• On-bill financing: means a mechanism for collecting the repayment of an energy efficiency and sustainable technology loan through a utility customer account billing system. See Oregon Statutes 470.050
• Optional package: means measures for promoting energy efficiency or the use of renewable energy:

  (a) That are in addition to the measures described in the customer's base efficiency package;

  (b) For which a customer has the ability to repay; and

  (c) That the sustainable energy project manager believes to be feasible for the site. See Oregon Statutes 470.050

• Permittee: means a person holding a permit issued under ORS § 471. See Oregon Statutes 471.001
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• public notice: means any legal publication which requires an affidavit of publication as required in ORS § 193. See Oregon Statutes 174.104
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Recourse: An arrangement in which a bank retains, in form or in substance, any credit risk directly or indirectly associated with an asset it has sold (in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) that exceeds a pro rata share of the bank's claim on the asset. If a bank has no claim on an asset it has sold, then the retention of any credit risk is recourse. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Rescission: The cancellation of budget authority previously provided by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifies that the President may propose to Congress that funds be rescinded. If both Houses have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation.
• Security agreement: means an agreement that creates or provides for a security interest. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• Seller: means a person who sells or contracts to sell goods. See Oregon Statutes 72.1030
• Small scale local energy program loan: means a loan for a small scale local energy project other than an energy efficiency and sustainable technology loan. See Oregon Statutes 470.050
• Small scale local energy project: means any of the following:

  (a) A system, mechanism or series of mechanisms located primarily in Oregon that directly or indirectly uses or enables the use of, by the applicant or another person, renewable resources including, but not limited to, solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, waste heat or water resources to produce energy, including heat, electricity and substitute fuels, to meet a local community or regional energy need in this state. See Oregon Statutes 470.050

• Supporting obligation: means a letter-of-credit right or secondary obligation that supports the payment or performance of an account, chattel paper, a document, a general intangible, an instrument or investment property. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• Sustainable energy project manager: means the organization responsible for promoting the energy efficiency and sustainable technology loan program or the clean energy deployment program and related incentives for energy efficiency and renewable energy at the neighborhood and community level. See Oregon Statutes 470.050
• Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
• Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}
• Wine: includes fortified wine. See Oregon Statutes 471.001