Terms Used In Oregon Statutes > Chapter 409 - Department of Human Services

• Agency: means any state board, commission, department, or division thereof, or officer authorized by law to make rules or to issue orders, except those in the legislative and judicial branches. See Oregon Statutes 183.310
• Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Board: means the State Marine Board. See Oregon Statutes 830.005
• Boat: means every description of watercraft, including a seaplane on the water and not in flight, used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on the water, but does not include boathouses, floating homes, air mattresses, beach and water toys or single inner tubes. See Oregon Statutes 830.005
• Boating offense: means violation of any provision of law that is made a crime or violation under the provisions of this chapter. See Oregon Statutes 830.005
• Certificate: means an authority issued to a for-hire carrier under ORS § 825. See Oregon Statutes 825.005
• Combined weight: means the weight of the motor vehicle plus the weight of the maximum load which the applicant has declared such vehicle will carry. See Oregon Statutes 825.005
• Committee membership: Legislators are assigned to specific committees by their party. Seniority, regional balance, and political philosophy are the most prominent factors in the committee assignment process.
• Contested case: means a proceeding before an agency:

  (A) In which the individual legal rights, duties or privileges of specific parties are required by statute or Constitution to be determined only after an agency hearing at which such specific parties are entitled to appear and be heard;

  (B) Where the agency has discretion to suspend or revoke a right or privilege of a person;

  (C) For the suspension, revocation or refusal to renew or issue a license where the licensee or applicant for a license demands such hearing; or

  (D) Where the agency by rule or order provides for hearings substantially of the character required by ORS § 183. See Oregon Statutes 183.310

• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Department: means the Department of Transportation. See Oregon Statutes 825.005
• Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• extreme mileage: means the total miles operated by a vehicle over the public highways, except the extra miles necessarily operated in traversing detours or temporary routes on account of road blockades in the state. See Oregon Statutes 825.005
• Federal Reserve System: The central bank of the United States. The Fed, as it is commonly called, regulates the U.S. monetary and financial system. The Federal Reserve System is composed of a central governmental agency in Washington, D.C. (the Board of Governors) and twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks in major cities throughout the United States. ^{Source: OCC}
• Final order: means final agency action expressed in writing. See Oregon Statutes 183.310
• Hearing officer: includes an administrative law judge. See Oregon Statutes 183.310
• Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. ^{Source: OCC}
• Length: means the length of a boat measured from end to end over the deck excluding sheer. See Oregon Statutes 830.005
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• motor carrier: means for-hire carrier or private carrier. See Oregon Statutes 825.005
• Motor vehicle: includes overdimension vehicles or vehicles permitted excessive weights pursuant to a special authorization issued by a city, county or the Department of Transportation. See Oregon Statutes 825.005
• Motorboat: means any boat propelled in whole or in part by machinery, including boats temporarily equipped with detachable motors. See Oregon Statutes 830.005
• Operate: means to navigate or otherwise use a boat. See Oregon Statutes 830.005
• Operator of a boat livery: means any person who is engaged wholly or in part in the business of chartering or renting boats to other persons. See Oregon Statutes 830.005
• Order: includes any agency determination or decision issued in connection with a contested case proceeding. See Oregon Statutes 183.310
• Peace officer: includes a member of the Oregon State Police, a sheriff or deputy sheriff, a city police officer, an authorized tribal police officer as defined in ORS § 181A. See Oregon Statutes 830.005
• Permit: means an authority issued to a carrier under ORS § 825. See Oregon Statutes 825.005
• Person: means any individual, partnership, corporation, association, governmental subdivision or public or private organization of any character other than an agency. See Oregon Statutes 183.310
• Private carrier: means any person who operates a motor vehicle over the public highways of this state for the purpose of transporting persons or property when the transportation is incidental to a primary business enterprise, other than transportation, in which such person is engaged. See Oregon Statutes 825.005
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
• Rule: means any agency directive, standard, regulation or statement of general applicability that implements, interprets or prescribes law or policy, or describes the procedure or practice requirements of any agency. See Oregon Statutes 183.310
• Sexual orientation: means an individual's actual or perceived heterosexuality, homosexuality or bisexuality. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
• 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}
• Waters of this state: means all waters within the territorial limits of this state, the marginal sea adjacent to this state and the high seas when navigated as part of a journey or ride to or from the shore of this state. See Oregon Statutes 830.005