Terms Used In Oregon Statutes > Chapter 683 - Optometrists; Opticians

• Adjournment sine die: The end of a legislative session "without day." These adjournments are used to indicate the final adjournment of an annual or the two-year session of legislature.
• Administrator: means the Administrator of the Personnel Division. See Oregon Statutes 240.015
• Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Applicant: means any person or group that develops and submits a written proposal for a public charter school to a sponsor. See Oregon Statutes 338.005
• Appointing authority: means an officer or agency having power to make appointments to positions in the state service. See Oregon Statutes 240.015
• Articles: means articles of incorporation, articles of conversion or articles of merger. See Oregon Statutes 62.015
• Board: means board of directors. See Oregon Statutes 62.015
• Board: means the Employment Relations Board. See Oregon Statutes 240.015
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Cooperative: means a cooperative corporation that is subject to the provisions of this chapter. See Oregon Statutes 62.015
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• 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.
• Executive session: A portion of the Senate's daily session in which it considers executive business.
• Facility: means a manufactured dwelling park or a marina. See Oregon Statutes 90.100
• Fixed term tenancy: means a tenancy that has a fixed term of existence, continuing to a specific ending date and terminating on that date without requiring further notice to effect the termination. See Oregon Statutes 90.100
• Floating home: has the meaning given that term in ORS § 830. See Oregon Statutes 90.100
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Good faith: means honesty in fact in the conduct of the transaction concerned. See Oregon Statutes 90.100
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Informal dispute resolution: includes voluntary consultation between the landlord or landlord's agent and one or more tenants or voluntary mediation utilizing the services of a third party, but does not include mandatory mediation or arbitration. See Oregon Statutes 90.100
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• 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}
• Interrogatories: Written questions asked by one party of an opposing party, who must answer them in writing under oath; a discovery device in a lawsuit.
• Landlord: includes a person who is authorized by the owner, lessor or sublessor to manage the premises or to enter into a rental agreement. See Oregon Statutes 90.100
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Manufactured dwelling: includes an accessory building or structure. See Oregon Statutes 90.100
• Membership stock: means any class of stock, continuous ownership of which is required for membership in a cooperative. See Oregon Statutes 62.015
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Person: means an individual, corporation, association, firm, partnership, joint stock company, cooperative or foreign cooperative. See Oregon Statutes 62.015
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Public charter school: means an elementary or secondary school offering a comprehensive instructional program operating under a written agreement entered into between a sponsor and an applicant and operating pursuant to this chapter. See Oregon Statutes 338.005
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
• Remote and necessary school district: means a school district that offers kindergarten through grade 12 and has:

  (a) An average daily membership (ADM), as defined in ORS § 327. See Oregon Statutes 338.005

• Rental agreement: includes a lease. See Oregon Statutes 90.100
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• state government: means the executive department, the judicial department and the legislative department. See Oregon Statutes 174.111
• State service: means all offices and positions in the employ of the state other than those of commissioned, warrant and enlisted personnel in the military and naval services thereof. See Oregon Statutes 240.015
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Uphold: The decision of an appellate court not to reverse a lower court decision.
• Virtual public charter school: means a public charter school that provides online courses. See Oregon Statutes 338.005