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- 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.
- Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
- Board: means the State Mortuary and Cemetery Board. See Oregon Statutes 692.010
- Cemetery: means any one, or a combination of more than one, of the following, in a place used, or intended to be used, and dedicated, for cemetery purposes:
(a) A burial park, for earth interments;
(b) A mausoleum, for crypt interments;
(c) A columbarium, for permanent interments of cremated or reduced remains;
(d) A scattering garden or other designated area above or below ground where a person may pay to establish a memorial of cremated or reduced remains; or
(e) A cenotaph, the primary purpose of which is to provide an area where a person may pay to establish a memorial to honor a person whose remains may be interred elsewhere or whose remains cannot be recovered. See Oregon Statutes 692.010
- City: includes any incorporated village or town. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
- Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- Exempt operating cemetery: means an operating cemetery that has 10 or fewer interments annually. See Oregon Statutes 692.010
- Final disposition: means the burial, interment, cremation, dissolution, reduction or other disposition of human remains authorized by the board by rule. See Oregon Statutes 692.010
- Immediate disposition company: means any business licensed under this chapter, other than a licensed funeral establishment, where a licensed funeral service practitioner operates the business of immediate final disposition and where business records are kept. See Oregon Statutes 692.010
- Operating cemetery: means a cemetery that:
(a) Performs interments;
(b) Has fiduciary responsibility for endowment care, general care or special care funds; or
(c) Has outstanding preneed service contracts for unperformed services. See Oregon Statutes 692.010
- Person: includes individuals, corporations, associations, firms, partnerships, limited liability companies and joint stock companies. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
- Rental cover: means a partial enclosure that appears similar to a casket that is utilized for viewing purposes and surrounds the burial, cremation or alternative container. See Oregon Statutes 692.010