Terms Used In Oregon Statutes > Chapter 107 > Family Abuse Prevention Act

• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Any other state: includes any state and the District of Columbia. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Bees: means honey-producing insects of the genus Apis and includes the adults, eggs, larvae, pupae or other immature stages thereof, together with such materials as are deposited into hives by their adults, except honey and beeswax in rendered form. See Oregon Statutes 602.010
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• 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.
• Custom processing establishment: means a stationary establishment wherein slaughtered meat animals or meat, caused to be delivered by the owners thereof, are prepared for compensation, payment or remuneration of any kind, and are thereafter returned to the owner thereof or to the order of the owner. See Oregon Statutes 603.010
• Custom slaughtering establishment: means a mobile or stationary establishment wherein meat animals, caused to be delivered by the owners thereof, are slaughtered for compensation, payment or remuneration of any kind, and are thereafter returned to the owner thereof or to the order of the owner. See Oregon Statutes 603.010
• Department: means the State Department of Agriculture. See Oregon Statutes 602.010
• Department: means the State Department of Agriculture. See Oregon Statutes 603.010
• Disease: means pests, disease or any condition affecting bees or their brood. See Oregon Statutes 602.010
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Equipment: means all machinery, fixtures, containers, vessels, tools, implements and apparatus used in and about an establishment. See Oregon Statutes 603.010
• 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.
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Gender identity: means an individual's gender-related identity, appearance, expression or behavior, regardless of whether the identity, appearance, expression or behavior differs from that associated with the gender assigned to the individual at birth. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Meat animal: means any vertebrate animal, except fish and aquatic mammals, not otherwise prohibited by law for sale for human consumption. See Oregon Statutes 603.010
• Meat seller establishment: means an establishment wherein meat products are sold, offered or held for sale, but which are not prepared other than to be ground, seasoned, salted, frozen, boned, cut up, wrapped or packed. See Oregon Statutes 603.010
• Nonslaughtering processing establishment: means any building, structure or vehicle wherein the activities of a slaughterhouse, custom slaughtering establishment or custom processing establishment or of an animal food slaughtering establishment or animal food processing establishment under ORS Chapter 619 are not performed, but wherein meat products are prepared. See Oregon Statutes 603.010
• Nucleus colony: means a colony that is used primarily to produce new queens or workers for the purpose of starting a new colony or adding to an existing colony. See Oregon Statutes 602.010
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Person: includes individuals, corporations, associations, firms, partnerships, limited liability companies and joint stock companies. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
• Person: includes any individual, partnership, association or corporation, but does not include any common carrier when engaged in the business of transporting bees, hives, appliances, bee cages or other commodities which are the subject of this chapter, in the regular course of business. See Oregon Statutes 602.010
• Poultry: means chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys and all other domesticated fowls or birds. See Oregon Statutes 603.010
• Prepared: means ground, seasoned, canned, cooked, salted, frozen, smoked, cured, pickled, packed, boned, dried, cut up, wrapped or otherwise manufactured or processed. See Oregon Statutes 603.010
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Slaughterhouse: means an establishment wherein meat animals are slaughtered. See Oregon Statutes 603.010
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• United States: includes territories, outlying possessions and the District of Columbia. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
• Unwholesome: means all meats or meat products that are diseased, contaminated, including drug or chemical residue, putrid, unsound, unhealthful or unfit for food. See Oregon Statutes 603.010