Terms Used In Oregon Statutes > Chapter 56 > Office of Small Business Assistance

• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Average monthly employment: means the total number of persons employed in each month for 12 consecutive months, as reported by employers subject to the tax under this chapter, divided by 12. See Oregon Statutes 657.458
• Benefit year: means a period of 52 consecutive weeks commencing with the first week with respect to which an individual files an initial valid claim for benefits, and thereafter the 52 consecutive weeks period beginning with the first week with respect to which the individual next files an initial valid claim after the termination of the individual's last preceding benefit year except that the benefit year shall be 53 weeks if the filing of an initial valid claim would result in overlapping any quarter of the base year of a previously filed initial valid claim. See Oregon Statutes 657.010
• Benefits: means the money allowances payable to unemployed persons under this chapter. See Oregon Statutes 657.010
• Calendar quarter: means the period of three consecutive calendar months ending on March 31, June 30, September 30 or December 31, or the approximate equivalent thereof, as the Director of the Employment Department may, by rule, prescribe. See Oregon Statutes 657.010
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• employee: means any person, including aliens and minors, employed for remuneration or under any contract of hire, written or oral, express or implied, by an employer subject to this chapter in an employment subject to this chapter. See Oregon Statutes 657.015
• employer: means any employing unit which employs one or more individuals in an employment subject to this chapter in each of 18 separate weeks during any calendar year, or in which the employing unit's total payroll during any calendar quarter amounts to $1,000 or more. See Oregon Statutes 657.025
• employment: includes service that is:

  (a) Subject to the tax imposed by the Federal Unemployment Tax Act; or

  (b) Required to be covered under this chapter as a condition for employers to receive a full tax credit against the tax imposed by the Federal Unemployment Tax Act. See Oregon Statutes 657.030

• Employment office: means a free public employment office or branch thereof, operated by this state or maintained as a part of a state-controlled system of public employment offices. See Oregon Statutes 657.010
• executive department: means all statewide elected officers other than judges, and all boards, commissions, departments, divisions and other entities, without regard to the designation given to those entities, that are within the executive branch of government as described in Article III, section 1, of the Oregon Constitution, and that are not:

  (a) In the judicial department or the legislative department;

  (b) Local governments; or

  (c) Special government bodies. See Oregon Statutes 174.112

• for-hire carrier: has the meaning given that term in ORS § 825. See Oregon Statutes 657.047
• 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.
• Hospital: has the meaning given that term in ORS § 442. See Oregon Statutes 657.010
• Institution of higher education: means an educational institution that:

  (a) Admits as regular students only individuals having a certificate of graduation from a high school, or the recognized equivalent of such a certificate;

  (b) Is legally authorized in this state to provide a program of education beyond high school;

  (c) Provides an educational program for which it awards a bachelor's or higher degree, or provides a program that is acceptable for full credit toward such a degree, a program of post-graduate or post-doctoral studies, or a program of training to prepare students for gainful employment in a recognized occupation; and

  (d) Is a public or other nonprofit institution. See Oregon Statutes 657.010

• Internal Revenue Code: means the federal Internal Revenue Code, as amended and in effect on December 31, 2022. See Oregon Statutes 657.010
• Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
• Juror: A person who is on the jury.
• Leasehold: has the meaning given that term in ORS § 656. See Oregon Statutes 657.046
• local government: means all cities, counties and local service districts located in this state, and all administrative subdivisions of those cities, counties and local service districts. See Oregon Statutes 174.116
• members of the same family: means persons who are members of a family as parents, stepparents, grandparents, spouses, sons-in-law, daughters-in-law, brothers, sisters, children, stepchildren, adopted children or grandchildren. See Oregon Statutes 657.044
• Mortgage loan: A loan made by a lender to a borrower for the financing of real property. ^{Source: OCC}
• Nonprofit employing unit: means an organization, or group of organizations, described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code that is exempt from income tax under section 501(a) of the Internal Revenue Code. See Oregon Statutes 657.010
• Officiating services: means overseeing the play of a sporting event or contest, judging whether the rules are being followed and penalizing participants for infringing the rules. See Oregon Statutes 657.088
• Passenger motor vehicle that is operated as a taxicab: means a vehicle that:

  (A) Has a passenger seating capacity of at least three persons and not more than seven persons;

  (B) On a route that begins or ends in Oregon, is used primarily to transport persons;

  (C)(i) Carries passengers for hire when the destination and route traveled may be controlled by a passenger and the fare is calculated on the basis of any combination of an initial fee, distance traveled or waiting time; or

  (ii) Is in use under a contract to provide specific service to a third party to transport designated passengers to locations selected by the third party; and

  (D) Is not used more than secondarily or incidentally for errand services or to transport property, instead of or in addition to transporting passengers. See Oregon Statutes 657.046

• Passenger motor vehicle that is operated for nonemergency medical transportation: means a vehicle that:

  (A) Has a passenger seating capacity of at least three persons and not more than seven persons;

  (B) On a route that begins or ends in Oregon, is used primarily to transport persons;

  (C) Provides medical transportation services under contract with or on behalf of a mass transit or transportation district; and

  (D) Is not used more than secondarily or incidentally for errand services or to transport property, instead of or in addition to transporting passengers. See Oregon Statutes 657.046

• payroll: means all wages paid to employees in any employment subject to this chapter. See Oregon Statutes 657.095
• political subdivision: means any county, city, district organized for public purposes, or any other political subdivision or public corporation, including any entity organized pursuant to ORS § 190. See Oregon Statutes 657.097
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• 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}
• Sporting event or contest: means any sporting competition in which the participants are not professional athletes or contestants or are not remunerated for their participation. See Oregon Statutes 657.088
• state government: means the executive department, the judicial department and the legislative department. See Oregon Statutes 174.111
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Taxes: means the money payments to the Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund required, or voluntary payments permitted, by this chapter. See Oregon Statutes 657.010
• Valid claim: means any claim for benefits made in accordance with ORS § 657. See Oregon Statutes 657.010
• Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.
• wages: means all remuneration for employment, including the cash value, as determined by the Director of the Employment Department under the regulations of the director, of all remuneration paid in any medium other than cash. See Oregon Statutes 657.105
• Week: means any period of seven consecutive calendar days ending at midnight, as the director may prescribe by rule. See Oregon Statutes 657.010