Terms Used In Oregon Statutes > Chapter 81 - Tender and Receipts; Choice of Forum in Contracts

• Alternate base year: means the last four completed calendar quarters preceding the benefit year. See Oregon Statutes 657B.010
• Average weekly wage: means the amount calculated by the Employment Department as the state average weekly covered wage under ORS § 657. See Oregon Statutes 657B.010
• Base year: means the first four of the last five completed calendar quarters preceding the benefit year. See Oregon Statutes 657B.010
• Benefits: means family and medical leave insurance benefits. See Oregon Statutes 657B.010
• 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
• Claimant: means an individual who has submitted an application or established a claim for benefits. See Oregon Statutes 657B.010
• contributions: means the money payments made by any of the following under ORS § 657B. See Oregon Statutes 657B.010
• Covered individual: means any one of the following who qualifies under ORS § 657B. See Oregon Statutes 657B.010
• Employer: means any person that employs one or more employees working anywhere in this state or any agent or employee of such person to whom the duties of the person under this chapter have been delegated. See Oregon Statutes 657B.010
• Employment agency: has the meaning given that term in ORS § 658. See Oregon Statutes 657B.010
• Family and medical leave insurance benefits: means the wage replacement benefits that are available to a covered individual under ORS § 657B. See Oregon Statutes 657B.010
• Family leave: means leave from work taken by a covered individual:

  (A) To care for and bond with a child during the first year after the child's birth or during the first year after the placement of the child through foster care or adoption; or

  (B) To care for a family member with a serious health condition. See Oregon Statutes 657B.010

• Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
• Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
• Medical leave: means leave from work taken by a covered individual that is made necessary by the individual's own serious health condition. See Oregon Statutes 657B.010
• Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
• 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
• Oral argument: An opportunity for lawyers to summarize their position before the court and also to answer the judges' questions.
• 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
• Person: means an individual, organization, corporation, government, governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, partnership or association, two or more persons having a joint or common interest or any other legal or commercial entity. See Oregon Statutes 205.010
• Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Safe leave: means leave taken for any purpose described in ORS § 659A. See Oregon Statutes 657B.010
• Serious health condition: has the meaning given that term in ORS § 659A. See Oregon Statutes 657B.010
• State waters: means those waters entirely within the confines of this state that have not been declared navigable waters of the United States. See Oregon Statutes 830.005
• Text: includes the words contained in the body of an instrument to be recorded and the names of the transactions contained in the instrument. See Oregon Statutes 205.010
• Third party administrator: means a third party that enters into an agreement with the Director of the Employment Department to implement and administer the paid family and medical leave program established under this chapter. See Oregon Statutes 657B.010
• Transaction: means an action, including but not limited to a transfer, encumbrance or release affecting title to or an interest in real property, that is required or permitted by state law or rule or federal law or regulation to be recorded. See Oregon Statutes 205.010
• Tribal government: has the meaning given that term in ORS § 181A. See Oregon Statutes 657B.010
• Wages: has the meaning given that term in ORS § 657. See Oregon Statutes 657B.010
• 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