As used in ORS § 169.166 and this section:

(1) ‘Local correctional facility’ includes lockups and temporary hold facilities.

(2) ‘Reasonable efforts to collect the charges and expenses’ means that the provider has billed the individual to whom the emergency medical services were provided or the insurer or health care service contractor of the individual before seeking to collect from the keeper of the local correctional facility. [1979 c.530 § 4; 1993 c.196 § 6]

[Repealed by 1971 c.743 § 432]

[1979 c.530 § 2; 1981 c.690 § 1; repealed by 1993 c.196 § 12]