(1) Except as provided in subsection (5) of this section, for purposes of imposing civil penalties, residential facilities approved under ORS § 443.400 to 443.455 are subject to ORS § 441.705 to 441.745.

(2)(a) The Director of Human Services shall impose penalties on residential care facilities pursuant to ORS § 441.731.

(b) The director shall impose penalties pursuant to ORS § 427.900 on residential training facilities and residential training homes that are not in compliance with ORS § 443.400 to 443.455.

(3) The Director of the Oregon Health Authority shall by rule prescribe a schedule of penalties for residential treatment facilities and residential treatment homes that are not in compliance with ORS § 443.400 to 443.455.

(4) If the Department of Human Services or the Oregon Health Authority investigates and makes a finding of abuse arising from deliberate or other than accidental action or inaction that is likely to cause a negative outcome by a person with a duty of care toward a resident of a residential facility, other than a residential care facility, and if the abuse resulted in the death, serious injury, rape or sexual abuse of a resident, the department or authority shall impose a civil penalty of not less than $2,500 for each occurrence of substantiated abuse, not to exceed $15,000 in any 90-day period. As used in this subsection:

(a) ‘Negative outcome’ includes serious injury, rape, sexual abuse or death.

(b) ‘Rape’ means rape in the first degree as defined in ORS § 163.375, rape in the second degree as defined in ORS § 163.365 and rape in the third degree as defined in ORS § 163.355.

(c) ‘Serious injury’ means physical injury that creates a substantial risk of death or that causes serious and protracted disfigurement, protracted impairment of health or protracted loss or impairment of the function of any bodily organ.

(d) ‘Sexual abuse’ means any form of sexual contact between an employee of a residential facility or a person providing services in the residential facility and a resident of that facility, including but not limited to sodomy, sexual coercion, sexually explicit photographing and sexual harassment.

(5) Civil penalties recovered from a residential treatment facility or residential treatment home shall be deposited in the Long Term Care Ombudsman Account established in ORS § 441.419. [1977 c.717 § 13; 1991 c.801 § 4; 2001 c.900 § 186; 2005 c.22 § 311; 2009 c.595 § 789; 2009 c.828 § 89; 2013 c.717 § 15; 2014 c.104 § 11; 2017 c.679 § 6; 2019 c.13 § 48; 2023 c.206 § 6]