Oregon Statutes 759.650 – Definitions for ORS 759.650 to 759.675
As used in ORS § 759.650 to 759.675, unless the context requires otherwise:
Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 759.650
- 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.
- 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
- Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
- Person: includes individuals, corporations, associations, firms, partnerships, limited liability companies and joint stock companies. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
- Telecommunications: means the transmission of information chosen by a person, between or among points specified by the person, without change in the form or content of the information sent or received. See Oregon Statutes 759.005
(1) ‘Attachment’ means any wire or cable for the transmission of intelligence by telegraph, telephone or television (including cable television), light waves or other phenomena, or for the transmission of electricity for light, heat or power, and any related device, apparatus or auxiliary equipment, installed upon any pole or in any telegraph, telephone, electrical, cable television or communications right of way, duct, conduit, manhole or handhole or other similar facility or facilities owned or controlled, in whole or in part, by one or more public utility, telecommunications utility or people’s utility district.
(2) ‘Licensee’ means any person, firm, corporation, partnership, company, association, joint stock association or cooperatively organized association which is authorized to construct attachments upon, along, under or across the public ways.
(3) ‘People’s utility district’ means any concern providing electricity organized pursuant to ORS § 261.010 and includes any entity cooperatively organized or owned by federal, state or local government or a subdivision of state or local government.
(4) ‘Public utility’ has the meaning for that term provided in ORS § 757.005, and does not include any entity cooperatively organized or owned by federal, state or local government or a subdivision of state or local government.
(5) ‘Telecommunications utility’ means any telecommunications utility as defined in ORS § 759.005 and does not include any entity cooperatively organized or owned by federal, state or local government, or a subdivision of state or local government. [1987 c.447 § 22; 1989 c.5 § 18]