Terms Used In Oregon Statutes > Chapter 328 > General Provisions > Parental and Community Participation

• Action: includes recoupment, counterclaim, setoff, suit in equity and any other proceeding in which rights are determined, including an action for possession. See Oregon Statutes 90.100
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Dwelling unit: means a structure or the part of a structure that is used as a home, residence or sleeping place by one person who maintains a household or by two or more persons who maintain a common household. See Oregon Statutes 90.100
• Entrance fee: means an initial or deferred transfer to a provider of a sum of money or other property made or promised to be made as full or partial consideration for acceptance of one or more residents in a continuing care retirement community. See Oregon Statutes 101.020
• Landlord: includes a person who is authorized by the owner, lessor or sublessor to manage the premises or to enter into a rental agreement. See Oregon Statutes 90.100
• Parents: means parents or guardians of students who are covered by this chapter. See Oregon Statutes 329.007
• Provider: means an owner or operator, whether a natural person, partnership, trust, limited liability company, corporation or unincorporated association, however organized, of a new or existing continuing care retirement community, whether operated for profit or not, that provides, plans to provide or agrees to provide continuing care to one or more unrelated residents under a residency agreement. See Oregon Statutes 101.020
• Rent: means any payment to be made to the landlord under the rental agreement, periodic or otherwise, in exchange for the right of a tenant and any permitted pet to occupy a dwelling unit to the exclusion of others and to use the premises. See Oregon Statutes 90.100
• Residency agreement: means a contract between a provider and a resident for the provision of continuing care for a period greater than one year. See Oregon Statutes 101.020
• Resident: means a person who enters into a residency agreement with a provider or who is designated in a residency agreement to be a person being provided with continuing care. See Oregon Statutes 101.020
• Surrender: means an agreement, express or implied, as described in ORS § 90. See Oregon Statutes 90.100