Terms Used In Oregon Statutes > Chapter 62 > Employee Cooperatives

• Administer: means the direct application of a drug or device whether by injection, inhalation, ingestion, or any other means, to the body of a patient or research subject by:

  (a) A practitioner or the practitioner's authorized agent; or

  (b) The patient or research subject at the direction of the practitioner. See Oregon Statutes 689.005

• Articles: means articles of incorporation, articles of conversion or articles of merger. See Oregon Statutes 62.015
• Board: means board of directors. See Oregon Statutes 62.015
• Bond: means a contractual undertaking or instrument of a public body to repay borrowed moneys. See Oregon Statutes 287A.001
• Capital construction: has the meaning given that term in ORS § 310. See Oregon Statutes 287A.001
• Capital costs: has the meaning given that term in ORS § 310. See Oregon Statutes 287A.001
• Capital improvements: has the meaning given that term in ORS § 310. See Oregon Statutes 287A.001
• Clinical pharmacy agreement: means an agreement between a pharmacist or pharmacy and a health care organization or a physician as defined in ORS § 677. See Oregon Statutes 689.005
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Cooperative: means a cooperative corporation that is subject to the provisions of this chapter. See Oregon Statutes 62.015
• Corporation: means a corporation that is not a cooperative. See Oregon Statutes 62.015
• Credit enhancement device: means a letter of credit, line of credit, standby bond purchase agreement, bond insurance policy, reserve surety bond or other device or facility used to enhance the creditworthiness, liquidity or marketability of bonds or agreements for exchange of interest rates. See Oregon Statutes 287A.001
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• delivery: means the actual, constructive or attempted transfer of a drug or device other than by administration from one person to another, whether or not for a consideration. See Oregon Statutes 689.005
• Device: means an instrument, apparatus, implement, machine, contrivance, implant, in vitro reagent or other similar or related article, including any component part or accessory, which is required under federal or state law to be prescribed by a practitioner and dispensed by a pharmacist. See Oregon Statutes 689.005
• dispensing: means the preparation and delivery of a prescription drug pursuant to a lawful order of a practitioner in a suitable container appropriately labeled for subsequent administration to or use by a patient or other individual entitled to receive the prescription drug. See Oregon Statutes 689.005
• Distribute: means the delivery of a drug other than by administering or dispensing. See Oregon Statutes 689.005
• Drug order: means a written order, in a hospital or other inpatient care facility, for an ultimate user of any drug or device issued and signed by a practitioner, or an order transmitted by other means of communication from a practitioner, that is immediately reduced to writing by a pharmacist, licensed nurse or other practitioner. See Oregon Statutes 689.005
• Drug outlet: means a pharmacy, nursing home, shelter home, convalescent home, extended care facility, drug abuse treatment center, penal institution, hospital, family planning clinic, student health center, retail store, wholesaler, manufacturer, mail-order vendor or other establishment with facilities located within or out of this state that is engaged in dispensing, delivery or distribution of drugs within this state. See Oregon Statutes 689.005
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• executive department: means all statewide elected officers other than judges, and all boards, commissions, departments, divisions and other entities, without regard to the designation given to those entities, that are within the executive branch of government as described in Article III, section 1, of the Oregon Constitution, and that are not:

  (a) In the judicial department or the legislative department;

  (b) Local governments; or

  (c) Special government bodies. See Oregon Statutes 174.112

• Executive session: A portion of the Senate's daily session in which it considers executive business.
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Institutional drug outlet: means hospitals and inpatient care facilities where medications are dispensed to another health care professional for administration to patients served by the hospitals or facilities. See Oregon Statutes 689.005
• Intern: means a person who is enrolled in or has completed a course of study at a school or college of pharmacy approved by the board and who is licensed with the board as an intern. See Oregon Statutes 689.005
• Internship: means a professional experiential program approved by the board under the supervision of a licensed pharmacist registered with the board as a preceptor. See Oregon Statutes 689.005
• judicial department: means the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals, the Oregon Tax Court, the circuit courts and all administrative divisions of those courts, whether denominated as boards, commissions, committees or departments or by any other designation. See Oregon Statutes 174.113
• Labeling: means the process of preparing and affixing of a label to any drug container exclusive, however, of the labeling by a manufacturer, packer or distributor of a nonprescription drug or commercially packaged legend drug or device. See Oregon Statutes 689.005
• legend drug: means a drug that is:

  (a) Required by federal law, prior to being dispensed or delivered, to be labeled with either of the following statements:

  (A) 'Caution: Federal law prohibits dispensing without prescription'; or

  (B) 'Caution: Federal law restricts this drug to use by or on the order of a licensed veterinarian'; or

  (b) Required by any applicable federal or state law or regulation to be dispensed on prescription only or is restricted to use by practitioners only. See Oregon Statutes 689.005

• legislative department: means the Legislative Assembly, the committees of the Legislative Assembly and all administrative divisions of the Legislative Assembly and its committees, whether denominated as boards, commissions or departments or by any other designation. See Oregon Statutes 174.114
• Manufacture: means the production, preparation, propagation, compounding, conversion or processing of a device or a drug, either directly or indirectly by extraction from substances of natural origin or independently by means of chemical synthesis or by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis and includes any packaging or repackaging of the substances or labeling or relabeling of its container, except that this term does not include the preparation or compounding of a drug by an individual for their own use or the preparation, compounding, packaging or labeling of a drug:

  (a) By a practitioner as an incident to administering or dispensing of a drug in the course of professional practice; or

  (b) By a practitioner or by the practitioner's authorization under supervision of the practitioner for the purpose of or as an incident to research, teaching or chemical analysis and not for sale. See Oregon Statutes 689.005

• Manufacturer: means a person engaged in the manufacture of drugs. See Oregon Statutes 689.005
• Member: means a person that is qualified and accepted for membership in a cooperative. See Oregon Statutes 62.015
• Nonprescription drug outlet: means a business or other establishment that is open to the general public for the sale or nonprofit distribution of nonprescription drugs and is registered under ORS § 689. See Oregon Statutes 689.005
• Nonprescription drugs: means drugs that may be sold without a prescription and that are prepackaged for use by the consumer and labeled in accordance with the requirements of the statutes and regulations of this state and the federal government. See Oregon Statutes 689.005
• Person: means an individual, corporation, association, firm, partnership, joint stock company, cooperative or foreign cooperative. See Oregon Statutes 62.015
• Person: means an individual, corporation, partnership, association or other legal entity. See Oregon Statutes 689.005
• Pharmacist: means an individual licensed by this state to engage in the practice of pharmacy or to engage in the practice of clinical pharmacy. See Oregon Statutes 689.005
• Pharmacy: means a place that meets the requirements of rules of the board, is licensed and approved by the board where the practice of pharmacy may lawfully occur and includes apothecaries, drug stores, dispensaries, hospital outpatient pharmacies, pharmacy departments and prescription laboratories but does not include a place used by a manufacturer or wholesaler. See Oregon Statutes 689.005
• Pharmacy technician: means a person licensed by the board who assists in the practice of pharmacy pursuant to rules of the board. See Oregon Statutes 689.005
• Practitioner: means a person licensed and operating within the scope of such license to prescribe, dispense, conduct research with respect to or administer drugs in the course of professional practice or research:

  (a) In this state; or

  (b) In another state or territory of the United States if the person does not reside in Oregon and is registered under the federal Controlled Substances Act. See Oregon Statutes 689.005

• Preceptor: means a pharmacist or a person licensed by the board to supervise the internship training of a licensed intern. See Oregon Statutes 689.005
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Revenue: means all fees, tolls, excise taxes, assessments, property taxes and other taxes, rates, charges, rentals and other income or receipts derived by a public body or to which a public body is entitled. See Oregon Statutes 287A.001
• special government body: means any of the following:

  (a) A public corporation created under a statute of this state and specifically designated as a public corporation. See Oregon Statutes 174.117

• state government: means the executive department, the judicial department and the legislative department. See Oregon Statutes 174.111
• State Treasury: includes those financial assets the lawful custody of which are vested in the State Treasurer and the office of the State Treasurer relating to the custody of those financial assets. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Third-party logistics provider: means an entity that:

  (a) Provides or coordinates warehousing of, or other logistics services for, a product in interstate commerce on behalf of a manufacturer, wholesale distributor or dispenser of the product; and

  (b) Does not take ownership of, or have responsibility to direct the sale or disposition of, the product. See Oregon Statutes 689.005

• Unit dose: means a sealed single-unit container so designed that the contents are administered to the patient as a single dose, direct from the container. See Oregon Statutes 689.005