Terms Used In Oregon Statutes > Chapter 65 > Records and Reports > Reports

• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Anniversary: means February 28 if an event occurs that would otherwise cause an anniversary to fall on February 29. See Oregon Statutes 65.001
• Articles of incorporation: means the articles of incorporation described in ORS § 65. See Oregon Statutes 65.001
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• Corporation: means a domestic corporation or a foreign corporation. See Oregon Statutes 65.001
• Deliver: means to transfer by any method of delivery used in conventional commercial practice, including delivery by hand, mail, commercial delivery and electronic transmission. See Oregon Statutes 65.001
• Director: means an individual who acts as a member of the board of directors, who has a right to vote on questions concerning the management and regulation of a corporation's affairs and who is:

  (a) An appointed director;

  (b) A designated director; or

  (c) A director elected by the incorporators, directors or members. See Oregon Statutes 65.001

• Domestic corporation: means a nonprofit corporation that is not a foreign corporation and that is incorporated under or subject to the provisions of this chapter. See Oregon Statutes 65.001
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Foreign corporation: means a corporation that is organized under laws other than the laws of the state and that would be a nonprofit corporation if organized under the laws of the state. See Oregon Statutes 65.001
• Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Mutual benefit corporation: means a domestic corporation that is organized to serve and operates primarily to serve the mutual interests of a group of persons, but is not a public benefit corporation or religious corporation. See Oregon Statutes 65.001
• Nonprofit corporation: means a mutual benefit corporation, a public benefit corporation or a religious corporation. See Oregon Statutes 65.001
• Notice: means a notice described in ORS § 65. See Oregon Statutes 65.001
• Person: includes individuals, corporations, associations, firms, partnerships, limited liability companies and joint stock companies. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
• Person: means an individual or an entity. See Oregon Statutes 65.001
• Principal office: means the physical street address of the place, in or out of this state, where the principal executive offices of a domestic corporation or foreign corporation are located and that is designated as the principal office in the most recent annual report filed in accordance with ORS § 65. See Oregon Statutes 65.001
• Proceeding: means a civil, criminal, administrative or investigatory action. See Oregon Statutes 65.001
• Public benefit corporation: means a domestic corporation that:

  (a) Is formed as a public benefit corporation under ORS § 65. See Oregon Statutes 65.001

• public body: means state government bodies, local government bodies and special government bodies. See Oregon Statutes 174.109
• Religious corporation: means a domestic corporation that is formed as a religious corporation under ORS § 65. See Oregon Statutes 65.001
• 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