OAR 419-410-0140: Academic Boarding Schools: Consents, Disclosures, and Authorizations

(1) Consents. For each child in care of an academic boarding school, the academic boarding school must ensure that a parent or legal guardian signs a consent that authorizes the academic boarding school to undertake each of the following: (a) To provide routine and emergency medical care. However, if the parent or legal guardian relies on prayer or spiritual means for healing in accordance with the creed or tenets of a well-recognized religion or denomination, the academic boarding school is not required to use medical, psychological, or rehabilitative procedures, unless the child in care is old enough to consent to these procedures and does so. The academic boarding school must have policies and procedures for this practice, which are reviewed and approved by the child in care's parent or legal guardian. (b) To provide care to the child in care. (c) To allow access to a child in care as required in ORS 418.305 and OAR 419-400-0230 and 419-400-0240. (2) The academic boarding school will make any written policy or procedure pertaining to program services available for review by the child, parent, or legal guardian, upon request. (3) Authorizations. Authorizations must be pre-approved by the child in care's parent or legal guardian to allow children to participate in potentially hazardous activities, including, but not limited to, using motorized yard equipment, swimming, and horseback riding.