OAR 715-030-0025: Waivers from the Requirements to Partner with Local Community-based Domestic and Sexual Violence Advocacy Agency

(1) An institution may submit a request that it be exempted or partially exempted from the requirements of OAR 715-030-0015 and 715-030-0020 if, despite reasonable efforts, it has been unable enter into an agreement to provide advocacy services or establish a memorandum of understanding with a community-based domestic and sexual violence advocacy agency . (2) To request a waiver, an institution shall submit a letter to the commission in a manner to be determined by the commission. The letter shall include the dates for the period for which a waiver is requested; the names and websites or other contact information for agencies contacted by the institution; a description of actions taken during the period for which the waiver is requested toward entering into an agreement to provide advocacy services or a memorandum of understanding with an agency; and a description of services which were requested and whether or not those services were provided. (3) The commission shall make a determination on the waiver request within 30 days of receiving the request. The waiver shall be granted by the commission if the institution shows that it made reasonable good faith efforts to contact agencies to provide the services specified in OAR 715-030-0015 and 715-030-0020, and such agencies did not respond or declined to provide some or all of those services. (4) A waiver granted under this rule shall be no longer than one year in duration, except that an institution may subsequently apply for a waiver renewal.