ORS 179.490: Authorization and payment of cost of emergency and necessary operations.

In the case of a necessary or emergency operation requiring the services of a specialist, and where the relatives or guardians, in the judgment of the Department of Corrections or the Oregon Health Authority, are unable to pay a part or the whole cost of the operation, the agencies may have the operation performed, the cost of the operation to be payable from the funds of the institution concerned. [Amended by 1987 c.320 §132; 2001 c.900 §43; 2009 c.595 §143; 2013 c.36 §53; 2015 c.27 §17]