ORS 655.505: Definitions for ORS 655.505 to 655.555.
Edition: 2025 EditionEffective: 2026-01-01Last verified: 2026-09-07
As used in ORS 655.505 to 655.555: (1) “Adult in custody” means a person committed to the physical and legal custody of the Department of Corrections. (2) “Attending practitioner” means Department of Corrections or Oregon Youth Authority medical staff, or specialists assisting Department of Corrections or Oregon Youth Authority medical staff, while the adult in custody is committed to the physical and legal custody of the Department of Corrections. At all other times, “attending practitioner” means a person licensed in Oregon or another state as a doctor of medicine, doctor of osteopathic medicine, doctor of optometry, doctor of dentistry or nurse practitioner who provides services within the scope of the license. (3) “Authorized work or occupational training assignment” means the work assignment of an adult in custody: (a) As authorized by ORS 421.305 and 421.312; (b) As authorized by ORS 421.450 to 421.480; (c) As authorized by ORS 144.410 to 144.525; (d) As authorized by ORS 420.011; (e) As authorized by ORS 420.240 to 420.265; or (f) In any other adult in custody activity or program, including, but not limited to, on-the-job training established by the Department of Corrections under section 41, Article I, Oregon Constitution, whether or not compensation has been established by the Director of the Department of Corrections for participation in the activity or program. (4) “Department” means the Oregon Department of Administrative Services. (5) “Injury” means: (a) An accidental injury or accidental injury to prosthetic devices occurring in the course of, and caused in major part by, an authorized work or occupational training assignment requiring medical services and resulting in disability or death; or (b) Any disease or infection that: (A) Arises out of, and in the course of, an authorized work or occupational training assignment; (B) Is caused in major part by ingestion, absorption or inhalation of, or contact with, dust, fumes, vapors, gases, radiation or other substances to which a worker who is not an adult in custody is not ordinarily subjected or exposed while working; (C) Requires medical services; and (D) Results in disability or death. (6) “Medical services” means reasonable and necessary services prescribed by an attending practitioner for conditions resulting from injury for a period that the nature of the injury or the process of recovery requires. “Medical services” includes medical, surgical, hospital, nursing, ambulance and other related services, drugs, medicine, crutches and prosthetic appliances, braces and supports and, when necessary, physical restorative services. (7) “Medically stationary” means that no further material improvement would reasonably be expected from medical treatment or the passage of time. (8) The terms “beneficiary,” “child” and “dependent” have the meanings given those terms in ORS 656.005. [1963 c.527 §1; 1967 c.504 §10; 1969 c.247 §6; 1969 c.597 §63; 1975 c.631 §1; 1987 c.320 §241; 1991 c.566 §7; 1993 c.500 §50; 1995 c.384 §18; 1997 c.851 §14; 2013 c.229 §13; 2015 c.342 §3; 2017 c.409 §18; 2019 c.213 §105]
Administrative rules citing this section
- OAR 125-160-0000: Purpose, Applicability, and Effective Date — implements
- OAR 125-160-0010: Definitions — implements
- OAR 125-160-0020: Calculation of Permanent Disability Awards — implements
- OAR 125-160-0100: Medical Services Limits — implements
- OAR 125-160-0110: Benefit Limits During Permanent Disability — implements
- OAR 125-160-0120: Death Benefit Limits — implements
- OAR 125-160-0200: Claiming Benefits — implements
- OAR 125-160-0300: Evaluating Claims — implements
- OAR 125-160-0310: Evidence and Construction — implements
- OAR 125-160-0400: Claims Denials — implements
- OAR 125-160-0500: Delivery of Claims, Notices, Responses — implements
- OAR 125-160-0600: Delivery of Benefits — implements
- OAR 125-160-0700: Suspension and Forfeiture of Benefits — implements
- OAR 125-160-0710: Termination of Benefits — implements
- OAR 125-160-0720: Abandonment of Benefits — implements
- OAR 125-160-0800: Subrogation — implements
- OAR 125-160-0900: Appealing Claims Decisions and Actions — implements
- OAR 125-160-0910: Hearings Process — implements
- OAR 125-160-0920: Conduct of Hearings — implements
- OAR 125-160-0930: Testimony of Witnesses — implements
- OAR 125-160-0940: Documents and Physical Evidence — implements
- OAR 125-160-0950: Hearings Conclusions and Record — implements
- OAR 603-082-0010: Purpose — implements
- OAR 603-082-0020: Definitions — implements
This rule cites
- ORS 655.505 — resolved
- 655.555 — resolved
- ORS 421.305 — resolved
- 421.312 — resolved
- ORS 421.450 — resolved
- 421.480 — resolved
- ORS 144.410 — resolved
- 144.525 — resolved
- ORS 420.011 — resolved
- ORS 420.240 — resolved
- 420.265 — resolved
- ORS 656.005 — resolved
Cited by
- ORS 144.480: Protections and benefits for enrollees.
- ORS 278.405: Department to manage risk management and insurance programs; rules.
- ORS 420.275: Benefits and protections afforded to persons in custody of Oregon Youth Authority.
- ORS 421.467: Transfer of local adults in custody to forest work camp; limitations and conditions.
- ORS 655.510: Benefits for injuries in authorized employment; establishing injury claim; exclusive remedy.
- ORS 655.520: Filing claim for benefits; rules; initial award; limitations.
- ORS 655.530: Assignment of benefits under ORS 655.505 to 655.555.
- ORS 655.540: Disposition and use of assessments.
- ORS 655.545: Liability for payment of benefits; precedence of expenses; priority among claimants.
- ORS 655.550: Assessment of Oregon Department of Administrative Services for costs of Workers’ Compensation Board.
- ORS 656.752: State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation; purpose and functions.
- OAR 291-081-0085: AIC Injury Fund
- OAR 436-105-0511: Worker Eligibility
- OAR 436-110-0310: Eligibility and End of Eligibility for the Preferred Worker Program
Official source: https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors655.html