As used in ORS 409.290 to 409.300 unless the context requires otherwise:
(1) “Crisis line” means an emergency telephone service staffed by persons who are trained to provide emergency peer counseling, information, referral and advocacy to victims of domestic violence and their families.
(2) “Director” means the Director of Human Services.
(3) “Family violence” means the physical injury, sexual abuse or forced imprisonment, or threat thereof, of a person by another who is related by blood, marriage or intimate cohabitation at the present or has been related at some time in the past, to the extent that the person’s health or welfare is harmed or threatened thereby, as determined in accordance with rules prescribed by the director.
(4) “Safe house” means a place of temporary refuge, offered on an “as needed” basis to victims of domestic violence and their families.
(5) “Shelter home” means a place of temporary refuge, offered on a 24-hour, seven-day per week basis to victims of domestic violence and their children. [Formerly 108.610]
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