As used in ORS 428.210 to 428.270:
(1) “Department” means the Department of Human Services.
(2) “Foreign hospital” means an institution in any other state which corresponds to the institutions defined in subsection (7) of this section.
(3) “Nonresident” means any person who is not a resident of this state as defined in subsection (6) of this section.
(4) “Other state” includes all the states, territories, possessions, commonwealths and agencies of the United States and the District of Columbia, with the exception of the State of Oregon.
(5) “Patient” means any person who has been committed by a court of competent jurisdiction to a state hospital, except a person committed to a state hospital pursuant to ORS 136.150 (1969 Replacement Part), 136.160 (1969 Replacement Part), 161.341 or 161.370.
(6) “Resident of this state” means a person who has lived in this state continuously for a period of one year and who has not acquired legal residence in any other state by living continuously therein for at least one year subsequent to the residence of the person in this state. However, a service man or woman on active duty in the Armed Forces of the United States who was domiciled in Oregon upon entry into active duty and who has acquired no other domicile shall be entitled to have his or her children considered a resident of this state so long as no other domicile is acquired by the service man or woman.
(7) “State hospital” means any institution listed in ORS 426.010 or 427.010. [1957 c.388 §5; 1959 c.588 §19; 1967 c.299 §2; 1971 c.743 §368; 1977 c.380 §20; 2001 c.900 §131]
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