As used in ORS 433.001 to 433.045 and 433.110 to 433.770 unless the context requires otherwise:
(1) “Communicable disease” has the meaning given that term in ORS 431.260.
(2) “Condition of public health importance” has the meaning given that term in ORS 431.260.
(3) “Department” means the Department of Human Services.
(4) “Director” means the Director of Human Services.
(5) “Isolation” means the physical separation and confinement of a person or group of persons who are infected or reasonably believed to be infected with a communicable disease or possibly communicable disease from nonisolated persons to prevent or limit the transmission of the disease to nonisolated persons.
(6) “Local public health administrator” has the meaning given that term in ORS 431.260.
(7) “Local public health authority” has the meaning given that term in ORS 431.260.
(8) “Property” means animals, inanimate objects, vessels, public conveyances, buildings and all other real or personal property.
(9) “Public health measure” has the meaning given that term in ORS 431.260.
(10) “Quarantine” means the physical separation and confinement of a person or group of persons who have been or may have been exposed to a communicable disease or possibly communicable disease and who do not show signs or symptoms of a communicable disease, from persons who have not been exposed to a communicable disease or possibly communicable disease, to prevent or limit the transmission of the disease to other persons.
(11) “Reportable disease” has the meaning given that term in ORS 431.260.
(12) “Toxic substance” has the meaning given that term in ORS 431.260. [1973 c.259 §2; 1987 c.600 §1; 2001 c.900 §155; 2007 c.445 §6]
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