Oregon Statutes - Chapter 345 - Private Schools

• 345.010   Definitions for ORS 345.010 to 345.450 and 345.992 to 345.997.
  As used in ORS 345.010 to 345.450 and 345.992 to 345.997: (1) “Agent” means a person employed by or for a career school for the...
• 345.015   Application of ORS 345.010 to 345.450.
  ORS 345.010 to 345.450 do not apply to: (1) Instruction or training solely avocational or recreational in nature or to institutions offering such education exclusively....
• 345.020   Duty and powers of Superintendent of Public Instruction; interest in career schools prohibited.
  (1) The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall administer ORS 345.010 to 345.450 and 345.992 to 345.997 and shall enforce all laws and rules relating to...
• 345.030   Career schools to be licensed; requirements; license nontransferable; display of license.
  (1) No person shall open, conduct or do business as a career school in this state without obtaining a license under ORS 345.010 to 345.450....
• 345.040   Approval of registration of agent required; bonding.
  (1) No person shall act in this state as an agent for a career school domiciled within or outside this state, unless the Superintendent of...
• 345.050   [Amended by 1961 c.268 §6; renumbered as part of 345.030]
• 345.060   Appointment of superintendent as agent for service of process; service of process.
  (1) Every agent for a career school not domiciled in this state shall be held to have appointed the Superintendent of Public Instruction as agent...
• 345.070   Registered agent identification credential; use.
  The employing school shall issue an identification credential to each agent registered under ORS 345.010 to 345.450 in the form and size prescribed by the...
• 345.080   License and registration fees; disposition of fees; rules.
  (1) Before issuing any licenses under ORS 345.010 to 345.450, the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall collect the following nonrefundable, annual license fees: ______________________________________________________________________________ In-State...
• 345.090   [Amended by 1961 c.268 §10; repealed by 1975 c.478 §29]
• 345.100   [Amended by 1961 c.268 §11; 1975 c.478 §10; repealed by 1989 c.333 §25]
• 345.110   Tuition Protection Fund; payments by schools; effect of failure to pay; claims; superintendent’s contracting authority.
  (1) The Tuition Protection Fund is established separate and distinct from the General Fund. Interest earned by the fund shall be credited to the fund....
• 345.113   Negotiability of contract for student loan.
  (1) In any contract for the provision of instruction or training or other services by a career school on credit entered into between a career...
• 345.115   Refund schedule as part of enrollment agreement; limit on advance deposit; when default occurs; tuition refunds.
  (1) The enrollment agreement entered into between a person and a career school for the purpose of obtaining instruction or training shall contain a schedule...
• 345.117   Address of state department as part of agreement.
  Any enrollment agreement used within this state as a contract for instruction between a career school and a student shall have printed or stamped upon...
• 345.120   Investigations; probation; suspension or revocation of licenses.
  (1) On the written complaint of any person, the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall, and on the superintendent’s own motion may, investigate the actions of...
• 345.130   [Repealed by 1975 c.478 §29]
• 345.140   [Repealed by 1975 c.478.§29]
• 345.150   [Amended by 1971 c.734 §39; repealed by 1975 c.478 §29]
• 345.160   [Repealed by 1975 c.478 §29]
• 345.170   [Repealed by 1975 c.478 §29]
• 345.180   [Repealed by 1975 c.478 §29]
• 345.190   [Repealed by 1975 c.478 §29 and by 1975 c.759 §17]
• 345.200   [Repealed by 1975 c.478 §29 and by 1975 c.759 §17]
• 345.210   Proof of license required in suit by career school, agent or employee.
  No career school or its agents or employees shall bring or maintain any suit or action in any court in or of this state for...
• 345.220   [Amended by 1961 c.268 §12; 1965 c.529 §14; repealed by 1975 c.478 §29]
• 345.230   Remedies are additional.
  The remedies provided in ORS 345.010 to 345.450 and 345.992 to 345.997 are in addition to, and not exclusive of, any other remedies provided by...
• 345.240   Discrimination prohibited; complaint.
  (1) No career school licensed under ORS 345.010 to 345.450 shall refuse admission to or discriminate in admission against or discriminate in giving instruction to...
• 345.250   [Amended by 1957 c.724 §12; repealed by 1989 c.333 §26]
• 345.310   [1965 c.529 §2; repealed by 1975 c.478 §29]
• 345.320   Legislative findings and purpose.
  (1) The Legislative Assembly finds that career schools are capable of increasing the educational opportunities available in this state or to residents of this state...
• 345.325   Minimum standards; content; rules.
  The State Board of Education shall adopt by rule minimum standards for the licensing of career schools under ORS 345.010 to 345.450 that are reasonably...
• 345.330   Advisory committee; function.
  (1) The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall appoint a representative advisory committee consisting of 11 members who shall serve for terms of three years ending...
• 345.340   Recommended minimum standards.
  Consistent with the requirements of ORS 345.325, the advisory committee shall recommend to the State Board of Education minimum standards for the operation of career...
• 345.350   [1965 c.529 §§6,10; repealed by 1975 c.478 §29]
• 345.360   [1965 c.529 §7; repealed by 1975 c.478 §29]
• 345.370   [1965 c.529 §8; 1975 c.478 §19; repealed by 1989 c.333 §26]
• 345.380   [1965 c.529 §11; repealed by 1975 c.478 §29]
• 345.400   Regulation of schools teaching hair design, barbering, esthetics or nail technology; graduation requirements; rules.
  In addition to the other requirements of ORS 345.010 to 345.450, the rules adopted by the State Board of Education to regulate schools teaching hair...
• 345.410   [1977 c.886 §30; 1987 c.31 §15; repealed by 1989 c.333 §26]
• 345.420   [1977 c.886 §31; 1983 c.151 §23; 1989 c.333 §18; 1993 c.45 §271; repealed by 1993 c.742 §77]
• 345.430   Determination of qualifications of out-of-state or out-of-country applicants to take board test.
  At the request of the Board of Cosmetology, the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall determine whether a person from out-of-state or out-of-country seeking a certificate...
• 345.440   Safety and sanitation inspections by Oregon Health Licensing Agency.
  Safety and sanitation inspections performed in schools licensed under ORS 345.010 to 345.450 to teach hair design, barbering, esthetics or nail technology shall be conducted...
• 345.450   Annual inspection fee; transfer.
  (1) In addition to the fees required by ORS 345.080, before issuing any license under ORS 345.010 to 345.450 to a school teaching hair design,...
• 345.460   [Formerly 690.275; 1989 c.333 §21; 1989 c.491 §52a; 1993 c.45 §274; repealed by 1995 c.343 §72]
• 345.470   [Formerly 690.087; 1989 c.333 §22; 1993 c.45 §275; repealed by 1995 c.343 §72]
• 345.505   Definitions for ORS 345.505 to 345.575.
  As used in ORS 345.505 to 345.575 unless the context requires otherwise: (1) “Educational services” means instructional programs but does not include programs limited solely...
• 345.515   Registration with department.
  A school may be registered as a private school with the Department of Education in the manner provided in ORS 345.505 to 345.575. [1975 c.557...
• 345.525   Application for registration; qualifications.
  (1) The owner or operator of a private school, or the superintendent or principal thereof, may apply to the Department of Education for registration of...
• 345.535   Criteria for registration; rules.
  (1) In adopting criteria for the registration of private schools, the State Board of Education shall take into consideration the unique qualities of private education...
• 345.545   Evaluation and registration; expiration; renewal; lapse; notice on refusal to register school.
  (1) Upon receipt of an application for registration, the Department of Education shall evaluate the private school and shall register the school if it finds...
• 345.555   Grounds for suspension, revocation or denial of renewal; procedure.
  (1) A registration issued under ORS 345.545 may be suspended or revoked or renewal thereof denied if the Department of Education finds: (a) The private...
• 345.565   Reports to department.
  Every registrant shall furnish promptly such reports and information as the State Board of Education by rule requires. [1975 c.557 §7] (Advisory Committee)
• 345.575   Advisory committee; members; duties.
  (1) An advisory committee of seven members is established, to be appointed by the State Board of Education, on recommendation of the Superintendent of Public...
• 345.585   Effect of teaching experience in private school or career school.
  Teaching experience in a registered private school, as defined in ORS 345.505, or licensed career school, as defined in ORS 345.010, shall apply to meeting...
• 345.990   Criminal penalties.
  (1) Violation of any provision of ORS 345.020, 345.030, 345.070, 345.115 or 345.325 is a Class B misdemeanor. (2) Representation by a private school, as...
• 345.992   Civil penalties.
  (1) In addition to any other penalty provided by law, any person who violates any provision of ORS 345.020, 345.030, 345.070, 345.115 or 345.117, or...
• 345.995   Establishment of schedule of civil penalties; rules; imposition of such penalties.
  (1) After consultation with the advisory committee established under ORS 345.330, the State Board of Education shall adopt by rule a schedule or schedules establishing...
• 345.997   Civil penalty credited to General Fund.
  All penalties recovered under ORS 345.992 shall be paid into the State Treasury and credited to the General Fund. [1975 c.478 §25; 1989 c.706 §11;...

Last modified: August 7, 2008