2005 Oregon Code - Chapter 279 :: Chapter 279 - Public Contracting - Miscellaneous Provisions

      (1) “Department” means the Oregon Department of Administrative Services.

      (2) “Direct labor” includes all work required for preparation, processing and packing, but not supervision, administration, inspection and shipping.

      (3) “Disabled individual” means an individual who, because of the nature of disabilities, is not able to participate fully in competitive employment, and for whom specialized employment opportunities must be provided.

      (4) “Public agency” or “public contracting agency” means any agency of the State of Oregon or any political subdivision thereof authorized by law to enter into public contracts and any public body created by intergovernmental agreement.

      (5) “Qualified nonprofit agency for disabled individual” means a nonprofit activity center or rehabilitation facility:

      (a) Organized under the laws of the United States or of this state and operated in the interest of disabled individuals, and the net income of which does not inure in whole or in part to the benefit of any shareholder or other individual;

      (b) That complies with any applicable occupational health and safety standard required by the laws of the United States or of this state; and

      (c) That in the manufacture of products and in the provision of services, whether or not the products or services are procured under ORS 279.835 to 279.855, during the fiscal year employs disabled individuals for not less than 75 percent of the work hours of direct labor required for the manufacture or provision of the products or services. [1977 c.304 §3; 1983 c.690 §17; 1989 c.224 §42; 1991 c.93 §1; 1993 c.500 §34; 2001 c.104 §96; 2003 c.794 §229b]

      279.840 Policy. The purpose of ORS 279.835 to 279.855, 279A.025 (4) and 279C.335 is to further the policy of this state to encourage and assist disabled individuals to achieve maximum personal independence through useful and productive gainful employment by assuring an expanded and constant market for sheltered workshop and activity center products and services, thereby enhancing their dignity and capacity for self-support and minimizing their dependence on welfare and need for costly institutionalization. [1977 c.304 §2; 1989 c.224 §43; 2003 c.794 §229c]