2011 Oregon Revised Statutes
ORS Volume 7, Chapters 261- 304
ORS Chapter 285a
285A.010 Definitions for ORS 284.101 to 284.146 and ORS chapters 285A, 285B and 285C.

As used in ORS 284.101 to 284.146 and ORS chapters 285A, 285B and 285C, unless the context requires otherwise:

(1) Administrator means the administrator of the Oregon Infrastructure Finance Authority.

(2) Association means a nonprofit, private, incorporated or unincorporated institution, foundation, organization, entity or group, whether local, state, regional or national, that is operating or doing business in Oregon.

(3) Authority means the Oregon Infrastructure Finance Authority.

(4) Board means the Oregon Infrastructure Finance Authority Board.

(5) Commission means the Oregon Business Development Commission.

(6) Community means an area or locality in which the body of inhabitants has common economic or employment interests. The term is not limited to a city, county or other political subdivision and need not, but may be, limited by political boundaries.

(7) Department means the Oregon Business Development Department.

(8) Director means the Director of the Oregon Business Development Department.

(9) Distressed area means a county, city, community or other geographic area that is designated as a distressed area by the department, based on indicators of economic distress or dislocation, including but not limited to unemployment, poverty and job loss.

(10) International trade means the export and import of products and services and the movement of capital for the purpose of investment.

(11) Local government has the meaning given that term in ORS 174.116.

(12) Municipality means an Oregon city or county, the Port of Portland created by ORS 778.010, a county service district organized under ORS chapter 451, a district as defined in ORS 198.010, a tribal council of a federally recognized Indian tribe in this state or an airport district organized under ORS chapter 838.

(13) Public body has the meaning given that term in ORS 174.109.

(14) Rural area means an area located entirely outside of the acknowledged Portland Metropolitan Area Regional Urban Growth Boundary and the acknowledged urban growth boundaries of cities with populations of 30,000 or more.

(15) Small business means a business having 100 or fewer employees.

(16) State agency includes state officers, departments, boards and commissions.

(17) Traded sector means industries in which member firms sell their goods or services into markets for which national or international competition exists. [Formerly 285.001; 1999 c.509 1; 2003 c.114 1; 2007 c.804 1; 2009 c.830 8]