2011 Oregon Revised Statutes
ORS Volume 9, Chapters 326 - 365
ORS Chapter 341
341.005 Definitions.

As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) Academic year means the year beginning July 1 of each year and ending June 30 of the following year running concurrently with the fiscal year.

(2) Board means the board of education of a community college district.

(3) Board member means a member of the board of education of a community college district.

(4) Commissioner means the Commissioner for Community College Services appointed under ORS 326.375.

(5) Community college means a public institution operated by a community college district for the purposes of providing courses of study limited to not more than two years full-time attendance, with the exception of technical programs in which the curriculum may require more than two years of attendance but less than four years, and designed to meet the needs of a geographical area by providing educational services, including but not limited to career and technical education programs or lower division collegiate programs.

(6) Community college district or district means a district formed under this chapter to operate one or more community colleges or to secure educational services available at a community college. Community college district includes a community college service district.

(7) Full-time equivalent student means a student or combination of several students who carries or carry among them, within a single academic year, a minimum number of clock hours of instruction, in any program, to be specified by rule by the State Board of Education.

(8) Operating expenses means the sum of the expenditures of a community college district for administration, instruction, necessary student services, operation and maintenance of plant and fixed charges, as determined in accordance with the rules of the State Board of Education.

(9) Paying agent and registrar means the county treasurer or county fiscal officer of the county in which the chief administrative officer of the community college district maintains the administrative office.

(10) Petitioning territory means a community college district petitioning to have an area outside the district included in the district or to have an area inside the district excluded from the district, or an area outside the district petitioning to be included within the district.

(11) Principal county means the county in which the chief administrative officer of the community college district maintains the administrative office.

(12) State board means the State Board of Education. [Formerly 341.510; 1971 c.513 1; 1981 c.173 52; 1987 c.474 4; 1993 c.45 127,128; 1995 c.67 1; 1997 c.271 3; 2009 c.94 11]