2021 Oregon Revised Statutes
Chapter 179 - Administration of State Institutions
Section 179.473 - Transfers between institutions; rules.


(a) The Department of Corrections or the Oregon Youth Authority, with the consent of the Department of Human Services, may transfer a person at any institution under its jurisdiction to a residential facility for persons with intellectual disabilities or, with the consent of the Oregon Health and Science University, to the Oregon Health and Science University.
(b) The Department of Corrections may transfer an adult in custody in a Department of Corrections institution to a state hospital listed in ORS 426.010 for evaluation and treatment pursuant to rules adopted jointly by the Department of Corrections and the Oregon Health Authority.
(c) The Oregon Youth Authority may transfer an adjudicated youth or other person confined in a youth correction facility to a hospital or facility designated by the Oregon Health Authority for evaluation and treatment pursuant to rules adopted jointly by the Oregon Youth Authority and the Oregon Health Authority.
(d) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, the Department of Corrections or the Oregon Youth Authority may make a transfer of a person from any institution under the jurisdiction of the department or the Oregon Youth Authority to any other institution under the jurisdiction of the department or authority.
(2) An adjudicated youth in a youth correction facility may not be transferred to a Department of Corrections institution under subsection (1) of this section. An adjudicated youth in a youth correction facility who has been transferred to another institution may not be transferred from such other institution to a Department of Corrections institution.
(3) The rules adopted under subsection (1)(b) and (c) of this section must:
(a) Provide the adult in custody or adjudicated youth with the rights to which persons are entitled under ORS 179.485.
(b) Provide that a transfer of an adult in custody or an adjudicated youth to the Oregon Health Authority for stabilization and evaluation for treatment may not exceed 30 days unless the transfer is extended pursuant to a hearing required by paragraph (c) of this subsection.
(c) Provide for an administrative commitment hearing if:
(A) The Oregon Health Authority determines that administrative commitment for treatment for a mental illness is necessary or advisable or that the authority needs more than 30 days to stabilize or evaluate the adult in custody or adjudicated youth for treatment; and
(B) The adult in custody or adjudicated youth does not consent to the administrative commitment or an extension of the transfer.
(d) Provide for, at a minimum, all of the following for the administrative commitment hearing process:
(A) Written notice to the adult in custody or adjudicated youth that an administrative commitment to a state hospital listed in ORS 426.010 or a hospital or facility designated by the Oregon Health Authority or an extension of the transfer is being considered. The notice required by this subparagraph must be provided far enough in advance of the hearing to permit the adult in custody or adjudicated youth to prepare for the hearing.
(B) Disclosure to the adult in custody or adjudicated youth, at the hearing, of the evidence that is being relied upon for the administrative commitment or the extension of the transfer.
(C) An opportunity, at the hearing, for the adult in custody or adjudicated youth to be heard in person and to present documentary evidence.
(D) An opportunity, at the hearing, for the adult in custody or adjudicated youth to present the testimony of witnesses and to confront and cross-examine witnesses called by the state. The opportunity required by this subparagraph may be denied upon a finding by the decision maker of good cause for not permitting the adult in custody or adjudicated youth to present the testimony of witnesses or confront or cross-examine witnesses called by the state.
(E) An independent decision maker for the hearing.
(F) A written statement by the decision maker of the evidence relied upon by the decision maker and the reasons for administratively committing the adult in custody or adjudicated youth or extending the transfer.
(G) A qualified and independent assistant for the adult in custody or adjudicated youth to be provided by the state if the adult in custody or adjudicated youth is financially unable to provide one.
(H) Effective and timely notice of the procedures required by subparagraphs (A) to (G) of this paragraph.
(e) Provide that an adult in custody or an adjudicated youth may not be administratively committed involuntarily unless the independent decision maker finds by clear and convincing evidence that the adult in custody or adjudicated youth is a person with mental illness as defined in ORS 426.005.
(f) Provide that the duration of an administrative commitment pursuant to an administrative commitment hearing be no more than 180 days unless the administrative commitment is renewed in a subsequent administrative commitment hearing. Notwithstanding this paragraph, an administrative commitment may not continue beyond the term of incarceration to which the adult in custody was sentenced or beyond the period of time that the adjudicated youth may be placed in a youth correction facility. [1965 c.616 §84 (enacted in lieu of 179.474); 1969 c.597 §40; 1975 c.662 §1; 1977 c.601 §1; 1987 c.320 §126; 1997 c.249 §52; 1999 c.110 §2; 2005 c.439 §§1,2; 2007 c.70 §43; 2009 c.595 §141; 2013 c.36 §50; 2013 c.360 §12; 2019 c.213 §48; 2021 c.489 §19]

Structure 2021 Oregon Revised Statutes

2021 Oregon Revised Statutes

Volume : 05 - State Government, Government Procedures, Land Use

Chapter 179 - Administration of State Institutions

Section 179.010 - Definitions.

Section 179.040 - General powers and duties; rules.

Section 179.045 - Reports on convictions; forms; confidentiality.

Section 179.055 - Disposition of income from property; maintenance of property.

Section 179.105 - Acceptance of federal or other assistance to carry out general powers and duties; legislative oversight of expenditures.

Section 179.130 - Institutional petty cash fund; creation; reimbursement from appropriation for institution.

Section 179.210 - Claim for injury or damage; conditions.

Section 179.240 - Procedure where award due person owing debt to state.

Section 179.321 - Responsibility to supervise state institutions.

Section 179.325 - Change in use of institution for persons with developmental disabilities or mental illness.

Section 179.331 - Appointment, suspension and removal of superintendents.

Section 179.340 - Salaries and expenses of superintendents.

Section 179.360 - Powers and duties of superintendents.

Section 179.375 - Chaplaincy services.

Section 179.380 - Employment of staff; oaths and bonds.

Section 179.390 - Appointment, suspension, removal and salaries of assistants, officers and employees; contract services.

Section 179.405 - License required for teachers at institution.

Section 179.460 - Sale and exchange of surplus products of institutions; rules; State Institutional Betterment Fund.

Section 179.471 - Definitions for ORS 179.473 and 179.478.

Section 179.473 - Transfers between institutions; rules.

Section 179.478 - Examination for intellectual disability; commitment hearing; transfer to facility for persons with intellectual disability; termination of sentence.

Section 179.479 - Conveyance of adults in custody from institution to physician or hospital for treatment; rules.

Section 179.486 - Payment of costs in connection with transfers and conveyances; medical reports to accompany certain inmates.

Section 179.492 - Dispensing of brand-name mental health drugs.

Section 179.495 - Disclosure of written accounts of adult in custody; penalty.

Section 179.505 - Disclosure of written accounts by health care services provider.

Section 179.507 - Enforcement of ORS 179.495 and 179.505; actions; venue; damages.

Section 179.508 - Disclosure of individually identifiable health information about adult in custody.

Section 179.509 - Reports on deaths at institutions; compilation submitted to President and Speaker.

Section 179.510 - "Funds" defined; deposit of funds of institution residents with State Treasurer.

Section 179.560 - Members; appointment; terms; meetings.

Section 179.570 - Powers and duties of board; report to legislature.

Section 179.580 - Ad hoc committees.

Section 179.610 - Definitions for ORS 179.610 to 179.770.

Section 179.620 - Liability of person or estate for cost of care.

Section 179.640 - Determination of ability to pay; rules; financial information; notice; order; hearing; appeal.

Section 179.653 - Unpaid costs as lien on property; order; when appealable.

Section 179.655 - Enforcement of lien; distraint warrant.

Section 179.701 - Determination of cost-of-care rates.

Section 179.711 - Remittance of amounts due; refunds.

Section 179.740 - Collection from estates; settlement.

Section 179.750 - Equal care and services for persons in state institutions.

Section 179.770 - Rules; employees.