2021 Oregon Revised Statutes
Chapter 341 - Community Colleges
Section 341.005 - Definitions for chapter.


(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)(a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this subsection, "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 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.
(b) The two-year limitation described in paragraph (a) of this subsection does not apply to:
(A) Technical programs in which the curriculum may require more than two years of attendance but less than four years; or
(B) Applied baccalaureate degree programs approved under ORS 341.013.
(5) "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.
(6) "Director" means the Director of the Office of Community Colleges and Workforce Development appointed under ORS 350.160 by the executive director of the Higher Education Coordinating Commission.
(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 Higher Education Coordinating Commission.
(8) "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.
(9) "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.
(10) "Principal county" means the county in which the chief administrative officer of the community college district maintains the administrative office. [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; 2013 c.747 §43; 2015 c.366 §12; 2019 c.255 §3]

Structure 2021 Oregon Revised Statutes

2021 Oregon Revised Statutes

Volume : 09 - Education and Culture

Chapter 341 - Community Colleges

Section 341.005 - Definitions for chapter.

Section 341.009 - Policy.

Section 341.011 - Criminal justice courses eligible for social science cluster; transfer of credit; rules.

Section 341.013 - Applied baccalaureate degrees; approval process; rules.

Section 341.019 - Provision of services by district; rules; local advisory committees.

Section 341.021 - Provision of service outside districts.

Section 341.024 - Rules.

Section 341.025 - Petition for formation of district.

Section 341.039 - Formation of community college service district; method to change to community college district.

Section 341.045 - Feasibility study; hearing.

Section 341.055 - Hearing; alteration of proposed boundaries.

Section 341.076 - Commission recommendation to legislature; appeal; revision of recommendation; hearing; effect of legislative action.

Section 341.085 - Election for formation of district.

Section 341.095 - Questions included in election.

Section 341.115 - Effect of election results.

Section 341.125 - First board.

Section 341.275 - Community college district board; qualifications.

Section 341.283 - Organization; meetings; quorum; rules; journal; expenses.

Section 341.287 - Status; official title of board.

Section 341.290 - General powers; rules.

Section 341.300 - Traffic control; conditions on parking privileges; rules; penalty.

Section 341.309 - Establishment of interstate taxing authority.

Section 341.312 - Self-insurance program.

Section 341.317 - Educational services to adults in custody at correctional institutions; reimbursement.

Section 341.319 - Intellectual property.

Section 341.326 - Qualification.

Section 341.327 - Method of electing board.

Section 341.331 - Change in method of nominating and electing board.

Section 341.335 - Vacancy; filling of vacancy; term of appointed member.

Section 341.339 - Position numbers required for at-large positions.

Section 341.356 - Election laws applicable.

Section 341.357 - Publication of notices.

Section 341.420 - Procedure for name changes for district or college.

Section 341.440 - Contracts for educational services.

Section 341.446 - Distribution of community college information to public school students.

Section 341.450 - Accelerated college credit programs.

Section 341.455 - Credit for career school courses; transcripting fee.

Section 341.463 - Courses in American Sign Language.

Section 341.465 - Certificates and associate degrees; rules.

Section 341.470 - Mandatory student-initiated fees; resolution of disputes.

Section 341.478 - Scholarships.

Section 341.481 - Admission of students.

Section 341.484 - Contracts for reimbursement between college districts; effect of high school student’s enrollment on school funding.

Section 341.487 - Admission of nonresident students at resident tuition rate under certain conditions; exchange procedures; rules.

Section 341.492 - Residency for purpose of distribution of state aid.

Section 341.496 - Admission of members of Armed Forces and specified federal agencies and of spouses and dependent children of members; fee and tuition rate.

Section 341.499 - Rights of student ordered to active duty; rules.

Section 341.502 - Credit for room, board, tuition and fees for student ordered to active duty; rules.

Section 341.506 - Credit for education and training received in Armed Forces.

Section 341.509 - Tuition waiver for child, spouse or unremarried surviving spouse of service member.

Section 341.518 - Tuition waiver for students 65 years of age or older; rules.

Section 341.522 - Oregon Promise program; grant for tuition for recent graduates who meet criteria; rules; report.

Section 341.526 - Grant program for first-generation college-bound students; rules.

Section 341.535 - Qualifications of faculty; appraisal.

Section 341.541 - Affirmative action plans, goals when faculty, staff reductions required.

Section 341.547 - Notice of reasonable assurance of continued employment; effect of failure to give notice.

Section 341.551 - Optional retirement plan for administrative employees.

Section 341.556 - Sources of compensation for faculty members; potential conflict of interest; reporting; standards.

Section 341.565 - Boundary board; petition, hearings; legislative approval required; effective date of change; filing of change.

Section 341.569 - When election on change required.

Section 341.573 - Division of assets and liabilities.

Section 341.575 - Liability of annexed, merged or detached territory.

Section 341.577 - Procedure when district annexes new territory that is greater in population than original district.

Section 341.579 - Vote on proposed boundary change subject to ORS 341.577; commission’s order.

Section 341.601 - Definitions.

Section 341.604 - Expansion of district.

Section 341.608 - Service area financing; bonded indebtedness.

Section 341.611 - Election on bonded indebtedness.

Section 341.613 - Bonded indebtedness restrictions.

Section 341.616 - Levy of direct ad valorem tax to pay bonds.

Section 341.619 - New territory in Blue Mountain and Columbia Gorge Community College Districts not liable for existing debt.

Section 341.626 - Distribution of state aid; rules.

Section 341.635 - Effect on state aid of scholarships and of certain admissions.

Section 341.655 - Distribution of federal funds for career and technical education.

Section 341.665 - Receipt of funds for apprenticeship programs.

Section 341.670 - System for reporting finances.

Section 341.675 - Authority to incur bonded indebtedness; aggregate amount.

Section 341.678 - Election on bonded indebtedness.

Section 341.685 - Registration of bonds; disposition of proceeds.

Section 341.690 - Tax levy to meet annual bonded indebtedness; bond sinking fund.

Section 341.693 - Payment of bond principal and interest.

Section 341.695 - Bond redemption procedure.

Section 341.697 - Refunding bonds.

Section 341.703 - Custodian of funds; depositories; signature on checks; warrants as checks.

Section 341.705 - Warrant procedure.

Section 341.709 - Annual audit required.

Section 341.715 - Short-term bonds.

Section 341.721 - Issuance by State Treasurer.

Section 341.725 - Community College Capital Construction Fund.

Section 341.728 - Community College Bond Building Fund.

Section 341.933 - Distribution of state funds for capital construction; standards; limitations; rules.