Oregon Administrative Rules
Chapter 839 - BUREAU OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIES
Division 5 - DISCRIMINATION
Section 839-005-0305 - Definitions: Career Schools

Universal Citation: OR Admin Rules 839-005-0305

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 12, December 1, 2024

For purposes of ORS 345.240 and these rules:

(1) "Agent" means an individual who:

(a) Is employed by or for a career school, or is working on behalf of the school under a contract, for the purpose of procuring students, enrollees or subscribers of the school by solicitation in any form that is made at a place or places other than the school office or place of business of the school; or

(b) At the request of a career school or under a contract with a career school, provides information technology services for the school and has control over information technology systems that are used for the purpose of procuring students, enrollees or subscribers of the school by solicitation in any form that is made by technology that is accessed at a place or places other than the school office or place of business of the school.

(2) "Career school" includes any private proprietary professional, technical, home study, correspondence, business or other school instruction, organization or person that offers any instruction or training for the purpose or purported purpose of instructing, training or preparing persons for any profession. "Career school" includes those required to be licensed under ORS 345.010 to 345.450, and excludes entities described in ORS 345.015. Entities excluded by ORS 345.015 but receiving state funds, may be subject to ORS 659.850, which is under the jurisdiction of the State Board of Higher Education.

(3) "Discrimination" means any act that unreasonably differentiates treatment, intended or unintended, or any act that is fair in form but discriminatory in operation, either of which is based on age, disability, national origin, race, color, marital status, religion, sex or sexual orientation.

(4) "Sexual orientation" means an individual's actual or perceived heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality or gender identity, regardless of whether the individual's gender identity, appearance, expression or behavior differs from that traditionally associated with the individual's sex at birth.

Stat. Auth.: ORS 651.060

Stats. Implemented: ORS 345.240, 345.010 & 659.850

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