Chapter 401 — Chapter 401

ORS 401.902 Private employer earthquake drills; exemptions; rules. (1) A person employing 250 or more full-time employees within this state shall drill employees working in office buildings on emergency procedures so that the employees may respond to an earthquake emergency without confusion or panic

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ORS 401.904 Rules. The Oregon Department of Emergency Management, in consultation with the State Department of Geology and Mineral Industries, shall adopt rules governing the conduct of earthquake emergency drills required by ORS 401.900 and 401.902. In addition to the Oregon Department of Emergency Management submitting the rules for publication pursuant to ORS 183.360, the departments shall each post the rules on an electronic bulletin board, home page or similar site. [Formerly 401.546; 2021 c.539 §47]

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ORS 401.910 Grant program for seismic rehabilitation of certain facilities; rules. (1) The Oregon Business Development Department shall develop a grant program for the disbursement of funds for the seismic rehabilitation of critical public buildings, including hospital buildings with acute inpatient care facilities, fire stations, police stations, sheriffs’ offices, other facilities used by state, county, district or municipal law enforcement agencies and buildings with a capacity of 250 or more persons that are routinely used for student activities by kindergarten through grade 12 public schools, community colleges, education service districts and institutions of higher education, including but not limited to public universities listed in ORS 352.002. The Oregon Infrastructure Finance Authority established in the department by ORS 285A.096 shall administer the grant program developed under this section. The funds for the seismic rehabilitation of critical public buildings under the grant program are to be provided from the issuance of bonds pursuant to the authority provided in Articles XI-M and XI-N of the Oregon Constitution

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ORS 401.913 State Resilience Officer; duties; monitoring of resilience planning by legislative and judicial branches. (1) The office of State Resilience Officer is created in the office of the Governor. The office of State Resilience Officer shall direct, implement and coordinate hazard safety and resilience goal setting and state agency planning and preparation to improve hazard safety and resilience, including but not limited to planning and preparation for safety and resilience during and after earthquake, tsunami, wildfire, flooding and other natural or manmade events

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ORS 401.915 Seismic Safety Policy Advisory Commission; members; term. (1) There is established a Seismic Safety Policy Advisory Commission consisting of the following members

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ORS 401.918 Mission of commission. (1) The mission of the Seismic Safety Policy Advisory Commission shall be to reduce exposure to earthquake hazards in Oregon by

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ORS 401.920 Officers; quorum; meetings; compensation and expenses. (1) The Seismic Safety Policy Advisory Commission shall select one of its members as chairperson and another as vice chairperson, for two-year terms and with duties and powers necessary for the performance of the functions of such offices as the commission determines

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ORS 401.922 Support services. The Oregon Department of Emergency Management shall provide technical, clerical and other necessary support services to the Seismic Safety Policy Advisory Commission. The Department of Consumer and Business Services, the State Department of Geology and Mineral Industries, the Department of Land Conservation and Development, the Department of Transportation, the Oregon Health Authority, the Water Resources Department and the public universities listed in ORS 352.002 shall provide assistance, as required, to the commission to enable it to meet its objectives. [Formerly 401.347; 2013 c.768 §140b; 2015 c.767 §172; 2021 c.539 §50]

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ORS 401.925 Advisory and technical committees; expense reimbursement. (1) To aid and advise the Seismic Safety Policy Advisory Commission in the performance of its functions, the commission may establish such advisory and technical committees as it considers necessary. These committees may be continuing or temporary. The commission shall determine the representation, membership, terms and organization of the committees and shall appoint their members

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ORS 401.930 Assignment by Governor of local resources under direction of State Fire Marshal. (1) The Governor may assign and make available for use and duty in any county, city or district, under the direction and command of the State Fire Marshal or a designee of the State Fire Marshal, any personnel or equipment resources of a county, city or district for the purpose of responding to the structural collapse, or the threat of imminent structural collapse, of a fixture to real property. This section does not authorize the Governor to assign and make available the fire-fighting resources of a fire district that possesses only one self-propelled pumping unit

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ORS 401.932 Powers and duties of local personnel acting under direction of State Fire Marshal. If county, city or district personnel are assigned and used under ORS 401.930 to respond to a structural collapse or threat of imminent structural collapse in another county, city or district, the personnel have the same powers, duties, rights, privileges and immunities as they have when performing their duties in the county, city or district in which they are normally employed. [Formerly 401.639]

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ORS 401.935 Liability for expenses incurred and for loss or damage to local equipment; filing claim. (1) If county, city or district equipment is assigned and used under ORS 401.930 to respond to a structural collapse or threat of imminent structural collapse in another county, city or district, the state

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ORS 401.938 Liability for expenses incurred using local personnel. If county, city or district personnel are assigned and used under ORS 401.930 to respond to a structural collapse or threat of imminent structural collapse in another county, city or district and the response prevents the personnel from performing their duties in the county, city or district in which the personnel are normally employed, the state shall reimburse the county, city or district supplying the personnel for the compensation paid to the personnel during the response. The state shall also defray the actual travel and maintenance expenses for responding personnel incurred as a result of the response. [Formerly 401.643]

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ORS 401.940 Immunity from liability for local personnel acting in line of duty; exception. Personnel assigned under ORS 401.930, the state or a county, city or district is not liable for any injury to person or property resulting from the performance of any duty under ORS 401.930 or an assignment, use or response under ORS 401.930. However, this section does not confer immunity from liability for injury to person or property resulting from intentional misconduct or gross negligence. The immunity from liability provided to responding personnel under this section is in addition to any immunity available to responding personnel under ORS 401.932. [Formerly 401.645]

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ORS 401.950 Definitions; tsunami warning information; rules. (1) As used in this section

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ORS 401.952 Uniform tsunami warning signal; rules. (1) The Oregon Department of Emergency Management, in consultation with the State Department of Geology and Mineral Industries, shall establish by rule a uniform tsunami warning signal, including rules specifying the type, duration and volume of the warning signal and the location of warning signal delivery devices, for use on the Oregon coast

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ORS 401.955 Contributions to finance tsunami warning system. The Oregon Department of Emergency Management or the State Department of Geology and Mineral Industries may seek and accept gifts, grants and donations from any source to finance all or part of the duties assigned under ORS 401.950 and 401.952. [Formerly 401.864; 2021 c.539 §53]

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ORS 401.960 Definitions for ORS 401.960, 401.962, 401.965 and 401.970. For the purposes of this section and ORS 401.962, 401.965 and 401.970

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ORS 401.962 Legislative findings. (1) The Legislative Assembly finds that during an abnormal disruption of the market, some merchants and wholesalers have taken unconscionable advantage of consumers by charging grossly excessive prices for essential consumer goods and services

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ORS 401.965 Abnormal disruption of market. (1) As used in subsections (1) to (4) of this section, the terms “merchant” and “wholesaler” do not include a public body as that term is defined in ORS 174.109, a public utility as defined in ORS 757.005 (1)(a)(A) or an electric utility as defined in ORS 757.600

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ORS 401.970 Applicability of remedies. The remedies provided in ORS 401.965 (1) to (4) and in the amendments to ORS 646.607 by section 6, chapter 223, Oregon Laws 2007, are in addition to any other remedies that may exist under the law. [Formerly 401.108]

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ORS 401.975 Legislative findings. The Legislative Assembly finds that

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ORS 401.977 Animal emergency operations plan. (1) As used in this section

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ORS 401.978 Livestock emergency operations plan. (1) As used in this section, “livestock” means cattle, horses, sheep and any other animals designated by the State Department of Agriculture

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ORS 401.980 Access to disaster sites by news media representatives. (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of any law, rule, ordinance, policy or order to the contrary, any official of a public body, as defined in ORS 174.109, must grant credentialed or documented representatives of news media organizations access to scenes of wildfires or natural disasters on public lands that are otherwise closed to the public

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ORS 401.981 Committee to establish guidelines. (1) The Oregon Department of Emergency Management shall convene a committee composed of equal numbers of news media and public safety agency stakeholders to develop the following voluntary guidelines for implementing ORS 401.980

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ORS 401.990 Penalties. Any person knowingly violating any provision of this chapter, or any of the rules, regulations or orders adopted and promulgated under this chapter, shall, upon conviction thereof, be guilty of a Class C misdemeanor. [1967 c.480 §8; 1977 c.248 §4; 1983 c.586 §41; 2009 c.718 §48]

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