249 sections in this chapter.
ORS 433.136 Consolidation of proceedings regarding isolation or quarantine. Upon receiving multiple petitions under ORS 433.123, 433.133 or 433.142, to promote the fair and efficient operation of justice and having given due regard to the rights of affected persons, the severity of the threat to the public health, and the availability of necessary witnesses and evidence, a court may order the consolidation of the proceedings when
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(1) The number of persons involved or to be affected is so large that individual participation is rendered impracticable; (2) There are questions of law or fact common to the individual petitions or rights to be determined; (3) The group petitioner rights to be determined are typ…
ORS 433.137 Court records; disclosure. (1) The circuit court shall cause to be recorded in the court records
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(a) A full account of proceedings at hearings conducted pursuant to ORS 433.121, 433.123, 433.133 and 433.136; (b) The petitions, affidavits, judgments and orders of the court; and (c) A copy of the orders issued. (2) Any portion of the account of the proceedings, the transcript …
ORS 433.138 Assistance of law enforcement officials in enforcing orders. State and local law enforcement officials, to the extent resources are available, must assist the Public Health Director or the local public health administrator in enforcing orders issued under ORS 433.121, 433.123 and 433.142. [2007 c.445 §16]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 433.140 Payment of isolation or quarantine expenses; assistance. (1) The expenses incurred under ORS 433.128, when properly certified by the local public health administrator, shall be paid by the person who is isolated or quarantined, when the person is able to pay the expenses
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(2) The Oregon Health Authority may provide general assistance and medical assistance for the person who is isolated or quarantined, on the basis of need, provided that no payment shall be made for the care of any such person in or under the care of any public institution, except…
ORS 433.142 Petition for isolation of contaminated property; contents; hearing; court order. (1) As used in this section, “to isolate property” means to restrict access to property in a manner that reduces or prevents exposure to a toxic substance by persons
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(2) The Public Health Director or a local public health administrator may petition the circuit court to isolate property if there is reason to believe the property is contaminated with a toxic substance that poses a serious risk to the health and safety of others. (3) The petitio…
ORS 433.145 [Repealed by 1973 c.259 §20]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 433.150 Quarantine hospital; seizure, control of and compensation for emergency hospital. (1) Any city or municipality may establish a quarantine hospital within or without its own limits, but if within its own limits, consent of the municipality within which it is proposed to establish such hospital shall be first obtained. Such consent shall not be necessary if the hospital is more than 800 feet from any occupied house or public highway
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(2) When a great emergency exists the board of health may seize and occupy temporarily for such quarantine hospital any suitable vacant house or building within its jurisdiction and the board of health of any city or municipality having a quarantine hospital shall have control ov…
ORS 433.155 [Repealed by 1973 c.259 §13 (433.156 enacted in lieu of 433.155)]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 433.156 Enforcement of isolation or quarantine by law enforcement authorities. All state and local law enforcement authorities shall cooperate with any officer authorized to impose isolation or quarantine in the enforcement thereof. [1973 c.259 §14 (enacted in lieu of 433.155); 2007 c.445 §18a]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 433.160 [Repealed by 1973 c.259 §20]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 433.205 [Repealed by 1973 c.259 §20]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 433.210 [Repealed by 1973 c.259 §20]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 433.215 [Repealed by 1973 c.259 §15 (433.216 enacted in lieu of 433.215)]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 433.216 Detaining conveyance for inspection or investigation. If the Public Health Director finds that there is an imminent risk of the introduction into the state by means of any public or private conveyance of any dangerous communicable disease or toxic substance which presents a substantial threat to public health, the director may detain such conveyance for inspection or investigation. [1973 c.259 §16 (enacted in lieu of 433.215); 1987 c.600 §13; 2007 c.445 §19]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 433.220 Measures taken on discovery of disease or toxic substance; rules; jurisdiction over emergency. (1) If upon inspection pursuant to ORS 433.216, there is discovered among the passengers or goods being transported by any public or private conveyance the existence of any communicable disease or toxic substance that presents a substantial threat to public health, the Public Health Director, under rules of the Oregon Health Authority, may
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(a) Issue an order for testing, medical examination or treatment under ORS 433.035. (b) Isolate or quarantine such persons or goods in accordance with ORS 433.121, 433.123 or 433.142. (c) Require the passengers and persons conveying materials to follow the authority’s rules for t…
ORS 433.225 [Repealed by 1973 c.259 §20]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 433.230 [Repealed by 1973 c.259 §20]
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DISEASE CONTROL IN SCHOOLS
ORS 433.235 Definitions for ORS 433.235 to 433.284. As used in ORS 433.235 to 433.284
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(1) “Administrator” means the principal or other person having general control and supervision of a school or children’s facility. (2) “Children’s facility” or “facility” means: (a) A certified child care facility as described in ORS 329A.250 to 329A.450, except as exempted by ru…
ORS 433.240 Parental responsibility. (1) In adopting ORS 433.235 to 433.284, the Legislative Assembly recognizes the obligation of parents to have their children properly immunized and to provide to schools and facilities accurate records of immunization
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(2) Notwithstanding ORS 339.030, nothing in ORS 433.235 to 433.284 operates to remove parental liability under compulsory attendance laws. [1981 c.78 §§9,10; 1985 c.579 §5; 1989 c.619 §6]
ORS 433.245 Advisory committee; membership. (1) The Director of the Oregon Health Authority shall appoint a committee to advise the Oregon Health Authority on the administration of the provisions of ORS 433.235 to 433.284, including the adoption of rules pursuant to ORS 433.269 (2), 433.273, 433.282 and 433.283
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(2) Members of the committee appointed pursuant to subsection (1) of this section shall include, but need not be limited to, representatives of the Oregon Health Authority, the Department of Human Services, the Department of Education, public, private and parochial schools, child…
ORS 433.255 Persons with or exposed to restrictable disease excluded from school or children’s facility. Except in strict conformity with the rules of the Oregon Health Authority, no child or employee shall be permitted to be in any school or children’s facility when
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(1) That child or employee has any restrictable disease; (2) That child or employee comes from any house in which exists any restrictable disease; or (3) That child has been excluded as provided in ORS 433.267 (5) or (7). [Amended by 1973 c.259 §18; 1981 c.78 §2; 1989 c.224 §88; …
ORS 433.260 Exclusion of persons exposed to or having restrictable disease from school or children’s facility; certificate for readmission. (1) Whenever any administrator has reason to suspect that any child or employee has or has been exposed to any restrictable disease and is required by the rules of the Oregon Health Authority to be excluded from a school or children’s facility, the administrator shall send such person home and, if the disease is one that must be reported to the authority, report the occurrence to the local health department by the most direct means available
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(2) Any person excluded under subsection (1) of this section may not be permitted to be in the school or facility until the person presents a certificate from a physician, physician associate licensed under ORS 677.505 to 677.525, nurse practitioner licensed under ORS 678.375 to …
ORS 433.263 [1973 c.566 §1; 1979 c.731 §8; 1981 c.78 §1; renumbered 433.235]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 433.265 [Repealed by 1973 c.259 §20]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 433.267 Immunization of school children; rules; exceptions; effect of failure to comply. (1) As a condition of attendance in any school or children’s facility in this state, every child through grade 12 shall submit to the administrator, unless the school or facility the child attends already has on file a record that indicates that the child has received immunizations against the restrictable diseases prescribed by rules of the Oregon Health Authority as provided in ORS 433.273, one of the following
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(a) A document signed by the parent, a practitioner of the healing arts who has within the scope of the practitioner’s license the authority to administer immunizations or a representative of the local health department certifying the immunizations the child has received; (b) A d…
ORS 433.269 Local public health authority to ensure availability of immunizations; reports and records. (1) A local public health authority shall ensure that immunizations required under ORS 433.282 and 433.283 and the rules adopted pursuant to ORS 433.273 for attendance at a school, children’s facility or post-secondary educational institution are available through local health care providers or the local public health authority or its contractors
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(a) To the entire population of the area served by the local public health authority in convenient areas and at convenient times. (b) Regardless of whether a child or student is able to pay for the immunization. (2)(a) Each local public health authority, school and children’s fac…
ORS 433.270 [Repealed by 1973 c.259 §20]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 433.271 Thimerosal prohibited in school entry immunizations provided by Oregon Health Authority; exceptions. The Oregon Health Authority may not purchase or distribute a pediatric vaccine necessary for school entry immunization requirements if the vaccine contains thimerosal, unless thimerosal is detectable only in trace amounts or no other vaccine for the same purpose is commercially available in a form that does not contain thimerosal. The authority may purchase and distribute a pediatric vaccine that contains thimerosal if no other vaccine for the same purpose is commercially available in a form that does not contain thimerosal. [2001 c.720 §2; 2009 c.595 §653]
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Note: 433.271 was enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but was not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 433 or any series therein by legislative action. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.
ORS 433.273 Rules. The Oregon Health Authority shall adopt rules pertaining to the implementation of ORS 433.235 to 433.284, which shall include, but need not be limited to
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(1) The definition of “restrictable” disease; (2) The required immunization against diseases; (3) The time schedule for immunization; (4) The approved means of immunization; (5) The procedures and time schedule whereby children may be excluded from attendance in schools or childr…
ORS 433.275 [1973 c.566 §5; repealed by 1981 c.78 §15]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 433.280 Nothing in ORS 179.505, 192.553 to 192.581, 326.561, 326.565, 326.575 or 336.187 prevents
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(1) Inspection by or release to administrators by local health departments of information relating to the status of a person’s immunization against restrictable diseases without the consent of the person, if the person has been emancipated or has reached the age of majority, or t…
ORS 433.281 Post-secondary institution of education that provides student housing to provide information about vaccine-preventable diseases. (1) As used in this section, “post-secondary institution of education” means
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(a) A public university listed in ORS 352.002; (b) A community college operated under ORS chapter 341; or (c) An Oregon-based, generally accredited, private institution of higher education. (2) Each post-secondary institution of education that provides housing for students shall …
ORS 433.282 Required immunizations at certain post-secondary educational institutions; rules. (1) The Oregon Health Authority may require each post-secondary educational institution, except a community college or a career school, to require, using procedures developed by the institution, each full-time student to be immunized, as required for children attending school pursuant to rules adopted by the authority under ORS 433.273, before the student’s second quarter or semester of enrollment on the campus of the institution
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(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, the authority may require each post-secondary educational institution, except a community college or a career school, to document, using procedures developed by the institution, that each full-time student has been immunized, as…
ORS 433.283 Immunizations against measles for certain students at community colleges; rules. (1) The Oregon Health Authority may require each community college to require that students involved in clinical experiences in allied health programs, practicum experiences in education and child care programs and membership on intercollegiate sports teams have current immunizations for measles prior to each student’s participation. The requirement shall apply only to those students born on or after January 1, 1957
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(2) The Higher Education Coordinating Commission by rule shall define clinical experiences in allied health programs, practicum experiences in education and child care programs and membership on intercollegiate sports teams at the community colleges. The Oregon Health Authority b…
ORS 433.284 Adoption of more stringent immunization requirements. Private schools, children’s facilities and post-secondary educational institutions may adopt additional or more stringent requirements as long as exemptions are included and the requirements are in compliance with the United States Public Health Service Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommendations. [1991 c.255 §12; 2013 c.516 §3]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 433.285 [1963 c.190 §1; 1965 c.88 §1; 1977 c.582 §34; 1981 c.630 §2; 1983 c.490 §2; 2009 c.595 §655; 2025 c.203 §3; renumbered 433.288 in 2025]
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STATE PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORY
ORS 433.286 State public health laboratory; analysis of biological and environmental samples; newborn bloodspot screening; fees; rules. (1) The Oregon Health Authority shall maintain a state public health laboratory that is capable of
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(a) Analyzing biological and environmental samples for public health purposes; and (b) Performing newborn bloodspot screening as specified in ORS 433.288. (2) In accordance with rules adopted by the authority, the state public health laboratory may analyze samples or perform newb…
ORS 433.288 Newborn bloodspot screening program; policy; exemptions; fees; fee waivers; rules. (1)(a) It is the public health policy of the State of Oregon that each infant in Oregon undergo newborn bloodspot screening for medical conditions that, if detected early, can be mitigated or treated to prevent harmful health effects
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(b) The Oregon Health Authority shall administer a newborn bloodspot screening program to advance the public health policy described in paragraph (a) of this subsection. (2) The state public health laboratory, or another laboratory pursuant to an agreement with the authority, sha…
ORS 433.290 Oregon Health Authority to conduct educational program on newborn bloodspot screening. (1) To ensure proper testing and follow-up care and increase public awareness of the newborn bloodspot screening program described in ORS 433.288, the Oregon Health Authority shall, subject to available resources, implement
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(a) An educational program for health care providers, expectant parents, parents or guardians of infants and the general public. (b) A follow-up monitoring program to improve long-term care of individuals with medical conditions identified through screening. (2) The educational p…
ORS 433.295 Newborn bloodspot screening standards and reporting requirements for health care providers and health care facilities. Health care providers and health care facilities that provide services to infants in Oregon shall
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(1) Ensure that specimens for newborn bloodspot screening are collected and delivered pursuant to rules adopted by the Oregon Health Authority under ORS 433.288; (2) Ensure that an infant receives medically appropriate care consistent with the results of a newborn bloodspot scree…
ORS 433.298 Oregon Health Authority to compile information about congenital cytomegalovirus; dissemination of information. (1) The Oregon Health Authority shall compile information on the following
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(a) The transmission of congenital cytomegalovirus and methods to reduce the risk of infection during pregnancy; (b) The signs and symptoms of and methods of diagnosing congenital cytomegalovirus; (c) The potential complications associated with congenital cytomegalovirus; and (d)…
ORS 433.299 Newborn Bloodspot Screening Advisory Board; members; term; meetings; reports. (1) The Newborn Bloodspot Screening Advisory Board is established in the Oregon Health Authority
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(2) The board consists of 13 voting members appointed by the Director of the Oregon Health Authority as follows: (a) One member who is a person affected by a disorder included in the newborn screening panel or a family member of a person affected by a disorder included in the new…
ORS 433.301 Newborn nurse home visiting services program; rules. (1) As used in this section, “community” means a geographic region, county, tribe or other group of individuals living in proximity as defined by the Oregon Health Authority by rule
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(2) The authority shall design, implement and maintain a voluntary statewide program to provide universal newborn nurse home visiting services to all families with newborns residing in this state to support healthy child development and strengthen families. The authority shall de…
ORS 433.303 Policy on vitamin K. It is the policy of the State of Oregon that all newborn infants born in hospital or out of hospital receive vitamin K before they are 24 hours old. [1983 c.585 §1]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 433.305 [Repealed by 1969 c.685 §23]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 433.306 Duty to administer vitamin; religious objection; effect of inability to pay. (1) A physician licensed under ORS chapter 677, 684 or 685 or a midwife attending the mother at the birth of a child is responsible for ensuring that the newborn infant receives vitamin K within 24 hours after birth by the most effective means
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(2) The procedure described in subsection (1) of this section does not apply to any newborn infant whose parents object to the procedure on grounds that the procedure conflicts with the religious tenets and practices of the parents. To make an objection under this subsection, the…
ORS 433.307 [1973 c.470 §1; 1981 c.630 §3; repealed by 1983 c.490 §3]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 433.309 [1973 c.470 §2; 1981 c.630 §4; repealed by 1983 c.490 §3]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 433.310 [Amended by 1969 c.314 §41; 1969 c.685 §17; renumbered 438.410]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 433.311 [1973 c.470 §3; repealed by 1983 c.490 §3]
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[Repealed or reserved.]