ORS  Guide
Abuse
107.705(1) Family Abuse Prevention:
(a) Attempting to cause or intentionally, knowingly or recklessly causing physical injury
(b) Intentionally, knowingly or recklessly placing another in fear of imminent serious physical injury OR
(c) Committing sexual abuse in any degree

124.005(1) Elderly & Persons with Disabilities:
(a) Any physical injury caused except by accidental means, or appearing to be at odds with the explanation given for it
(b) Neglect leading to physical harm through withholding services necessary to maintain health & well-being.
(c) Abandonment - including desertion or willfully forsaking an elderly person or a person with a disability - or the withdrawal or neglect of duties & obligations owed an elderly person or a person with a disability by a caregiver or other person.
(d) Willful inflicting physical pain or injury.
(e) Use of derogatory or inappropriate names, phrases or profanity, ridicule, harassment, coercion, threats, cursing, intimidation or inappropriate sexual comments or conduct of such a nature that it threatens significant physical or emotional harm to an elderly person or person with a disability.
(f) Causing any sweepstakes promotion to be mailed to an elderly person or a person with a disability who had received sweepstakes promotional material in the US mail, spent more than $500 in the preceding year on any sweepstakes or combination of sweepstakes promotions from the same service, regardless of the identities of the originators of the sweepstakes promotion & who represented to the court that they felt the need for the court's assistance to prevent themselves from incurring further expense
(g) Wrongfully taking or appropriating money or property, or knowingly subjecting an elderly person or person with a disability to alarm by conveying a threat to wrongfully take or appropriate money or property from them and that the threat would reasonably be expected to cause the victim to believe that it would be carried out.
(h) Sexual contact with a non consenting elderly person or person with a disability or with an elderly person or person with a disability considered incapable of consenting to a sexual act

419B.005(1) Child Abuse:
(a) means:
(A) Any assault, as defined in ORS chapter 163, of a child and any physical injury to a child which has been caused by other than accidental means, including any injury which appears to be at variance with the explanation given of the injury.
(B) Any mental injury to a child, which shall include only observable and substantial impairment of the child’s mental or psychological ability to function caused by cruelty to the child, with due regard to the culture of the child.
(C) Rape of a child, which includes but is not limited to rape, sodomy, unlawful sexual penetration and incest, as those acts are described in ORS chapter 163.
(D) Sexual abuse, as described in ORS chapter 163.
(E) Sexual exploitation, including but not limited to:
(i) Contributing to the sexual delinquency of a minor, and any other conduct which allows, employs, authorizes, permits, induces or encourages a child to engage in the performing for people to observe or the photographing, filming, tape recording or other exhibition which, in whole or in part, depicts sexual conduct or contact, sexual abuse involving a child or rape of a child, but not including any conduct which is part of any investigation conducted pursuant to 419B.020 (Duty of department or law enforcement agency receiving report) or which is designed to serve educational or other legitimate purposes AND
(ii) Allowing, permitting, encouraging or hiring a child to engage in prostitution as described in 167.007 (prostitution) or a commercial sex act, to purchase sex with a minor as described in 163.413 (purchasing sex with a minor) or to engage in commercial sexual solicitation as described in 167.008 (prostitution - commercial sexual solicitation).
(F) Negligent treatment or maltreatment of a child, including but not limited to the failure to provide adequate food, clothing, shelter or medical care that is likely to endanger the health or welfare of the child.
(G) Threatened harm to a child, which means subjecting a child to a substantial risk of harm to the child’s health or welfare.
(H) Buying or selling a person under 18 years of age as described in ORS 163.537.
(I) Permitting a person under 18 years of age to enter or remain in or upon premises where methamphetamines are being manufactured.
(J) Unlawful exposure to a controlled substance, or to the unlawful manufacturing of a cannabinoid extract that subjects a child to a substantial risk of harm to the child's health or safety.
(b) Doesn't include reasonable discipline unless the discipline results in one of the conditions described in (a) above.

430.735(1) Adults With Mental Illness or Developmental Disabilities:
(a) Abandonment, including desertion or willful forsaking of an adult or the withdrawal or neglect of duties and obligations owed an adult by a caregiver or other person.
(b) Any physical injury to an adult caused by other than accidental means, or that appears to be at variance with the explanation given of the injury.
(c) Willful infliction of physical pain or injury upon an adult.
(d) Sexual abuse.
(e) Neglect.
(f) Verbal abuse of an adult.
(g) Financial exploitation of an adult.
(h) Involuntary seclusion of an adult for the convenience of the caregiver or to discipline the adult.
(i) A wrongful use of a physical or chemical restraint upon an adult, excluding an act of restraint prescribed by a physician licensed under ORS chapter 677, physician assistant licensed under ORS 677.505 (Application of provisions governing physician assistants to other health professions) to 677.525 (Fees), naturopathic physician licensed under ORS chapter 685 or nurse practitioner licensed under ORS 678.375 (Nurse practitioners) to 678.390 (Authority of nurse practitioner and clinical nurse specialist to write prescriptions or dispense drugs) and any treatment activities that are consistent with an approved treatment plan or in connection with a court order.
(j) An act that constitutes a crime under ORS 163.375 (Rape in the first degree), 163.405 (Sodomy in the first degree), 163.411 (Unlawful sexual penetration in the first degree), 163.415 (Sexual abuse in the third degree), 163.425 (Sexual abuse in the second degree), 163.427 (Sexual abuse in the first degree), 163.465 (Public indecency) or 163.467 (Private indecency).
(k) Any death of an adult caused by other than accidental or natural means.

441.630(1) Long Term Healthcare Facility Resident:
(a) Any physical injury to a resident of a long term care facility which has been caused by other than accidental means.
(b) Failure to provide basic care or services, which failure results in physical harm or unreasonable discomfort or serious loss of human dignity.
(c) Sexual contact with a resident caused by an employee, agent or other resident of a long term care facility by force, threat, duress or coercion.
(d) Illegal or improper use of a resident’s resources for the personal profit or gain of another person.
(e) Verbal or mental abuse as prohibited by federal law.
(f) Corporal punishment.
(g) Involuntary seclusion for convenience or discipline.

475.005(1) Controlled Substances: the repetitive excessive use of a drug short of dependence, without legal or medical supervision, which may have a detrimental effect on the individual or society
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