Source: https://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/2007/12.117
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ORS 12.117 - Actions based on child abuse - 2007 Oregon Revised Statutes
2007 ORS Vol. 1 Chapter 12 Section 12.117
2007 ORS 12.117¹
(1) Notwithstanding ORS 12.110 (Actions for certain injuries to person not arising on contract), 12.115 (Action for negligent injury to person or property) or 12.160 (Suspension for minors and persons who are insane), an action based on conduct that constitutes child abuse or conduct knowingly allowing, permitting or encouraging child abuse accruing while the person who is entitled to bring the action is under 18 years of age shall be commenced not more than six years after that person attains 18 years of age, or if the injured person has not discovered the injury or the causal connection between the injury and the child abuse, nor in the exercise of reasonable care should have discovered the injury or the causal connection between the injury and the child abuse, not more than three years from the date the injured person discovers or in the exercise of reasonable care should have discovered the injury or the causal connection between the child abuse and the injury, whichever period is longer.
(B) Allowing, permitting, encouraging or hiring a child to engage in prostitution, as defined in ORS chapter 167.
(3) Nothing in this section creates a new cause of action or enlarges any existing cause of action. [1989 c.643 §§2,3; 1991 c.386 §4; 1991 c.932 §1; 1993 c.18 §5; 1993 c.296 §1; 1993 c.622 §2]
Statute, as amended in 1991, applies to ac­tion based on child abuse filed after October 3, 1989, even if ac­tion was pre­vi­ously barred by ORS 12.110 (Actions for certain injuries to person not arising on contract) and 12.160 (Suspension for minors and persons who are insane) and such applica­tion does not violate Article III, sec­tion 1 of Oregon Constitu­tion. A.K.H. v. R.C.T., 312 Or 497, 822 P2d 135 (1991)