Source: http://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/179.620?highlight=179.321
Timestamp: 2014-10-30 18:17:11
Document Index: 158991968

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 179', '§2', '§1', '§122', '§2', '§2', '§1', '§2', '§148', '§58']

ORS 179.620 - Liability of person or estate for cost of care - 2013 Oregon Revised Statutes
179.653 Unpaid costs as lien on prop­erty
179.655 Enforce­ment of lien
179.660 Guardian or conservator for estate of per­son in institu­tion
179.711 Remittance of amounts due
179.731 Waiver of collec­tion of amount payable
179.740 Collec­tion from estates
179.745 Title to and transfer of prop­erty
2013 ORS § 179.620¹
Liability of person or estate for cost of care
(1) A person and the personal estate of the person, or a decedents estate, is liable for the full cost of care. Full cost of care is established according to ORS 179.701 (Determination of cost-of-care rates).
(2) While the person is liable for the full cost of care, the maximum amount a person is required to pay toward the full cost of care shall be determined according to the persons ability to pay. Ability to pay is determined as provided in ORS 179.640 (Determination of ability to pay).
(3) Upon the death of a person, the decedents estate shall be liable for any unpaid cost of care. The liability of the decedents estate is limited to the cost of care incurred on or after July 24, 1979. The decedents estate shall not include assets placed in trust for the person by other persons. Collection of any amount from a decedents estate shall be pursuant to ORS 179.740 (Collection from estates).
(4) Regardless of subsection (1) of this section and ORS 179.610 (Definitions for ORS 179.610 to 179.770) (5), assets held in trust by a trustee for a person are subject to laws generally applicable to trusts.
(a) Any assets received by or owing to a person and the personal estate of the person, or the decedents estate, as compensation from the state for injury, death or, if the collection is being made by the Department of Corrections, the false imprisonment of the person that occurred when the person was in a state institution listed in ORS 179.321 (Responsibility to supervise state institutions) or in the Eastern Oregon Training Center and for which the state admits liability or is found liable through adjudication; and
(b) Any real or personal property of the personal estate of the person, or the decedents estate, that the person or an authorized representative of the person can demonstrate was purchased solely with assets referred to in paragraph (a) of this subsection or partially with such assets, to the extent such assets were used in the purchase. [1959 c.652 §2; 1961 c.501 §1; 1973 c.823 §§122,158; 1979 c.684 §2; 1989 c.348 §2; 1999 c.159 §1; 2001 c.487 §2; 2009 c.595 §148; 2013 c.36 §58]
State is entitled to reimburse­ment for cost of institutionaliza­tion from assets of institu­tionalized per­son, including cash and savings accounts, and is not limited to reimburse­ment from current income of institu­tionalized per­son. McCauley v. Depart­ment of Revenue, 30 Or App 87, 566 P2d 537 (1977), Sup Ct review denied
Purported inequality arising from Mental Health Divisions practice of charging per­sons other than transferees from Depart­ment of Correc­tions did not immunize peti­tioners under Equal Protec­tion Clauses of state and federal constitu­tions from lawful obliga­tions to pay charges for cost of care at divisions facilities. Fredenburg v. Mental Health Div., 106 Or App 337, 807 P2d 812 (1991), as modified by 107 Or App 425, 812 P2d 432 (1991)
Parents were not denied equal protec­tion by require­ment that they pay support pursuant to [former] ORS 419.513 [bad link] for child placed in foster care, for foster home is not state institu­tion for purposes of these sec­tions. State ex rel Juvenile Depart­ment v. Rankin, 30 Or App 239, 566 P2d 1209 (1977)
Status of a responsible relative of a needy recipient when the responsible relative is also subject to pay­ment of support for an­oth­er relative in a state institu­tion, (1973) Vol 36, p 608; release of patients confidential case records, (1974) Vol 36, p 1080; authority of Depart­ment of Revenue for access to confidential medical in­for­ma­­tion to apply on behalf of patient under care of Mental Health Division for medical benefits, (1974) Vol 37, p 269; Mental Health Division billing for prisoner-patients transferred from correc­tional institu­tions to state institu­tions for mentally ill for cost of care and treat­ment, (1981) Vol 41, p 365