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OR Rev Stat § 656.025 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 656 - Workers’ Compensation|Section 656.025 - Individuals engaged in commuter ridesharing not subject workers; conditions.

(1) For the purpose of this chapter, an individual is not a subject worker while commuting in a voluntary commuter ridesharing arrangement unless: (a) The worker is reimbursed for travel expenses incurred therein; (b) The worker receives payment for commuting time from the employer; or (c) The employer makes an election to provide coverage for the worker pursuant to ORS 656.039. (2) As used in this section "voluntary commuter ridesharing arrangement" means a carpool or vanpool arrangement in which participation is not required as a condition of employment and in which not more than 15 persons are transported to and from their places of employment, in a single daily round trip where the driver also is on the way to or from the driver’s place of employment. [1981 c.227 §4]
OR Rev Stat § 656.029 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 656 - Workers’ Compensation|Section 656.029 - Obligation of person awarding contract to provide coverage for workers under contract; exceptions; effect of failure to provide coverage.

(1) If a person awards a contract involving the performance of labor where such labor is a normal and customary part or process of the person’s trade or business, the person awarding the contract is responsible for providing workers’ compensation insurance coverage for all individuals, other than those exempt under ORS 656.027, who perform labor under the contract unless the person to whom the contract is awarded provides such coverage for those individuals before labor under the contract commences. If an individual who performs labor under the contract incurs a compensable injury, and no workers’ compensation insurance coverage is provided for that individual by the person who is charged with the responsibility for providing such coverage before labor under the contract commences, that person shall be treated as a noncomplying employer and benefits shall be paid to the injured worker in the manner provided in this chapter for the payment of benefits to the worker of a noncomplying employer. (2) If a person to whom the contract is awarded is exempt from coverage under ORS 656.027, and that person engages individuals who are not exempt under ORS 656.027 in the performance of the contract, that person shall provide workers’ compensation insurance coverage for all such individuals. If an individual who performs labor under the contract incurs a compensable injury, and no workers’ compensation insurance coverage is provided for that individual by the person to whom the contract is awarded, that person shall be treated as a noncomplying employer and benefits shall be paid to the injured worker in the manner provided in this chapter for the payment of benefits to the worker of a noncomplying employer. (3) As used in this section: (a) "Person" includes partnerships, joint ventures, associations, corporations, limited liability companies, governmental agencies and sole proprietorships. (b) "Sole proprietorship" means a business entity or individual who performs labor without the assistance of others. [1979 c.864 §2; 1981 c.725 §1; 1981 c.854 §4; 1983 c.397 §1; 1983 c.579 §2a; 1985 c.706 §1; 1989 c.762 §5; 1995 c.93 §34; 1995 c.332 §6a]
OR Rev Stat § 656.031 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 656 - Workers’ Compensation|Section 656.031 - Coverage for municipal volunteer personnel.

(1) Except as provided in ORS 404.215, all municipal personnel, other than those employed full-time, part-time, or substitutes therefor, shall, for the purpose of this chapter, be known as volunteer personnel and shall not be considered as workers unless the municipality has filed the election provided by this section. (2) The county, city or other municipality utilizing volunteer personnel as specified in subsection (1) of this section may elect to have such personnel considered as subject workers for purposes of this chapter. Such election shall be made by filing a written application to the insurer, or in the case of a self-insured employer, the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services, that includes a resolution of the governing body declaring its intent to cover volunteer personnel as provided in subsection (1) of this section and a description of the work to be performed by such personnel. The application shall also state the estimated total number of volunteer personnel on a roster for each separate category for which coverage is elected. The county, city or other municipality shall notify the insurer, or in the case of self-insurers, the director, of changes in the estimated total number of volunteers. (3) Upon receiving the written application the insurer or self-insured employer may fix assumed wage rates for the volunteer personnel, which may be used only for purposes of computations under this chapter, and shall require the regular payment of premiums or assessments based upon the estimated total numbers of such volunteers carried on the roster for each category being covered. The self-insured employer shall submit such assumed wage rates to the director. If the director finds that the rates are unreasonable, the director may fix appropriate rates to be used for purposes of this section. (4) The county, city or municipality shall maintain separate official membership rosters for each category of volunteers. A certified copy of the official membership roster shall be furnished the insurer or director upon request. Persons covered under this section are entitled to the benefits of this chapter and they are entitled to such benefits if injured as provided in ORS 656.202 while performing any duties arising out of and in the course of their employment as volunteer personnel, if the duties being performed are among those: (a) Described on the application of the county, city or municipality; and (b) Required of similar full-time paid employees. (5) The filing of claims for benefits under this section is the exclusive remedy of a volunteer or a beneficiary of the volunteer for injuries compensable under this chapter against the state, its political subdivisions, their officers, employees, or any employer, regardless of negligence. [Formerly 656.088; 1969 c.527 §1; 1977 c.72 §1; 1979 c.815 §2; 1981 c.854 §5; 1981 c.874 §1; 2009 c.718 §14a]
OR Rev Stat § 656.035 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 656 - Workers’ Compensation|Section 656.035 - Status of workers in separate occupations of employer.

If an employer is engaged in an occupation in which the employer employs one or more subject workers and is also engaged in a separate occupation in which there are no subject workers, the employer is not subject to this chapter as to that separate occupation, nor are the workers wholly engaged in that occupation subject to this chapter. [1965 c.285 §10]
OR Rev Stat § 656.037 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 656 - Workers’ Compensation|Section 656.037 - Exemption from coverage for persons engaged in certain real estate activities.

A person contracting to pay remuneration for professional real estate activity as defined in ORS chapter 696 to a qualified real estate broker or qualified principal real estate broker, as defined in ORS 316.209, is not an employer of that qualified broker under the Workers’ Compensation Law. A qualified real estate broker or qualified principal real estate broker is not entitled to benefits under the Workers’ Compensation Law unless such individual has obtained coverage for such benefits pursuant to ORS 656.128. [1983 c.597 §5; 2001 c.300 §71]
OR Rev Stat § 656.039 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 656 - Workers’ Compensation|Section 656.039 - Election of coverage for workers not subject to law; procedure; cancellation; election of coverage for home care workers and personal support workers.

(1) An employer of one or more persons defined as nonsubject workers or not defined as subject workers may elect to make them subject workers. If the employer is or becomes a carrier-insured employer, the election shall be made by filing written notice thereof with the insurer with a copy to the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services. The effective date of coverage is governed by ORS 656.419 (3). If the employer is or becomes a self-insured employer, the election shall be made by filing written notice thereof with the director, the effective date of coverage to be the date specified in the notice. (2) Any election under subsection (1) of this section may be canceled by written notice thereof to the insurer or, in the case of a self-insured employer, by notice thereof to the director. The cancellation is effective at 12 midnight ending the day the notice is received by the insurer or the director, unless a later date is specified in the notice. The insurer shall, within 10 days after receipt of a notice of cancellation under this section, send a copy of the notice to the director. (3) When necessary the insurer or the director shall fix assumed minimum or maximum wages for persons made subject workers under this section. (4) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, a person or employer not subject to this chapter who elects to become covered may apply to an insurer for coverage. An insurer other than the State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation may provide such coverage. However, the State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation shall accept any written notice filed and provide coverage as provided in this section if all subject workers of the employers will be insured with the State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation and the coverage of those subject workers is not considered by the State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation to be a risk properly assignable to the assigned risk pool. (5)(a) The Home Care Commission created by ORS 410.602 shall elect coverage on behalf of persons who employ home care workers or personal support workers to make home care workers and personal support workers subject workers. (b) As used in this subsection: (A) "Home care worker" has the meaning given that term in ORS 410.600. (B) "Personal support worker" has the meaning given that term in ORS 410.600. [1965 c.285 §11; 1975 c.556 §22; 1979 c.839 §1; 1981 c.854 §6; 1983 c.816 §1; 1985 c.212 §2; 2007 c.241 §8; 2007 c.835 §1; 2010 c.100 §9; 2014 c.116 §12; 2018 c.75 §28]
OR Rev Stat § 656.043 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 656 - Workers’ Compensation|Section 656.043 - Governmental agency paying wages responsible for providing coverage.

Except as otherwise provided in ORS 656.029 to 656.033 and 656.041, but notwithstanding any other provision of law, the state or any city, county, district, or agency thereof, that pays the wages of a subject worker is responsible for providing workers’ compensation insurance coverage for that worker. [1987 c.414 §183]
OR Rev Stat § 656.044 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 656 - Workers’ Compensation|Section 656.044 - State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation may insure liability under Longshoremen’s and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act; procedure; cancellation.

(1) The State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation may insure Oregon employers against their liability for compensation under the Longshoremen’s and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act (33 U.S.C. 901 to 950) or any Act amendatory or supplementary thereto or in lieu thereof, as fully as any private insurance carrier. (2) The State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation may, from time to time, fix rates of contributions to be paid by such employers. These rates shall be based upon the costs of inspection and other administration, the hazard of the occupation and the accident experience of the employers. The State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation may require a minimum annual premium, contributions, assessments and fees from such employers. (3) All claims for compensation and other costs arising from such insurance shall be paid from the Industrial Accident Fund. (4) The State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation or any employer may cancel any insurance coverage issued under this section by giving notice as required by the Longshoremen’s and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act, or the rules or regulations made in pursuance thereof. [Amended by 1965 c.285 §13; 1981 c.876 §2]
OR Rev Stat § 656.052 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 656 - Workers’ Compensation|Section 656.052 - Prohibition against employment without coverage; proposed order declaring noncomplying employer; effect of failure to comply.

(1) No person shall engage as a subject employer unless and until the person has provided coverage pursuant to ORS 656.017 for subject workers the person employs. (2) Whenever the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services has reason to believe that any person has violated subsection (1) of this section, the director shall serve upon the person a proposed order declaring the person to be a noncomplying employer and containing the amount, if any, of civil penalty to be assessed pursuant to ORS 656.735 (1). (3) If any person fails to comply with ORS 656.017 after an order declaring the person to be a noncomplying employer has become final by operation of law or on appeal, the circuit court of the county in which the person resides or in which the person employs workers shall, upon the commencement of a suit by the director for that purpose, permanently enjoin the person from employing subject workers without complying with ORS 656.017. Upon the filing of such a suit, the court shall set a day for hearing and shall cause notice thereof to be served upon the noncomplying employer. The hearing shall be not less than five days from the service of the notice. (4) The court may award reasonable attorney fees to the director if the director prevails in an action under subsection (3) of this section. The court may award reasonable attorney fees to a defendant who prevails in an action under subsection (3) of this section if the court determines that the director had no objectively reasonable basis for asserting the claim or no reasonable basis for appealing an adverse decision of the trial court. [Amended by 1957 c.574 §2; 1965 c.285 §14; 1967 c.341 §4; 1973 c.447 §1; 1987 c.234 §1; 1990 c.2 §5; 1995 c.332 §6b; 1995 c.696 §43]
OR Rev Stat § 656.056 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 656 - Workers’ Compensation|Section 656.056 - Subject employers must post notice of manner of compliance.

(1) All subject employers shall display in a conspicuous manner about their works, and in a sufficient number of places reasonably to inform their workers of the fact, printed notices furnished by the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services stating that they are subject to this chapter and the manner of their compliance with this chapter. (2) No employer who is not currently a subject employer shall post or permit to remain on or about the place of business or premises of the employer any notice that the employer is subject to, and complying with, this chapter. [Amended by 1965 c.285 §16]
OR Rev Stat § 656.070 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 656 - Workers’ Compensation|Section 656.070 - Definitions for ORS 656.027, 656.070 and 656.075.

As used in ORS 656.027, 656.075 and this section: (1) "Newspaper" has the meaning for that term provided in ORS 193.010. (2) "Newspaper carrier" means an individual age 18 years or younger who contracts with a newspaper publishing company or independent newspaper dealer or contractor to distribute newspapers to the general public and performs or undertakes any necessary or attendant functions related thereto, but receives no salary or wages, other than sales incentives or bonuses, for the performance of those duties from the newspaper publishing company or independent newspaper dealer or contractor. "Newspaper carrier" includes any individual appointed or utilized on a temporary basis by a newspaper carrier, a newspaper publishing company or independent newspaper dealer or contractor to perform any or all of the duties of a newspaper carrier. [1977 c.835 §3; 1981 c.535 §52]
OR Rev Stat § 656.075 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 656 - Workers’ Compensation|Section 656.075 - Exemption from coverage for newspaper carriers; casualty insurance and other requirements.

An individual qualifies for the exemption provided in ORS 656.027 only if the newspaper publishing company or independent newspaper dealer or contractor utilizing the individual: (1) Encourages any minor so utilized to remain in school and attend classes; (2) Encourages any minor so utilized to not allow newspaper carrier duties to interfere with any school activities of the individual; (3) Provides accident insurance coverage for the individual while the individual is engaged in newspaper carrier duties that is at least equal to the following: (a) $250,000 unallocated hospital and medical benefits; (b) $10 per week lost time benefits for a period of 52 weeks; and (c) $5,000 accidental death and dismemberment benefit; and (4) Provides the individual with a clear, written explanation or description of the amount and the terms and conditions of the insurance coverage required by this section, including a specific statement that the insurance coverage is in lieu of benefits under the Workers’ Compensation Law. [1977 c.835 §4; 1981 c.535 §53]
OR Rev Stat § 656.088 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 656 - Workers’ Compensation|Section 656.088

[Amended by 1955 c.320 §1; 1965 c.285 §17; renumbered 656.031]
OR Rev Stat § 656.128 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 656 - Workers’ Compensation|Section 656.128 - Sole proprietors, limited liability company members, partners, independent contractors may elect coverage by insurer; cancellation.

(1) Any person who is a sole proprietor, or a member, including a member who is a manager, of a limited liability company, or a member of a partnership, or an independent contractor pursuant to ORS 670.600, may make written application to an insurer to become entitled as a subject worker to compensation benefits. Thereupon, the insurer may accept such application and fix a classification and an assumed monthly wage at which such person shall be carried on the payroll as a worker for purposes of computations under this chapter. (2) When the application is accepted, such person thereupon is subject to the provisions and entitled to the benefits of this chapter. The person shall promptly notify the insurer whenever the status of the person as an employer of subject workers changes. Any subject worker employed by such a person after the effective date of the election of the person shall, upon being employed, be considered covered automatically by the same workers’ compensation insurance policy that covers such person. (3) No claim shall be allowed or paid under this section, except upon corroborative evidence in addition to the evidence of the claimant. (4) Any person subject to this chapter as a worker as provided in this section may cancel such election by giving written notice to the insurer. The cancellation shall become effective at 12 midnight ending the day of filing the notice with the insurer. [Amended by 1957 c.440 §2; 1959 c.448 §12; 1965 c.285 §18; 1969 c.400 §1; 1975 c.556 §23; 1981 c.854 §9; 1981 c.876 §3; 1993 c.777 §11; 1995 c.93 §33; 1995 c.332 §11; 2007 c.241 §9]
OR Rev Stat § 656.132 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 656 - Workers’ Compensation|Section 656.132 - Coverage of minors.

(1) A minor working at an age legally permitted under the laws of this state is considered sui juris for the purpose of this chapter. No other person shall have any cause of action or right to compensation for an injury to such minor worker, except as expressly provided in this chapter, but in the event of a lump-sum payment becoming due under this chapter to such minor worker, the control and management of any sum so paid shall be within the jurisdiction of the courts as in the case of other property of minors. (2) If an employer subject to this chapter in good faith employed a minor under the age permitted by law, believing the minor to be of lawful age, and the minor sustains an injury or suffers death in such employment, the minor is conclusively presumed to have accepted the provisions of this chapter. The Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services may determine conclusively the good faith of such employer unless the employer possessed at the time of the accident resulting in such injury or death a certificate from some duly constituted authority of this state authorizing the employment of the minor in the work in which the minor was then engaged. Such certificate is conclusive evidence of the good faith of such employer. (3) If the employer holds no such certificate and the director finds that the employer did not employ such minor in good faith, the minor is entitled to the benefits of this chapter, but the employer shall pay to the Consumer and Business Services Fund by way of penalty a sum equal to 25 percent of the amount paid out or set apart under such statutes on account of the injury or death of such minor, but such penalty shall be not less than $100 nor exceed $500. [Amended by 1959 c.448 §13; 1985 c.212 §3]
OR Rev Stat § 656.135 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 656 - Workers’ Compensation|Section 656.135 - Coverage of deaf school work experience trainees.

(1) As used in this section "school" means the Oregon School for the Deaf. (2) All persons participating as trainees in a work experience program of the school are considered as workers of the school subject to this chapter for purposes of this section. (3) On behalf of a school conducting a work experience program, the Department of Education shall submit a written statement to the State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation that includes a description of the work to be performed by such persons. (4) Upon receiving the written statement, the corporation may fix assumed wage rates for the persons enrolled in the work experience program, without regard to ORS chapter 652 or ORS 653.010 to 653.565 and 653.991, which may be used only for purposes of computations under this chapter. (5) The Department of Education shall furnish the corporation with a list of the names of those enrolled in work experience programs in the school and shall notify the corporation of any changes therein. Only those persons whose names appear on such list prior to their personal injury by accident are entitled to the benefits of this chapter and they are entitled to such benefits if injured as provided in ORS 656.156 and 656.202 while performing any duties arising out of and in the course of their participation in the work experience program, provided the duties being performed are among those: (a) Described on the application of the department; and (b) Required of similar full-time paid employees. (6) The filing of claims for benefits under this section is the exclusive remedy of a trainee or beneficiary of the trainee for injuries compensable under this chapter against the state, the school, the department, its officers and employees, or any employer, regardless of negligence. (7) The provisions of this section shall be inapplicable to any trainee who is earning wages for such employment. [1969 c.406 §2; 2007 c.858 §83; 2009 c.562 §35]