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2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 09 - Education and Culture › Chapter 341 - Community Colleges › Section 341.185 - Review of zone boundaries.

Except as provided in ORS 255.400 to 255.424, any elector of a district aggrieved by the adjustment of or failure to adjust boundaries of a zone pursuant to ORS 341.175 on the basis that population is not as nearly equal as is feasible is entitled to appear before the board at a public hearing to present the case. If the board refuses to make the requested adjustment in the boundaries, the aggrieved elector may appeal from the decision of the board to the circuit court. The appeal shall be by writ of review. [1971 c.513 §29; 1983 c.350 §200; 2019 c.449 §39]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 09 - Education and Culture › Chapter 341 - Community Colleges › Section 341.275 - Community college district board; qualifications.

(1) The board shall be composed of seven members.
(2) No person who is an employee of the community college district shall be eligible to serve as a member of the board for the district by which the employee is employed. [Formerly 341.790; 1967 c.605 §19; 1969 c.220 §6; 1971 c.513 §26; 1981 c.114 §1; 1983 c.350 §201]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 09 - Education and Culture › Chapter 341 - Community Colleges › Section 341.283 - Organization; meetings; quorum; rules; journal; expenses.

(1) After July 1 of each year, the board of a district shall meet and organize by electing a chairperson and a vice chairperson from its members.
(2) The board shall provide for the time and place of its regular meetings, at any of which it may adjourn to the next succeeding regular meeting or to some specified time prior thereto. Special meetings shall be convened by order of the chairperson of the board or upon the request of four board members at least 24 hours before such meeting is to be held, or by common consent of the board members. Notice of any special meeting shall be given to the members pursuant to bylaws of the board.
(3) A majority of the board members shall constitute a quorum. The affirmative vote of the majority of members of the board is required to transact any business.
(4) The board shall adopt rules for the government of the conduct of its members and its proceedings. The board shall keep a journal and, on the call of any one of its members, shall cause the yeas and nays to be taken and entered upon its journal upon any question before it.
(5) Any duty imposed upon the board as a body shall be performed at a regular or special meeting and shall be made a matter of record. The consent to any particular measure obtained from individual board members when the board is not in session shall not be an act of the board and shall not be binding upon the district.
(6) Members of the board shall receive no compensation for their services, but they shall be allowed the actual and necessary expenses incurred by them in the performance of their duties. [1971 c.513 §2; 1973 c.725 §2; 1995 c.67 §12]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 09 - Education and Culture › Chapter 341 - Community Colleges › Section 341.287 - Status; official title of board.

(1) Districts are bodies corporate, and the board is authorized to sue and be sued in the corporate name.
(2) The members of the board of a district in their official capacity shall be known as the board of education of the community college district. [1971 c.513 §3]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 09 - Education and Culture › Chapter 341 - Community Colleges › Section 341.305 - Tax levy.

Subject to the Local Budget Law (ORS 294.305 to 294.565) and sections 11 and 11b, Article XI of the Oregon Constitution, each community college district shall prepare annually an estimate of the amount of funds necessary to carry out the purposes of the district and may levy a tax upon all assessable property in the district. [Formerly 341.900; 1993 c.45 §132; 1997 c.541 §382; 1999 c.59 §88]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 09 - Education and Culture › Chapter 341 - Community Colleges › Section 341.308 - Authority to certify operating taxes.

A community college district, upon approval of a majority of the electors voting upon the question at the election held to approve formation of a district, may certify operating taxes to the assessor under ORS 310.060 that are within the district’s permanent rate limit established under ORS 341.095. [1969 c.673 §12; 1995 c.67 §13; 1997 c.541 §383]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 09 - Education and Culture › Chapter 341 - Community Colleges › Section 341.309 - Establishment of interstate taxing authority.

A community college district may enter into discussions with county governments or other similar county-wide public organizations in bordering states for the purpose of discussing the feasibility of establishing interstate taxing authority for the district through an interstate agreement entered into pursuant to ORS 190.410 to 190.440. Any such agreement shall be approved by the Legislative Assembly prior to taking effect. [1997 c.521 §4]
Note:
341.309 was enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but was not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 341 or any series therein by legislative action. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 09 - Education and Culture › Chapter 341 - Community Colleges › Section 341.311 - Eminent domain.

A board may obtain by condemnation the title to any land it is authorized to acquire. Condemnation proceedings instituted by the board shall be conducted in accordance with and subject to the provisions of ORS chapter 35 except that the relator therein shall be the board. [1971 c.513 §6]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 09 - Education and Culture › Chapter 341 - Community Colleges › Section 341.312 - Self-insurance program.

(1) A board of education of a community college district may operate a self-insurance program to provide its employees with health insurance benefits.
(2) A board may operate a self-insurance program under this section for liability covering all activities of the community college district and for health insurance benefits for students engaging in athletic contests or in traffic patrols, and may pay the necessary premiums thereon.
(3) Failure to operate a self-insurance program shall in no case be construed as negligence or lack of diligence on the part of the board or the members thereof. [1999 c.502 §3]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 09 - Education and Culture › Chapter 341 - Community Colleges › Section 341.315 - Contract for educational services.

Any school district, education service district, institution of higher education, county, municipality or private organization may contract with a community college district to provide services of an educational nature that are subject to the approval of the Higher Education Coordinating Commission. [Formerly 341.825; 1987 c.204 §1; 1995 c.67 §14; 2013 c.747 §59]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 09 - Education and Culture › Chapter 341 - Community Colleges › Section 341.317 - Educational services to adults in custody at correctional institutions; reimbursement.

(1) Reimbursement from the Community College Support Fund established in ORS 341.620 may be made available to community colleges that deliver educational services to adults in custody confined to the state-operated correctional facilities and to locally operated correctional facilities. The reimbursement shall be distributed as directed in ORS 341.626 and the rules of the Higher Education Coordinating Commission.
(2) The commission shall review and approve services to correctional institutions at least once biennially.
(3) The enrollment limitation, as provided by ORS 341.022, does not apply to persons receiving services under this section.
(4) Reimbursement from the Community College Support Fund established in ORS 341.620 may not be made available to community colleges for delivering educational services to adults in custody confined in federal prisons. Neither shall local property taxes be used to support the services. A host community college shall support the services through a contractual arrangement with the federal government. [1987 c.204 §3; 1989 c.256 §1; 1995 c.67 §15; 2013 c.747 §60; 2019 c.213 §130]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 09 - Education and Culture › Chapter 341 - Community Colleges › Section 341.319 - Intellectual property.

(1) A board may acquire by gift or by purchase interests in intellectual property of any kind, whether patentable or copyrightable or not, including patents, copyrights, inventions, discoveries, processes and ideas. The board may also agree to aid in the development of property acquired pursuant to this section and to pay an assignor of any interest in intellectual property a share of any moneys received on account of the board’s ownership or management of the property.
(2) A board may manage, develop or dispose of by assignment, sale, lease, license or other action deemed advisable by the board, property acquired under subsection (1) of this section, and may contract with any person or agency, board, commission or department of this or any other state or with the federal government regarding the management, development or disposition thereof. The board may make gratuitous assignments of such property to any trust or fund, the sole beneficiary of which is the district or any of the institutions or activities under its control, subject to the share, if any, agreed to be paid to the assignor. The board may reassign such property to the inventor, author or discoverer.
(3) A board may determine the terms and conditions of any transaction authorized by this section and need not require competitive bids in connection therewith. No formal publicity or advertising is required regarding property for the development of which the board wishes to contract, but the board shall make reasonable efforts to disseminate such information in appropriate research and industrial circles.
(4) Moneys received by the board as a result of ownership or management of property acquired under this section or of transactions regarding such property shall be credited to a special fund which shall only be applied to payment of the agreed share, if any, to assignors, the remainder, if any, may be used for general expenses of the college. [1971 c.513 §7]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 09 - Education and Culture › Chapter 341 - Community Colleges › Section 341.321 - Reserve fund; establishment and termination procedures.

Notwithstanding any other statutory provisions, any board of education of a community college district by resolution may establish a reserve fund by making transfers from the district’s general fund. Transfers to the reserve fund shall be included in the district budget prepared and published in accordance with ORS 294.305 to 294.565. If at any time conditions arise which dispense with the necessity for further transfers to or expenditures from a fund established pursuant to this section, the district board shall so declare by resolution. The resolution shall order the balance remaining in such fund to be transferred to the general fund of the district and shall declare the reserve fund closed. [1975 c.770 §25; 1995 c.67 §16]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 09 - Education and Culture › Chapter 341 - Community Colleges › Section 341.326 - Qualification.

Except as provided in ORS 255.400 to 255.424:
(1) At each regular district election, board members shall be elected for a term of four years to succeed the board members whose terms of office expire on June 30 of that year.
(2) A person shall be qualified to be a candidate for election to the board if the person is an elector who resides in the district. If the district is zoned and the position sought is one elected or nominated by zone, the person also must reside in the zone from which the person is nominated.
(3) Members of a board shall be nominated and elected at large or by zones according to a method described in ORS 341.327 and determined under ORS 341.025 or 341.331.
(4) A board member must qualify for office by taking an oath of office. [Formerly 341.333; 2019 c.449 §24]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 09 - Education and Culture › Chapter 341 - Community Colleges › Section 341.327 - Method of electing board.

Except as provided in ORS 255.400 to 255.424:
(1) The board members may be elected in one of the following methods or a combination thereof:
(a) Elected by electors of zones as nearly equal in population as possible according to the latest federal census.
(b) Elected at large by position number by the electors of the district.
(2) Candidates for election from zones shall be nominated by electors of the zones. Candidates for election at large may be nominated by electors of zones or by electors of the district, as determined under subsection (3) of this section.
(3) Where the method selected under subsection (2) of this section includes a combination of nomination of candidates from and by zones and of nomination of candidates at large, the number of candidates to be nominated in each manner shall be specified in the petition submitted under ORS 341.025 or under ORS 341.331. [Formerly 341.280; 2019 c.449 §25]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 09 - Education and Culture › Chapter 341 - Community Colleges › Section 341.335 - Vacancy; filling of vacancy; term of appointed member.

(1) The board shall declare the office of a board member vacant if it finds any of the following:
(a) The incumbent has died or resigned.
(b) The incumbent has been removed or recalled from office or the election of the incumbent thereto has been declared void by the judgment of a court.
(c) The incumbent has ceased to be a resident of the district from which the incumbent was nominated or elected.
(d) The incumbent has ceased to discharge the duties of office for two consecutive months unless prevented therefrom by sickness or other unavoidable cause or unless excused by the chairperson of the board.
(2) A board member who is nominated or elected by zone and who changes permanent residence from one zone of a district to another zone or who by a change in zone boundaries no longer resides in the zone of nomination or election is entitled to continue to serve as board member until June 30 following the next regular district election at which a successor shall be elected by the electors to serve for the remainder of the unexpired term, if any. The successor shall take office July 1 next following the election.
(3) When a vacancy is declared under subsection (1) of this section, the remaining board members shall meet and appoint a person to fill the vacancy from any of the electors of the district if the position is one filled by both nomination and election at-large, and otherwise from any of the electors of the zone from which the vacancy occurs.
(4) If the offices of a majority of the board members are vacant at the same time, the governing body of the principal county shall appoint persons to fill the vacancies from any of the electors of the district if the positions are filled by both nomination and election at-large, and otherwise from any of the electors of the zone from which the vacancy occurs.
(5) The period of service of a board member appointed under subsection (3) or (4) of this section commences upon appointment and expires June 30 next following the next regular district election at which a successor is elected. The successor shall be elected to serve the remainder, if any, of the term for which the appointment was made. If the term for which the appointment was made expires June 30 after the election of the successor, the successor shall be elected to a full term. In either case, the successor shall take office on July 1. [1971 c.513 §27; 1975 c.647 §31; 1977 c.149 §5; 1983 c.350 §203; 2003 c.576 §436]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 09 - Education and Culture › Chapter 341 - Community Colleges › Section 341.339 - Position numbers required for at-large positions.

(1) The positions of board members elected at-large, and their respective successors in office, shall be designated by numbers as Position No. 1, Position No. 2, and so on.
(2) This section applies to any district that elects any board member to an at-large position. [1971 c.513 §30; 1983 c.350 §204]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 09 - Education and Culture › Chapter 341 - Community Colleges › Section 341.341 - Assigning position numbers.

Position numbers for board members elected at-large, and their respective successors in office in the event of vacancies before the expiration of their terms, in districts changing the method of election of any of the board members shall be determined by drawing by the affected board members under the supervision of the county clerk of the principal county. As soon as possible after the drawing, the county clerk of the principal county shall furnish a certified statement to each affected board member of the position number drawn by the board member. A copy of the statement shall be filed with the county clerk of the principal county and with the administrative office of the district. [1971 c.513 §31]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 09 - Education and Culture › Chapter 341 - Community Colleges › Section 341.356 - Election laws applicable.

Except as provided in ORS 255.400 to 255.424:
(1) ORS chapter 255 governs the following:
(a) The nomination and election of board members.
(b) The conduct of district elections.
(2) The electors of a community college district may exercise the powers of the initiative and referendum regarding a district measure, in accordance with ORS 255.135 to 255.205.
(3) ORS 249.865 to 249.877 govern the recall of board members. [1983 c.350 §206; 2019 c.449 §27]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 09 - Education and Culture › Chapter 341 - Community Colleges › Section 341.357 - Publication of notices.

(1) Except as provided by ORS chapter 255 and ORS 294.448 (Local Budget Law) and 341.670, notice of community college district organization and merger, community college district budgets and community college district purchasing shall be given only as provided in this section.
(2) Whenever notice is required, the board shall cause the notice to be published in one or more of the newspapers published in the district and having a general circulation in the district. If no newspaper is published in the district, the notice shall be published in some newspaper designated by the board and having circulation throughout the district. The notice shall be published in at least two issues of each designated newspaper.
(3) The board may also cause broadcasting of any notice required to be published in the manner provided in ORS 193.310 to 193.360.
(4) The board shall cause the time and place of publishing each of the notices required by subsection (1) of this section and the content of such notices to be recorded in the minutes of the board. [1971 c.513 §11; 1973 c.796 §56; 1983 c.350 §207; 2015 c.841 §4; 2019 c.449 §28]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 09 - Education and Culture › Chapter 341 - Community Colleges › Section 341.369 - Special elections.

The board may call a special election upon questions as to the issuance of bonds, the levy of taxes which may not be levied without the affirmative vote of the people and any other questions which may be submitted to the electors of such districts. [1971 c.513 §17; 1973 c.796 §57; 1983 c.350 §208]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 09 - Education and Culture › Chapter 341 - Community Colleges › Section 341.371 - Board resolution required to submit question to electors.

Any of the questions to be submitted to the electors of any district must be submitted in the form of a resolution of its board. The resolution shall specify the questions to be voted upon and the date for holding any special election. The board may adopt any such resolution on its own motion, and must adopt the resolution when petitioned by the requisite number of electors of the district. [1971 c.513 §18; 1974 c.45 §7; 1983 c.350 §209]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 09 - Education and Culture › Chapter 341 - Community Colleges › Section 341.379 - Eligibility of electors following certain events.

During the period following an election or other action resulting in a boundary change in a district and prior to the date the change becomes effective, the district or districts from which an area will be separated as a result of the boundary change may hold elections for all legal purposes but the electors registered in the area to be separated as a result of the boundary change shall not be qualified to vote in any such election. The election on any measure in such district or districts shall not affect or encumber the area to be separated. [1971 c.513 §22; 1983 c.83 §77]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 09 - Education and Culture › Chapter 341 - Community Colleges › Section 341.405 - Establishment of community college.

Upon approval of the Higher Education Coordinating Commission, a community college may be established by a community college district in which all the requirements for formation of the district are met and for which adequate building space, library and suitable laboratory or shop space for the courses to be offered are available or will be available before classes begin. [Formerly 341.520; 1967 c.465 §4; 2013 c.747 §61]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 09 - Education and Culture › Chapter 341 - Community Colleges › Section 341.420 - Procedure for name changes for district or college.

(1)(a) Subject to the requirements of subsection (2) of this section, the name of any community college district or community college may be changed by resolution of the district board of education. The district board shall submit the proposed name change to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for its approval or disapproval. If the proposed name change is approved by the commission, it shall be submitted to a public hearing in the district. If the commission disapproves the proposed name change, the district board may rescind its resolution or revise it to reflect a different name which must be submitted to the commission for its approval or disapproval.
(b) If the proposed name is approved by the commission, notice of the hearing shall be given as provided in ORS 341.357. The proposed change shall take effect 21 days after the final adjournment of the public hearing unless a remonstrance is filed under subsection (2) of this section.
(2) If a remonstrance to the proposed name change is filed with the district board within 20 days after the final adjournment of the public hearing under subsection (1) of this section, the district board must submit the question of the proposed name change to the electors of the district unless the board rescinds its resolution. The remonstrance must be signed by at least five percent or at least 50, whichever is less, of the electors of the district. The proposed name change shall be submitted to the electors at the regular school election next following adoption of the resolution.
(3) If the majority of votes cast at the election favor the change, it shall take effect upon the canvass and return of the vote. If the majority of votes cast oppose the change, it shall not take effect. [1971 c.513 §94; 1991 c.397 §3; 2013 c.747 §179]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 09 - Education and Culture › Chapter 341 - Community Colleges › Section 341.430

[2011 c.465 §1; 2012 c.104 §11; 2013 c.1 §35; 2013 c.214 §1; 2015 c.132 §1; renumbered 350.395 in 2017]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 09 - Education and Culture › Chapter 341 - Community Colleges › Section 341.440 - Contracts for educational services.

(1) A community college district may contract with another community college district, a common or union high school district, an education service district, a public university listed in ORS 352.002, the Oregon Health and Science University, a private educational institution accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities or its successor or a career school as defined in ORS 345.010 to obtain educational services for students enrolled in the community college of the district. However, the educational services so obtained must meet the standards for educational services provided by the college and the contract price to the college for such services must not exceed the costs that would otherwise be incurred by the college to provide its students the same or similar services.
(2) Educational services for which a district operating a community college may contract include services offered by correspondence and services offered electronically or through telecommunications if such services are accredited by a nationally recognized accrediting association.
(3) For purposes of ORS 341.626, costs incurred under subsection (1) of this section shall be considered operating expenses of the district if the contract is approved by the Director of the Office of Community Colleges and Workforce Development. [1969 c.673 §17; 1987 c.474 §6; 1995 c.67 §18; 1995 c.162 §68; 2009 c.762 §59; 2013 c.1 §36; 2013 c.768 §178; 2015 c.366 §18]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 09 - Education and Culture › Chapter 341 - Community Colleges › Section 341.441 - Academic programs for adults in custody; limitations on programs.

(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law and except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, the Department of Corrections may enter into agreements to offer academic programs to adults in custody with:
(a) An academic program at any community college operated under this chapter, including a community college that is located outside of the boundaries of the community college district in which a correctional facility that houses adults in custody is located;
(b) A post-secondary distance education academic program; or
(c) Any other post-secondary academic program.
(2) The Department of Corrections may enter into an agreement to offer an academic program under this section only if the program is consistent with administration rules and regulations adopted by the Department of Corrections and, as applicable, federal regulations relating to the federal Pell Grant.
(3) As used in this section, "adult in custody" has the meaning given that term in ORS 423.076. [2023 c.148 §2]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 09 - Education and Culture › Chapter 341 - Community Colleges › Section 341.442 - Aviation maintenance program in neighboring state.

If a community college offers a program of instruction in aviation maintenance that takes place in a neighboring state at an airport owned and operated pursuant to an agreement between a city in this state and a county in the neighboring state, course work by students in the program shall be deemed to have occurred within this state and may be considered as clock hours of instruction in determining full-time equivalency for purposes of ORS 341.626. [2023 c.154 §2]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 09 - Education and Culture › Chapter 341 - Community Colleges › Section 341.446 - Distribution of community college information to public school students.

(1) At the beginning of each school year, the Office of Community Colleges and Workforce Development shall make the following information available for distribution to public school students who are in grades 11 and 12:
(a) The academic programs and services provided by community colleges;
(b) Recommendations for successful completion of community college programs; and
(c) Any other information identified by the office as being necessary to assist students in preparing to succeed in community colleges.
(2) Representatives of the State Board of Education and the Higher Education Coordinating Commission shall regularly meet for the purpose of improving coordination between public secondary schools and community colleges. [2013 c.354 §2; 2015 c.366 §19]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 09 - Education and Culture › Chapter 341 - Community Colleges › Section 341.450 - Accelerated college credit programs.

Every community college district shall encourage high school students to start early on a college education by:
(1) Implementing a dual credit program, a two-plus-two program or another accelerated college credit program and making at least one such program available to each interested school district that is within the boundaries of the community college district.
(2) Collaborating with interested school districts that are within the boundaries of the community college district to facilitate the delivery of a dual credit program, a two-plus-two program or other accelerated college credit program. [1997 c.521 §2; 2011 c.639 §5; 2013 c.761 §§5,6]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 09 - Education and Culture › Chapter 341 - Community Colleges › Section 341.455 - Credit for career school courses; transcripting fee.

(1) A community college may give credit for courses or programs taken in a career school. The courses or programs for which credit may be given must meet the standards adopted by the Higher Education Coordinating Commission under ORS 345.325, must be taken at a career school domiciled in this state and must be approved for credit by the Director of the Office of Community Colleges and Workforce Development.
(2) A community college board may charge a transcripting fee to a student for courses taken at a career school and accepted by the community college under subsection (1) of this section. Such a fee is to be set by the board and is to be consistent with other student fees.
(3) Time spent by students on such courses shall not be considered as clock hours of instruction in determining full-time equivalency for purposes of ORS 341.626. [1965 c.529 §9; 1975 c.478 §27; 1987 c.474 §8; 1995 c.67 §19; 1995 c.343 §32; 2012 c.104 §40; 2015 c.366 §20]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 09 - Education and Culture › Chapter 341 - Community Colleges › Section 341.460 - Credit for traffic safety education course not permitted.

A community college offering a traffic safety education course under ORS 336.795 to 336.815 shall give no credit for completion thereof and time spent by students on such courses shall not be considered as clock hours of instruction in determining full-time equivalency for purposes of ORS 341.626. [1969 c.623 §4; 1995 c.67 §20; 1999 c.328 §14]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 09 - Education and Culture › Chapter 341 - Community Colleges › Section 341.463 - Courses in American Sign Language.

If a board of education of a community college determines that enrollment is sufficient to make an American Sign Language class economically viable and if qualified instructors are available, the board may offer to students courses for credit in American Sign Language. Such courses shall satisfy any second language elective requirement. [1995 c.687 §2]
Note:
341.463 was enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but was not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 341 or any series therein by legislative action. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 09 - Education and Culture › Chapter 341 - Community Colleges › Section 341.465 - Certificates and associate degrees; rules.

(1) The board of a district operating a community college, upon approval of the Higher Education Coordinating Commission, may award certificates and associate degrees indicating satisfactory completion of a course of study offered by the community college.
(2)(a) The board of a district operating a community college may award training certificates indicating satisfactory completion of noncredit courses and programs.
(b) Prior to offering a new, noncredit course for a training certificate, the board of a district operating a community college must follow procedures established by the commission to ensure that the course meets an occupational employment need and fulfills a regional educational need.
(3) Notwithstanding subsections (1) and (2) of this section, the board of a district operating a community college may not award a certificate or associate degree relating to emergency medical services unless the community college program that results in the certificate or degree meets standards for accreditation established by the commission by rule. [Formerly 341.580; 2013 c.747 §63; 2015 c.157 §1; 2021 c.100 §16]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 09 - Education and Culture › Chapter 341 - Community Colleges › Section 341.470 - Mandatory student-initiated fees; resolution of disputes.

(1) As used in this section, "mandatory student-initiated fee" means a fee that:
(a) Is initiated by the recognized student government of the community college;
(b) Students are required to pay in addition to tuition fees;
(c) Is collected by the board of the community college; and
(d) Is allocated by the recognized student government of the community college.
(2)(a) The board for each community college shall collect mandatory student-initiated fees upon the request of the recognized student government of the community college to the president of the community college under a process established by the recognized student government. The recognized student government shall:
(A) Make a good faith effort to collaborate with the board and president prior to finalizing any process to collect mandatory student-initiated fees; and
(B) Notify the board and president of each process to collect mandatory student-initiated fees that is established by the recognized student government.
(b) Mandatory student-initiated fees collected under this section must be allocated by the recognized student government.
(3) If the recognized student government makes a request under subsection (2) of this section for a new or increased mandatory student-initiated fee, the board may require a campus referendum in which the student body votes on whether to approve the fee. If a mandatory student-initiated fee is rejected by the student body in a referendum held under this subsection, the recognized student government may not request another mandatory student-initiated fee for the remainder of the academic year.
(4) A request for a mandatory student-initiated fee, use of the fee or decision to modify an existing fee may be refused by the president if the president determines that:
(a) The recognized student government assessed or allocated the mandatory student-initiated fee in violation of applicable local, state or federal law;
(b) The allocation conflicts with a preexisting contractual financial commitment; or
(c) The total mandatory student-initiated fees budget would increase by a percentage that is greater than the percentage increase in tuition and other fees approved by the board for the upcoming academic year.
(5) The recognized student government and the president shall seek to reach agreement on any dispute involving mandatory student-initiated fees, if necessary with the aid of a process established by the board, prior to a decision by the president.
(6) If an agreement is not reached, the decision of the president may be appealed to the board, which will render a final decision prior to the adoption, use or modification of a mandatory student-initiated fee. [2017 c.267 §2; 2021 c.163 §2
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 09 - Education and Culture › Chapter 341 - Community Colleges › Section 341.478 - Scholarships.

(1) In addition to any other scholarships provided by law, the board may award tuition and fee-exempting scholarships in the college to students applying for enrollment or who are enrolled in the college.
(2) Scholarships shall be awarded on the basis of the student’s:
(a) Demonstrated ability to profit either from career and technical education or from college transfer courses; and
(b) Need for financial assistance.
(3) In addition to the qualifications specified in subsection (2) of this section, the board awarding the scholarship may prescribe qualifications that are of such nature that scholarships awarded under this section will benefit both the student and the people of this state. [Formerly 341.485]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 09 - Education and Culture › Chapter 341 - Community Colleges › Section 341.481 - Admission of students.

(1) A district shall admit high school graduates who are residents of Oregon and may admit other residents who, in the judgment of the administration of the district, are capable of profiting from the instruction offered in a specific course or program without regard to age. In the case of a student younger than 16 years of age, the college administration shall make the final determination.
(2) Districts may also admit persons who are not residents of the district or of the state, including persons who are not citizens of the United States, if such admission is considered suitable.
(3) Upon application of a qualified high school student residing in this state and upon agreement between the district and the school district in which the student resides, the student may be admitted to the community college.
(4) Any district may contract with another district to admit students of either college to the college of the other. [Formerly 341.505]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 09 - Education and Culture › Chapter 341 - Community Colleges › Section 341.484 - Contracts for reimbursement between college districts; effect of high school student’s enrollment on school funding.

(1) In the event of an agreement between two colleges to admit each other’s students, if the student seeking admission to the community college resides within that college’s district, no additional reimbursement shall be required from any college district. However, if the student does not reside within the district, a contract of reimbursement may be entered into between the district and any other district. The contract shall provide for reimbursement to the district for each student in an amount not to exceed the difference between the per student operating expense of the district and the amounts obtained from the student for tuition and fees and obtained from state and federal aid.
(2) By agreement of the contracting districts, the contracts for reimbursement referred to in subsection (1) of this section may provide that payments to the district be based on expenses of the district other than operating expenses. Such payments shall be in addition to the reimbursable amounts referred to in subsection (1) of this section.
(3) If a high school student enrolls in a planned program agreed upon by the school district and the community college during regular school hours, the community college may include the high school student in determining the number of full-time equivalent students for the purposes of ORS 341.626 and other laws governing the distribution of state and federal funds to such colleges. However, the school district in which the high school student resides is not obligated to make any adjustment in its report under ORS 327.133. [Formerly 341.525]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 09 - Education and Culture › Chapter 341 - Community Colleges › Section 341.492 - Residency for purpose of distribution of state aid.

(1) The provisions of ORS 341.487 shall not apply to admissions arranged under ORS 350.750.
(2) For purposes of ORS 341.626, and notwithstanding ORS 341.487, students who are residents of Idaho, Washington, California and Nevada and students admitted pursuant to ORS 350.750 shall be considered as residents of Oregon. [Formerly 341.528]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 09 - Education and Culture › Chapter 341 - Community Colleges › Section 341.496 - Admission of members of Armed Forces and specified federal agencies and of spouses and dependent children of members; fee and tuition rate.

(1) As used in this section:
(a) "Active member of the Armed Forces of the United States" includes officers and enlisted personnel of the Armed Forces of the United States who:
(A) Reside in this state while assigned to duty at any base, station, shore establishment or other facility in this state;
(B) Reside in this state while serving as members of the crew of a ship that has an Oregon port or shore establishment as its home port or permanent station; or
(C) Reside in another state or a foreign country and establish Oregon residency by filing Oregon state income taxes no later than 12 months before leaving active duty.
(b) "Armed Forces of the United States" includes:
(A) The Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard of the United States;
(B) Reserve components of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard of the United States; and
(C) The National Guard of the United States and the Oregon National Guard.
(c) "Dependent children" includes any children of an active member of the Armed Forces of the United States who:
(A) Are under 18 years of age and not married, otherwise emancipated or self-supporting; or
(B) Are under 23 years of age, unmarried, enrolled in a full-time course of study in an institution of higher learning and dependent on the member for over one-half of their support.
(2) Community colleges in Oregon shall admit active members of the Armed Forces of the United States, active members of the commissioned corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and members of the Public Health Service of the United States Department of Health and Human Services detailed by proper authority for duty with the Army or Navy of the United States, and their spouses and dependent children, in the same manner as Oregon residents who are residents of the community college district and shall assess the same fees and tuition rates. [Formerly 341.529]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 09 - Education and Culture › Chapter 341 - Community Colleges › Section 341.502 - Credit for room, board, tuition and fees for student ordered to active duty; rules.

(1)(a) The amount of the credit specified in ORS 341.499 (1)(b) shall be based on:
(A) The amount of room and board paid by the student for a term that the student does not complete because the student is ordered to active duty; and
(B) The amount of tuition and fees paid by the student for a course from which the student withdraws.
(b) The amount of the credit shall be prorated based on the number of weeks remaining in the term or course when the student withdraws.
(c) At the time a student withdraws from a course at a community college or from the community college, the student must elect to claim the credit:
(A) As a credit toward tuition and fees or room and board if the student reenrolls at the community college under ORS 341.499 (1)(c); or
(B) As a monetary payment.
(2) A student who elects to claim the credit by the method described in subsection (1)(c)(A) of this section may change the method of claiming the credit to the method described in subsection (1)(c)(B) of this section by giving notice to the community college from which the student withdraws.
(3) A student who elects to claim the credit by the method described in subsection (1)(c)(A) of this section must use the credit or change the method of claiming the credit under subsection (2) of this section within one year after release from active duty.
(4) A personal representative of a student who elected to claim the credit by the method described in subsection (1)(c)(A) of this section may claim a monetary payment upon presenting evidence to the community college that the student died while serving on active duty.
(5) Boards of education of community college districts shall adopt rules for the administration of this section, including rules that determine the amount of credit and the method by which the credit is prorated. [Formerly 341.532]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 09 - Education and Culture › Chapter 341 - Community Colleges › Section 341.506 - Credit for education and training received in Armed Forces.

(1) The board of education of each community college district, in consultation with the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, shall develop standards for the community college of the district to implement to give credit for education and training obtained by a person while the person served in the Armed Forces of the United States, as defined in ORS 341.496. The community college must give credit for education and training that meets the standards adopted by the board.
(2) The board of education of a community college district, in consultation with the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, shall develop methods for informing persons who served in the Armed Forces of the United States about how credit may be received as provided by subsection (1) of this section. [Formerly 341.533]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 09 - Education and Culture › Chapter 341 - Community Colleges › Section 341.509 - Tuition waiver for child, spouse or unremarried surviving spouse of service member.

(1) As used in this section:
(a) "Child" means a child, adopted child or stepchild of a service member.
(b) "Community college" has the meaning given that term in ORS 341.005.
(c) "Qualified student" means a child, a spouse or an unremarried surviving spouse of a service member.
(d) "Service member" means a person who:
(A) As a member of the Armed Forces of the United States, died on active duty; or
(B) Was a member of the Armed Forces of the United States, was 100 percent disabled as the result of a military service connected disability and died as the result of that disability.
(2) Subject to subsections (3) to (7) of this section, a community college shall waive tuition for a qualified student for courses that may lead to a certificate from a community college or to an associate degree.
(3)(a) The maximum waiver granted under this section is the total number of credit hours that equals two years of full-time attendance at a community college.
(b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a) of this subsection, a waiver may not exceed the total number of credit hours the qualified student needs to graduate with a certificate from a community college or an associate degree.
(4) A waiver may be granted under this section only for credit hours for courses that are offered by a community college and are available for enrollment, regardless of whether the qualified student attends the course and pays tuition.
(5) Except as provided in subsection (7) of this section, a qualified student may receive a waiver under this section if the student:
(a) At the time of application for a waiver, is considered a resident of this state for the purpose of determining tuition to be paid at a community college; and
(b) Has been admitted to a community college for a program leading to a certificate from a community college or an associate degree.
(6) A child who applies for a waiver under this section must be 23 years of age or younger at the time the child applies for the waiver.
(7) A qualified student is not eligible to receive a waiver under this section for any school year in which the student received a Marine Gunnery Sergeant John David Fry Scholarship under section 1002 of the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2009 (P.L. 111-32). [2012 c.106 §12]
Note:
341.509 was enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but was not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 341 or any series therein by legislative action. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.