Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 125 - DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES › Division 155 - STATE VEHICLE USE AND ACCESS › Section 125-155-0010 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise,
				the following words, phrases, and abbreviations have the meanings
				listed:
(1) "DAS" means Department of
			 Administrative Services.
(2) "DAS
			 Fleet" means DAS's Enterprise Asset Management's program which establishes
			 policies for managing and operating motor vehicles in Oregon's state government
			 fleets and convening the Fleet Management Advisory Council (FMAC).
(3) "DAS RM" means DAS's Risk Management
			 program of the Enterprise Goods and Services Division of DAS.
(4) "DMV" means Driver and Motor Vehicle
			 Services, Oregon Department of Transportation or, if the context requires, its
			 equivalent in another jurisdiction.
(5) "EGS" means Enterprise Goods and Services
			 Division of DAS.
(6) "Agency" means
			 an agency, board, commission, or branch of the state of Oregon that is subject
			 to ORS chapters 283 or 278.
(7)
			 "Agent" means a person or legal entity that is appointed in writing by a state
			 agency to conduct specified work. An agent is not an independent contractor.
			 Agents, paid or unpaid, are subject to the direction and control of the state
			 agency. An agency must not call people agents for the primary purpose of
			 justifying their transportation in a state vehicle.
(8) "Aide" means an individual age 18 or over
			 approved by an agency to accompany/assist a state employee in conducting their
			 necessary job duties.
(9)
			 "Authorized Driver" means an employee, agent or volunteer who is approved by an
			 agency to drive on official state business.
(10) "Allowable Activities" means actions
			 essential to everyday life performed while conducting official state business.
			 These activities must occur within the local vicinity or while en-route to
			 conduct official state business. These activities may only occur while
			 conducting official state business for day use, overnight use or full time use.
			 For overnight and full time use, allowable activities are reasonably expanded
			 to include more personal business types of activities.
(11) "Contractor" means a person, business or
			 corporation that provides goods or services to the state under terms specified
			 in a written contract.
(12) "Day
			 Use" means use of a vehicle during a normal shift conducting both routine and
			 non-routine duties related to official state business. Travel between home and
			 the driver's duty station during day use is prohibited.
(13) "Duty station" means the location
			 designated in writing by the agency from which an employee normally carries out
			 his or her duties.
(14) "Emergency
			 aid" means the assistance provided at a roadside emergency such as an obvious
			 accident or breakdown within the borders of this state where an individual(s)
			 in danger or stranded. Hitchhikers or someone either asking for a ride or
			 broken down in an urban area are not roadside emergencies.
(15) "Employee" means any person employed by
			 the state for whom the agency withholds income tax, provides workers'
			 compensation coverage, and pays the workers' compensation hourly-tax. Under
			 this definition, the following are not employees:
(a) Workers provided by a temporary
			 employment services agency, and
(b)
			 Department of Corrections inmates.