Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 291 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS › Division 16 - FACILITY ACCESS › Section 291-016-0020 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
(1) Authorized
			 Staff: Employees of the Department of Corrections, and employees of the State
			 Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision and Oregon Corrections Enterprises,
			 who are assigned to work in or at a public building owned or occupied by the
			 department.
(2) Concealed Handgun
			 License (CHL): A current and valid Oregon Concealed Handgun License issued by
			 the employee's county of residence in accordance with ORS
			 166.291 and
			 166.292.
(3) Contractor: Any person under contractual
			 arrangement to provide services to the Department of Corrections.
(4) Employee: Any person employed full time,
			 part time or under temporary appointment by the department.
(5) Facility: The building and grounds area
			 operated by a functional unit which physically houses inmates.
(6) Facility Access: The designated location
			 in a facility which is the only authorized entrance (except as authorized by
			 the functional unit manager or designee) and exit for persons desiring access
			 into or out of the perimeter of the facility.
(7) Facility Visitor: Any person authorized
			 access inside the secure perimeter of a facility who is not a department
			 employee, contractor, volunteer, other agency liaison or who is not an inmate
			 visitor at the facility.
(8)
			 Functional Unit: Any organizational component within the Department of
			 Corrections responsible for the delivery of program services or coordination of
			 program operations. In a correctional facility, the functional unit manager is
			 the superintendent.
(9) Functional
			 Unit Facility: A term used to declare any Department of Corrections facility in
			 which a functional unit person performs his/her duties or services.
(10) Functional Unit Manager: Any person
			 within the Department of Corrections who reports to either the Director, an
			 Assistant Director or an administrator and has responsibility for the delivery
			 of program services or coordination of program operations.
(11) Functional Unit Person: Any employee,
			 contractor, approved carded volunteer, or other agency liaison assigned to work
			 or provide services at a functional unit facility.
(12) Identification Card (ID Card): A picture
			 identification card authorized by the Department of Corrections and issued to a
			 department employee, contractor, volunteer or other agency liaison.
(13) Inmate Visitor: A person approved by the
			 functional unit manager or designee to visit an inmate who resides in a
			 facility.
(14) Oregon Corrections
			 Enterprises: A semi-independent state agency that is a non-Department of
			 Corrections agency or division, which is under the authority of the Director of
			 the Department of Corrections. For purposes of this rule only, Oregon
			 Corrections Enterprises shall not be considered an external
			 organization.
(15) Oregon
			 Corrections Enterprises (OCE) Employee: Any person employed full-time,
			 part-time, or under temporary appointment by the Oregon Corrections
			 Enterprises. For the purposes of this rule only, employee shall also include
			 any person under contractual arrangement to provide services to the agency; any
			 person employed by private or public sector agencies who is serving under
			 agency-sanctioned special assignment to provide services or support to agency
			 programs.
(16) Other Agency
			 Liaison: Employees from other state and local agencies that have ongoing
			 business needs serving inmates and employees of the department. These employees
			 include, but are not limited to, county parole and probation officers and state
			 police detectives.
(17) Personal
			 Handgun: A handgun possessed by an authorized staff member. "Handgun" includes
			 any pistol or revolver using a fixed cartridge containing a propellant charge,
			 primer and projectile, and designed to be aimed or fired otherwise than from
			 the shoulder.
(18) Reception Center
			 (Inmate): The designated location(s) in a facility which is designed for
			 transport officials to deliver or pick up an inmate housed in a functional
			 unit.
(19) Reception Center
			 (Public): The designated location(s) in a facility designed to control access
			 for persons to enter the general inmate population area(s).
(20) Secure Perimeter: A manufactured
			 structure (usually a fence or wall) that encloses a portion of the grounds and
			 buildings and is designed to control entry or exit within the enclosure. The
			 manufactured structure may use electronic detection for intrusion, doors and/or
			 gates for entry and exit, lighting for visibility, and other physical
			 restrictions such as razor ribbon, no climb fencing, and buried concrete
			 curbing.
(21) Vehicle: A vehicle
			 that is self-propelled and commonly known as a passenger car, van, truck or
			 motorcycle.
(22) Volunteer: An
			 approved person who donates time, knowledge, skills, and effort to enhance the
			 mission, activities, and programs of the department. A carded volunteer has
			 completed a volunteer application, volunteer training, facility orientation,
			 and functional unit orientation, and has been approved by a functional unit
			 manager or his/her designee.
Stat. Auth.: ORS
				  179.040,
				  423.020,
				  423.030 &
				  423.075
Stats. Implemented: ORS
				  179.040,
				  423.020,
				  423.030 &
				  423.075