Chapter 504 Oregon Laws 1999

Session Law

 

AN ACT

 

SB 735

 

Relating to contraband; amending ORS 162.135.

 

Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:

 

      SECTION 1. ORS 162.135 is amended to read:

      162.135. As used in ORS 162.135 to 162.205, unless the context requires otherwise:

      (1)(a) "Contraband" means:

      [(a)] (A) Controlled substances as defined in ORS 475.005;

      [(b)] (B) Drug paraphernalia as defined in ORS 475.525;

      [(c)] (C) Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (b) of this subsection, currency possessed by or in the control of an inmate confined in a correctional facility; or

      [(d)] (D) Any article or thing which a person confined in a correctional facility, youth correction facility or state hospital is prohibited by statute, rule or order from obtaining or possessing, and whose use would endanger the safety or security of such institution or any person therein.

      (b) "Contraband" does not include authorized currency possessed by an inmate in a work release facility.

      (2) "Correctional facility" means any place used for the confinement of persons charged with or convicted of a crime or otherwise confined under a court order and includes but is not limited to a youth correction facility. "Correctional facility" applies to a state hospital only as to persons detained therein charged with or convicted of a crime, or detained therein after acquittal of a crime by reason of mental disease or defect under ORS 161.290 to 161.370.

      (3) "Currency" means paper money and coins that are within the correctional institution.

      (4) "Custody" means the imposition of actual or constructive restraint by a peace officer pursuant to an arrest or court order, but does not include detention in a correctional facility, youth correction facility or a state hospital.

      (5) "Escape" means the unlawful departure of a person from custody or a correctional facility. "Escape" includes the unauthorized departure or absence from this state or failure to return to this state by a person who is under the jurisdiction of the Psychiatric Security Review Board. "Escape" does not include failure to comply with provisions of a conditional release in ORS 135.245.

      (6) "Youth correction facility" means the MacLaren School, Hillcrest School of Oregon and any other school established by law for similar purposes, and includes the other camps and programs maintained under ORS chapter 420 and detention facilities as defined in ORS 419A.004.

      (7) "State hospital" means the Oregon State Hospital, F. H. Dammasch State Hospital, Eastern Oregon Psychiatric Center, Eastern Oregon Training Center, Fairview Training Center and any other hospital established by law for similar purposes.

      (8) "Unauthorized departure" means the unauthorized departure of a person confined by court order in a youth correction facility or a state hospital that, because of the nature of the court order, is not a correctional facility as defined in this section, or the failure to return to custody after any form of temporary release or transitional leave from a correctional facility.

 

Approved by the Governor July 6, 1999

 

Filed in the office of Secretary of State July 6, 1999

 

Effective date October 23, 1999

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