Or. Admin. Code § 333-050-0010 - Definitions Used in the Immunization Rules
As used in OAR 333-050-0010 through 333-050-0140:
(1) "Certificate of Immunization
Status" means a form provided or approved by the Public Health Division on
which to enter the child's immunization record.
(2) "Complete" means a category assigned to
any child whose record indicates that the child is fully immunized or has
immunity documentation as specified by OAR 333-050-0050(2) or (6).
(3) "Contraindication" means either a child
or a household member's physical condition or disease that renders a particular
vaccine improper or undesirable in accordance with the current recommendations
of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, Department of Health and
Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the American
Academy of Pediatrics.
(4) "County
Immunization Status Report" means a report submitted by the local health
department (or school or facility if there is no local health department) to
the Public Health Division to report annually the number of children as
specified, in the area served, and the number susceptible to the vaccine
preventable diseases covered by these rules.
(5) "Evidence of Immunization" means an
appropriately signed and dated statement indicating the month, day and year
each dose of each vaccine was received.
(6) "Exclude" or "Exclusion" means not being
allowed to attend a school or facility pursuant to an Exclusion Order from the
local health department based on non-compliance with the requirements of ORS
433.267(1), and
these rules.
(7) "Exclusion Order
for Incomplete Immunization or Insufficient Information" means a form provided
or approved by the Public Health Division for local health department and
Public Health Division use in excluding a child who, based on the child's
record, is in non-compliance with the vaccine requirements of OAR
333-050-0050(2) or who has insufficient information on his or her record to
determine whether the child is in compliance. Forms submitted for approval must
contain the substantive content of the Public Health Division form.
(8) "Exclusion Order for No Record" means a
form provided or approved by the Public Health Division for local health
department, Public Health Division and school or facility use in excluding a
child with no record. Forms submitted for approval must contain the substantive
content of the Public Health Division form.
(9) "Exempted Children's Facilities" are
those that:
(a) Are primarily for supervised
training in a specific subject, including, but not limited to, dancing, drama,
or music;
(b) Are primarily an
incident of group athletic or social activities sponsored by or under the
supervision of an organized club or hobby group;
(c) Are operated at a facility where children
may only attend on a limited basis not exceeding four different days per year;
or
(d) Are operated on an
occasional basis by a person, sponsor, or organization not ordinarily engaged
in providing child care.
(10) "Exemption" means either a documented
medical or nonmedical exemption.
(11) "Health Care Practitioner" means a
practitioner of the healing arts who has within the scope of the practitioner's
license, the authority to order immunizations, to include: M.D., D.O., N.D.,
nurse practitioners, and physician assistants, or a registered nurse working
under the direction of an M.D., D.O., N.D. or nurse practitioner.
(12) "Immunity Documentation" means a written
statement signed by a physician or an authorized representative of the local
health department that the child should be exempted from receiving specified
immunizations due to a disease history based on a health care practitioner's
diagnosis or the results of an immune titer.
(13) "Incomplete" means a category assigned
to any child whose record indicates, on or before the date the Primary Review
Summary form is due at the local health department, that the child:
(a) Is not fully immunized as required in OAR
333-050-0050(2); and
(b) Does not
have a completed exemption or immunity documentation for a vaccine for which
the child is not fully immunized.
(14) "Insufficient" means a category assigned
to any child whose record does not have enough information to make a proper
determination about the child's immunization status, including unsigned
records, vaccine dates before day of birth, dates out of sequence, and missing
doses in the middle of a vaccine series. This category does not apply to signed
but undated records.
(15) "Local
Health Department" means the District or County Board of Health, Public Health
Officer, Public Health Administrator or local public health agency having
jurisdiction within the area.
(16)
"Main Office" means a central administrative location at the school or
children's facility where immunization rates are made available to parents.
(17) "Medical Exemption" means a
document signed by a physician or an authorized representative of the local
health department stating that the child should be exempted from receiving
specified immunizations based on a medical diagnosis resulting from a specific
medical contraindication.
(18)
"New Enterer" means a child who meets one of the following criteria:
(a) Infants or preschoolers attending an
Oregon facility;
(b) Infants or
preschoolers attending a drop-in facility on five or more different days within
one year;
(c) Children initially
attending a school at the entry level (prekindergarten, kindergarten or the
first grade, whichever is the entry level);
(d) Children from a home-school setting
initially attending a school or facility at any grade (preschool through 12th
grade); or
(e) Children initially
attending a school or facility after entering the United States from a foreign
country at any grade (preschool through 12th grade).
(19) "Non-Compliance" means failure to comply
with any requirement of ORS
433.267(1) or
these rules.
(20) "Nonmedical
Exemption" means a document, on a form prescribed by the Public Health
Division, signed by the parent stating that the parent is declining one or more
immunizations on behalf of the child, and including documentation of completion
of the vaccine educational module or a signature from a health care
practitioner verifying discussion of risks and benefits of immunization.
(21) "Post-Secondary Education
Institution" means:
(a) A state institution
of higher education under the jurisdiction of the State Board of Higher
Education;
(b) A community college
operated under ORS Chapter 341;
(c) A school or division of Oregon Health and
Science University; or
(d) An
Oregon-based, generally accredited, private institution of higher education,
where:
(A) Oregon-based, generally accredited
includes any post-secondary institution described in OAR 583-030-0005(2) or
classified as exempt under ORS
348.604; and
(B) Private institution refers to any
non-public post-secondary education institution.
(22) "Primary Review Summary"
means a form provided or approved by the Public Health Division to schools and
facilities for enclosure with records forwarded to the local health department
for secondary review and follow up. Forms submitted for approval must contain
the substantive content of the Public Health Division form.
(23) "Primary Review Table" means a document
provided by the Public Health Division for the judgment of compliance or
non-compliance with the required immunizations.
(24) "Public Health Division" means the
Oregon Health Authority, Public Health Division.
(25) "Record" means a statement relating to
compliance with the requirements of ORS
433.267(1)(a) through
(c) and these rules.
(26) "Restrictable Disease" means a
communicable disease for which the local health department or administrator has
the authority to exclude a child as described in OAR 333-019-0010 through
333-019-0014.
(27) "School Year"
means an academic year as adopted by the school or school district (usually
September through June).
(28)
"Susceptible" means being at risk of contracting one of the diseases covered by
these rules, by virtue of being in one or more of the following categories:
(a) Not being complete on the immunizations
required by these rules;
(b)
Possessing a medical exemption from any of the vaccines required by these rules
due to a specific medical diagnosis based on a specific medical
contraindication; or
(c)
Possessing a nonmedical exemption for any of the vaccines required by these
rules.
(30) "Transferring Child" means a child
moving from:
(a) One facility to another
facility, only when records are requested in advance of attendance from a
previous facility;
(b) One school
in this state to another school in this state when the move is not the result
of a normal progression of grade level; or
(c) A school in another state to a school in
this state.
(31)
"Up-to-Date" means not complete, currently on schedule and not subject to
exclusion, based on the immunization schedule for spacing doses, as prescribed
in OAR 333-050-0120.
(32) "Vaccine
Educational Module" means a resource approved by the Public Health Division to
fulfill the requirement of receiving information about the risks and benefits
of immunization in order to claim a nonmedical exemption.
Notes
Publications: Publications referenced are available from the agency.
Stat. Auth.: ORS 433.004 & 433.273
Stats. Implemented: ORS 433.001, 433.004, 433.006 & 433.235 - 433.284
State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will be added as we have more versions to compare.
No prior version found.