Or. Admin. Code § 737-015-0085 - Code of Ethics and Rules of Conduct

(1) Each provider and instructor accepts the responsibilities and requirements of the driver education profession and must adhere to the highest ethical standards of professional conduct.

(2) To fulfill their obligations to the public and to ODOT-TSO, the provider and instructor must:

(a) Recognize that the instruction and training of student drivers is a position of trust;

(b) Exhibit competence and wisdom in conducting professional responsibilities;

(c) Uphold and obey the law, including but not limited to the provisions of the Motor Vehicle Code; and

(d) Maintain and uphold the highest educational standards possible for instructing and training student drivers.

(3) A provider or instructor may not engage in or knowingly allow any owner, administrator, manager, or employee of an approved program to engage in any of the following:

(a) Assist or knowingly allow a student driver to fraudulently obtain driving privileges for which the student driver is ineligible or has not qualified;

(b) Discriminate against a student because of race, religion, national origin, size, disability, age, sex, or sexual orientation;

(c) Have sexual contact with, or request sexual contact from, a student;

(d) Make sexual advances either verbally or physically or request sexual contact from any student, whether directly, indirectly or by innuendo;

(e) Use physical force or a threat of physical force against a student driver, unless such force or threat is necessary to avoid immediate danger to the safety of the student driver, the provider, or instructor, an employee of the school, a passenger in a vehicle being used for behind-the-wheel instruction, or the general public;

(f) Possess any unlawful controlled substance or intoxicating beverage or be under the influence of any intoxicating beverages, drugs or controlled substances while training or instruction is being provided to students; or

(g) Falsify any document or make a misrepresentation on an application or record.

Notes

Or. Admin. Code § 737-015-0085

TSD 1-2014, f. 1-22-14, cert. ef. 3-1-14; TSD 13-2021, minor correction filed 07/29/2021, effective 7/29/2021

Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 184.619 & 802.345

Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 336.790, 336.800, 336.805, 336.810, 802.110, 802.345 & 807.065