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Oregon · Through 2025 Edition

ORS 192.582: Confidentiality of bedbug infestation reports.

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  1. 05 - State Government, Government Procedures, Land Use
  2. 19. Miscellaneous Matters Related to Government and Public Affairs
  3. Chapter 192 — Records; Public Reports and Meetings

(1) As used in this section:

      (a) “Bedbug” means a member of the Cimicidae family of parasitic insects.

      (b) “Public health authority” means:

      (A) A local public health authority, as defined in ORS 431.003; or

      (B) The Oregon Health Authority.

      (2) The following information reported by pest control operators to a public health authority must be maintained confidentially and is not subject to disclosure under ORS 192.311 to 192.478:

      (a) The location of a site where a pesticide intended to prevent, destroy, repel or mitigate an infestation of bedbugs has been applied or is to be applied;

      (b) The identity of any person who owns, rents or leases property at the site described in paragraph (a) of this subsection; and

      (c) Any information describing or pertaining to the infestation or suspected infestation at the site described in paragraph (a) of this subsection.

      (3) Nothing in this section prevents a public health authority from publishing statistical compilations or reports relating to reportable disease investigations if the compilations or reports do not identify individual cases or sources of information.

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