Statute Text
Issuance of licenses and registrations.
(1) A teaching, personnel service or administrative
license, or public charter school registration, may not be issued to any person
until the person has attained the age of 18 years and has furnished
satisfactory evidence of proper educational training.
(2) The Teacher
Standards and Practices Commission may require an applicant for a teaching,
personnel service or administrative license or for registration as a public
charter school teacher or administrator to furnish evidence satisfactory to the
commission of good moral character, mental and physical health, and such other
evidence as the commission may deem necessary to establish the applicants
fitness to serve as a teacher or administrator.
(3) Without
limiting the powers of the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission under
subsection (2) of this section:
(a) A teaching,
personnel service or administrative license, or a public charter school
registration, may not be issued to any person who:
(A) Has been
convicted of a crime listed in ORS 163.095, 163.107, 163.115, 163.185, 163.235,
163.355, 163.365, 163.375, 163.385, 163.395, 163.405, 163.408, 163.411,
163.415, 163.425, 163.427, 163.432, 163.433, 163.435, 163.445, 163.465,
163.515, 163.525, 163.547, 163.575, 163.670, 163.675 (1985 Replacement Part),
163.680 (1993 Edition), 163.684, 163.686, 163.687, 163.688, 163.689, 164.325,
164.415, 166.005, 166.087, 167.007, 167.008, 167.012, 167.017, 167.057,
167.062, 167.075, 167.080, 167.090, 475.808, 475.810, 475.812, 475.818,
475.820, 475.822, 475.828, 475.830, 475.832, 475.848, 475.852, 475.868,
475.872, 475.878, 475.880, 475.882, 475.888, 475.890, 475.892, 475.904 or
475.906.
(B) Has been
convicted under ORS 161.405 of an attempt to commit any of the crimes listed in
subparagraph (A) of this paragraph.
(C) Has been
convicted in another jurisdiction of a crime that is substantially equivalent,
as defined by rule, to any of the crimes listed in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of
this paragraph.
(D) Has had a
teaching, personnel service or administrative license, or a public charter
school registration, revoked in another jurisdiction for a reason that is
substantially equivalent, as defined by rule, to a reason described in ORS