(1) As used in this section, internment camp means a relocation center to which persons were ordered evacuated by Presidential Executive Order 9066, signed on February 19, 1942. (2) A person who meets the requirements of subsection (4) of this section may request a public university listed in ORS 352.002 to award the person an honorary post-secondary degree. (3) A representative of a deceased person who meets the requirements of subsection (4) of this section may request a public university to award an honorary post-secondary degree on behalf of the deceased person. (4) Notwithstanding the requirements for a post-secondary degree established by a public university, a public university that receives a request under subsection (2) or (3) of this section may award an honorary post-secondary degree to a person, or on behalf of a deceased person, who: (a) Was a student at the public university in 1942; and (b) Did not graduate from the public university because the person was ordered to an internment camp. [Formerly 352.021]
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