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Oregon Revised Statutes Counties and County Officers § 215.278

Current as of January 01, 2023 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(1) The Land Conservation and Development Commission shall revise administrative rules regarding dwellings customarily provided in conjunction with farm use to allow, under ORS 215.213 and 215.283, the establishment of accessory dwellings needed to provide opportunities for farmworker housing for individuals primarily engaged in farm use whose assistance in the management of the farm is or will be required by the farm operator on the farm unit.

(2) As used in this section:

(a) “Farm unit” means the contiguous and noncontiguous tracts in common ownership used by the farm operator for farm use as defined in ORS 215.203.

(b) “Farmworker” means an individual who, for an agreed remuneration or rate of pay, performs labor, temporarily or on a continuing basis, for a person in the:

(A) Production of farm products;

(B) Planting, cultivating or harvesting of seasonal agricultural crops; or

(C) Forestation or reforestation of land, including but not limited to planting, transplanting, tubing, precommercial thinning and thinning of trees or seedlings, the clearing, piling and disposal of brush and slash and other related activities.

(c) “Farmworker housing” means housing:

(A) Limited to occupancy by farmworkers and their immediate families; and

(B) No dwelling unit of which is occupied by a relative of the owner or operator of the farmworker housing.

(d) “Owner” means a person that owns farmworker housing. “Owner” does not mean a person whose interest in the farmworker housing is that of a holder of a security interest in the housing.

(e) “Relative” means:

(A) A spouse of the owner or operator; and

(B) An ancestor, lineal descendant or whole or half sibling of the owner or operator or the spouse of the owner or operator.

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