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Building Confidence, Building Community.
NOTE: Matter in boldfaced type in an amended section is new; matter [italic and bracketed] is existing law to be
omitted.
New sections are in boldfaced type.
LC 1852
B-Eng. HB 2916
(3) [The] Transitional housing accommodations are not subject to ORS chapter 90.
[(4) To the extent deemed relevant by the Department of Consumer and Business Services, the construction and
installation of yurts on campgrounds used for providing transitional housing accommodations established under
this section is subject to the manufactured structures specialty code described in ORS 446.155. Transitional housing
accommodations not appurtenant to a yurt are subject to regulation as provided under subsection (3) of this section.]
[(5) Campgrounds established for providing transitional housing accommodations shall not be allowed on more than
two parcels in a municipality. In approving the use of parcels for a campground, the municipality shall give preference
to locations that have access to grocery stores and public transit services.]
[(6)] (4) As used in this section, “yurt” means a round, domed tent of canvas or other weather resistant material, having
a rigid framework, wooden floor, one or more windows or skylights and that may have plumbing, electrical service or
heat.
SECTION 2. ORS 446.325 is amended to read:
446.325. (1) [Public entities, private persons or nonprofit organizations described] Persons and public bodies, as
defined in ORS 174.109, that operate transitional housing accommodations under ORS 446.265 [(3)], timber companies
and private utilities [shall] may not establish or operate a recreation park without complying with the rules of the Oregon
Health Authority and securing the approval of the Director of the Oregon Health Authority or designee but [shall be]
are exempt from the licensing requirement of ORS 446.320. The director or designee may delegate, to a health official
having sufficient environmental health specialists, the authority to approve such recreation parks.
(2) ORS 446.310 to 446.350 do not apply to:
(a) Any structure designed for and occupied as a single family residence in which no more than two sleeping rooms are
provided on a daily or weekly basis for the use of no more than a total of six travelers or transients at any one time for a
charge or fee paid or to be paid for the rental or use of the facilities;
(b) Any temporary camping sites used solely and incidentally in the course of backpacking, hiking, horseback packing,
canoeing, rafting or other expedition, unless the expedition is part of an organizational camp program; or
(c) [A yurt, as defined in ORS 446.265, that is used as a living unit in transitional housing accommodations] Transitional
housing accommodations.
SECTION 3. This 2019 Act being necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an
emergency is declared to exist, and this 2019 Act takes effect on its passage.
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