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BEFORE THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF DESCHUTE9-00U1NTY, OREGON
An Ordinance Amending Chapter
5.12, Occupancy Regulations,
of the Deschutes County Code
Declaring Emergency.
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THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
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ORDAINS as follows:
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Section 1. Chapter 5.12, Occupancy Regulations, Deschutes
County Code is amended to read as set forth in Exhibit "A" attached
hereto and by this reference incorporated herein.
Section 2. This Ordinance being necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency
is declared to exist, and this Ordinance takes effect on its
passage.
DATED this _-6 day of October, 1991.
A EST:
Recording Secretary
BOARD OF FOUNTY COMMISSIONERS
OF DES ES COUNTY, OREGON
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WERM
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Chapter 5.12
OCCUPANCY REGULATIONS
5.12.010 Definitions.
As used in this chapter,
unless the context indicates
otherwise, certain words and
phrases used in this chapter
are defined as follows:
A. "Dwelling Unit" means
any building or portion thereof
which contains separate living
facilities, including
provisions for sleeping,
eating, cooking and sanitation.
B. "Overnight" means
anytime between the hours from
10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. on the
following day.
C. "Owner" means any fee
title owner, any person having
a purchasers equitable interest
in the property, or any person
who acts as an agent for such
person, who rents a dwelling
unit.
D. "Rental occupant" means
a person over the age of four
years who occupies a rented
dwelling unit.
E. "Rents" means the
granting of a right or license
to use a dwelling unit in
exchange for money, goods or
services, or combination
thereof, or by gift, when the
owner is not present and in
charge of the dwelling unit.
F. "Person" means an
individual or other legal
entity, including a
corporation, association, firm,
partnership, joint stock
company, trust and estate.
H. "Sleeping area" means a
bedroom or loft within a
dwelling unit which meets the
requirements of the Uniform
Building Code, Structural
Specialty Code, or the CABO One
and Two Family Dwelling
Specialty Code, as adopted by
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the State of Oregon, Building
Codes Agency.
5.12.020 Occupancy
limitations.
Each dwelling unit in the PC
Zone which the owner rents to
an overnight rental occupant
shall have a maximum allowable
number of overnight rental
occupants of two persons per
sleeping area plus two
additional persons.
5.12.030 Posting occupancy
limitation.
There shall be posted
conspicuously on or near the
front entrance door of each
dwelling unit regulated by this
chapter a notice specifying the
maximum allowable number of
overnight rental occupants that
may occupy the dwelling unit
overnight. The format of
notices of the maximum
allowable number of overnight
occupants that may occupy the
dwelling unit shall be as shown
in Exhibit "1", attached hereto
and by this reference
incorporated herein.
5.12.040 Notification.
Any person who rents or
offers for rent a dwelling unit
for overnight rental occupancy
in the PC Zone shall inform the
prospective overnight rental
occupant of the maximum
allowable overnight occupancy.
5.12.060 Violation -Infraction.
Violation of any provision
of this chapter constitutes an
infraction as follows:
A. Any person who rents or
offers for rent a dwelling unit
in the PC Zone without posting
the maximum allowable overnight
occupancy commits a class B
infraction.
B. Any person who rents for
"A" (10/30/91)
money a dwelling unit in the PC
Zone without informing, in
writing, in the rental
agreement or by separate
document, the prospective
rental occupant of the maximum
allowable overnight occupancy
commits a class B infraction.
C. Each and every rental
occupant occupying a dwelling
unit in which the maximum
overnight occupancy has been
exceeded as provided by this
chapter commits a class B
infraction.
D. Any person who offers
for rent or rents a dwelling
unit for overnight occupancy to
a person with actual knowledge
that the person intends to
exceed the maximum allowable
overnight rental occupancy of
the dwelling unit commits a
class A infraction.
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EXHIBIT "1"