OAR 813-350-0010: Definitions

(1) Words and terms are used in OAR 813, division 350, consistently with definitions in the Act, in 813-005-0005 and herein. (2) As used in OAR 813, division 350, unless otherwise indicated by the context: (a) “Control” means the ownership, management, or maintenance of a housing project; (b) “Employer(s)” also means relatives, agents, or associations of employers; (c) “Ex-Offender” means an offender returning to the community from prison or from local control jail sentences. (d) “Farmworker” means any person working in connection with: cultivating the soil, raising or harvesting any agricultural or aquacultural commodity; catching, netting, handling, planting, drying, grading, storing, or preserving in its unmanufactured state any agriculture or aquaculture commodity; delivering to storage, market, or a carrier for transportation to market, or to processing, any agriculture or aquaculture commodity; forestation or reforestation of land, including but not limited to, the planting, transportation, tubing, precommercial thinning of trees and seedlings, the clearing, pulling, and disposal of brush and slash, and other related activities; or as otherwise determined by the Department in the exercise of its authority; (e) “Leasing Company” means a bank, finance company, or other person or entity, that in the ordinary course of business, acquires goods or the right to possession and use of goods and transfers the right to possession and use of such goods under a lease; (f) “Lender” means financial institutions, including but not limited to, state and federal regulated banks, credit unions, savings and loans, savings banks, finance companies, life insurance companies, pension funds, mortgage bankers, and other public or private lending consortiums; (g) “Low Income” means an individual or household with an adjusted annual household income that is more than 50 percent, but less than 80 percent of the area median income, as determined by the Department based on information including, but not limited to data from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, with allowances for family size; (h) “Very-Low Income” means an individual or household with an adjusted annual household income that is 50 percent or less of the area median income, as determined by the Department based on information including, but not limited to data from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, with allowances for family size.