Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 411 - DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES, AGING AND PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES › Division 310 - DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES COMMUNITY HOUSING › Section 411-310-0020 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
(1) "Adult" means
			 an individual 18 years or older with a developmental disability.
(2) "Care and Custody" means minimum services
			 (which may include mortgage, insurance, utilities, phone) and property
			 protection for vacant homes in which the Department has a financial
			 interest.
(3) "Care Provider" means
			 an individual, family member or entity that provides care for an individual
			 with a developmental disability.
(4) "Change Order" means requested additional
			 work on an approved project, which may increase the cost of the
			 project.
(5) "Child" means an
			 individual with a developmental disability who is less than 18 years of
			 age.
(6) "Community Housing" means
			 real property, including but not limited to buildings, structures, improvements
			 to real property and related equipment that is used or could be used to house
			 and provide care for individuals with a developmental disability. "Community
			 housing" includes a single-family home or multiple-unit residential housing
			 that an individual with a developmental disability shares with other
			 inhabitants, including but not limited to family members, Care Providers or
			 friends. "Community housing" does not include the Eastern Oregon Training
			 Center.
(7) "Community Housing
			 Trust Account" means a dedicated account within the Developmental Disabilities
			 Community Housing Fund which includes proceeds from the sale, transfer or lease
			 of any surplus real property owned, operated or controlled by the Department
			 and used as a state training center, of which 95% of the sale or transfer
			 amount will remain in the account in perpetuity. Interest earned in the account
			 and 5% of the sale or transfer proceeds may be used for community
			 housing.
(8) "Construct" means to
			 build, install, assemble, expand, alter, convert, replace or relocate Community
			 Housing. "Construct" includes the installation of equipment and preparation of
			 a site for Community Housing.
(9)
			 "Contract Work Order" means a document identifying specific responsibilities of
			 a contractor and the Department concerning necessary work on Community Housing
			 occupied by individuals with developmental disabilities.
(10) "Contractor" means an individual or
			 business that is registered with the Oregon Construction Contractors Board who,
			 for compensation or with the intent to sell, arranges or undertakes or offers
			 to undertake or submits a bid to construct, alter, repair, add to, subtract
			 from, improve, inspect, move, wreck or demolish, for another, any building or
			 improvement attached to real estate or any part thereof. "Contractor" includes
			 general contractors and specialty contractors as defined in OAR
			 812-002-0100.
(11) "Department" means the Department of
			 Human Services, Seniors and People with Disabilities, unless otherwise
			 noted.
(12) "Development Project"
			 means construction of new Community Housing or major renovation of Community
			 Housing, where individuals with developmental disabilities live or intend to
			 live and receive services. Specific responsibilities are defined in a Facility
			 Plan.
(13) "Developmental
			 Disability" means a disability attributable to mental retardation, cerebral
			 palsy, epilepsy or other neurological handicapping condition or severe physical
			 impairment that requires training similar to that required by mentally retarded
			 persons, and the disability:
(a) Originates
			 before the person attains the age of 22 years;
(b) Has continued or can be expected to
			 continue indefinitely; and
(c)
			 Constitutes a substantial handicap to the ability of the person to function in
			 society.