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14A.50.140 Camping Definitions.

Label: City code section

As used in Sections 14A.50.150-14A.50.160:

  1. A. To camp or camping means to set up, pitch, use, or occupy camp materials with intent to facilitate sleeping, storage of personal belongings, or carrying on cooking activities. To camp or camping does not include merely sitting with, lying by, or possessing camp materials that are stowed, disassembled, or packed in a manner that would permit them to be immediately carried or moved.
  2. B. Camp materials means any tent, lean-to, shack, tarp, tarpaulin, hammock, vehicle or part thereof, bed, cot, sleeping bag, blanket, mattress, stove, burn barrel, or other structure or device intentionally used for or in furtherance of sleeping, storing personal belongings, or carrying on cooking activities.
  3. C. Alternate shelter means either:
    1. 1. A publicly or privately operated shelter designated to provide temporary living arrangements (including congregate shelters, transitional housing, and hotels and motels paid for by charitable organizations or by federal, state, or local government programs); or
    2. 2. Any other building, as defined in ORS 164.205(1), designed or adapted for overnight accommodation of persons in which the person has permission to sleep.
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