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      "category": "Business",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Oregon Revised Statutes: ORS 215.448 heading (anchor)",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] The Oregon Legislature's official ORS HTML publishes ORS 215.448 under the heading quoted.",
      "body": "The Oregon Legislature's official ORS HTML publishes ORS 215.448 under the heading quoted.\n\nWhat Oregon Legislature (Oregon Revised Statutes) actually says:\n\n“215.448 Home occupations; parking; where allowed; conditions”\n\nNote: Anchor record: legislature's own statute site, state .gov domain.",
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      "evidence_quote": "215.448 Home occupations; parking; where allowed; conditions",
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      "category": "Business",
      "title": "ORS 215.448: County home occupations",
      "summary": "ORS 215.448(1): a county may allow a home occupation in any zone; in exclusive farm use, forest or mixed zones the business must be run by a resident, employ no more than five people on site, run substantially in the dwelling or normal outbuildings, and not unreasonably interfere with other uses.",
      "body": "ORS 215.448(1): a county may allow a home occupation in any zone; in exclusive farm use, forest or mixed zones the business must be run by a resident, employ no more than five people on site, run substantially in the dwelling or normal outbuildings, and not unreasonably interfere with other uses.\n\nWhat Oregon Legislature (Oregon Revised Statutes) actually says:\n\n“The governing body of a county or its designate may allow, subject to the approval of the governing body or its designate, the establishment of a home occupation and the parking of vehicles in any zone. However, in an exclusive farm use zone, forest zone or a mixed farm and forest zone that allows residential uses, the following standards apply to the home occupation: (a) It shall be operated by a resident or employee of a resident of the property on which the business is located; (b) It shall employ on the site no more than five full-time or part-time persons; (c) It shall be operated substantially in: (A) The dwelling; or (B) Other buildings normally associated with uses permitted in the zone in which the property is located; and (d) It shall not unreasonably interfere with other uses permitted in the zone in which the property is located.”",
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      "evidence_quote": "The governing body of a county or its designate may allow, subject to the approval of the governing body or its designate, the establishment of a home occupation and the parking of vehicles in any zone. However, in an exclusive farm use zone, forest zone or a mixed farm and forest zone that allows residential uses, the following standards apply to the home occupation: (a) It shall be operated by a resident or employee of a resident of the property on which the business is located; (b) It shall employ on the site no more than five full-time or part-time persons; (c) It shall be operated substantially in: (A) The dwelling; or (B) Other buildings normally associated with uses permitted in the zone in which the property is located; and (d) It shall not unreasonably interfere with other uses permitted in the zone in which the property is located.",
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      "title": "ORS 215.448: Additional conditions",
      "summary": "ORS 215.448(2): a county may set additional reasonable conditions of approval for a home occupation.",
      "body": "ORS 215.448(2): a county may set additional reasonable conditions of approval for a home occupation.\n\nWhat Oregon Legislature (Oregon Revised Statutes) actually says:\n\n“The governing body of the county or its designate may establish additional reasonable conditions of approval for the establishment of a home occupation”",
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      "category": "Business",
      "title": "ORS 215.448: No new structures through a home occupation",
      "summary": "ORS 215.448(3): the section does not authorise a structure that would not otherwise be allowed in the zone.",
      "body": "ORS 215.448(3): the section does not authorise a structure that would not otherwise be allowed in the zone.\n\nWhat Oregon Legislature (Oregon Revised Statutes) actually says:\n\n“Nothing in this section authorizes the governing body or its designate to permit construction of any structure that would not otherwise be allowed in the zone”",
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      "title": "ORS 163.465: Public indecency: in view of a public place",
      "summary": "ORS 163.465: sexual acts or exposure to arouse desire while in, or in view of, a public place is public indecency (Class A misdemeanor).",
      "body": "ORS 163.465: sexual acts or exposure to arouse desire while in, or in view of, a public place is public indecency (Class A misdemeanor).\n\nWhat Oregon Legislature (Oregon Revised Statutes) actually says:\n\n“A person commits the crime of public indecency if while in, or in view of, a public place the person performs: (a) An act of sexual intercourse; (b) An act of oral or anal sexual intercourse; (c) Masturbation; or (d) An act of exposing the genitals of the person with the intent of arousing the sexual desire of the person or another person. (2)(a) Public indecency is a Class A misdemeanor.”\n\nNote: Relevant to shoots near windows, balconies or yards.",
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      "evidence_quote": "A person commits the crime of public indecency if while in, or in view of, a public place the person performs: (a) An act of sexual intercourse; (b) An act of oral or anal sexual intercourse; (c) Masturbation; or (d) An act of exposing the genitals of the person with the intent of arousing the sexual desire of the person or another person. (2)(a) Public indecency is a Class A misdemeanor.",
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      "title": "ORS 163.467: Private indecency includes yards of residences",
      "summary": "ORS 163.467(4): a place where another has a reasonable expectation of privacy includes residences, yards of residences, working areas and offices.",
      "body": "ORS 163.467(4): a place where another has a reasonable expectation of privacy includes residences, yards of residences, working areas and offices.\n\nWhat Oregon Legislature (Oregon Revised Statutes) actually says:\n\n“place where another person has a reasonable expectation of privacy includes, but is not limited to, residences, yards of residences, working areas and offices.”",
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      "evidence_quote": "place where another person has a reasonable expectation of privacy includes, but is not limited to, residences, yards of residences, working areas and offices.",
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      "title": "ORS 167.090: Public display for advertising",
      "summary": "ORS 167.090: displaying nudity or sexual conduct publicly for advertising purposes (visible from a public thoroughfare) is a Class A misdemeanor.",
      "body": "ORS 167.090: displaying nudity or sexual conduct publicly for advertising purposes (visible from a public thoroughfare) is a Class A misdemeanor.\n\nWhat Oregon Legislature (Oregon Revised Statutes) actually says:\n\n“Publicly displaying nudity or sex for advertising purposes is a Class A misdemeanor.”",
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      "title": "ORS 167.060: 'Displays publicly' covers private property visible from the street",
      "summary": "ORS 167.060(2): displays publicly means exposing an item in any location, whether public or private, so that it may be readily seen from a public thoroughfare, depot or vehicle.",
      "body": "ORS 167.060(2): displays publicly means exposing an item in any location, whether public or private, so that it may be readily seen from a public thoroughfare, depot or vehicle.\n\nWhat Oregon Legislature (Oregon Revised Statutes) actually says:\n\n“Displays publicly means the exposing, placing, posting, exhibiting, or in any fashion displaying in any location, whether public or private, an item in such a manner that it may be readily seen and its content or character distinguished by normal unaided vision viewing it from a public thoroughfare, depot or vehicle.”",
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      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] ORS 167.100: Local rules may not conflict with the obscenity sections",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] ORS 167.100: no local authority may enact ordinances in conflict with ORS 167.060 to 167.100.",
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      "title": "Portland: business tax is not a permit",
      "summary": "Portland's Business License Tax does not entitle a taxpayer to engage in business activity not otherwise allowed by federal, state and/or local laws.",
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