74th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2007 Regular Session
 
NOTE:  Matter within  { +  braces and plus signs + } in an
amended section is new. Matter within  { -  braces and minus
signs - } is existing law to be omitted. New sections are within
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LC 3905
 
                        Senate Bill 1056
 
Sponsored by Senator VERGER (at the request of Anne Johnson)
 
 
                             SUMMARY
 
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.
 
  Prohibits tenant of manufactured dwelling park or floating home
moorage from renting or leasing dwelling or home to third party
for more than three days unless tenant, third party and park or
moorage landlord enter into written agreement. Requires that
agreement contain provision for third party to pay space rent,
fees and certain utility or service charges directly to park or
moorage landlord.
 
                        A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to landlord-tenant law.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
  SECTION 1.  { + Section 2 of this 2007 Act is added to and made
a part of ORS 90.505 to 90.840. + }
  SECTION 2.  { + (1) A tenant may not rent or lease a
manufactured dwelling or floating home located in a facility to a
third party for a period exceeding three days unless the facility
landlord, tenant and third party enter into a written subleasing
agreement specifying the rights and obligations of the landlord,
tenant and third party during the third party's occupancy of the
dwelling or home. The subleasing agreement may assign to the
third party one or more rights and obligations of the tenant
under the rental agreement for the facility space, including, but
not limited to, the service and delivery of notices, the
correction of violations and rights upon abandonment. Any rights
of a tenant under this chapter that are not assigned to a third
party under the written subleasing agreement are retained by the
tenant. The written subleasing agreement shall include, but need
not be limited to, a requirement that the third party shall
timely pay directly to the facility landlord the space rent, any
separately assessed fees payable under the rental agreement and
any separately billed utility or service charge described in ORS
90.532 (1)(b) or (c).
  (2) Subsection (1) of this section does not authorize a tenant
to rent or lease a manufactured dwelling or floating home to a
third party in violation of the rental agreement between a tenant
and a facility. + }
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