These provisions shall be known as the Albany camping regulations and shall be cited as such and will be referred to herein as “this regulation.”
(Ord. 6015 § 1, 2023; Ord. 6049 § 2, 2024)
The provisions of this regulation apply to all public property and public right-of-way located within the city of Albany as defined herein.
(Ord. 6015 § 1, 2023; Ord. 6049 § 2, 2024)
This regulation is to be interpreted consistent with applicable state statutes and providing the protection required by state statutes.
(Ord. 6015 § 1, 2023; Ord. 6049 § 2, 2024)
Words used in the present tense include the future, words in the masculine gender include the feminine and neutral, the singular number includes the plural, and the plural, the singular.
(Ord. 6015 § 1, 2023; Ord. 6049 § 2, 2024)
Where terms are not defined through the methods authorized by this article, such terms shall have ordinarily accepted meanings such as the context implies. Words of common usage are given their plain, natural, and ordinary meanings. Words that have well-defined legal meanings are given those meanings.
(Ord. 6015 § 1, 2023; Ord. 6049 § 2, 2024)
(1) “Camp” or “camping”
means to pitch, erect, create, use, or occupy camp facilities for the purpose of habitation, as evidenced by the use of camp paraphernalia.
(2) “Camp facilities”
includes, but is not limited to, tents, huts, temporary shelters, motor vehicles, or recreational vehicles.
(3) “Camp paraphernalia”
includes, but is not limited to, tarpaulins, cots, beds, sleeping bags, blankets, mattresses, hammocks, outdoor cooking devices or utensils, and similar equipment.
(4) “Motor vehicle”
means a vehicle that is self-propelled or designed for self-propulsion.
(5) “Public property”
means any real property or structures owned, leased, or managed by the city, including public rights-of-way.
(6) “Public rights-of-way”(a) (b)
means all property dedicated to the public for transportation purposes and administered by the city, including streets, roads, alleys, lanes, sidewalks, trails, paths, bridges, viaducts, and all other public ways and areas managed by the city.
Includes public utility easements to the extent that the easement allows use by the permittee planning to use or using the public utility easement. “Right-of-way” includes the subsurface under and airspace over these areas.
“Right-of-way” does not include the air-waves for purposes of commercial mobile radio services, broadcast television, direct broadcast satellite and other wireless providers, or easements or other property interests owned by a single utility or entity.
(7) “Reasonable”
shall be determined based on the totality of the circumstances.
(8) “Recreational vehicle” or “RV”
means a vehicle with or without motive power that is designed for use as temporary living quarters and as further defined by the Oregon Department of Transportation in OAR Chapter 735, Division 022.
(9) “Store” or “storage”
means to put aside or accumulate for use when needed, to put for safe-keeping, or to place or leave in a location.
(Ord. 6015 § 1, 2023; Ord. 6049 § 2, 2024)