§111-2  Definitions.  As used in this
chapter, the term:



"Business" means any lawful activity
conducted (1) primarily for the purchase and resale, manufacture, processing or
marketing of products, commodities, or any other personal property; (2)
primarily for the sale of services to the public; or (3) by a nonprofit
organization.



"Code" means the housing, building,
and zoning codes of the counties.



"Displaced person" means any person
who is lawfully residing on or lawfully occupying real property and is required
to move from any real property on or after June 25, 1970, as a result of
the acquisition or imminence of acquisition of such real property, in whole or
in part, by a state agency or who moves from such real property as a result of
the acquisition or imminence of acquisition by such state agency of other real
property on which such person is lawfully conducting a business or farm
operation.  "Displaced person" also includes the foregoing movements
from real property by any person lawfully residing on or lawfully occupying
real property who is required to move from any real property as a result of
code enforcement activities.  "Displaced person" as defined in this
chapter shall not include a tenant upon or occupier of state land under a revocable
permit which is issued or renewed on or after June 7, 1974, provided that those
persons who are issued revocable permits on state land which they had
previously occupied as lawful tenants or lawful occupiers of private land which
is subsequently acquired by the State, by virtue of which acquisition the
revocable permits are issued immediately upon acquisition, shall be entitled to
assistance as displaced persons upon displacement at the termination of the
revocable permits.  "Displaced persons" as defined in this chapter
shall also not include a squatter or trespasser upon state land or any person
unlawfully residing on or unlawfully occupying any real property.



"Family" means two or more
individuals living together in the same dwelling unit who are related to each
other by blood, marriage, adoption, or legal guardianship.



"Farm operation" means any lawful
activity conducted solely or primarily for the production of one or more
agricultural products or commodities for sale and home use, and customarily
producing such products or commodities in sufficient quantity to be capable of
contributing materially to the operator's support.



"Person" means (1) any individual,
partnership, or corporation or association which is the owner of a business;
(2) any owner, part-owner, tenant, or sharecropper operating a farm; (3) the
head of a family; (4) an individual not a member of a family; (5) a nonprofit
organization exempted from taxation under section 235-9.



"State agency" means an agency or
instrumentality created by the State and includes, for purposes of this
chapter, county governmental agencies. [L 1970, c 166, §2; am L 1974, c 181,
§1; am L 1979, c 54, §2; am L 1987, c 10, §§2, 3 and c 162, §§2, 3]



 



Case Notes



 



  City building department and the city department of housing
and community development are state agencies.  61 H. 144, 598 P.2d 161.



  Tenants forced to vacate when city building department
ordered landlord to demolish building deemed to be in substandard condition
were persons displaced "as a result of a governmental program of...code
enforcement activities".  61 H. 144, 598 P.2d 161.