Oregon Administrative Rules
Chapter 123 - OREGON BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT
Division 690 - LONG-TERM RURAL ENTERPRISE ZONE INCENTIVES
Section 123-690-0500 - Eligible Rural Enterprise Zones
Universal Citation: OR Admin Rules 123-690-0500
Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 9, September 1, 2024
For purposes of annually identifying applicable counties, in which the Facility Site needs to be entirely located at the time that the written agreement in OAR 123-690-2000 is executed:
(1) With on-line availability of (non-preliminary) annual statistics or data described in this rule, the Department shall analyze the data for all relevant years, ascertain which counties in the state satisfy ORS 285C.400(3) or (5), prepare associated information, and post it on the Department web site for use by the public and business firms, as well as local zone managers and county assessors.
(2)
(a) The
determination that a county meets the definition under ORS
285C.400(3) of
a 'county with chronically low income or chronic unemployment' shall first take
effect at least once a year on January 1 or July 1 following on-line
availability of the latest annual data. As the Department deems appropriate in
response to the release of new annual data or revisions to that data, the
Department may reissue or modify the determination, update associated
information, and set the effective date for changes in county status as
warranted.
(b) A correct, prior
determination in accordance with this section is not subject to retroactive
change due to revisions to the annual data.
(c) A county is a 'county with chronically
low income or chronic unemployment' if any of the following is true:
(A) The median derived according to paragraph
(d)(C) of this section for the most recent 10 or 20 consecutive years is at
least 1.3 rounded to the nearest tenth, based on unemployment rates described
in paragraph (d)(A) of this section.
(B) The median derived according to paragraph
(d)(C) of this section for the most recent 10 consecutive years is equal to or
less than 0.75 rounded to the nearest one-hundredth, based on per capita income
levels described in paragraph (d)(B) of this section.
(C) The county's change in total population
minus natural population change is equal to or less than negative one (-1),
based on the most recent estimates available from the Portland State University
Population Research Center, in comparison to the latest decennial U.S. Census
count of not less than three years earlier.
(d) As used in ORS
285C.400(3):
(A) "Most recently revised annual average
unemployment rate available" means the estimated percent of the civilian labor
force that is unemployed on average according to Local Area Unemployment
Statistics (LAUS) from the Oregon Employment Department in each of the most
recent calendar years available.
(B) "Most recently revised ... annual per
capita income levels available" means the average annual per capita personal
income level as estimated and revised by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
for each of the most recent calendar years available.
(C) "Median ratio of the county to the
equivalent of the entire United States for each year" means the average for the
two middlemost quotients that result from dividing the county figures described
in paragraph (A) or (B) of this subsection by each year's corresponding
national figure over 10 or 20 years.
(3) As used in ORS 285C.400(5) to identify qualified rural counties:
(a) "County
... outside all metropolitan statistical areas" means an Oregon county other
than Benton, Clackamas, Columbia, Deschutes, Jackson, Josephine, Lane, Linn,
Marion, Multnomah, Polk, Washington or Yamhill County.
(b) "The total property taxes imposed by all
taxing districts within the county are equal to or greater than 1.3 percent of
the total assessed value of all taxable property located in the county" means
that the quotient of the respective amounts from the Department of Revenue's
most recently published Oregon Property Tax Statistics
(150-303-405) for a county is at least 0.013 rounded to the nearest
one-thousandth. Those amounts shall be updated as feasible and necessary based
on the county's current Summary of Assessment & Levies, Table 1a (7) Total
and Table 8 line 1.
Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 285A.075
Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 285C.400 & 285C.403
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