POLICY STATMENT

(1) "Family Housing" refers to all apartments operated by Western Oregon University which are rented to students and faculty/staff in transition who qualify under these rules to rent such apartments, including all grounds and buildings used by said tenants and/or University Residences staff in the operation and administration of the Family Housing program. 

(2) "Family" is a couple recognized as legally married under Oregon law, whether or not with dependent child/children, [or] an unmarried person with legal custody of dependent child/children, or a student/faculty/staff member and his/her domestic partner; the components of the family unit must reside together. 

(3) "Dependent" is anyone meeting the dependent definitions as outlined in the Internal Revenue Code. 

(4) "Domestic Partnership" is defined as a legal or personal relationship between individuals who live together and share a common domestic life but are not joined in a traditional marriage, a common-law marriage, or a civil union. 

This policy previously was an Oregon Administrative rule.