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. (a) "Employee housing," as used in this part, means any
portion of any housing accommodation, or property upon which a
housing accommodation is located, if all of the following factors
exist:
(1) The accommodations consist of any living quarters, dwelling,
boardinghouse, tent, bunkhouse, maintenance-of-way car, mobilehome,
manufactured home, recreational vehicle, travel trailer, or other
housing accommodations, maintained in one or more buildings or one or
more sites, and the premises upon which they are situated or the
area set aside and provided for parking of mobilehomes or camping of
five or more employees by the employer.
(2) The accommodations are maintained in connection with any work
or place where work is being performed, whether or not rent is
involved.
(b) (1) "Employee housing," as used in this part, also includes
any portion of any housing accommodation or property upon which
housing accommodations are located, if all of the following factors
exist:
(A) The housing accommodations or property are located in any
rural area, as defined by Section 50101.
(B) The housing accommodations or property are not maintained in
connection with any work or workplace.
(C) The housing accommodations or property are provided by someone
other than an agricultural employer, as defined in Section 1140.4 of
the Labor Code.
(D) The housing accommodations or property are used by five or
more agricultural employees of any agricultural employer or employers
for any of the following:
(i) Temporary or seasonal residency.
(ii) Permanent residency, if the housing accommodation is a
mobilehome, manufactured home, travel trailer, or recreational
vehicle.
(iii) Permanent residency, if the housing accommodation is subject
to the State Housing Law and is more than 30 years old and at least
51 percent of the structures in the housing accommodation, or 51
percent of the accommodation if not separated into units, are
occupied by agricultural employees.
(E) "Employee housing" does not include a hotel, motel, inn,
tourist hotel, multifamily dwelling, or single-family house if all of
the following factors exist:
(i) The housing is offered and rented to nonagricultural employees
on the same terms that it is offered and rented to agricultural
employees.
(ii) None of the occupants of the housing are employed by the
owner or property manager of the housing or any party with an
interest in the housing.
(iii) None of the occupants of the housing have rent deducted from
their wages.
(iv) The owner or property manager of the housing is not an
agricultural employer as defined in Section 1140.4 of the Labor Code,
or an agent, as it relates to the housing in question, of an
agricultural employer.
(v) Negotiation of the terms of occupancy of the housing is
conducted between each occupant and the owner of the housing or
between each occupant and a manager of the property who is employed
by the owner of the housing.
(vi) The occupants are not required to live in the housing as a
condition of employment or of securing employment and the occupants
are not referred to live in the housing by the employer of the
occupants, the agent of the employer of the occupants, or an
agricultural employer as defined in Section 1140.4 of the Labor Code.
(vii) The housing accommodation was not at any time prior to
January 1, 1984, employee housing as defined in subdivision (a).
(2) "Employee housing," as defined by this subdivision, does not
include a hotel, motel, inn, tourist hotel, or permanent housing as
defined by subdivision (d) of Section 17010, which has not been
maintained, prior to January 1, 1984, or is not maintained on or
after that date, as employee housing, as defined in subdivision (a).
(3) If at any time prior to January 1, 1984, a housing
accommodation was employee housing, as defined in subdivision (a),
and on or after January 1, 1984, was employee housing, as defined in
this subdivision, the owner and operator shall comply with all
requirements of this part. The owner and operator of any other
housing accommodation which is employee housing pursuant to this
subdivision shall be subject to the licensing and inspection
provisions of this part and shall comply with all other provisions of
this part, except that if any portion of the housing accommodation
is held out for rent or lease to the general public, the construction
and physical maintenance standards of the housing accommodation
shall be consistent with the applicable provisions of the State
Housing Law, Part 1.5 (commencing with Section 17910), the
Mobilehome-Manufactured Homes Act, Part 2 (commencing with Section
18000); or the Mobilehome Parks Act, Part 2.1 (commencing with
Section 18200). The owner or operator of the employee housing shall
designate all units or spaces which are employee housing, as defined
in this subdivision, for the purpose of inspection and licensing by
the enforcement agency, subject to confirmation by the enforcement
agency, based on all relevant evidence.
(c) "Employee housing" does not include employee community
housing, as defined by Section 17005.5, which has been granted an
exemption pursuant to Section 17031.3; housing, and the premises upon
which it is situated, owned by a public entity; or privately owned
housing, including ownership by a nonprofit entity, and the premises
upon which it is situated, financed with public funds equaling 50
percent or more of the original development or purchase cost.
(d) "Employee housing" means the same as "labor camp," as that
term may be used in this or other codes and, notwithstanding any
local ordinance to the contrary in a general law or charter city,
county, or city and county, shall be deemed a residential use if it
exists in structures that are single-family houses or apartment
houses as those terms are used in the State Housing Law (Part 1.5
(commencing with Section 17910)).