Warburton v. Harney County

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• applying PGE v. Bureau of Labor and Industries, 317 Or 606, 859 P2d 1143 (1993) methodology to question of statutory interpretation in land use context
• “The 'exclusively’ and 'except as otherwise provided’ language evidences a legislative intent to encourage the use of EFU-zoned land solely for farm use and to treat the permitted nonfarm uses in the listed statutes as exceptions to the use of that land for farming activities.”
• “While it is true that a policy statement * * * should not provide an excuse for delineating specific policies not articulated in the statutes, such a general purpose statement may serve as a contextual guide for the meaning of a particular statute.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).