The legislature declares that it is the policy of this state that persons with disabilities or elderly persons are entitled to live in normal residential surroundings and should not be excluded therefrom because of their disability or advanced age, and in order to achieve statewide implementation of such policy it is necessary to establish the statewide policy that the use of property for the care of eight (8) or fewer persons with disabilities or elderly persons is a residential use of such property for the purposes of local zoning.
Idaho Code § 67-6530
Declaration of purpose
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case D & M Country Estates Homeowners Ass'n v. Romriell (2002)
Most recently applied in Hayden Lake Recreational Water & Sewer District v. Haydenview Cottage, LLC (December 2011)
I.C., § 67-6530, as added by 1979, ch. 319, § 1, p. 858; am. 1993, ch. 18, § 1, p. 70; am. 2010, ch. 235, § 61, p. 542.
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