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• • An authorization to partition or subdivide the property, or to establish dwellings on the property, granted under section 6, 7 or 9 of this 2007 Act runs with the property and may be either transferred with the property or encumbered by another person without affecting the authorization. There is no time limit on when an authorization granted under section 6, 7 or 9 of this 2007 Act must be carried out, except that once the owner who obtained the authorization conveys the property to a person other than the owner's spouse or the trustee of a revocable trust in which the owner is the settlor, the subsequent owner of the property must create the lots or parcels and establish the dwellings authorized by a waiver under section 6, 7 or 9 of this 2007 Act within 10 years of the conveyance. Additionally, Measure 49 addresses the event of an individual claimant's death: "(9) If a claimant is an individual, the entitlement to prosecute the claim under section 6, 7 or 9 of this 2007 Act and an authorization to use the property provided by a waiver under section 6, 7 or 9 of this 2007 Act: (a) Is not affected by the death of the claimant if the death occurs on or after the effective date of this 2007 Act; and (b) Passes to the person that acquires the property by devise or by operation of law." Or. Laws 2007, ch. 424, § 11(9). The Applicant suggests that there is more than one plausible interpretation of the phrases: "the owner who obtained the authorization conveys to a person other than the owner's spouse or the trustee of a revocable trust in which the owner is the settlor" and "the subsequent owner." DLCD suggests that the "owner" who obtained authorization is limited to the trustee of the Norman L. Dodds and Mary Ruhl Dodds Family Trust and that the conveyance from the Trustee to the beneficiaries was the conveyance that initiated the ten-year development clock. DLCD's' interpretation is consistent with the notation on the corrected deed (corrected deed of June 14, 2010 deed) that states: "it is believed that this transfer from Granter to Grantee will trigger that ten-year time period and the Final Order will expire if the Final Order home site approval is not utilized by the Grantee." Applicant argues that the DLCD's interpretation unreasonably limits and contradicts the text of Measure 49. Applicant urges the hearings officer to consider statutory interpretation requires analyzing the text in context as well as any legislative history and canons of 12 Case No. AR 21-038 — ORDER Fogarty