Definitions for "GRANDFATHERED"
Common term for provisions under many laws or agreements, under which practices or employees in place at the time a new provision takes effect are exempt from its requirements, or allowed a transition time to achieve conformity to those requirements. This term rarely appears explicitly in the provision providing the exemption or transition.
A term used to describe individuals or entities that are exempted from a new rule, most commonly using a cut-off date to determine application of the new rule.
Those individuals who meet established criteria thereby making them exempt from a specified requirement.
Zoning use that, once allowed, may be continued even though other zoning is changed, e.g., a prior commercial use on a lot may be continued even after residential zoning has been instituted on surrounding property.