71st OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2001 Regular Session
 
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amended section is new. Matter within  { -  braces and minus
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LC 1028
 
                         House Bill 2191
 
Ordered printed by the Speaker pursuant to House Rule 12.00A (5).
  Presession filed (at the request of Governor John A. Kitzhaber,
  M.D., for State Landscape Contractors Board)
 
 
                             SUMMARY
 
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.
 
  Authorizes landscape contractors to plan and construct
ornamental water features.
 
                        A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to ornamental water features; amending ORS 671.520.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
  SECTION 1. ORS 671.520 is amended to read:
  671.520. As used in ORS 671.510 to 671.710, unless the context
requires otherwise:
  (1) 'Board' means the State Landscape Contractors Board.
  (2) 'Landscape contractor' means any person who for
compensation or with the intent to be compensated arranges,
undertakes, offers or contracts to undertake, or submits a bid to
perform activities requiring the art, ability, experience,
knowledge, science and skill to:
  (a) Plan and install lawns, shrubs, vines, trees and other
decorative vegetation including the preparation of property on
which the vegetation is to be installed, and the construction of
  { - fountains - }  { +  ornamental water features + } and
drainage and irrigation systems for decorative vegetation;
  (b) Plan and install fences, decks, arbors, driveways, walkways
and retaining walls; or
  (c) Do any part or any combination of any activity described in
paragraphs (a) and (b) of this subsection.
  (3) 'Landscaping business' means any business that offers or
provides, for compensation or with the intent to be compensated,
the services of a landscape contractor.
  (4) 'Licensee' means a person or business who is licensed under
ORS 671.510 to 671.710 as a landscape contractor.
  (5) 'Nursery stock' means nursery stock as defined by ORS
571.005 and as further defined by the board after public hearing.
   { +  (6) 'Ornamental water features' means fountains, ponds,
waterfalls, man-made streams and other decorative water-related
constructions as identified by board rule. + }
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