As used in ORS 671.510 to 671.760, unless the context requires otherwise:

1. (1) “Landscape construction professional” means an individual who for compensation or with the intent to be compensated performs or supervises activities requiring the art, ability, experience, knowledge, science and skill to:

   1. (a) Plan or install lawns, shrubs, vines, trees or nursery stock;
   2. (b) Prepare property on which lawns, shrubs, vines, trees or nursery stock is to be installed;
   3. (c) Install, maintain or repair ornamental water features and landscape drainage systems;
   4. (d) Maintain irrigation systems with the use of compressed air and as otherwise provided by the State Landscape Contractors Board by rule;
   5. (e) Install or repair landscape irrigation systems as provided by the board by rule; or
   6. (f) Plan, install, maintain or repair fences, decks, arbors, patios, landscape edging, driveways, walkways or retaining walls.
2. (2) “Landscape contracting business” means a business that for compensation or with the intent to be compensated arranges, submits a bid, or otherwise offers or contracts, for the performance of activities described in subsection (1) of this section.
3. (3) “Licensee” means a person that is licensed under ORS 671.510 to 671.760 as a landscape construction professional or landscape contracting business.

4. (4) “Nursery stock” means nursery stock:

   1. (a) As defined by ORS 571.005 other than stock grown for commercial resale or reforestation; or
   2. (b) As defined by the board by rule.
5. (5) “Ornamental water features” means fountains, ponds, waterfalls, man-made streams and other decorative water-related constructions as identified by the board by rule.

[1971 c.764 §2; 1973 c.832 §26; 1975 c.757 §1; 1981 c.536 §22; 1983 c.452 §1; 1985 c.565 §91; 1987 c.414 §45; 1997 c.785 §1; 1999 c.32 §1; 2001 c.48 §1; 2005 c.609 §10; 2007 c.541 §11; 2009 c.483 §1; 2015 c.672 §6]