OAR 808-002-0200: Casual, Minor, or Inconsequential

Edition: Current OARD snapshotEffective: 2016-05-23Last verified: 2026-09-07

(1) "Casual, Minor, or Inconsequential" work, as used in ORS 671.540(1)(c)(C), includes: (a) The replacement of shrubs, vines, trees and nursery stock with varieties that are similar in habit and culture; (b) The replacement of existing lawns; (c) The planting of annuals, perennials and bulbs in existing beds and outdoor pots and containers that are part of a structure or require power equipment to be placed when empty or filled. This does not include the commercial production of nursery stock; (d) The replacement of non-concrete landscape edging; (e) In an irrigation system, the replacement of three or fewer malfunctioning sprinkler heads with heads of the same or of a similar type and hydraulic equivalency without raising the grade by cutting or lengthening the existing head to lateral piping more than four (4) inches; (2) "Casual, minor or inconsequential" work does not include: (a) The construction of new planting areas; (b) The construction or repair of arbors, decks, driveways, fences, retaining walls, walkways, patios, concrete landscape edging, or ornamental water features, drainage systems or irrigation systems; or (c) The maintenance of irrigation systems with the use of compressed air. (d) The placement of outdoor pots and containers where the use of powered equipment is required when the pots or containers are empty or filled.

Official history and status

Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 183.325 - 183.410, 670.310 & 671.670

Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 671.520 & 671.540

History: LCB 4-2016, f. & cert. ef. 5-23-16 LCB 9-2015, f. 12-22-15, cert. ef. 1-1-16 LCB 8-2011, f. 7-26-11, cert. ef. 8-1-11 LCB 12-2009, f. 12-23-09, cert. ef. 1-1-10 LCB 9-2008, f. 9-29-08, cert. ef. 10-1-08 LCB 6-2005, f. 12-30-05, cert. ef. 1-1-06 LCB 3-2004, f. 1-27-04, cert. ef. 2-1-04 LCB 1-2001, f. 12-4-01, cert. ef. 1-1-02 LCB 3-1999, f. & cert. ef. 11-17-99, Renumbered from 808-002-0010 LCB 1-1999, f. & cert. ef. 2-11-99 LCB 3-1998(Temp), f. & cert. ef. 11-16-98 thru 5-15-99 LCB 1-1998, f. & cert. ef. 2-6-98 LSCB 2-1997, f. & cert. ef. 11-3-97 LCB 4-1993, f. & cert. ef. 11-1-93 LCB 1-1993, f. & cert. ef. 1-19-93 Reverted to LCB 2-1992, f. 7-14-92, cert. ef. 7-15-92 LCB 3-1992(Temp), f. & cert. ef. 7-16-92 LCB 2-1992, f. 7-14-92, cert. ef. 7-15-92 LCB 1-1992, f. 1-27-92, cert. ef. 2-1-92 LCB 3-1991(Temp), f. & cert. ef. 12-3-91 LCB 1-1991, f. & cert. ef. 7-22-91 LCB 1-1988, f. 1-26-88, cert. ef. 2-1-88, Renumbered from 808-010-0010 LC 1-1986, f. & ef. 1-3-86 LC 1-1985, f. & ef. 7-1-85 LC 2-1984, f. & ef. 10-2-84 LC 1-1984, f. & ef. 7-17-84 LC 1-1981, f. & ef. 10-8-81 LC 3, f. & ef. 2-7-77 Sunset on 09-28-2017 [LC 3, f. & ef. 2-7-77; LC 1-1981, f. & ef. 10-8-81; LC 1-1984, f. & ef. 7-17-84; LC 2-1984, f. & ef. 10-2-84; LC 1-1985, f. & ef. 7-1-85; LC 1-1986, f. & ef. 1-3-86; LCB 1-1988, f. 1-26-88, cert. ef. 2-1-88; Renumbered from 808-010-0010; LCB 1-1991, f. & cert. ef. 7-22-91; LCB 3-1991(Temp), f. & cert. ef. 12-3-91; LCB 1-1992, f. 1-27-92, cert. ef. 2-1-92; LCB 2-1992, f. 7-14-92, cert. ef. 7-15-92; LCB 3-1992(Temp), f. & cert. ef. 7-16-92; LCB 1-1993, f. & cert. ef. 1-19-93; LCB 4-1993, f. & cert. ef. 11-1-93; LSCB 2-1997, f. & cert. ef. 11-3-97; LCB 1-1998, f. & cert. ef. 2-6-98; LCB 3-1998(Temp), f. & cert. ef. 11-16-98 thru 5-15-99; LCB 1-1999, f. & cert. ef. 2-11-99; Renumbered by LCB 3-1999 f. & cert. ef. 11-17-99]

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