OAR 918-020-0015: Definitions

As used in OAR chapter 918, division 020, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) “Building official” has the meaning given to that term in ORS 455.715. (2) "Contract building official” means an owner, manager or employee of a person that the director has licensed to perform specialty code inspections and plan reviews under ORS 455.457 and that engages in the business of providing the services described in ORS 455.148 (3) and 455.150 (3) to one or more municipalities to which the director has delegated a building inspection program. (3) “Director” means the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services, or the director’s designee. (4) “Discretionary decision” means a decision on whether to waive a plan review, an inspection or a provision of the state building code; or to allow an alternative material, design or method of construction. (5) “Division” means the Building Codes Division of the Department of Consumer and Business Services. (6) "Full-service program" means a building inspection program that assumes administration and enforcement of all of the specialty code programs listed in ORS 455.148(1). (7) “Qualified employee” means an individual that a municipality employs and has designated to ratify or disapprove a contract building official’s discretionary decisions and who has satisfied the training requirements under OAR 918-020-0240.