Oregon Statutes 701.305 – Requirement for written contract with residential property owner; standard contractual terms; rules
(1) A contractor may not perform work to construct, improve or repair a residential structure or zero-lot-line dwelling for a property owner without a written contract if the aggregate contract price exceeds $2,000. If the price of a contract was initially less than $2,000, but during the course of performance the contract exceeds that amount, the contractor shall mail or otherwise deliver a written contract to the property owner not later than five days after the contractor knows or should reasonably know that the contract price will exceed $2,000. Failure to have a written contract will not void the contract.
Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 701.305
- Board: means the Construction Contractors Board. See Oregon Statutes 701.005
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Contractor: means any of the following:
(a) A person that, for compensation or with the intent to sell, arranges or undertakes or offers to undertake or submits a bid to construct, alter, repair, add to, subtract from, improve, inspect, move, wreck or demolish, for another, a building, highway, road, railroad, excavation or other structure, project, development or improvement attached to real estate, or to do any part thereof. See Oregon Statutes 701.005
- Zero-lot-line dwelling: means a single-family dwelling unit constructed in a group of attached units in which:
(a) Each attached unit extends from foundation to roof with open space on two sides; and
(b) Each dwelling unit is separated by a property line. See Oregon Statutes 701.005
(2) The Construction Contractors Board shall adopt rules that require a contractor to use standard contractual terms in a construction contract for which subsection (1) of this section requires a written contract. The standard contractual terms shall be clear and use words of common understanding. [2007 c.648 § 7; 2009 c.408 § 8; 2009 c.409 § 1; 2013 c.168 § 1]