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Board Seeks Higher Bonds for Large Landscape Contracts; Committee Hears Consumer-Protection Case
Summary
The State Landscape Contractors Board asked the Senate Committee on Labor and Business Feb. 11 to raise bond amounts for landscape contractors so larger consumer claims would be covered more fully; the board proposed $20,000 bonds for jobs up to $100,000 and $50,000 for jobs above $100,000.
The Senate Committee on Labor and Business heard testimony Feb. 11 from the State Landscape Contractors Board about Senate Bill 8 64, a measure that would restructure bond requirements for licensed landscape contracting businesses in Oregon.
Annie Von Domits, administrator for the Landscape Contractors Board, told the committee the board has seen an increase in complaints where contractors hold small bonds relative to the size of projects and, when multiple customers make claims, the bond must be split and provides…
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