Summary of Oregon Law and Standards for Home Inspections

812-008-0201 Standards of Behavior

  1. An Oregon certified home inspector shall not engage in dishonest or fraudulent conduct or undertake activities that are injurious to the welfare of the public, which result in injury or damage to another person.
  2. Opinions expressed by Oregon certified home inspectors shall only be based on their education, experience, and physical evidence observed by the inspector.
  3. An Oregon certified home inspector shall not disclose any information about the results of an inspection without the approval of the client for whom the inspection was undertaken.
  4. No Oregon certified home inspector shall accept compensation or any other consideration from more than one interested party for the same service without the consent of all interested parties.
  5. No Oregon certified home inspector shall give any gift, rebate, kickback, or any thing of value, including but not limited to any payment of money, to any person for the purposes of obtaining an engagement, referral or preference selection to perform a home inspection. However, section (5) of this rule shall not apply to items of nominal value given as part of an advertising promotion of general distribution.
  6. No Oregon certified home inspector shall express, within the context of an inspection, an appraisal or opinion of the market value of the inspected property.
  7. Before the execution of a contract to undertake a home inspection, an Oregon certified home inspector shall disclose to the client any interest in a business that may affect the client. No Oregon certified home inspector shall allow his or her interest in any business to affect the quality or results of inspection work that the Oregon certified home inspector may be called upon to undertake.
  8. An Oregon certified home inspector shall not engage in false or misleading advertising or otherwise misrepresent any matters to the public.

701.355 Home inspector undertaking repair work on inspected structure.

A business entity licensed as a home inspector with the Construction Contractors Board under this chapter may not offer to undertake or offer to submit a bid to undertake work to repair a structure inspected by an owner or employee of the business entity within the 12 months following the inspection.

Text comes from Oregon Administrative Rules, Chapter 812

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