Oregon · Concrete licensing · official-source guide
Oregon licenses concrete work at the state level through the Construction Contractors Board. There is no separate concrete license. You hold a construction contractor license with an endorsement, usually Residential Specialty Contractor, which the CCB's own chart illustrates with concrete and masonry work. The headline requirement is 16 hours of pre-license training plus the Oregon exam before you bid.
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Oregon licenses concrete work at the state level. The agency is the Construction Contractors Board, and the license is a construction contractor license, not a concrete license. There is no separate state trade card for flatwork, foundations or masonry. ORS 701.021 says a person or joint venture that undertakes, offers to undertake or submits a bid to do work as a contractor must hold a current CCB license with the right endorsement. Offering and bidding count, so a concrete crew needs the license before it quotes a driveway, not before it pours one. The state layer is close to exclusive. ORS 701.325(6) says the provisions of chapter 701 are exclusive, and a city, county or other political subdivision may not require or issue any registration, license or surety bond, nor charge any fee, for the regulatory or surety registration of a contractor licensed with the board. Cities keep three powers. They can levy a general and nondiscriminatory license fee on all businesses. They can require a bond or insurance when the city itself is the one hiring the contractor. They can regulate a contractor who is not required to be licensed under chapter 701. That means a concrete contractor in Portland, Salem, Eugene or Bend holds one CCB license and does not stack city contractor registrations on top of it. The city still controls permits and local business tax. ORS 701.325(1) ties the two layers together: a city, county or state agency may not issue a building permit to a person required to be licensed unless that person holds a current, valid license properly endorsed for the work, and the permit office lists the license number on the permit it issues.
Oregon does not pick your endorsement by trade. It picks it by the structure the concrete serves. The CCB endorsement chart sets out three statutory structure types. A residential structure includes a site-built home, a structure with one or more dwelling units that is four stories or less above grade, a condominium or rental residential unit that is part of a larger structure when the property interest is separate, a modular home built off-site, a manufactured dwelling and a floating home. For a concrete contractor the appurtenance rule matters more than any of that. The CCB states that an appurtenance such as a sidewalk, driveway, deck, fence, garage or shop building attached to one of those structures is treated as part of the residential structure. A residential driveway replacement, a patio slab, a garage footing and a sidewalk repair in front of a house therefore sit inside the residential category rather than floating outside the licensing scheme. A small commercial structure is a nonresidential structure of 10,000 square feet or less and not more than 20 feet high, or a leasehold or rental unit inside a larger structure with 12,000 square feet or less and not more than 20 feet, or a nonresidential structure of any size where the entire contract price of all construction work on the structure does not total more than $250,000. The chart gives gas stations, fast food restaurants and tenant space in malls as examples. A large commercial structure is anything that is neither residential nor small commercial, which the chart illustrates with hospitals, parking garages, shopping malls and manufacturing facilities. The chart also states that a residential endorsement lets you work on residential and small commercial structures, while a commercial endorsement covers both large and small commercial projects. Pour for houses and large commercial sites and you need both endorsements, two bonds and one liability policy at the higher limit.
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The CCB endorsement chart names concrete work directly. A Residential Specialty Contractor performs work involving one or two unrelated building trades for residential or small commercial projects, and the chart's own example is a residential specialty contractor who performs masonry and roofing work on one project and concrete work on another. Flatwork, foundation and masonry crews normally fit this endorsement. The building trades may change from job to job, so you are not locked into the pair you listed on day one. There is a carve-out worth knowing before you bid a small remodel. The chart says a residential specialty contractor may perform work on a single property involving three or more unrelated building trades if the contract for labor and materials is $2,500 or less. Above that figure, three or more trades on one property pushes you into general contractor territory. A Residential General Contractor may supervise, arrange for or perform an unlimited number of unrelated building trades on any residential or small commercial structure or project, and may perform the same work as a residential specialty contractor. A concrete company that also frames, sets forms for others and manages a whole foundation package with subcontractors is usually buying the general endorsement for the supervision right rather than for the concrete itself. The Residential Limited Contractor exists for part-time work. The chart requires the applicant to certify that it expects gross sales of less than $40,000 from the construction business in the next year, that it does not contract to perform work exceeding $5,000, and that the value of any work performed does not exceed $5,000 per job site per year. The CCB may inspect Oregon Department of Revenue tax records to verify those statements, and the contractor must notify the board immediately and change endorsement if gross construction volume passes $40,000.
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Concrete work on large commercial sites, tilt-up panels, structural foundations for mid-rise buildings and parking structures needs a commercial endorsement. The CCB endorsement chart sets up a general and a specialty version, each split into Level 1 and Level 2. A Commercial Specialty Contractor performs work involving one or two unrelated building trades for small or large commercial projects, and the chart again uses masonry and concrete as its worked example. A Commercial General Contractor may supervise, arrange for or perform an unlimited number of unrelated building trades on any small or large commercial structure. Level 1 and Level 2 contractors can perform the same work. The split is about experience, bond size and insurance. Under ORS 701, a commercial general contractor level 1 and a commercial specialty contractor level 1 must each have one or more key employees with a combined total of at least eight years of experience. A commercial general contractor level 2 and a commercial specialty contractor level 2 must each have one or more key employees with a combined total of at least four years. The experience is combined across key employees, so two people with four years each can satisfy the Level 1 requirement. The CCB defines a key employee as an owner or employee who is a corporate officer, manager, superintendent, foreperson, lead person, or any other person who supervises construction activities. That definition carries through to the commercial continuing education rules, so the people you count for experience are usually the same people who have to sit the classes. Both levels still need a responsible managing individual who meets the statutory requirements. Level 2 is the normal entry point for a concrete subcontractor moving from houses to commercial work, because the bond and insurance figures are lower and four combined years of key employee experience is easier to document.
Oregon does not ask a concrete contractor to prove years of pouring before it issues a residential license. It asks for business training. The CCB requires an applicant to be at least 18 years old and to complete at least 16 hours of pre-license training from an approved pre-license education provider, then pass the Oregon exam. One person carries that burden for the company. The CCB calls that person the Responsible Managing Individual. The RMI is the person who takes the training and passes the test, must be an owner or employee of the business, and must manage or supervise its construction activities. The RMI may be an owner, officer, partner, member or employee, must have management or supervisory authority over the business's construction activities, may only be listed on one license at a time as the RMI employee, and must complete a background check after the application goes in. There are two other routes to qualify as RMI. Passing the NASCLA commercial contractor national exam plus the Oregon exam works. So does providing one or more Oregon license numbers that the owner, officer, member or RMI has been continuously associated with from before July 1, 2000 until the application date, with no lapse of more than 24 months. Losing your RMI stops the business. The CCB says the business must notify the board in writing immediately, submit an RMI change form, and may designate a temporary RMI, with that temporary designation valid for a maximum of 14 days. The board suggests carrying more than one RMI so an unexpected departure does not halt work. Oregon law also blocks a new CCB license for the RMI and the owners until construction-related debt the contractor failed to pay has been satisfied, so the RMI is personally exposed to the company's payment record.
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The exam is a business and law test, not a concrete test. The CCB states that the exam is based on the Oregon version of the NASCLA Contractors Guide to Business, Law and Project Management, second edition, and that the manual cost may be included in the training fee. A Spanish translation of the manual is available. PSI administers the test. Once pre-license training is finished, the training provider alerts PSI so the candidate can schedule. The CCB publishes the format: 80 multiple choice questions, a passing score of 70 percent, which is 56 correct answers, three hours to finish, and a cost of $60 paid to the exam provider. The exam is open book. You can use the manual, you cannot bring loose paper into the testing facility, and the manual may be highlighted, underlined and tabbed before the session with handwritten notes made in advance. Writing in the manual during the exam is not allowed. You get your score immediately. On a pass, the score report goes in with the application, the fee, the original surety bond and the certificate of liability coverage. On a fail, you can reschedule, pay again and retest. Two deadlines follow the exam. The CCB says you must apply for your license within 24 months of passing the test. If you are already licensed and your license lapses for more than 24 months, you have to retake the training and pass the test again. That second deadline catches concrete contractors who let a license sit inactive through a slow stretch. Veterans may be able to get the cost of tests reimbursed, and the CCB points applicants to the United States Department of Veterans Affairs and the Oregon Department of Veterans Affairs for that.
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The CCB publishes its forms and fees in one list. A new application costs $400, and the license runs for two years. The board confirms the history: the two-year contractor license fee was increased by $75 from $325 to $400, the first increase since 2010, with the new figure applying to renewals from July 1, 2024 and to new license applications from July 1, 2025. Renewal is $400 every two years. The exam adds $60, paid directly to the exam provider. Changing your endorsement costs $20, which is the fee a residential specialty concrete contractor pays when it adds a commercial endorsement to chase a larger pour. Inactivating a license costs $20 and reactivating it costs $20. A flagging application costs $400, which matters to concrete crews that also run traffic control in a roadway, and the CCB publishes a separate flagging surety bond form for it. Other CCB fees sit outside concrete work but show up on the same page. Lead-based paint application and renewal are each $50, with renewal every year. Home inspector certification is $150 to apply and $150 to renew every two years. Home energy assessor certification is $100 to apply and $100 to renew every year. The application fee is not the whole cost of entry. Bond premium, liability insurance premium, the pre-license course fee charged by the training provider and Secretary of State filing fees are all separate, and the CCB does not set any of them. The board does say applications may take six to eight weeks to complete and recommends submitting online and early. Fees can be paid online by credit card, debit card or ACH, and the completed application must be uploaded at the time fees are paid.
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Oregon law requires a CCB surety bond, and the amount tracks your endorsement. The bond is a promise by a bonding company to pay all or part of a CCB final order if the contractor does not pay it. A property owner can file a CCB complaint for breach of contract or improper work, and if the board orders payment and the contractor does not pay, the bonding company pays up to the bond amount. The CCB publishes the residential figures. A residential general contractor posts $25,000. A residential specialty contractor, the usual concrete endorsement, posts $20,000. A residential limited contractor posts $15,000. A residential developer posts $25,000. Home services, residential locksmith services, home inspector services and home performance score contractors each post $15,000. Commercial bonds are larger. A commercial general contractor level 1 posts $80,000. A commercial general contractor level 2 posts $25,000. A commercial specialty contractor level 1 posts $55,000. A commercial specialty contractor level 2 posts $25,000. A commercial developer posts $25,000. Carry both a residential and a commercial endorsement and you carry both bonds. The mechanics are strict. The bond must be issued on a CCB bond form and no other form is accepted. It must be issued in the full legal name of the sole proprietor, all partners in a partnership or joint venture, all partners in an LLP plus the LLP name, or the name of the corporation, LLC or trust, matching the name filed at the Oregon Corporation Division. It needs the original signature of the bond company's attorney-in-fact, and an attached power of attorney must stay attached. It is not valid until the CCB puts it into effect, and it must reach the CCB no later than 60 days from the date the bond company signed it. All bonds must be continuous until canceled, and the bond must accompany the application.
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Oregon law requires general liability insurance, and the CCB sets the minimum by endorsement. Residential figures are per occurrence: $500,000 for a residential general contractor, $300,000 for a residential specialty contractor, $100,000 for a residential limited contractor, $500,000 for a residential developer, and $100,000 each for home services, residential locksmith services, home inspector services and home performance score contractors. Commercial figures are higher and mostly stated as aggregate. A commercial general contractor level 1 needs $2,000,000 aggregate. A commercial general contractor level 2 and a commercial specialty contractor level 1 each need $1,000,000 aggregate. A commercial specialty contractor level 2 and a commercial developer each need $500,000 per occurrence. Only one certificate of insurance is required even for a dual endorsement, and the CCB endorsement chart says a dual-endorsed contractor carries one policy at the higher of the two limits. The certificate has its own rules. It must name the Construction Contractors Board, PO Box 14140, Salem, OR 97309 as certificate holder. It must be issued in the full legal name of the entity, matching the Oregon Corporation Division filing. It must state that products and completed operations coverage is included. Copies of the policy, billings, receipts or statements are not accepted in place of a certificate, and the certificate must accompany the application rather than arrive separately. The CCB warns that it can suspend a license or fine a contractor who drops coverage mid-period, and that an insurer not acceptable in Oregon will delay the application. Workers compensation is separate. The CCB requires it if the business has employees, and states that commercial contractors must have workers compensation insurance. Businesses with no employees are ordinarily exempt. Family-owned companies can be exempt even with several family members working, where all the partners, corporate officers or LLC members are family members.
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The CCB license runs two years and renewal costs $400. Continuing education is the part that trips up concrete contractors, because the requirement depends on whether you are residential or commercial, and on how long you have held the license. Residential contractors need, every two-year license period, three hours of CCB laws, regulations and business practices classes, plus five hours of other approved courses if the CCB has licensed you six or more years, or 13 hours of other approved courses if you have been licensed less than six years. No credit is given for more than three hours of CCB classes. The three-hour requirement can be met with one live three-hour class, including live webinars, or three one-hour classes through the online services account. Other courses generally have to appear in the CCB course catalog, with an exception for courses from accredited colleges and universities or state or federal government agencies that run at least an hour and pertain to business practices or your trade. Commercial requirements are counted in key employee hours. A level 2 commercial general or specialty contractor needs 32 hours of education completed by key employees every two years. A level 1 commercial general or specialty contractor needs hours based on the lowest number of key employees during the renewal cycle: 80 hours for five or more key employees, 64 for four, 48 for three, 32 for two and 16 for one. The CCB does not pre-approve commercial courses, which should run at least an hour, and one or several key employees can complete them. Hold both endorsements and only the commercial requirement applies. Residential contractors cannot renew until the CCB has proof the education was done, so send certificates to the board as you finish classes.
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Oregon does not hand an out-of-state concrete contractor a shortcut around the license. The CCB license is required of any person or joint venture that undertakes, offers to undertake or submits a bid to do contracting work, and ORS 701.021 draws no line at the state border. An out-of-state concrete company bidding a Portland or Medford job registers an entity with the Oregon Secretary of State, Corporation Division, posts an Oregon CCB bond on a CCB form, files an Oregon certificate of liability insurance, names an RMI and gets that person through the Oregon exam. The one credit Oregon gives is for the national commercial exam. The CCB states that applicants who have passed the NASCLA Accredited Examination for Commercial General Building Contractors do not have to complete the 16-hour pre-license training, but still have to pass the Oregon exam covering laws, rules and business practices. To become eligible to sit the Oregon exam on that basis, the applicant provides a transcript of the NASCLA exam passage to the CCB and emails it to the board's education address. The other credit is for long-standing Oregon history rather than another state. An individual can qualify as RMI by providing one or more Oregon license numbers that the owner, officer, member or RMI has been continuously associated with beginning before July 1, 2000 until the application date, with no lapse of more than 24 months. Plan the timing. The CCB says applications may take six to eight weeks to complete, and the surety bond has to reach the board within 60 days of the bond company signing it. A concrete contractor chasing a spring pour season in Oregon starts the paperwork in winter, because bidding before the license issues is itself the violation.
Oregon attaches three separate consequences to working without the license, and the money one is the worst. Civil penalties come first. ORS 701.992(1) lets the CCB impose a civil penalty of not more than $5,000 for each offense for violating any provision of chapter 701 or any board rule. A narrower schedule applies to certain violations, including a contractor's failure to notify the board of an address or exemption-status change within 10 days: not less than $500 and not more than $1,000 for a first offense, not less than $1,000 and not more than $2,000 for a second, a six-month license suspension for a third, a three-year suspension for a fourth, and revocation for a fifth. Criminal exposure comes second. ORS 701.990 makes a violation of ORS 701.021 a Class A misdemeanor. It also makes the intentional use of a contractor's license number without the licensed contractor's authorization a Class A misdemeanor, and makes use of a license number with intent to deceive the public a Class A misdemeanor whether or not the licensed contractor authorized it. The third consequence is the one that ends companies. ORS 701.131 says a contractor may not perfect a construction lien, file a CCB complaint, or commence an arbitration or a court claim for compensation for work or for breach of a contract subject to chapter 701, unless it held a valid, properly endorsed license at the time it bid or entered the contract and continuously while performing the work. Pour a foundation unlicensed and the customer can simply not pay you. The statute allows narrow relief where the contractor was unaware, applied within a period the board sets at no more than 90 days, was licensed by the time it filed, and enforcement would cause substantial injustice. The CCB also investigates hiring unlicensed subcontractors and working outside your endorsement.
Oregon puts the license number on nearly everything a concrete contractor uses to get work. OAR 812-003-0120(1) says no person shall advertise or otherwise hold out to the public that person's services as a contractor unless that person holds a current, valid license, and no person shall claim by advertising or by any other means to be licensed, bonded or insured without one. Subsection (2) lists where the number goes. Newsprint classified and display advertising for work subject to chapter 701 must show it. All written bids, written inspection reports and building contracts subject to chapter 701 must show it. Directory space ads and display ads must show it. Radio and other audio-only advertising must contain an audible statement of the number. Television and other video advertising must show it visually. Internet advertising, including website advertising, must show it visually. Business cards, letterhead, business signs at construction sites and all other written or visual advertising must show it. Two exceptions are written in: permanently affixed signs at the contractor's own place of business that primarily and prominently display the contractor's name, and promotional gifts such as pencils, pens, cups and clothing. The CCB's field investigation list of contractor law violations includes failing to display a CCB license number on most advertising. The contract itself is regulated too. ORS 701.305(1) says a contractor may not perform work to construct, improve or repair a residential structure for a property owner without a written contract if the aggregate contract price exceeds $2,000, and a job that grows past $2,000 needs a written contract delivered within five days. Most driveway, patio and foundation jobs clear that figure. OAR 812-012-0110 requires the written contract or an attached addendum to carry the contractor's name, address, phone number and license number as shown on board records, the warranty offer acknowledgment, an explanation of the owner's rights including the ability to file a CCB complaint, the customer's name and address, the work address, a description of the work, and price and payment terms, all legible and in dark ink.
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Because ORS 701.325(6) blocks local contractor registration, what a concrete contractor actually deals with in a city is tax and permits. Portland runs business tax registration through its Revenue Division. Businesses operating within the City of Portland or Multnomah County must register for a Revenue Division tax account within 60 days. The City of Portland Business License Tax rate is 2.6 percent and the Multnomah County Business Income Tax rate is 2 percent, both on net business income. The city lists exemption thresholds on gross receipts from all business activities regardless of where earned: less than $100,000 for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2027, less than $75,000 for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2026 and before January 1, 2027, and less than $50,000 for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2007 and before January 1, 2026. The Multnomah County threshold is less than $100,000. Taxfilers who qualify for an exemption still have to file a return to claim it. The Metro Supportive Housing Services business income tax reaches businesses with total gross receipts above $5 million in the Metro jurisdiction. Permits are where concrete work meets the city most often. Portland states that installing or changing a driveway always requires a permit, even if the driveway accesses an alley, a gravel street or a right-of-way that is not currently passable. Construction or repair of a driveway in the public right-of-way needs a Minor Improvement Permit or a Public Works Permit depending on scope, and the portion of the driveway crossing the sidewalk to the street is normally in the right-of-way. Work on private property needs a different permit from Portland Permitting and Development, and extra permits or reviews can apply to new paving or tree removal.
Sidewalk, curb, ramp and structural concrete on public projects carries a bond Oregon does not ask of private work. ORS 279C.836(1) says that before starting work on a contract or subcontract for a public works project, a contractor or subcontractor shall file with the Construction Contractors Board a public works bond with a corporate surety authorized to do business in Oregon in the amount of $30,000. The bond provides that the contractor will pay claims ordered by the Bureau of Labor and Industries to workers performing labor on public works projects. The bond is a continuing obligation and stays in effect until claims paid under the section deplete it, unless the surety cancels sooner. A surety cancels by giving 30 days written notice to the contractor, to the CCB and to the Bureau of Labor and Industries, and cancellation relieves the surety only for work on contracts entered after it. One bond covers the contractor across projects, since the statute says it does not require a separate public works bond for each project. The duty runs downhill. Before letting a subcontractor start work on a public works project, the prime contractor has to verify that the sub has filed the public works bond, has elected not to file one under the statute's narrow alternatives, or is exempt. A concrete sub that has not filed is a problem for the general, not just for itself. The statute does not require the bond from a person who is not required to pay prevailing rates of wage on the project, and it is in addition to any other bond. The CCB keeps a public works bonded contractors list, including non CCB licensed filers, next to its main license search. That list is how an agency or a general checks the filing before letting a concrete crew start.
Oregon expects homeowners to verify, and the CCB builds its public search around the license number you are already required to publish. The search sits at search.ccb.state.or.us and the board's own guidance tells consumers the most accurate way to look up a license is with a CCB license number, adding that contractors must put this number on their advertising, including brochures, websites and business cards, and to ask the contractor for it if necessary. The search takes other inputs. All or part of a business name, or a contractor's last name, works, and the CCB advises searching for less rather than more because punctuation and spelling differences cause misses. Business telephone numbers can be searched in some cases, entered as digits only. Results can be limited to active records or run across all records. The CCB notes that license records are updated every six hours daily and warns consumers not to assume a contractor is unlicensed when a name search fails. The same page links separate searches for locksmiths, lead safe contractors, home inspectors and public works bonded contractors, plus license lookups at other agencies: the Building Codes Division for electrical and plumbing, the Department of Consumer and Business Services for employers carrying workers compensation insurance, and the Department of Environmental Quality for licensed asbestos abatement contractors. For a concrete contractor this is a selling tool rather than a chore. The license number on your estimate lets a homeowner confirm in one search that the license is active, properly endorsed and bonded. The CCB also runs a tips line and takes reports on unlicensed contractors at active jobsites, so a competitor bidding without a license is reportable rather than unavoidable.
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No. Oregon issues one construction contractor license through the Construction Contractors Board, with endorsements based on the structure you work on. Concrete flatwork, foundations and masonry fall inside a specialty or general endorsement. The CCB endorsement chart uses concrete and masonry as its example of the one or two trades a specialty contractor performs.
Usually Residential Specialty Contractor. The CCB defines that endorsement as work involving one or two unrelated building trades for residential or small commercial projects, and names concrete work as an example. It carries a $20,000 residential bond and $300,000 per occurrence liability insurance. Three or more trades on one property need a general endorsement above $2,500.
Yes. The CCB treats an appurtenance such as a sidewalk, driveway, deck, fence, garage or shop building attached to a residential structure as part of that residential structure. So a driveway replacement, patio slab or garage footing sits inside the residential licensing scheme rather than outside it, and needs the proper endorsement.
Be at least 18, complete at least 16 hours of pre-license training from an approved provider, and pass the Oregon exam. The person who does that becomes your Responsible Managing Individual. Then file an entity with the Secretary of State, post a CCB bond on a CCB form, file liability insurance, and submit the application with the $400 fee.
Business, law and project management, not concrete technique. The CCB says the test is based on the Oregon version of the NASCLA Contractors Guide to Business, Law and Project Management, second edition. PSI gives it: 80 multiple choice questions, 70 percent to pass, three hours, $60. It is open book and you may tab the manual beforehand.
The CCB application is $400 for a two-year license and renewal is $400. The exam is $60. An endorsement change is $20. A residential specialty contractor posts a $20,000 bond; a residential general contractor posts $25,000. Commercial specialty level 2 posts $25,000 and level 1 posts $55,000.
A residential endorsement covers residential and small commercial structures. Large commercial work needs a commercial endorsement. The CCB defines small commercial partly by size and partly by price: a nonresidential structure of any size whose entire construction contract price does not total more than $250,000 counts as small commercial. Both kinds of work means both endorsements and both bonds.
None for the residential endorsements beyond the training and exam. Commercial endorsements do require it. Under ORS 701, commercial general or specialty level 1 needs key employees with a combined total of at least eight years of experience, and level 2 needs a combined total of at least four years. Experience combines across key employees.
Residential contractors need three hours of CCB laws, regulations and business practices classes every two years, plus five hours of other approved courses once licensed six or more years, or 13 hours if licensed less than six years. Commercial level 2 contractors need 32 key employee hours; level 1 ranges from 16 to 80 hours by key employee count.
Under OAR 812-003-0120, on newsprint ads, written bids, written inspection reports and building contracts, directory ads, business cards, letterhead and jobsite signs. Radio must state it audibly. Television and website advertising must show it visually. Permanent signs at your own place of business that prominently display your name are excluded, as are promotional pens and cups.
Three things. The CCB can impose a civil penalty of up to $5,000 per offense under ORS 701.992. Violating ORS 701.021 is a Class A misdemeanor. And under ORS 701.131 you cannot perfect a construction lien, file a CCB complaint, or bring an arbitration or court claim for payment, so the customer can refuse to pay you.
Yes. ORS 279C.836 requires a contractor or subcontractor to file a $30,000 public works bond with the CCB before starting work on a public works contract, unless exempt. One bond covers all your projects. The prime contractor has to verify your filing before letting you start, and the CCB publishes a public works bonded contractors list.
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