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Ohio does not license remodelers. The Ohio Attorney General states that state law does not require home improvement contractors to be licensed, though many cities do. The Ohio Construction Industry Licensing Board licenses only electrical, HVAC, refrigeration, plumbing and hydronics contractors. Statewide, Chapter 4722 requires a written contract on residential work over twenty five thousand dollars.
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Ohio has no statewide remodeling license and no statewide home improvement contractor registration. The Ohio Attorney General says it plainly on its home improvement consumer tips page: state law does not require home improvement contractors to be licensed, but many Ohio cities do. That single sentence explains why two remodelers in the same state can face completely different paperwork. A remodeler working in Toledo takes an examination and pays a city fee. A remodeler working in a township with no building department of its own may hold no trade credential at all. The state does license five construction specialties through the Ohio Construction Industry Licensing Board, part of the Division of Industrial Compliance at the Ohio Department of Commerce. Those five are electrical, heating ventilating and air conditioning, refrigeration, plumbing and hydronics. Remodeling, carpentry, roofing, siding, drywall, tile and general residential construction are not on that list. So the question for a remodeling company is never one license. It is three separate layers. Layer one is the city or county registration where the job sits. Layer two is the specialty trade license for any plumbing, electrical, HVAC, refrigeration or hydronics work inside the remodel, held either by you or by a subcontractor. Layer three is the statewide contract law in Ohio Revised Code Chapter 4722, which applies to every residential remodel over a dollar threshold whether or not anybody licensed you. Most contractors learn layer one and skip layer three. Layer three is the one the attorney general enforces.
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The Ohio Construction Industry Licensing Board issues licenses to electrical, heating ventilating and air conditioning, plumbing, hydronics and refrigeration contractors who pass the state licensing examination. The board sits inside the Division of Industrial Compliance at the Ohio Department of Commerce. Its own application paperwork describes these as state licenses for contractors who perform commercial work, which is where many residential remodelers get confused. The board exists under Ohio Revised Code Chapter 4740, and the chapter is built around those five trades only. There is no general contractor section, no remodeling section and no home improvement section to apply to. Chapter 4740 also sets a limit on what cities may do. No political subdivision may adopt an ordinance requiring contractor registration and a registration fee unless that ordinance also requires the registering contractor to hold a state license in the contractor's trade. Cities keep full authority to regulate the installation, repair, maintenance or alteration of plumbing, hydronics, electrical, HVAC and refrigeration systems, and to register and charge tradespeople who perform that work. Chapter 4740 carves out some low voltage work. A person is not an electrical contractor subject to state licensure for work limited to fire alarm or burglar alarm, cabling, tele-data sound and communication systems using less than fifty volts. A licensed contractor may also install, service and maintain related control wiring for equipment tied to that license when the control wiring is under twenty-five volts. For a remodeling company, the practical reading is simple. The state board will not license your remodeling business. It will license the tradespeople whose work you are about to sell.
Columbus runs the most detailed contractor licensing scheme in Ohio for residential remodeling. Under Columbus City Code Chapter 4114, the Department of Building and Zoning Services issues licenses and registrations, and every contractor working in the city must hold the right one before applying for permits. Columbus separates general contractors from home improvement contractors, and the dividing line matters. A registered general contractor may build new structures and perform structural work on commercial and multi-family buildings, but when it coordinates work on existing one, two and three family dwellings it must subcontract that work to Columbus licensed home improvement, mechanical, electrical and plumbing contractors. General contractor licensure requires a notarized application, a bond of $25,000 on the city's own bond form, and a certificate of liability insurance naming the Department of Building and Zoning Services as certificate holder. Structural work on existing one, two and three family dwellings, including garages and accessory structures, requires the Columbus home improvement contractor license instead. The home improvement general license requires a notarized application and a passing score of seventy percent or higher on International Code Council examination 767, Ohio Home Improvement Contractor. Passing scores stay valid one year from the date achieved. The applicant needs a minimum of three full years of hands-on experience in the one, two and three family home improvement field. Applications go to the Board of General and Home Improvement Contractors and must be filed at least one week before the next scheduled board meeting, though applicants do not have to attend. Columbus defines home improvement broadly: repair, replacement, remodeling, alteration, conversion, modernization, improvement or addition to existing one, two or three family dwellings, including driveways, swimming pools, porches and garages. New home building is excluded.
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Columbus offers a second, narrower credential for remodelers who do one thing. The home improvement limited contractor license covers one or more approved scopes rather than general residential remodeling. The published scopes are residential roofing, residential siding windows and doors, residential deck installation, residential basement waterproofing, residential prefabricated fireplaces and wood or coal stoves, residential masonry fireplaces, residential fencing, residential sidewalks and driveway approaches, residential exterior lathing and stucco, residential swimming pools and spas, residential asphalt paving, residential irrigation sprinkler and residential gypsum board. The experience bar is lower than the general version. An applicant for a home improvement limited license in a field of specialization needs a minimum of one full year of hands-on experience in that specific field. The application is notarized and reviewed by the same Board of General and Home Improvement Contractors, filed at least one week before the board meets. The page does not list an examination for the limited license the way it does for the home improvement general license. After board approval the applicant receives notification by certified mail with instructions for the remaining steps, and Columbus asks applicants not to come in for processing until that approval letter arrives. For a remodeling company deciding which to pursue, the scope boundaries are the whole decision. A roofing and siding company can operate on the limited license. A company selling kitchen gut jobs, additions and structural alterations on existing houses needs the home improvement general license, because structural additions, alterations or repairs to existing one, two and three family dwellings sit in the general scope. Work on four or more family dwellings or on commercial structures moves out of home improvement entirely and into the Columbus general contractor registration.
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Cleveland requires contractors to be bonded, insured and registered with the Department of Building and Housing before building or rehabilitating homes in the city. Electricians and plumbers must also be licensed, which points back to the state board and to the city's own trade licensing. The city tells homeowners to call the Department of Building and Housing to verify that a hired contractor is registered, and to ask the contractor for copies of permits before work begins. It also tells homeowners not to accept the work until a city building and housing inspector has performed a final inspection. That is worth knowing before you write a payment schedule, because the city is openly coaching your customer to withhold acceptance until inspection. Cleveland lets owner occupants of one or two family homes perform alterations or build homes without registering as contractors, but holds them to the same rules that apply to contractors for permits, plan examination and inspection. Plan review in Cleveland is charged at $20 per one thousand square feet of work with a minimum fee of $20 for homes, garages, sheds, fences and swimming pools. The city says review of one and two family homes generally finishes in three to five working days, though the period varies with project complexity. Contractors and do-it-yourselfers schedule their own inspections by calling the office number printed on the building permit. Cleveland expects inspections after foundation excavation and before concrete is poured, after rough-in and before work is concealed, and again upon completion. If an inspector finds faulty work, the inspector issues a violation notice and sets a period of time to correct the problem.
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Cincinnati requires every contractor performing work inside city limits to maintain a current contractor registration, renewed annually, under Cincinnati Municipal Code Chapter 1106, ordinance 42-2011. The Department of Buildings and Inspections will not issue building permits until all applicable contractors are registered, so registration is a gate in front of the permit, not a formality beside it. Crane operators and crane equipment also have to be registered. The fee for an initial contractor registration is $125.00, plus a three percent technology surcharge, a one percent financial recovery fee and a one percent training surcharge, for a total of $131.25 per year, payable for up to three years at a time. Payment goes to the Permit Center contractor registration section, in person, by mail or by email submission followed by a call for payment. The duration rule has a useful wrinkle. City registration of state licensed contractors runs until the state license expires. City registration for everyone else is valid one year from the date the registration is issued. So a plumbing or electrical contractor holding an Ohio Construction Industry Licensing Board license synchronizes the city paperwork with the state renewal, while a remodeler with no state license renews on the city's own clock. Cincinnati exempts the owner of a one, two or three family dwelling regulated by the Residential Code of Ohio from registration, as long as the owner personally performs the work and will occupy the residence for at least one year after completion. Family members and volunteers may assist when the owner is physically unable to work. Architects, professional engineers and other professionals acting strictly inside their licensed scope are also exempt.
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Toledo is the Ohio city that licenses remodeling by name. The city registers and licenses contractors engaged in making improvements to residential structures regulated by the Residential Code of Ohio, and it publishes two categories. A Certified Remodeling Contractor may perform all residential construction, alterations and renovations. A Limited Remodeling Contractor is restricted to residential improvements such as roof and window replacement, siding application, insulation installation, fencing, and swimming pools deeper than twenty four inches. Both licenses renew annually and expire December 31 each year, so a license bought in autumn still expires at year end. Applications go to the city's Board of Control for Home Improvement and Remodeling Contractors. The application fee is $200.00, of which $175.00 is refunded if the Board of Control decides the applicant is not qualified to sit for the exam. Certified applicants must first pass the International Code Council Building Contractor C examination, exam identifier 767-OH-GC, and attach the completion certificate. They then take the City of Toledo Certified Remodeling Exam covering Chapter 11 on zoning and Chapter 13 on building of the Toledo Municipal Code. Limited applicants take the City of Toledo Limited Remodeling Exam, covering Chapter 13 of the municipal code and the 2024 International Residential Code. Both city exams are open book using those reference materials, and the code chapters can be purchased for $30.00 from the Division of Building Inspection. After passing, a Certificate of Compliance from the Toledo Division of Taxation is required before the license will be issued. License holders must provide a certificate of insurance showing liability coverage in the amount of $100,000 to $300,000.
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This is the statewide rule remodelers miss. Ohio Revised Code Chapter 4722 governs home construction service suppliers, and it applies whether or not any city licensed you. Home construction service means construction of a residential building, including the creation of a new structure and the repair, improvement, remodel or renovation of an existing structure. A home construction service contract is a contract to perform those services for an amount exceeding twenty five thousand dollars. A home construction service supplier is defined as a person who contracts to provide home construction services for compensation and who maintains in force a general liability insurance policy of not less than $250,000. Except for cost-plus contracts, no supplier may perform a home construction service costing $25,000 or more without a written contract with the owner. The statute lists what the contract must contain: the supplier's name, physical business address, business telephone number and taxpayer identification number; the owner's name, address and telephone number; the address of the property; a general description of the service including goods and services furnished; the anticipated start date or period and the anticipated completion date or period; the total estimated cost; any installation, delivery or other cost the estimate does not cover; a copy of the supplier's certificate of insurance showing general liability coverage of not less than $250,000; and the dated signatures of both owner and supplier. Residential building means a one, two or three family dwelling plus accessory construction incidental to it. Structures with four or more dwelling units are outside the chapter, except for work on an individual unit inside one.
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Chapter 4722 also controls money and change orders, and the numbers are strict. A home construction service supplier may take as a down payment no more than ten percent of the contract price before performance begins. The exception is special order items that are otherwise not returnable or usable, where the supplier may take up to seventy five percent of the total cost of that item before starting. Payments from a construction loan may be accepted. On change orders, if reasonably unforeseen but necessary excess costs at any point exceed five thousand dollars over the course of the entire contract, the supplier must give the owner notice containing an estimate before performing the work tied to those costs. The contract itself has to ask the owner which kind of estimate they want. Chapter 4722 supplies near-verbatim language requiring the owner to initial a choice between a written estimate and an oral estimate for excess costs. A supplier who writes a firm price and agrees to charge no excess costs does not have to meet the excess cost notice requirement. The prohibited acts list is long and specific. A supplier may not start work without the required written contract, charge for unapproved excess costs, represent that repairs were performed when they were not, intentionally understate or misstate the estimated cost, misrepresent the quality of work or materials, or fail to perform the service in a workmanlike manner. Workmanlike manner has a defined meaning in the chapter: construction that meets or exceeds the minimum quantifiable standards promulgated by the Ohio home builders association. A supplier also may not make performance conditional on the owner waiving any right the chapter grants.
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Ohio's right of cancellation does not come from a contractor licensing law. It comes from the Home Solicitation Sales Act in Ohio Revised Code sections 1345.21 through 1345.28, and it catches a lot of remodeling sales. A home solicitation sale is a sale of consumer goods or services where the seller personally solicits the sale at the buyer's residence, including solicitations following an invitation by the buyer, and the buyer's agreement is given there, or where the agreement is made anywhere other than the seller's place of business. Every home solicitation sale must be evidenced by a written agreement in the same language used in the oral presentation, must carry the seller's name and address, must be signed by the buyer, and must state the date the buyer actually signed. The seller leaves the buyer a signed copy. A statement in bold-face type of at least ten points must appear clearly and conspicuously next to the buyer's signature line, telling the buyer they may cancel at any time prior to midnight of the third business day after the transaction date. A duplicate, easily detachable form captioned notice of cancellation must be attached, in ten point bold-face type. Exclusions matter for a remodeling company. The act does not cover transactions under twenty five dollars, sales consummated entirely by mail or by buyer-initiated telephone, final agreements following prior negotiations during a buyer visit to a fixed retail location, or cases where the buyer initiated contact and the seller has a fixed business establishment in Ohio where those services are regularly offered. Newspaper, magazine, catalogue, radio and television advertising by such a seller does not count as the seller initiating contact.
Two separate penalty systems apply to Ohio remodeling, and they punish different things. The first covers the state trade licenses. Under Ohio Revised Code section 4740.13, no person may act as or claim to be a type of contractor that Chapter 4740 licenses unless that person holds or has been assigned the license. Section 4740.99 makes a violation a minor misdemeanor on the first offense and a misdemeanor of the fourth degree on later offenses. The attorney general may also bring a civil action for relief, including a temporary restraining order or permanent injunction, in the common pleas court of the county where the unlicensed person resides or is holding out as a licensed contractor. Note the wording: the offense includes claiming to be a licensed electrical, plumbing, HVAC, refrigeration or hydronics contractor, so advertising that you are one is itself the violation. The second system covers Chapter 4722 contract conduct. The attorney general may investigate on complaints or on its own inquiry, subpoena records, and bring declaratory, injunctive or class action proceedings. The court may impose a civil penalty of up to twenty five thousand dollars against a supplier for each violation, plus up to five thousand dollars for each day a restraining order or injunction is violated. Owners get their own remedy. For a violation of sections 4722.02, 4722.03 or 4722.04, an owner may rescind the transaction or recover actual economic damages plus noneconomic damages up to five thousand dollars, and a court may award reasonable attorney fees where the supplier knowingly committed a violation. The attorney general must sue within two years of the violation. Ohio's remedy here is rescission, damages and state enforcement, not a payout from a state administered recovery fund.
If anyone in your remodeling operation holds an Ohio Construction Industry Licensing Board license, Ohio Administrative Code rule 4101:16-2-05 governs how that number appears in your marketing, and it is more specific than most contractors expect. The license must be displayed in a conspicuous place in each office or place of business and at each construction site. The license number assigned by the board must be displayed on items associated with the specialty contracting business, which the rule says includes but is not limited to all business locations, business cards, vehicles carrying the business name, contracts and advertisements. Telephone directory advertising counts when the listing is more than just name, address and telephone number. Advertising specialty items count, though pens, pencils, t-shirts, hats and similar small items designated by the board are excluded. The rule prescribes the format. The license number shall be displayed as OH LIC#, followed by the number. On vehicles displaying the business name, the license number must be placed prominently on at least two sides of the vehicle, at a size not less than two inches in height, so the number is easily noticed. One more line kills a common practice: no license number may be advertised for more than one business name. If you run two brands off one license, that rule applies to you. Separately, Chapter 4740 requires the board to keep a public record of every licensed HVAC, refrigeration, electrical, plumbing and hydronics contractor including name, address, issue or renewal date and license number, and gives the board authority to regulate a contractor's use and display of the license and the information on it.
Because Ohio issues no state remodeling license, there is no state title to claim and no state license number to print. That cuts both ways. You cannot advertise a state remodeling license, because none exists, and the Ohio Attorney General tells consumers exactly that: state law does not require home improvement contractors to be licensed, though many cities do. What you can advertise is what a government actually gave you. A Columbus home improvement general contractor license is a real credential issued by the Department of Building and Zoning Services, with a defined scope. A Toledo Certified Remodeling Contractor license is a real credential with a defined scope. A Cincinnati contractor registration is a real registration under Cincinnati Municipal Code Chapter 1106. Name the city and name the credential, and the claim is verifiable. The hard line sits at the five state licensed trades. Section 4740.13 prohibits acting as or claiming to be a type of contractor the chapter licenses without holding that license, and section 4740.99 attaches a criminal penalty. So a remodeling company with no electrical license may not call itself an electrical contractor, advertise electrical contracting, or imply it is licensed for it. Rule 4101:16-2-05 adds that a license number may not be advertised for more than one business name, which blocks a licensed trade partner's number from appearing under your brand. Chapter 4722 covers the rest of the sales message: intentionally understating the estimated cost, misrepresenting the nature or quality of work or materials, or representing that work is needed to comply with the residential building code when it is not are all prohibited acts.
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Ohio homeowners have a short list of checks, and knowing it lets you pass them on purpose. For the five state licensed trades, the Ohio Construction Industry Licensing Board runs a public license lookup through the state eLicense system. The search screen lets anyone query by license type, credential number, first name, last name, maiden name and state, with license types listed as electrical contractors, HVAC contractors, hydronics, plumbing contractors, refrigeration contractors and training agencies. There is also a lookup by employer. Chapter 4740 backs that up by requiring the board to keep a record of the name, address, issue or renewal date and license number of every contractor licensed in those five trades. For remodeling itself, verification is local. Cleveland tells homeowners to call the Department of Building and Housing to confirm a contractor is registered, and to ask for copies of permits before work begins. Cincinnati publishes a registered contractor lookup through its Department of Buildings and Inspections and will not issue permits until the contractor is registered. Columbus requires the license or registration before a contractor can apply for permits at all, so a permit record is itself evidence. The Ohio Attorney General tells consumers to check with local officials about permits, ask the contractor for proof of licenses, insurance and bonding, check references, check the Better Business Bureau and the attorney general's own complaint records, and get at least three written estimates from three different contractors. The same page warns consumers against large down payments or payment in full before the project is complete and inspected, which lines up with the ten percent down payment cap in Chapter 4722.
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When your remodel touches plumbing, electrical, HVAC, refrigeration or hydronics, somebody needs a state license. To qualify to sit for the examination under Ohio Revised Code section 4740.06, an applicant must be at least eighteen, be a United States citizen or documented legal resident, and have worked as a tradesperson in that trade for not less than five years immediately before applying, or be a registered Ohio engineer with three years of construction business experience in that trade, or hold other experience the specialty section accepts. The board's examination application lists the proof it wants with five consecutive years of tax documents: at least one permit per year pulled by the licensed contractor you worked under, an active trade card in that trade, an approved apprenticeship completion certificate, or proof of forty hours of non-duplicated code continuing education from an approved agency. Approved candidates must obtain BCI and FBI background checks before testing. The application fee is $25.00. After passing, a license is issued on payment of $25 with proof of at least $500,000 in contractor liability insurance assigned to a contracting company. Administrative rule 4101:16-2-09 sets fees at twenty five dollars for the examination application, twenty five dollars for issuance, sixty dollars for annual renewal or one hundred eighty dollars for triennial renewal, a late fee of up to one hundred twenty dollars, and a thirty dollar penalty for a returned payment instrument. Renewal requires certifying at least $500,000 in coverage and completing ten classroom hours of approved continuing education each year. Electrical licensees must take five of those hours in electrical code. Reciprocity under section 4740.08 requires a written agreement between the states and substantially equal requirements.
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Insurance is where Ohio's scattered rules converge on a single number set, and a remodeler can hit all of them with one policy if the limits are right. Chapter 4722 defines a home construction service supplier as one who maintains in force general liability coverage of not less than $250,000, and requires a copy of the certificate of insurance showing that coverage to be included in the written contract itself. If anyone on your team holds a state trade license, administrative rule 4101:16-2-09 requires contractor liability insurance including complete operations coverage of at least $500,000, carried in the name of the business entity when the license is assigned to one. That rule also states the business entity must be registered with the Ohio Secretary of State to do business in Ohio. Cities add their own certificate requirements. Columbus requires a certificate of liability insurance naming the Department of Building and Zoning Services as a certificate holder, written by an insurer licensed in Ohio. Toledo requires remodeling license holders to provide a certificate showing liability insurance in the amount of $100,000 to $300,000. Cleveland requires contractors to be bonded and insured as well as registered. On workers compensation, Ohio Revised Code section 4123.35 requires every private employer to pay premiums into the state insurance fund at rates the administrator of workers compensation fixes for the employer's occupational classification, now on an annual basis for policy years beginning on or after July 1, 2015, with self-insurance available to qualifying employers. Toledo also requires a Certificate of Compliance from its Division of Taxation before issuing a remodeling license, which is a reminder that local tax standing gates local licensing.
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These are common details other guides publish about Ohio, but we could not verify them from the agency source. Confirm them directly before relying on them.
No. The Ohio Attorney General states that Ohio law does not require home improvement contractors to be licensed, though many Ohio cities do. The state licenses only five construction specialties through the Ohio Construction Industry Licensing Board: electrical, HVAC, refrigeration, plumbing and hydronics. Remodeling, carpentry, roofing and drywall are not state licensed trades.
Electrical, heating ventilating and air conditioning, refrigeration, plumbing and hydronics work requires a license from the Ohio Construction Industry Licensing Board. Under section 4740.13, nobody may act as or claim to be one of those contractors without holding the license. A remodeler without those licenses subcontracts that scope to someone who holds them.
Ohio Revised Code Chapter 4722 bars a home construction service supplier from performing work costing twenty five thousand dollars or more without a written contract with the owner, unless the job is a cost-plus contract. The chapter lists required contents, including start and completion periods, total estimated cost, and a certificate of insurance showing at least $250,000 in general liability coverage.
Chapter 4722 caps the down payment at ten percent of the contract price before performance begins. For special order items that are otherwise not returnable or usable, a supplier may take up to seventy five percent of that item's total cost before starting. Payments drawn from a construction loan may be accepted in connection with the contract.
If the sale qualifies as a home solicitation sale under Ohio Revised Code sections 1345.21 through 1345.28, yes. The buyer may cancel any time before midnight of the third business day after the transaction date, and the contract must carry that notice in bold-face type of at least ten points plus a detachable duplicate cancellation form.
Chapter 4722 does not create one. It gives owners a direct cause of action instead: rescission of the transaction, or actual economic damages plus noneconomic damages up to five thousand dollars, with attorney fees available when the supplier knowingly violated the chapter. The attorney general can separately seek civil penalties up to twenty five thousand dollars per violation.
Structural additions, alterations or repairs to existing one, two and three family dwellings require a Columbus home improvement contractor license. The general version needs a notarized application, a passing score of seventy percent or higher on International Code Council exam 767, three full years of hands-on experience, and approval by the Board of General and Home Improvement Contractors.
Toledo issues Certified Remodeling Contractor and Limited Remodeling Contractor licenses, both renewing annually and expiring December 31. The application fee is $200.00, with $175.00 refunded if the Board of Control finds the applicant unqualified to test. Certified applicants pass the International Code Council Building Contractor C exam plus a Toledo exam on municipal code chapters 11 and 13.
Initial registration is $125.00 plus a three percent technology surcharge, a one percent financial recovery fee and a one percent training surcharge, totaling $131.25 per year, payable for up to three years. Registration renews annually under Cincinnati Municipal Code Chapter 1106, and the city will not issue building permits until every applicable contractor is registered.
Administrative rule 4101:16-2-05 requires the board-assigned license number on business locations, business cards, vehicles carrying the business name, contracts and advertisements, formatted as OH LIC# plus the number. On vehicles it must appear on at least two sides at a height of at least two inches. One number may not be advertised under more than one business name.
Annual renewal costs sixty dollars per license, or one hundred eighty dollars for a triennial renewal, with a late fee up to one hundred twenty dollars. Renewal requires certifying at least $500,000 in contractor liability insurance and completing ten classroom hours of approved continuing education each year. Electrical licensees must take five of those ten hours in electrical code.
Claiming to be or acting as a state licensed electrical, HVAC, refrigeration, plumbing or hydronics contractor without the license is a minor misdemeanor on a first violation and a fourth degree misdemeanor afterward. The attorney general may also seek a restraining order or permanent injunction in the common pleas court where the person resides or is holding out.
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