Vermont · Remodeling licensing · official-source guide
Vermont regulates residential remodeling through the Office of Professional Regulation at the Secretary of State, not through a trade license. You must register before contracting with a homeowner for residential construction worth more than $10,000 in labor and materials. There is no exam. Registration requires $1,000,000 per occurrence liability coverage and a written contract.
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Vermont regulates residential remodeling at the state level, and the regulator is the Office of Professional Regulation inside the Secretary of State's office. OPR runs it as a registration program under Title 26, Chapter 106 of the Vermont Statutes, which Act 182 of the 2021 adjourned session added with an effective date of July 1, 2022. OPR's own residential contractor page states that registration has been required since April 1, 2023, and that applications opened on December 1, 2022. No Vermont town issues a remodeling contractor license. Towns issue zoning and building permits for the work, which is a separate approval from the registration that lets you sign the contract. The Director of Professional Regulation holds the operating duties: taking applications, issuing and renewing registrations, maintaining the public registry, and using that registry to reach registrants about building codes, health and safety, and state and federal incentive programs. The Secretary of State appoints two residential contractors as advisors to the Director. An advisor must be registered under the chapter and must have at least three years of residential construction experience immediately before appointment. Know the limits of this agency before you lean on it. OPR says plainly that it handles unlawful and unprofessional conduct by people required to register, and that it cannot award money damages or restitution, mediate a dispute, or inspect construction quality. Consumer complaints that fall outside that box go to the Attorney General's Consumer Assistance Program. For you that cuts both ways: a homeowner cannot use OPR to win a billing argument, and you cannot use it to collect.
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The trigger is the contract value, not the craft. Section 5501 requires a person to register with OPR before contracting with a homeowner to perform residential construction in exchange for consideration of more than $10,000, including labor and materials. Residential construction means building, demolishing, or altering a residential dwelling unit, or a building or premises with four or fewer dwelling units. The statute names interior and exterior construction, renovation and repair, painting, paving, roofing, weatherization, and installation or repair of heating, plumbing, solar, electrical, water, or wastewater systems. OPR's FAQ closes the obvious workarounds. Registration is required for jobs in exchange for that consideration regardless of who the work is for, so family and friends count. Barter does not help either, because OPR treats consideration as the true value exchanged for the work no matter what form it takes. Subcontractors are not automatically exempt; the question is whether they contract with the homeowner above the threshold. A contractor may not need to register today, but the registration has to be in place before signing the first qualifying contract, not after. Section 5502 lists the exemptions. An employee acting within the scope of employment for a registered business organization is exempt. So is a professional engineer, a licensed architect, or a tradesperson licensed, registered, or certified by the Department of Public Safety acting within that credential, and so is a business whose residential work is performed primarily by or under the direct supervision of those exempt employees. Also exempt: delivery or installation of consumer appliances, audio-visual, telephone, or computer network equipment; grounds and planting work; work on a structure not attached to a residential building; and emergency work, provided you apply for registration within a reasonable time afterward. Work on property you own is not covered.
Vermont splits the registration into two types and the dividing line is employees. OPR states that individual registrations are for residential contractors who are self-employed and have no employees, and that business registrations are for contractors who have employees working for them. You are not required to hold both. Employees of a business registrant do not register separately, which matches the section 5502 exemption for an employee acting within the scope of employment for a registered business organization. An LLC with no employees may register either way. OPR says Act 182 allows self-employed contractors without employees to register as individuals, that nothing in the law stops an LLC from registering as a business, and that an LLC should take its own legal advice on the choice. If you start as an individual registrant and later hire, OPR will help you convert the registration to a business registration rather than making you start over; the FAQ directs you to contact the office. Two filing details catch remodelers out. First, the registration is separate from your business entity filing. OPR's FAQ answers directly that a business already registered with Vermont Corporations and Business Services still has to register with OPR. Second, the application asks you to upload documentation of the name registered with Corporations and its active status, so the trade name you advertise and sign contracts under needs to match what the state has on file. Get the entity and trade name sorted before you apply. One registration covers your whole book of work. OPR confirms you do not need a new registration for each new homeowner contract. The registration is annual in name only; it runs on a biennial renewal cycle described in the fee section.
This is the part that surprises contractors moving to Vermont. Chapter 106 sets no experience requirement, no education requirement, and no examination. Section 5503 says so by design: the mandatory registration system is intended to protect against fraud, deception, breach of contract, and violations of law, and is not intended to establish standards for professional qualifications or workmanship that is otherwise lawful. The statute even instructs that the general unprofessional conduct provisions be read consistently with that limit. Eligibility under section 5508 is a compliance test, not a competence test. The Director must find that the applicant complies with the chapter and applicable state law and has satisfied any judgment order related to the provision of professional services to a homeowner. That last clause has teeth. An unpaid judgment from a past homeowner dispute can block your registration until you clear it, which makes settling old claims a licensing matter and not just an accounting one. OPR's FAQ lists what the application actually asks for: an online application, a non-refundable application fee, documentation of the name registered with Corporations and its active status, a copy of minimum liability insurance coverage, and an attestation that you use a written contract. That is the whole gate. Chapter 106 does leave room for a voluntary layer. Section 5503 lets the Director, after consulting public safety officials and recognized associations of builders, remodelers, architects, and engineers, adopt rules issuing voluntary certifications that signify demonstrated competence in particular subfields, set minimum qualifications for them, and discipline a certificant without touching the underlying registration. When the OPR statutes and rules page was checked, it listed proposed administrative rules as coming soon, so treat certification availability as something to confirm with OPR before you advertise one.
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Section 5507 sets the fees and they are paid at initial application and again at biennial renewal. Registration for an individual is $75. Registration for a business organization is $250. State certifications, if and when OPR issues them by rule, are $75 for a first certification and $25 for each additional certification. OPR's FAQ repeats the same two registration numbers, so the statute and the agency agree. Read the biennial wording carefully when you budget. The fee in section 5507 is not an annual charge; the same $75 or $250 is due at each biennial renewal, and OPR states that the certificate of insurance must be uploaded with the initial and the biennial renewal application. The application fee is non-refundable, so confirm your entity name is active with Corporations and your insurance certificate shows the required limits before you pay. Compared with what else a Vermont remodeler pays, the OPR fee is small. The expensive line is the liability policy the registration forces you to carry, covered in the insurance section. Lead work on older housing carries its own fees through the Department of Health: a Lead-Safe RRPM Firm license is $300 for five years, an individual Lead-Safe RRPM Supervisor license is $50 for one year, and a Lead-Safe RRPM Power Tool Permit is $50 per job with a $25 revision fee. There is no state bond requirement in Chapter 106. The chapter contains no bonding provision at all, so any bond a Vermont homeowner, lender, or general contractor asks you for is a private contract term, not a state licensing condition. Price it as a job cost, not as a cost of registration.
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Insurance is the real qualification in Vermont. Section 5509 requires a person registered under Chapter 106 to maintain minimum liability insurance coverage of $1,000,000 per occurrence and $2,000,000 aggregate, and says evidence of that coverage may be required as a precondition to issuance or renewal. OPR's FAQ confirms the practical version: you upload a copy of your certificate of insurance with the initial application and with each biennial renewal, and the certificate must show that $1,000,000 per occurrence and $2,000,000 aggregate coverage. Letting the policy lapse is not a paperwork problem, it is a conduct charge. Section 5510 lists failure to maintain liability or workers compensation insurance as required by law among the acts that constitute unprofessional conduct for a registrant or certificant. OPR can discipline on that basis alone, with no homeowner complaint about the work itself. Workers compensation comes from a different statute. Under 21 V.S.A. section 687, employers other than state, county, and municipal bodies must secure compensation for their employees, either by insuring and keeping insured the payment of compensation with a carrier authorized to write workers compensation in Vermont, by keeping guarantee insurance in force, by satisfying the Commissioner of the employer's financial responsibility as a self-insurer, or by participating in an approved arrangement. If you register as a business because you have employees, that obligation follows automatically. Two things to do before you quote your next Vermont remodel. Ask your carrier to issue the certificate with the OPR limits spelled out, because a $500,000 per occurrence policy will not clear the upload. And keep the renewal date for your policy ahead of your OPR renewal date, so the certificate on file is never the expired one.
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Section 5509 makes the contract a licensing duty, not just good practice. A registrant must execute a written contract before receiving a deposit or commencing residential construction work if the estimated value of labor and materials exceeds $10,000. The statute then specifies four things the contract must contain, and OPR's FAQ repeats the same list. Price has to take one of exactly three forms: a maximum price for all work and materials; a statement that billing and payment will be made on a time and materials basis, not to exceed a maximum price; or a statement that billing and payment will be made on a time and materials basis with no maximum price. Notice that an open-ended time and materials deal is legal in Vermont, but only if the contract says in those words that there is no maximum price. A vague estimate with no price structure fails the test. The contract must also give estimated start and completion dates, a description of the services to be performed and a description of the materials to be used, and a description of how and when amendments may be approved and documented as the parties agree. Any amendment has to be documented in a signed writing. Failing to enter into a written contract when the chapter requires one is listed in section 5510 as unprofessional conduct, so a handshake job over the threshold is a disciplinary exposure separate from any dispute about the work. OPR says it will not review contracts for compliance and that the burden sits with the contractor. The OPR statutes and resources page does publish a sample residential contractor agreement, which is the cheapest way to check your own template against the four required elements.
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Vermont caps the deposit, and the cap depends on which price structure you chose. Section 5509 says that if the contract specifies a maximum price for all work and materials, or specifies time and materials not to exceed a maximum price, the contract may require a down payment of up to one half of the cost of labor to the consumer, or one half of the price of materials, whichever is greater. If the contract specifies time and materials with no maximum price, the down payment is whatever the parties negotiate. OPR's FAQ states the same two rules. That whichever is greater language matters on material heavy remodels. On a job where materials dominate, half the material price can be the larger figure and that is the number you may ask for. On a labor heavy job such as interior finish work, half the labor cost may be larger. Run both halves before you write the deposit line, and keep the arithmetic in your file in case a homeowner questions it later. Also note the sequencing. The written contract must exist before you receive a deposit or start work on a job over the $10,000 threshold. Taking money first and papering it afterward inverts the statute. Change orders are the other half of this. The contract must describe how and when amendments may be approved and documented, and the parties must document any amendment in a signed writing. For a remodeler that is a real workflow requirement, because discovery of rot, failed framing, or old wiring mid job is routine. Build a one page change order form that names the added scope, the price effect, and the new completion date, and get it signed before the extra work starts.
Chapter 106 contains no rescission right. The three day cancellation Vermont homeowners talk about comes from the consumer protection statute, 9 V.S.A. section 2454, and it applies to a home solicitation sale. Section 2451a defines that as the sale or lease, or offer for sale or lease, of goods or services with a purchase price of $5 or more, whether under single or multiple contracts, where the sale or offer is personally solicited or consummated by a seller at the consumer's residence, place of business, or employment, at a seller's transient quarters, or solicited or consummated wholly or in part by telephone with a consumer at those places. A remodeling contract signed at the homeowner's kitchen table lands squarely inside that definition. Under section 2454 the consumer, or any other person obligated for part of the purchase price, may cancel until midnight of the third business day after signing the agreement or otherwise agreeing to buy. Cancellation happens when notice is given to the seller, mailed notice counts when deposited properly addressed with postage prepaid, and the notice needs no particular form so long as it shows the intent not to be bound. The disclosure duties fall on you. You must hand the consumer a fully completed receipt or contract copy at signing, showing the transaction date and your name and address, and carrying a cancellation statement in boldface type of at least 10 points immediately next to the signature space or on the front page of a receipt. You must also attach an easily detachable Notice of Cancellation in not less than 10 point boldface type. The statute prints the required wording. The narrow exception is an emergency the consumer requested in a handwritten, signed request, where you began substantial performance in good faith before notice.
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Vermont runs this registration on a two year cycle. Section 5507 states that the fees are paid at initial application and biennial renewal, and OPR's FAQ confirms that the insurance certificate is uploaded with the initial and the biennial renewal application. So renewal means two things in practice: pay the same $75 individual or $250 business fee again, and prove the liability coverage is still in force at the $1,000,000 per occurrence and $2,000,000 aggregate limits. Chapter 106 imposes no continuing education requirement on registrants. There are no hour counts to track, no approved provider list to shop, and no course certificates to upload for the registration itself. That is consistent with section 5503, which says the registration is not meant to set professional qualification standards. If you hold a Department of Public Safety trade license for electrical or plumbing work, that credential has its own renewal and code update obligations through the Division of Fire Safety, and those are not satisfied by your OPR renewal. The one education-adjacent item is OPR's use of the registry. Section 5505 directs the Director to prepare and maintain a registry of registrants and certificants and to use it to communicate in a timely way about health and safety, building codes, environmental and energy issues, and state and federal incentive programs. Keep the email and address on your registration current; that registry is how notice of a code change reaches you. Voluntary certification remains the open item. Section 5503 authorizes the Director to adopt rules issuing certifications in particular subfields, with fees of $75 for a first certification and $25 for each additional one under section 5507. When the OPR statutes and rules page was checked it listed proposed administrative rules as coming soon, so confirm status with OPR before advertising any state certification.
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Chapter 106 contains no reciprocity provision, no endorsement pathway, and no out-of-state exemption. Read the chapter end to end and the structure is clear: section 5501 requires registration before contracting with a homeowner above the $10,000 threshold, section 5502 lists the exemptions, and holding a contractor license in another state is not one of them. A New Hampshire, New York, or Massachusetts remodeler crossing into Vermont for a qualifying job registers the same way a Vermont contractor does. There is also nothing to waive. Because Vermont sets no exam, no experience hours, and no education requirement, a reciprocity agreement would have nothing to carry across. Your out-of-state credential does not shorten the Vermont application, and it does not lengthen it either. The actual work of entering Vermont is the paperwork: register your entity with Vermont Corporations and Business Services so you can upload documentation of the name and its active status, get a certificate of insurance that shows $1,000,000 per occurrence and $2,000,000 aggregate, and attest to using a written contract. Two Vermont specific traps for an out-of-state remodeler. First, section 5508 requires that you have satisfied any judgment order related to the provision of professional services to a homeowner, and nothing limits that to Vermont homeowners. An open judgment from another state can follow you into the application. Second, the Department of Public Safety trade licenses for electrical and plumbing work are separate credentials administered by the Division of Fire Safety under its own statutes and rules, so an out-of-state electrical license does not travel on your OPR registration. Plan the lead time. The registration has to be in hand before you sign, not before you break ground.
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Section 5510 sends unregistered practice to the general professional regulation statute. A person who does not register as required may be subject to an injunction or a civil penalty, or both, for unauthorized practice as provided in 3 V.S.A. section 127(b). Under that section, a person practicing a regulated profession without authority, or an employer permitting such practice, may be enjoined by the Superior Court where the violation occurred or by Washington County Superior Court and may be assessed a civil penalty of not more than $5,000. The complaint comes from the Attorney General, a State's Attorney, or an attorney assigned by OPR. The Attorney General or an assigned OPR attorney may instead bring an action seeking only the civil penalty of not more than $5,000 before the board with authority over the profession or before an administrative law officer, with hearings conducted like disciplinary hearings. Penalties imposed that way go into the Professional Regulatory Fee Fund. Registrants face a second track. OPR may discipline a registrant or certificant for unprofessional conduct under 3 V.S.A. section 129a, except that section 129a(b) does not apply to a registrant. Section 5510 then adds conduct specific to this trade: failing to enter into a written contract when the chapter requires one; failing to maintain liability or workers compensation insurance as required by law; committing a deceptive act in commerce in violation of 9 V.S.A. section 2453; falsely claiming certification under the chapter; and selling or fraudulently obtaining or furnishing a registration or related document, including reincorporating or altering a trade name to evade or mask revocation, suspension, or discipline. That last clause is aimed at the oldest trick in the trade. Rebranding the company to shed a sanctioned registration is itself unprofessional conduct in Vermont.
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Contractors arriving from states with a guaranty fund should know that Vermont built none. Chapter 106 creates no recovery fund, no guaranty account, and no claim process for homeowners who lose money. Nothing in sections 5501 through 5510 sets aside any part of the $75 or $250 fee for consumer restitution. Civil penalties collected for unauthorized practice go into the Professional Regulatory Fee Fund under 3 V.S.A. section 127, which funds regulation, not homeowner claims. OPR says the same thing in plainer words. The agency states that it cannot award money damages or restitution, mediate disputes, or inspect construction quality. Its tools are investigation and discipline: restricting or revoking a registration, and making notice of sanctions publicly accessible. OPR's own answer on how the registry protects homeowners lists insurance as the recovery mechanism, noting that registered contractors must maintain insurance and that this gives homeowners more options for recouping damages. So the backstop is your liability policy plus the courts. Under 9 V.S.A. section 2461, a consumer who contracts for goods or services in reliance on false or fraudulent representations or practices prohibited by section 2453, or who sustains damages from them, may sue for equitable relief and recover from the seller. The same section sets a civil penalty of not more than $10,000 for each violation of an injunction issued under section 2458. The Attorney General's Consumer Assistance Program handles consumer issues outside OPR's jurisdiction, including letter remediation. What this means for how you sell. A Vermont homeowner cannot point at a state fund if you fail, so the credential that reassures them is a current registration plus a certificate of insurance at the statutory limits. Hand over both without being asked.
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Chapter 106 imposes no advertising display rule. Read the full chapter and there is no requirement to print a registration number on signs, vehicles, websites, written estimates, or contracts, and no penalty attached to leaving it off. Vermont is unusual that way, and a remodeler who moved here from a number-on-the-truck state can stop worrying about that specific exposure. What replaces it is a general honesty standard with real consequences. Under 3 V.S.A. section 129a, advertising that is intended or has a tendency to deceive or mislead is unprofessional conduct, and so is failing to comply with state statutes or rules governing the practice of the profession. Section 5510 adds that committing a deceptive act in commerce in violation of 9 V.S.A. section 2453 is unprofessional conduct, and that falsely claiming certification under Chapter 106 is too, while expressly allowing accurate and non-misleading statements about credentials the state does not offer. So a trade association certificate or a manufacturer credential can be advertised, as long as you do not dress it up as a Vermont certification. Two wording traps follow from the statute's own design. First, Vermont issues a registration, not a license, and section 5503 says the registration is not intended to set standards for professional qualifications or workmanship. Describing yourself as a state licensed or state approved remodeler overstates what Vermont granted and invites a section 129a complaint. Registered with the Vermont Office of Professional Regulation is accurate and still sells. Second, keep the advertised trade name identical to the name on the registration and on the Corporations filing, since OPR asks for documentation of the registered name and treats name manipulation that masks discipline as unprofessional conduct. Put your registration number on estimates anyway. It is free proof and it shortens the trust conversation.
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This is the credential Vermont remodelers most often miss, and it is administered by the Department of Health, not OPR. The Vermont Renovation, Repair, Painting and Maintenance regulations require workers to be trained and licensed to use lead-safe practices when working on painted surfaces in buildings built before 1978. The Health Department says about 60 percent of Vermont homes were built before then, which is why this touches so much remodeling work in the state. The rules apply to all housing and child-occupied facilities built before 1978, and to anyone working on them above the stated thresholds: one square foot per interior room; one square foot per exterior side for rental housing and child care facilities; and 20 square feet per exterior side for other pre-1978 buildings. Window replacements are always RRPM jobs no matter how small the window, and demolition of painted surface areas counts as RRPM work. Vermont assumes lead-based paint is present in all pre-1978 housing and child-occupied facilities, does not accept hardware store test kits, and treats a filed exemption as the only way to establish a building is lead-free. The license structure matters for how you staff a job. A sole proprietor needs both the Lead-Safe RRPM Supervisor and the RRPM Firm license. A firm with multiple employees needs the Lead-Safe RRPM Firm license, and each job needs a licensed supervisor on site. Fees from the Health Department: RRPM Firm $300 for five years, RRPM Supervisor $50 for one year, RRPM Firm Landlord $300 for five years, and a Power Tool Permit $50 per job with a $25 revision fee. Asbestos work is a separate license set, with an Asbestos Abatement Company license at $600 per year.
Your OPR registration lets you sign the contract. It does not permit the work. Under 24 V.S.A. section 4449, in any municipality that has adopted bylaws no land development may begin without a permit from the administrative officer, and the officer must give the applicant a copy of the applicable building energy standards under 30 V.S.A. section 51 when the application seeks approval of a structure. Where bylaws so provide, a certificate of occupancy is also required before using an altered or enlarged structure, and the energy certificate is a condition precedent to that certificate. A permit does not take effect until the appeal period runs. That is why practice differs town to town rather than statewide. In South Burlington, for example, the Planning and Zoning Department handles development review and permitting, publishes its Land Development Regulations, runs a permit application portal for zoning permits and zoning certificates of compliance, and maintains a searchable archive of permits and decisions. Check the local regulations and the portal before you promise a schedule. The energy code is not optional on remodels. The Department of Public Service states that the Residential Building Energy Standards under 30 V.S.A. section 51 affect all new homes and all additions, alterations, and repairs to residential buildings three stories or less above grade, and that a revised rule adopted April 10, 2026 takes effect July 14, 2026 allowing compliance with either the 2020 or 2024 RBES. Two more. Electrical and plumbing work are licensed by the Division of Fire Safety under separate statutes, so you cannot self-perform them on your registration. And the Department of Taxes says a contractor improving real property should not charge sales tax to the customer, pays tax on materials at purchase instead, and owes 6 percent use tax directly if it was not paid.
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These are common details other guides publish about Vermont, but we could not verify them from the agency source. Confirm them directly before relying on them.
No. Section 5501 requires registration before contracting with a homeowner for residential construction worth more than $10,000, counting labor and materials together. A $9,000 job sits under the line. Register before you sign the first contract that crosses it, because the statute ties the duty to contracting, not to starting work.
No. Section 5502 exempts an employee acting within the scope of employment for a business organization registered under the chapter. That is why crews work under one business registration. OPR confirms that employees of a business registrant are not required to register. You need the business registration, which costs $250 at application and at each biennial renewal.
Either. OPR says Act 182 allows self-employed contractors without employees to register as individuals, and that nothing in the law stops an LLC from registering as a business. The individual fee is $75 and the business fee is $250. OPR suggests an LLC get its own legal advice before choosing.
Section 5509 requires registrants to maintain minimum liability insurance of $1,000,000 per occurrence and $2,000,000 aggregate. OPR requires a copy of the certificate at initial application and at each biennial renewal. Letting coverage lapse is listed in section 5510 as unprofessional conduct, so it is a discipline risk and not only a paperwork gap.
Four things under section 5509: a price in one of three permitted forms, estimated start and completion dates, a description of the services and the materials, and a description of how amendments get approved and documented. Amendments must be in a signed writing. OPR states it will not review your contract for compliance.
If your contract names a maximum price, or time and materials not to exceed a maximum, you may require up to one half of the cost of labor or one half of the price of materials, whichever is greater. If the contract says time and materials with no maximum price, the down payment is negotiated between the parties.
Yes, within three business days, if it is a home solicitation sale under 9 V.S.A. section 2451a, which covers a contract solicited or signed at the consumer's residence. Section 2454 gives cancellation until midnight of the third business day. You must supply the boldface cancellation statement and an attached, detachable Notice of Cancellation.
Section 5510 routes unregistered work to 3 V.S.A. section 127(b). You may be enjoined and assessed a civil penalty of not more than $5,000, on complaint of the Attorney General, a State's Attorney, or an attorney assigned by OPR. An employer who permits unauthorized practice faces the same exposure.
Chapter 106 sets no display requirement for the registration number on vehicles, signs, websites, or estimates. What does apply is 3 V.S.A. section 129a, which makes misleading advertising unprofessional conduct. Since Vermont issues a registration rather than a license, calling yourself state licensed overstates the credential you actually hold.
No. Chapter 106 creates no recovery or guaranty fund. OPR states it cannot award money damages or restitution, and points to the required insurance as the mechanism that gives homeowners options for recouping damages. Civil penalties for unauthorized practice go to the Professional Regulatory Fee Fund under 3 V.S.A. section 127.
Yes. The Health Department states that window replacements are always RRPM jobs regardless of window size in pre-1978 housing. A sole proprietor needs both the Lead-Safe RRPM Supervisor license, $50 for one year, and the RRPM Firm license, $300 for five years. Each job needs a licensed supervisor on site.
No. Electrical work is licensed separately by the Division of Fire Safety in the Department of Public Safety under 26 V.S.A. chapter 15, with its own rules and adopted codes. Section 5502 treats a Department of Public Safety licensed tradesperson as a distinct credential, so your residential contractor registration does not cover it.
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