Each specialty section of the Ohio construction industry licensing board, other than the administrative section, shall do all of the following:

Terms Used In Ohio Code 4740.05

  • Contractor: means any individual or contracting company that satisfies both of the following:

    (1) Has responsibility for the means, method, and manner of construction, improvement, renovation, repair, or maintenance on a construction project with respect to one or more trades and who offers, identifies, advertises, or otherwise holds out or represents that the individual or contracting company is permitted or qualified to perform or have responsibility for the means, method, and manner of construction, improvement, renovation, repair, or maintenance with respect to one or more trades on a construction project;

    (2) Does either of the following:

    (a) Performs construction, improvement, or renovation on a construction project with respect to the individual's or contracting company's trade;

    (b) Employs tradespersons who perform construction, improvement, or renovation on a construction project with respect to the individual's or contracting company's trades. See Ohio Code 4740.01

  • License: means a license the Ohio construction industry licensing board issues to an individual as a heating, ventilating, and air conditioning contractor, refrigeration contractor, electrical contractor, plumbing contractor, or hydronics contractor. See Ohio Code 4740.01
  • Rule: includes regulation. See Ohio Code 1.59
  • Training agency: means an entity approved by the administrative section of the board to provide continuing education courses. See Ohio Code 4740.01

(A) Adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119 of the Revised Code that are limited to the following:

(1) Criteria for the section to use in evaluating the qualifications of an individual;

(2) Criteria for the section to use in deciding whether to issue, renew, suspend, revoke, or refuse to issue or renew a license;

(3) The determinations and approvals the section makes under the reciprocity provision of section 4740.08 of the Revised Code;

(4) Criteria for continuing education courses conducted pursuant to this chapter;

(5) A requirement that any training agency seeking approval to provide continuing education courses submit the required information to the appropriate specialty section of the board at least thirty days, but not more than one year, prior to the date on which the course is proposed to be offered;

(6) A prohibition against any training agency providing a continuing education course unless the administrative section of the board approved that training agency not more than one year prior to the date the course is offered;

(7) A list of disqualifying offenses pursuant to sections 9.79, 4740.06, 4740.10, and 4776.10 of the Revised Code.

(B) Investigate allegations in reference to violations of this chapter and the rules adopted pursuant to it that pertain to the specialty section and determine by rule a procedure to conduct investigations and hearings on these allegations;

(C) Maintain a record of its proceedings;

(D) Grant approval to a training agency to offer continuing education courses pursuant to rules the board adopts;

(E) As required, do all things necessary to carry out this chapter;

(F) Establish or approve a continuing education curriculum for license renewal for each class of contractors for which the section has primary responsibility. No curriculum may require more than five hours per year in specific course requirements. No contractor may be required to take more than ten hours per year in continuing education courses. The ten hours shall be the aggregate of hours of continuing education for all licenses the contractor holds.

(G) Design the examination for the type of contractor the specialty section licenses to determine an applicant’s competence to perform that type of contracting.

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