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Oklahoma Construction Industries Board:
Address:
2401 NW 23rd Street, Suite 2F
Oklahoma City, OK 73107
Phone:
(405) 521-6550
Toll Free:
(877) 484-4424
Fax:
(405) 521-6525
Reciprocity: YES
Electrical Contractor $330.00 (License $300.00 / Processing $30.00)
Electrical Journeyman (Reciprocal or otherwise) $75.00 (License $50.00 / Processing $25.00)
Mechanical Contractor $330.00 (License $300.00 + Processing $30.00= total $330.00)
Mechanical Journeyman $75.00 (License $50.00 + Processing $25.00= total $75.00)
Limited Residential Journeyman $75.00 (License $50.00 + Processing $25.00= total $75.00)
Plumbing Contractor $330.00 (License fee $300.00 + Application Processing Fee $30.00 = total $330.00)
Plumbing Journeyman $75.00 (License fee $50.00 + Application Processing Fee $25.00 = total $75.00)
AMOUNT DUE FOR INITIAL ROOFING CONTRACTOR REGISTRATION: $75.00
“Electrical contractor” means any person skilled in the planning, superintending and practical installation of electrical facilities who is familiar with the laws, rules and regulations governing such work. Electrical contractor also means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, or business performing skills of an electrical contractor or an electrician or the business of contracting, or furnishing labor or labor and materials for the installation, repair, maintenance or renovation of electrical facilities or electrical construction work according to the provisions of the Electrical License Act;
LICENSE CLASSIFICATIONS
158:40-7-1. Unlimited electrical license
(a) Applicants for an unlimited electrical contractor examination must be eighteen (18) years of
age or older and must verify at least twelve thousand (12,000) hours (6 years) experience on-thejob
in electrical construction work. At least six thousand (6,000) of the hours of experience must
be verified in commercial/industrial work. Experience must be obtained while employed by a
licensed electrical contractor. No more than two thousand (2,000) of verified actual classroom
hours of formal electrical education may be counted toward the experience requirement.
Applicants must submit proof of two (2) years’ experience as an unlimited licensed electrical
journeyman prior to making application for the unlimited electrical contractor’s license.
(b) Applicants for an unlimited electrical journeyman examination must be eighteen (18) years
of age or older and must verify eight thousand (8,000) hours (4 years) on-the-job experience in
the electrical construction trade, as defined in 90.2 National Electrical Code, under the
supervision of a journeyman or contractor. Experience must be obtained while employed by a
licensed electrical contractor. Four Thousand (4,000) of the hours of experience must be verified
in commercial/industrial work. No more than two thousand (2,000) of verified actual classroom
hours of formal electrical education may be counted toward the experience requirement.
(c) A licensed residential electrician may work as an apprentice electrician on
commercial/industrial jobs in order to qualify experience for an unlimited license exam.
(d) A licensed residential electrician may work as an apprentice under the unlimited license
Category.
158:40-7-2. Residential electrical license
(a) Residential electrical licenses are limited to wiring buildings as defined in the National
Electrical Code for one and two family dwellings.
(b) Applicants for residential electrical contractor examination must:
(1) be eighteen (18) years of age or older,
(2) have passed the residential or unlimited journeyman examination, and
(3) submit proof of two (2) years experience as a licensed electrical journeyman and
have at least four thousand (4,000) hours of experience as a residential or unlimited
journeyman electrician under the employment and supervision of an unlimited or
residential electrical contractor.
(c) Applicants for residential electrical journeyman examination must:
(1) be eighteen (18) years of age or older, and
(2) verify at least four thousand (4,000) hours (2 years) experience in the electrical
construction trade as an apprentice under the direct supervision of an unlimited or
residential journeyman electrician or unlimited or residential electrical contractor, with
no more than one thousand (1,000) of verified actual classroom hours of formal electrical
education being counted toward the experience requirement.
158:40-7-4. Limited electrical contractor
(a) Applicants for Limited Electrical Contractor examination must be eighteen (18) years of
age or older and must have a degree in Electrical Engineering from an accredited college or
university. Additionally, an applicant must have eight thousand (8,000) hours (4 years) of
electrical experience in field construction, electrical estimating, electrical project management in commercial and industrial electrical work; or
(b) Applicants for a Limited Electrical Contractor examination must be eighteen (18) years of
age or older and must verify sixteen thousand (16,000) hours (8 years) experience in the
electrical trade performing electrical work, estimating or project management. The experience
must be verified in commercial and/or industrial work.
License categories:
(1) A limited mechanical HVAC license entitles the licensee to install, alter, modify,
service, maintain, or repair a ventilation (duct) system and/or:
(A) any cooling product, system, or equipment including the process piping,
that has a cooling capacity of no more than twenty-five (25) tons, and/or
(B) all heating equipment including the process piping that have a heat input of
no more than 500,000 Btu/h per appliance.
(2) A limited residential journeyman license entitles the licensee to install complete
new systems in new construction for detached one or two family dwellings and multiple
single family dwellings (townhouses) not more than three stories in height with a separate
means of egress. Installations shall include 5-ton or less cooling systems and 150,000
Btu/h or less heating systems and related accessories such as humidifiers, filtering
systems, kitchen vent hoods, exhaust fans and clothes dryer vent exhausts for such
dwellings. Such installations shall not include any fuel gas piping, welding, soldering,
brazing or final connection of refrigerant lines or final connection of any electrical wiring
permitted to be installed in accordance with Oklahoma statutes.
(3) An unlimited mechanical HVAC license entitles the licensee to install, alter,
modify, service, maintain, or repair a ventilation (duct) system and/or:
(A) any cooling product, system, or equipment, including the process piping,
and/or
(B) heating equipment, including the process piping.
(4) A natural gas piping license entitles the licensee to install, alter, modify, service,
maintain, or repair all natural gas piping.
(5) A process piping license entitles the licensee to install, alter, modify, service,
maintain, or repair all process piping.
(6) A refrigeration license entitles the licensee to install, alter, modify, service, maintain,
or repair refrigeration products, systems, or equipment, including the process piping.
(7) A sheet metal license entitles the licensee to install, alter, modify, service, maintain,
or repair all ferrous and nonferrous duct systems.
(8) A ground source piping license entitles the licensee to install, alter, modify, service,
maintain or repair all piping outside a structure for a ground source (earth or water) loop
pipe.
(9) A petroleum refinery journeyman license entitles the licensee to install, alter, modify,
service, maintain, or repair all petroleum refinery process piping, and said license is
limited to petroleum refinery process piping work only. A petroleum refinery
journeyman shall be under the direction and supervision of a licensed unlimited
mechanical contractor or a licensed process piping mechanical contractor.
(10) A medical gas journeyman license entitles the licensee to install, alter, modify,
service, maintain, or repair medical gas or medical-surgical vacuum systems, or
equipment, including the piping. A medical gas journeyman shall be under the direction
and supervision of a licensed unlimited mechanical contractor or a licensed process
piping mechanical contractor.
“Plumbing” means and includes:
(A) all piping, fixtures, appurtenances and appliances for, and in connection
with, a supply of water within or adjacent to any building, structure, or
conveyance, on the premises and to the connection with a water main or other
source of supply;
(B) all piping, fixtures, appurtenances and appliances for sanitary drainage or
storm drainage facilities, including venting systems for such facilities, within or
adjacent to any building, structure, or conveyance, on the premises and to the
connection with a public disposal system or other acceptable terminal;
(C) the installation, repair, maintenance and renovation of all piping, fixtures,
appurtenances and appliances for a supply of water, or for the disposal of waste
water, liquid waste, or sewage within or adjacent to any building, structure, or
conveyance, on the premises and to the source of supply of water or point of
disposal of wastes;
(D) the original installation of a water softener but not the exchanging of the
units whereby only unions are disturbed in the replacement;
(E) the installation of water services and building sewers; and
(F) sewer cleaning-house sewer maintenance.
“Commercial roofing contractor work” means work done on roofing systems or
structures as defined as commercial in the International Building Code, as adopted by the
Oklahoma Uniform Building Code Commission; except it does not mean buildings used for
commercial purposes having equivalent or substantially the same roofing requirements as a
“residence” defined herein, including but not limited to business offices converted from a
structure that formerly was a residence.
“Residential roofing contractor work” means work done on roofing systems as defined in the International Residential Code, as adopted by the Oklahoma Uniform Building Code Commission, or as defined as a “residence” herein; except for buildings used for commercial purposes having equivalent or substantially the same roofing requirements as a “residence” defined herein, including but not limited to business offices converted from a structure that formerly was a residence “Roofing contractor” means any person, including a subcontractor and nonresident contractor, engaged in the business of commercial or residential roofing contractor work as that term is defined and exclusions listed in 59 O.S. § 1151.2
Oklahoma Water Resources Board:
Address: 3800 North Classen Boulevard, Oklahoma City, OK 73118
Phone#: 405.530.8800
Drilling/Pump Contractor License (includes one category) $300.00
Out of State Drilling/Pump Contractor License (includes one category) $500.00
Indemnity Fund (includes one category) $200.00
Additional category fee for License @ $40.00 ea
Additional category fee for Operator @ $30.00 ea.
Additional category indemnity fund fee @ $75.00 ea.
Oklahoma DOT:
200 NE 21st Street
Oklahoma City, OK 73105
Local: (405) 522-8000
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