A. Any administrative or governing body with authority to enter into public contracts shall require individual roofing contractor registration for purposes of such persons submitting or entering into any bid or contract involving roofing contractor work.

B. The Roofing Contractor Registration Act does not apply to:

1. An actual owner of residential or farm property who physically performs, or has family member, employee or employees who perform with or without remuneration, roofing services including, construction, installation, renovation, repair, maintenance, alteration, waterproofing, or removal of materials or structures on property owned by such person;

2. Any authorized employee, representative or representatives of the United States Government, the State of Oklahoma, or any county, municipality, or other political subdivision of this state;

3. Any person who furnishes any fabricated or finished product, material, or article of merchandise which is not incorporated into or attached to real property by such person so as to become affixed thereto;

4. Any person including churches or other charitable entities that provide roof repairs or replacements at no charge using volunteer labor;

5. Any employee of a registrant who does not hold himself or herself out for hire, advertise, or engage in contracting, except as an employee of a registrant;

6. Licensed engineers, licensed architects, licensed HVAC and any other person licensed by the jurisdiction, operating under the purview and within the scope of their respective license;

7. A person who only furnishes roofing materials, roofing supplies or equipment and does not, nor do the person's employees, install or fabricate them into or consume them in the performance of the work of the roofing contractor;

8. Prime contractors, general contractors, property managers and project managers who bid on construction trade work in areas additional to roofing contractor work, and subcontract the roofing contractor work as long as they subcontract the roofing work to a currently registered roofing contractor who is in good standing; if the bid is solely for roofing contractor work, then a registration is required;

9. Owners of commercial properties including residential rental properties consisting of four dwelling units or less, when acting as their own roofing contractor and providing all material supervision themselves, lessees of residential properties with the consent of the owner, who, whether themselves or with their own employees, perform roofing construction in or upon the properties, all installing roofing materials according to the International Building Code, as adopted by the Oklahoma Uniform Building Code Commission, or the manufacturer's installation instructions;

10. Owners of property when acting as their own roofing contractor, providing all material supervision themselves, and installing roofing materials according to the International Residential Code, as adopted by the Oklahoma Uniform Building Code Commission, or the manufacturer's installation instructions when building or improving a single-family dwelling residence on such property for the occupancy of such owners and not intended for sale or rent. In any action brought under the Roofing Contractor Registration Act, proof of the sale or offering for sale of such structure or the renting or offering to rent of such structure by the owners of the property within one (1) year after substantial completion of the structure when the structure can be occupied and used as intended but punch list items may remain, is presumptive evidence that the construction was undertaken with the intent of sale or rent; or

11. Metal building erectors who install prefabricated- or pre-engineered-metal-building packages, known as PEMBs, as defined by the Construction Science Institute and Construction Specifications Institute in Division 13, Special Construction: Metal Building Systems.

C. Labor-only crews performing the installation of asphalt shingles, tile shingles, synthetic shakes or wood shakes to a sloped roof must be registered but are not required to have a commercial endorsement.

Added by Laws 2010, c. 479, § 9, eff. Nov. 1, 2010. Amended by Laws 2011, c. 225, § 5; Laws 2014, c. 270, § 7, eff. Nov. 1, 2014; Laws 2018, c. 178, § 2, eff. July 1, 2018.