NEW NASCLA Quiz Questions

Each year, the Oregon Construction Contractors Board (CCB) receives as many as ____ complaints about contractors.

Oregon law requires individuals or businesses conducting construction activities to be licensed with the CCB.

The CCB manual does not include information specific to particular construction trades.

A nine-member board appointed by the _____ and confirmed by the _____ governs the CCB.

Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS): The laws governing construction contracting can be found mainly in ORS chapter 701. The laws may be revised monthly.

Oregon Administrative Rules (OAR): The rules can be found at OAR chapter ___. Rules may change more than once a year.

Current rules and laws are available on the CCB’s website

A “contractor” is an individual or business that, for compensation or with the intent to sell, arranges or undertakes or offers to undertake or submits a bid to construct, alter, repair, add to, subtract from, improve, inspect, move, wreck or demolish, for another, any building, highway, road, railroad, excavation or other structure, project, development or improvement attached to real estate, or to do any part thereof.

Contractors must have at least two Responsible Managing Individual’s on the record at all times.

Some individuals or entities are not required to have CCB licenses even if they are acting as “contractors.”

Employees of a contractor are exempt from licensing.

Employer tax numbers: If you will have employees, then you must obtain a state business identification number (BIN) or a federal employer identification number (EIN).

License endorsements. A contractor must obtain a license endorsement as _____.

Contractors working on small commercial structures must have a license endorsement as a commercial contractor.

Which of the following are considered a residential structure?

A small commercial structure is: A nonresidential structure not more than ___ feet tall with a ground area of ______ square feet or less.

A small commercial structure is: A residential unit in a larger structure if the unit is 12,000 square feet or less and the unit is not more than 20 feet tall.

A small commercial structure is: A nonresidential structure of any size if the contract price for all construction is not more than _____.

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An individual or entity is a contractor regardless of the type of property involved – residential, commercial, industrial, or publicly owned.

An example of a ‘contractor’ in the State of Oregon would be an individual or entity that, for compensation or without the intent to sell, arranges or undertakes or offers to undertake or submits a bid to construct, alter, repair, add to, subtract from, improve, inspect, move, wreck or demolish, for another, any building, highway, road, excavation or other structure, project, development or improvement attached to real estate, excluding railroads, or to do any part thereof.

Those who only clean and service chimneys are exempt from having their contractor’s license in the State of Oregon.

A school district or community college that has students construct buildings and sells those buildings are required to have their contractor’s license in the State of Oregon.

Those who perform tree services in the State of Oregon must either have their Oregon contractor’s license or be an Oregon licensed landscape contractor.

Contractors must have one ______ on the record at all times. The ____ must be an owner of the business applying for the license, or the license applicant may instead designate an employee.

If the license applicant designates an employee as the RMI, the designated employee may not exercise management or supervisory authority over the construction activities of the business.

Some RMIs who have worked as contractors for many years are exempt from the training and testing requirements, or, ‘grandfathered.’

The ___________________ completes the training and testing requirement and is named at the time of the application or as a change of record.

Under CCB law, if a contractor fails in its obligations and has a construction-related debt, the RMI as well as the owners will be prevented from obtaining a CCB license until the debt has been cleared.

Some individuals or entities are exempt from the licensing requirements of Oregon law, meaning they are not required to have licenses even if they are acting as ‘contractors.’

Which of the following individuals may be exempt from having their contractor’s license?

A person moving a modular building or structure which is only 17 feet wide may not be subject to having their contractor’s license.

A commercial lending institution or surety company is required to have their contractor’s license if they arrange for completion, repair, or remodeling of a structure.

Contractors Exempt from Licensing. Some individuals or entities are exempt from the licensing requirements of Oregon law, meaning they are not required to have licenses even if they are acting as ‘contractors’ (ORS 701.010). Those not subject to the licensing laws include: A licensed real estate agent or broker, or an employee of an agent or broker, when performing work on a structure that the agent or broker manages under a contract.

Contract cancellation. A property owner who enters into an initial written contract to construct, improve or repair a residential structure or zero-lot-line dwelling may cancel the contract by delivering, to the contractor, a written notice of cancellation anytime before midnight of the _________________.

_________________ is/are required to provide certain ___________ to customers in certain situations and upon specific ___________.

One owner (proprietor) has sole control and sole responsibility for all the business decisions and actions.

A partnership or JV is made up of one or more individuals, plus one or more business entities, or a mixture of both. A general partnership is normally established for a single, large project.

The purpose of registering an ABN (assume business name) ________________________.

If your company name is already registered under the name Tom Jones Construction, Inc., then you would also need to register the ABN (assumed business name) Tom Jones Construction, Inc.

To obtain an ABN, you must contact the Oregon Corporation Division.

If an individual or business entity will hire employees, it must obtain the following:

Licenses are transferrable between business entities. If a business decides to change from one type of business entity to another (for example, from a sole proprietorship to a corporation), the new business must complete a transfer CCB application, pay new fees, and provide a new bond and insurance for the new business entity.

All licensed contractors must be ‘independent contractors’ and not employees of a business.

An employee is often paid on an hourly wage or by piecework.

A sole proprietor with no employees is exempt from Workers’ Compensation Requirements.

Which of the following businesses are not exempt from the Workers’ Compensation Requirements?

Out-of-state businesses with no Oregon workers may be exempt from Oregon workers’ compensation if they provide ____________________.

Contractors working on large commercial structures or development projects must obtain a / an __________________________.

Any business entity endorsed as a residential contractor must have workers’ compensation insurance.

Workers’ compensation is a form of recovery for employees who are ________________.

Residential developers as well as home services contractors are exempt from residential continuing education.

Commercial and residential contractors must meet the same continuing education requirements.

All approved courses are listed at http://www.oregon.gov/ccb in the course catalog. Contractors will not get credit for any course that is not listed in the course catalog unless they are offered by other state agencies or trade associations.

Which of the following contractor are exempt from residential continuing education?

Approximately ___ weeks before a license is due to renew, the CCB sends the contractor a Renewal Notice as a courtesy.

The CCB lead-safe license must be renewed _______.

“Target housing” means any housing built before 1978, except:

Locksmith Certification. The CCB certifies an individual as a locksmith. To advertise, offer and perform locksmith work in Oregon (unless exempt), a contractor must have ___________.

Certified home inspector requirements apply to individuals acting within the scope of specific licenses such as appraisers licensed under ORS674 or building inspectors.

Persons performing, or reporting on, the following are exempt from the requirements for certified home inspectors:

A ____ surety bond is a promise by a bonding agency to provide limited payment to a consumer if a contractor fails to pay a CCB determination.

A licensed contractor must maintain insurance to protect ______.

Commercial warranties. A commercial general contractor who constructs a new, large commercial structure must provide the owner with a _____ warranty against defects in materials and workmanship that covers the building envelope and penetration components. The warranty does not need to cover failures due to improper owner maintenance.

Owner Complaints. The owner of a new structure can file a complaint, including a lien claim, within ______ after the date the structure was first occupied or two years after completion, whichever is first. The owner of an existing structure can file a complaint within ______ after the date the work was substantially completed.

Oregon law requires anyone wanting to file a complaint against a contractor to notify the contractor of his or her intent to file a complaint before filing the complaint.

Increased surety bond. The CCB may require a contractor to obtain a bond of up to seven times the amount of the statutory bond if the business, its owner, officer or RMI, or a business connected with the same owner, office or RMI, fails to pay its construction debts.

The commercial continuing education requirements do not apply if a contractor is licensed only as a commercial developer.