Garage door rules & licensing in Oregon

Oregon Construction Contractors Board (CCB) — official site

'Oregon law requires anyone who works for compensation in any construction activity involving improvements to real property to be licensed.' The CCB page lists only gutter cleaning, power/pressure washing for cleaning, debris clean-up and certain qualified real estate property managers as not requiring a licence. Garage door installation and repair is construction work on real property, so a CCB licence with an appropriate endorsement is required.

None - the CCB licence requirement has no dollar threshold; it applies to anyone working for compensation on improvements to real property. Dollar figures appear only inside endorsement scopes (RSC three-or-more-trades limit of $2,500; RLC limits of $5,000 per contract/job site and $40,000 gross sales).

Residential General Contractor: $25,000 residential bond and $500,000 per occurrence liability insurance. Residential Specialty Contractor: $20,000 residential bond and $300,000 per occurrence insurance. Residential Limited Contractor: $15,000 bond and $100,000 per occurrence insurance. Both bond and insurance must be submitted with the initial application and maintained throughout the licence.

The Oregon Building Codes Division publishes statewide lists of what does and does not need a residential permit, applicable to detached one- or two-family dwellings. Under "Permits not required" for residential construction, the list includes "Replacing doors and windows with no structural changes" - so a like-for-like garage door replacement in the existing opening does not require a building permit. Under "Permits required," the list includes "Cutting a new window or door opening or changing the dimensions of existing openings," so widening, heightening or otherwise resizing the garage opening does require one. BCD warns that "Work exempt from a building permit is not necessarily exempt from a mechanical, electrical or plumbing permit": under electrical work, a permit IS required to "install a receptacle for a garage-door opener," while "Install low voltage wiring for garage door openers" is listed among the electrical activities that do NOT require a permit. BCD also states that "Local permitting, zoning, land-use allowances, and alternate methods must be discussed exclusively with the local jurisdiction."