Oklahoma Roofing Act

The law is an effort to protect homeowners from unqualified and unscrupulous roofing contractors.

Oklahoma roofing act.

Donald bullard is the founder of bullard and associates. The oklahoma supreme court recently issued a decision in the case of wells v. Maintain current roofing registration and for any commercial roofing work maintain current commercial endorsement. Welcome to oklahoma uniform building code commission.

What was the case about. Taking effect in january oklahoma statutes as section 1151 title 59 to be known as roofing contractors registration act contractors will have tougher regulations to maintain. The case involved an employee of oklahoma roofing and sheet metal who was working on the roof of a three story building and died from a fall after his employer required him to unhook his fall protection. Professions and occupations roofing contractor registration act section 1151 1.

Collectively employer was working on a roof applying a membrane roof on a three story building when he was required by employer to unhook his single line lanyard requiring him to cross over two coworkers. The kansas roofing registration act krra was signed by governor brownback on july 1 2013. In 2011 oklahoma s lawmakers attempted to address the problem of fly by night roofers by passing the roofing contractor registration act. Oklahoma roofing and sheet metal.

The roofing contractor registration act rcra creates a procedure whereby resident and nonresident roofing contractors are required to obtain a valid registration from the cib in order to engage in or offer to engage in roofing related services in the state of oklahoma. The building codes of oklahoma adopt the the international building code 2015 ibc 2015 international residential code 2015 irc 2015 international existing building code 2015 iebc 2015 international fire code 2015 ifc 2015 international plumbing code 2015 ipc 2015 international mechanical code 2015 imc 2015 international fuel gas code 2015 ifgc 2015 and the nfpa 70. 2 on june 27 2011 robert young an employee of oklahoma roofing sheet metal inc and oklahoma roofing sheet metal l l c. 1 oklahoma statutes title 59.

The mission of the oklahoma uniform building code commission is to establish minimum statewide codes affecting or relating to the built environment for the protection of life and property to be utilized throughout the state assuring public health safety and welfare. This article indicates why we need tougher roofing registration laws in our state to help oklahomans from becoming victims of fraud and shoddy roofing work. This act requires all roofing contractors to register with the. Kansas has set a good precedent that oklahoma should consider following.

This act was signed into law in june 2010 within 60 days of the storm and the invasion of out of state companies and it requires roofing companies in oklahoma to register with the oklahoma construction industries board to get a roofing license.