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Colorado contractor compliance checklist
What Colorado law asks of a contractor on residential work, from the rules ProntoBill keeps for Colorado: licensing, bond and insurance where the state sets them, and the notices and contract requirements. Each item links the law’s own text, and the page says plainly what it doesn’t cover. No account and no email.
Informational guidance, not a legal determination. This page summarizes the rules as they were checked on the dates shown. Each section has conditions a summary can’t hold, so read the law it links. Check with a construction lawyer how the rules apply to your contracts.
Your contractor license
Licensing is local for residential contractors. In the words of the Colorado Legislative Council Staff’s Final Fiscal Note for HB26-1415 (June 4, 2026): “Colorado licenses electricians and plumbers statewide but does not regulate residential construction contractors. Some local governments … license residential construction contractors.” Check with the city or county where the job is. Colorado’s state trade licenses are not covered here.
Bond and liability insurance minimums
Because Colorado doesn’t license residential contractors at state level, this page has no state bond or insurance figures for them. Your city or county may set its own.
Notices and contract requirements
What the law asks you to give the customer, or put in the contract, on a job. A summary of each, from the rule’s data: the section itself can narrow when it applies.
Federal Cooling-Off Rule notice of cancellation (16 CFR 429)
- Price
- $25 or more
- When
- Before the contract is signed
- Can cover
- Homes and buildings of 1–4 units and residential buildings of 5 or more units
- Not covered
- Commercial work
- Not owed when your customer is another contractor.
- Only when the sale was made at the customer’s home, or anywhere away from your place of business. The $25 is for a sale at the home; elsewhere away from your business, the rule covers sales of $130 or more (16 CFR 429.0(a)).
Checked against the law’s own text, not reviewed by a lawyer. Checked November 5, 2026.
Residential roofing contract requirements (C.R.S. 6-22-103 to 6-22-105)
- Price
- Over $1,000
- When
- Before work starts
- Applies to
- Roofing work on a home: a detached one- or two-family house, or single-family homes up to three stories with separate means of egress; attached homes only where an association is responsible for the roof; not new construction. The price is the roofing contract’s own: other work on the job doesn’t count.
- Signed by
- You and the customer
- Not owed when your customer is another contractor.
- If the price grows past the threshold after work starts, it is due at once and the deadline has already passed.
Checked against the law’s own text, not reviewed by a lawyer. Checked November 6, 2026.
More on each notice: the contractor notices guide
Questions
- Is this legal advice?
- No. It’s informational guidance, not a legal determination: the state’s law as it was read on the dates shown. Check with a construction lawyer how it applies to your contracts.
- Do I need an account?
- No. Nothing here needs an account or an email, and the page sends nothing anywhere. Print it or take a screenshot to keep it.
- What isn’t covered?
- Anything the page doesn’t list: local licenses and permits, lead paint in pre-1978 homes, employees and workers’ compensation beyond the notes above, and sales tax (see the sales-tax guide).
Sales tax by state: the contractor sales-tax guide
