How Do You Get an HVAC License in Utah?

Not for the individual technician, as far as our research could confirm: DOPL licenses plumbers as individuals, and the only individual HVAC credential our research found in DOPL's contractor licensing rule R156-55a, apart from the gas certification, is the H100 Qualifier designation — check DOPL to confirm the current list.

Licensing reaches HVAC work through the business instead: the H100 HVAC Contractor licence, which each licensee may back only with a DOPL-designated H100 Qualifier.

Two other requirements attach to individuals doing the work.

Work on gas piping, combustion-air vents, exhaust venting or altitude derating of gas appliances requires a Certified Natural Gas Technician certification, even for HVAC workers — though a current Utah journeyman or residential journeyman plumber licence counts as documentation of exemption.

And refrigerant-circuit work carries a federal requirement: EPA 608 certification.

Utah's HVAC credentials, as far as our research found, are three — and none of them is a journeyman or technician licence.

The H100 HVAC Contractor licence is what lets a company contract for HVAC work; DOPL issues it to the business entity — a corporation, LLC, partnership, joint venture or similar — not to the owner or qualifier.

The H100 Qualifier is the individual designation behind it: an H100 licensee may employ only a DOPL-designated H100 Qualifier as its qualifier.

The Certified Natural Gas Technician certification is an individual certification covering gas piping, combustion-air vents, exhaust venting and altitude derating of gas appliances.

Utah replaced the old S350 HVAC specialty classification with the H100 class; the transition is detailed in the recent-changes section below.

An H100 Qualifier applicant needs 4,000 hours over no more than five years working for licensed H100, B100, S350, P200 or P201 contractors, with at least 90% of the workload directly related to HVAC work under an H100 Qualifier's direct supervision — or a Utah journeyman, master or residential plumber licence instead.

The qualifier passes the Utah Contractor Business and Law exam and scores at least 70% on the Utah HVAC written exam.

For gas work, a current Utah journeyman or residential journeyman plumber licence counts as documentation of exemption; approved training routes include federal apprenticeship, Utah college apprenticeship programs, trade union apprenticeships, the Rocky Mountain Gas Association (RMGA) and the Home Builders Association of Utah.

The business completes a pre-licensure course from ABC, UHBA or AGC of Utah — 25 hours for specialty contractors, 30 for general, plumbing and electrical; confirm with DOPL which applies to H100.

A Utah bond requirement, any job-value exemption threshold, and the H100 application fee were not confirmed in our research; contractor renewals cost $128.

Prov administers Utah's contractor exams, in person at Prov testing centres or online through ExamRoom AI; candidates get 3 attempts spaced 30 days apart, and each retake after that waits 180 days.

An H100 Qualifier candidate must pass the Utah Contractor Business and Law exam and score at least 70% on the Utah HVAC written exam.

For the gas certification, trainees must pass the RMGA Gas Appliance Installers Certification Exam, or an approved equivalent, with a minimum score of 80%.

Our research did not capture the content outline of the Utah HVAC exam, so Prov's candidate information and DOPL's contracting exam page are the place to check what it covers.

Utah contracting licences expire on November 30th of odd years, on a two-year cycle, and renewal costs $128.

Renewal takes 6 hours of approved continuing education per licensing period — 3 of them core — and at most 3 of the 6 hours may be online.

Those numbers belong to the contractor licence.

Our research did not capture renewal terms or CE for the individual credentials — the H100 Qualifier designation or the Certified Natural Gas Technician certification — so confirm both with DOPL before you plan a renewal.

Federal EPA 608 certification, by contrast, does not expire.

At the contractor level, through endorsement: Utah offers licensure by endorsement to contractors already licensed in another US state, territory or district.

That is an application route, not an automatic swap — the state's own page says you may qualify for endorsement, so ask DOPL what documentation it wants for the H100 class.

Our research found no named-state HVAC reciprocity agreements for Utah, and it did not establish an endorsement route for the individual credentials; for the H100 Qualifier designation and the Certified Natural Gas Technician certification, ask DOPL how out-of-state experience and certifications are treated.

DOPL's 'Verify a License' search is the lookup Utah's own pages point to, linked from the DOPL pages under commerce.utah.gov/dopl; our research did not capture the search's direct web address, so start from the Division's site.

Because Utah contractor licences are issued to the business entity rather than the owner or qualifier, the licence you find will belong to the business, not to a person.

When you check an HVAC contractor, also ask which individual DOPL designated as its H100 Qualifier — if that person leaves, the qualifier and the company must notify DOPL in writing within 10 days, and the company then has 60 days to replace them or the licence can be revoked.

Utah replaced the S350 HVAC specialty classification with the H100 HVAC Contractor licence.

Anyone holding an active S350 licence in good standing on January 1, 2026 is deemed to hold an H100 licence in good standing for the remainder of the licensing period ending November 30, 2027.

For that period no reapplication is required — but our research did not cover what renewal after November 30, 2027 will require, so confirm with DOPL, and check your licence record shows the H100 class.