The Ohio Construction Industry Licensing Board licenses exactly five trades. Snow removal is not one of them, and neither is landscaping. There is no state credential to ask for — which puts the entire burden of checking on the person writing the check.
The Ohio Construction Industry Licensing Board covers electrical, HVAC, plumbing, hydronics and refrigeration. That is the list. Snow removal and landscaping fall outside it entirely.
So when a snow removal company advertises that it is “licensed and insured,” the second word is the one carrying weight. There is no Ohio snow removal license for anyone to hold, and this site does not hold one either, because none exists and because it is a referral service that would hold none in any case.
Cleveland Heights requires commercial snow removal contractors to hold a city permit under Chapter 751, post a $10,000 surety bond and carry continuous insurance, with registrations expiring every December 31. For a commercial property in that city, that is a genuine, checkable credential.
No equivalent ordinance was found in Cleveland, Shaker Heights, Solon, Strongsville, Westlake, Mentor or Chagrin Falls — but that is absence of evidence rather than proof of absence, and it is worth asking your own city rather than assuming. Chapter 751 in full →
None of those is a license, and none of them tells you whether someone plows well. What they tell you is whether there is a business behind the truck — which is the question that matters at the point where something gets damaged.
In a trade with no state license, the paperwork a contractor can actually produce is the whole of the verification available to you.
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