What permits do you need to open a auto repair shop in Summit County Oh?

Motor Vehicle Repair Garage Consumer Duties (Codified Ordinances Chapter 769)

Summit County regulates auto repair through duties rather than a credential: §769.01 to §769.04 of the Codified Ordinances bind every 'motor vehicle repair garage' — 'a business or individual regularly engaged in the repair of motor vehicles,' excluding a business that only dispenses fuel, checks fluids and replaces filters, and a shop repairing only its own fleet — and the chapter creates no license and charges no fee, so there is nothing to apply for and nothing to pay. What it does require is concrete. §769.02 requires all work orders, estimates and invoices to be kept available for inspection and copying by the Director or a designee 'for not less than two (2) years after their creation,' with copies supplied to a customer on request for a reasonable cost. §769.03 requires reasonable notice of the storage-charge policy and provides that no storage charge accrues 'for a period of forty-eight (48) hours (two business days) from the date of notification to a consumer that the repair … has been completed.' §769.04 governs estimates for any repair or service with an anticipated cost over $25.00 where there has been face-to-face contact: the shop gives the consumer a form recording the date, the supplier, the consumer's name and telephone number, the anticipated completion date and, if chosen, the anticipated cost, with an ESTIMATE disclosure offering a written estimate, an oral estimate or none; posts a conspicuous NOTICE sign in the customer area; may not exceed a quoted estimate by more than 10% without prior approval; must disclose charges for disassembly, reassembly, partially completed work and towing; must give an itemised list of repairs, parts (stating whether they are used, remanufactured or rebuilt), labour and the identity of the person who did the work; and must tender the replaced parts unless they are to be rebuilt, sold or returned under warranty and the consumer was told beforehand. Enforcement runs through the Title Five remedies in Chapter 761 and the Office of Consumer Affairs created by §201.02. Chapter 780 of the same title separately addresses fuel pump security for a shop that also sells fuel.

Shared with other businesses in Summit County Oh

• Food Vending Machine Location License — Summit County Public Health, $26 a year per vending machine location ($20 district + $6 state; the $6 is the state fee, not a county charge), annual, on the 1 March licensing period shared with SCPH's other food licenses. Also required for retail stores, fitness studios and childcare centres; what it involves is set out on the retail stores page.
• Akron Right-to-Know Filing Fee — Summit County Public Health, $25 a year, per filing business within the City of Akron, annual, due 1 April. Also required for contractors and trades and salons and barbers; what it involves is set out on the contractors and trades page.
• Junk Yard License (junk yard outside a municipality) — Summit County Fiscal Office, Services Department, ORC 4737.07: 'The fee for a license issued under this section is twenty-five dollars,' and a license 'may be renewed from year to year upon paying the chief executive officer of the municipality or the auditor of the county in which the junk yard is located the sum of ten dollars for each such renewal.' Both figures are statutory rather than county-set., annual — ORC 4737.07 provides that a license issued under the section expires on the first day of January following the date of issue, and is renewable from year to year. Also required for retail stores; what it involves is set out on the retail stores page.
• Retail Cigarette Dealer's License — Summit County Fiscal Office, Services Department, $125 a year, for each physical place where the retail business of trafficking in cigarettes is carried on; $5 for a duplicate license and $5 to transfer a license to another location in the same county, annual; the license year commences 1 June and the application is due on or before the first day of June each year, with a license issued later in the year prorated but not below $25. Also required for retail stores, restaurants and coffee shops; what it involves is set out on the retail stores page.
• Vendor's License — Ohio Department of Taxation, $50 one-time, per fixed location, no renewal — stays in effect until cancelled. Also required for restaurants, coffee shops, retail stores, salons and barbers, fitness studios and veterinary clinics; what it involves is set out on the retail stores page.