State Appeals Board
If you disagree with a municipality's decision about application of the State Building Code to one of your buildings or building projects, you can appeal that decision. The State Appeals Board hears appeals of building code orders, decisions or determinations where the affected code jurisdiction does not have an appeals board. Application to the State Appeals Board 
Categories: Appeals, State building code, State Appeals Board, building code offers
Manufactured home flood damage assessments and mitigation
The three types of pressures caused by flooding are: hydrostatic, hydrodynamic and debris impact. Damage usually associated with flood damage to manufactured homes are: Saturation of soils causing footings, piers, and foundations to become unstable or fail, floatation may cause support and anchoring systems to become unstable or fail, lateral displacement of the homes ceilings, walls and floors, cracking of wall and ceiling finishes, saturation of insulation materials in floors and walls,
Laws and rules
2025 legislation 2025 legislative session summary Apprenticeship Minnesota Rules (5200.0290 through 5200.0420) Minnesota Statutes
Contractor, remodeler license renewals
Already have what you need to complete an application or renewal? Visit iMS, the department’s online application and renewal system, to get started. 
Directions to the St. Paul office, free visitor parking
Work Comp Campus research
The DLI Business Technology Office has continued to engage with internal and external Work Comp Campus users, customers and stakeholders to gather input throughout the development and launch of new Campus enhancements. To head this charge, it created a special team composed of a product manager, two product owners, one user experience researcher (UX) and one product designer.    Some of the team’s recent work includes:   Building relationships with stakeholders to identify how and where Campus can help provide value to their work.
Choosing a plumber
Protect your health and property when having plumbing work done Hiring a licensed, bonded and insured plumber can help protect homeowners from non-complying work, costly errors, accidents, physical injury and improper plumbing installations. These potential problems can lead to property damage and adverse health effects to building occupants.
Categories: licensing, consumer information, Department of Labor and Industry, journeyman plumber, master plumber, complaint, apprentice plumber.
Electrical permits - homeowners
Apply for an electrical permit online here. Users must create an account to obtain permits and to pay for additional fees for existing permits. View instructions about how to create an account. Additional fees
Categories: permits, homeowners, electrical permit
Electrical permits - contractors
Apply for an electrical permit online here. Users must create an account to obtain permits and pay additional fees (AFBs) for existing permits. View instructions about how to create an account, link it to your business license and pay fees.
Categories: electrical contractors, homeowners, etrakit, online payments, permits, electrical permit
Minnesota receives $1.8 million federal grant to expand apprenticeship opportunities
Minnesota has received a new $1.8 million federal apprenticeship grant that will continue to expand registered apprenticeship throughout Minnesota. The federal grant from the U.S. Department of Labor's (USDOL) State Apprenticeship Expansion initiative is the second major grant awarded to the Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry (DLI). In 2016, DLI’s Apprenticeship Minnesota received a $1.5 million grant from the USDOL.