Welcome to the website of the Office of Professional and Occupational Regulation (OPOR), an agency within the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation. We appreciate your visit to our homepage and we look forward to assisting you. OPOR’s Gardiner office is open to the public from 8:00 am – 5:00 pm. While you are welcome to visit our offices, for faster service, we encourage you to take advantage of our many online services.
To ensure that someone is available to assist you, we recommend that you schedule an appointment in advance. Please contact us by email or by phone or through our other online services, and we will assist you. After making an appointment, click on this link for directions.
Purpose
It is the intent of the Legislature to require the licensing of Transient Sellers who engage in the business of selling merchandise to consumers by means of personal contact or telephone contact by persons who do not have a permanent place of business in the State of Maine.
The primary responsibilities of the Office are to review the credentials of qualified applicants for registration as transient sellers, to promulgate rules as necessary, investigate complaints and take appropriate disciplinary action for noncompliance of current laws and rules.
Notice Regarding License Verification Requests
License verifications is available at no charge by visiting Regulation of Transient Sales online licensing portal. OPOR does not issue paper license verifications.
Future correspondence from Regulation of Transient Sales will be sent to you by email, so please be sure to keep your contact information current. Follow this link to verify your contact information.
NOTICE TO APPLICANTS:
Federal Trade Commission, 16 CFR, Part 310.2 (cc), defines Telemarketing to mean:
"a plan, program, or campaign which is conducted to induce the purchase of goods or services or a charitable contribution, by use of one or more telephones and which involves more than one interstate telephone call. The term does not include the solicitation of sales through the mailing of a catalog which: contains a written description or illustration of the goods or services offered for sale; includes the business address of the seller; includes multiple pages of written material or illustrations; and has been issued not less frequently than once a year, when the person making the solicitation does not solicit customers by telephone but only receives calls initiated by customers in response to the catalog and during those calls takes orders only without further solicitation. For purposes of the previous sentence, the term ‘‘further solicitation’’ does not include providing the customer with information about, or attempting to sell, any other item included in the same catalog which prompted the customer’s call or in a substantially similar catalog."