Mr. Vedder,

If you get an owners permit, the state says you must be doing the work yourself, to code. An electrician can do it for you, but, the state says they have to be licensed, bonded, insured, registered, having a currently licensed journeyman and licensed administrator, UBI number, and contractors license. Depending on jurisdiction, may have to have "city of ???" business license also.
I'm only licensed for low volt and probably wont have the ridiculously long list above for a line voltage business until mid-late summer. My brother is a licensed journeyman, he does these all the time and I'm certain he would be interested in helping you. One thing for sure, there is a cost associated to do the install correctly, you'll probably have to change out your electrical panel to a main breaker type generator panel (unless you have one already). You'll have to come up with some list of the circuits or appliances that you want to be run by the gen. depending on how your house was wired and how many amps you're planning on pumping into the house. Whatever you decide, be safe, the feeds coming into your house could have 200 amps or more, not for the novice.

Hope this helps, I'll make sure to check in on the thread in case you have any other questions.