Who needs a Contractors License?

Do I need a License?

If you are any person, business or consultant and any of the following, "You Need a Contractors License"

Working in all or any project  

• new construction
• remodeling
• renovation
• altering
• moving
• wrecking 
• demolishing

performing work on any 

• building
• highway
• road
• parking facility
• railroad
• excavation
• structure

Project, development or improvement must be licensed as a contractor if the 

• Total cost of labor and materials for a project is $500 or more.

A license is also needed to do any of this work as a subcontractor or specialty contractor. There are several exemptions to licensure, that is, situations where a license is not required. Some of these exemptions are:  Work for which the combined value of labor, materials and all other items is less than $500; employees working for wages who do not customarily engage in independent contracting or control the performance of the job; owner-builder with certain limitations; installation or sale of finished products which do not become a fixed part of the structure with certain exceptions, for example, carpets.