Contractor Licensing FAQs

The Capitol Connection is our weekly Q & A column for contractors that focuses on topics pertaining to contractor's licensing.

Contractor License Law Update 2020

License law may be printed black and white in the rule books, but it lives and evolves with every day and that’s why it is a never-ending learning curve for contractors. It’s what makes my years of daily practice working with them an expert opinion you can count on when you need it as contractors have…

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Subsidiary Bids, Company Advertising & CA Licensing Requirements

There’s no changing the name, even to protect the innocent, when it comes to contractor’s advertising. Another license applicant learns ‘that was then, and this is now’ in seeking a place for the license exam, and a question from the frozen north gets a ‘chilly’ response… Q:  We have hundreds of work trucks throughout California and the…

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General Scope, Power Poles & Equipment or Fixtures Installations

I would never ‘hazard’ a guess in answering our first contractor who needs facts fast! Another contractor is asking for help sorting out fact from ‘fiction’ while I help clarify an attorney’s  ‘objection’ to his client’s competitive issues…  Q:  My company has been asked to do some power pole painting for one of the large Energy Companies in…

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Waiver Experience, Fingerprinting and Subcontractor Licenses

‘Alexa, bundle my renewal’ won’t cut it either as some things still require individual paperwork, and if it sounds too good to be true ‘clarification’ is likely needed. Finally, a cross country contractor is getting started with the wrong ‘directions’… Q:  I am a General Contractor in California and I have a painter who is soliciting us…

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