Contractor Licensing FAQs

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

DIR Registration, Family Transfer and RME Reactivation of Expired Licensing

Important updates you don’t want to miss, but first losing a family member is never easy, but our second question shows that losing their loved one was only the beginning for this contractor family. Although it’s not much, we do find a small silver lining to the dark clouds… Q:  We’re contemplating hiring this guy to…

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“C-61″/”D-21” Pumps & Cranes, Listing Corporate Officers & AZ Handyman Experience for Licensing

What can you do in Arizona that you can’t do here?  We also help contractors with questions on LLC and foreign corporations, and we ‘raise’ the spirits of a Nevada company looking for work in California… Q:  I have worked as a journeyman handyman/contractor for almost a year in California and I just recently moved to…

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General Partners, DOSH & “C-22”, Limits & Scope of “C-27” Licenses

What work, outside your specialty, can you do? Our first contractor finds himself‘fenced out’ on a job he can rightly do. A demolition contractor helps us‘break down’ the new ‘asbestos licensing’, and we must ‘demolish’ the ideas of a partnership hoping to maintain the ‘status quo’ in their current license… Q:   We currently have a “C-27”…

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“C-55”, LLC Members & Managers, and Qualifying More Than One License

While most contractors have a grasp of the laws they work under, some of those rules really require an expert eye. Long-awaited in California, the availability of LLC licensing is not without some remaining rumors and confusion among contractors.  Finally, we have to disappoint a NV contractor who thought he might avoid one CA exam… Q: …

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“C-33” Waiver for “B” Generals, Owner/Builder Limits & Unlicensed ‘Stings’

We ‘fix up’ an answer for a homeowner who plans on ‘flipping out’ in Newport Beach. Another contractor is ‘generally’ interested in replacing his RMO, without being put to the ‘test’ or disassociating his current Qualifier… Q:  I am 50% owner and President of a painting company.  Our Responsible Managing Officer (RMO) is not disassociating but…

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Business Entity Licensing, Adding Classes to LLC’s and Generals in AZ

The name’s the thing in causing our first contractor to call. A bi-coastal contractor needs ‘expedited’ advice on how to move from current corporate license classes to his LLC, without affecting work in progress. We also share a lesson in Arizona licensing… Q:  We currently have a contractor’s license for our corporation that operates out of…

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