CSLB: Get Licensed to Build

payment of damages of up to $10,000, plus the costs of litigation; and a county jail sentence Licensing Examinations • Inability to apply for any CSLB license for one year from the exam date CALIFORNIA CONTRACTORS STATE LICENSE BOARD Issuing a License Q1. After the qualifier passes the exam(s), are there additional requirements before CSLB will issue a license? Yes. After passing the exams, the qualifier will receive a letter at the test site outlining the additional requirements before CSLB can issue a license. These include: • An initial license fee of $200 for a sole owner or $350 for a non-sole owner (active and inactive licenses) • Completion of the asbestos open book exam and submission to CSLB of the results (active and inactive licenses) • Every first-time applicant listed (each owner, officer, partner, member, manager, or responsible managing employee) must submit fingerprints for the mandatory criminal background check (active and inactive licenses). • A $25,000 contractor’s bond or cashier’s check (active licenses only) • Proof of current and valid workers’ compensation insurance if any of the following apply (active licenses only): » You hire any employee(s) who reside in California; or » You employ home improvement salesperson(s); or » Your qualifier is a responsible managing employee (RME); or » You hold a C-8 Concrete, C-20 Warm-Air Heating, Ventilating and 27 Air-Conditioning, C-22 Asbestos Abatement, C-39 Roofing contractors, and/or C-61/D-49 Tree Service license (all C-8, C-20, C-22, C-39 and C-61/D-49 contractors are required to carry workers’ compensation insurance or a valid Certification of Self-Insurance, whether or not they Issuing a License have employees). • Submission of an “Exemption from Workers’ Compensation” if you do not have employees, the qualifier is not a responsible managing employee, and you do not hold C-8, C-20, C-22, C-39, and/or C-61/D-49 classification (active licenses only) • A $25,000 bond of qualifying individual or cashier’s check for every responsible managing employee and all responsible managing officers who own less than 10 percent of the voting stock or equity of the corporation or LLC they serve as the qualifier for (corporate and LLC licenses only) GET LICENSED TO BUILD: A GUIDE TO BECOMING A LICENSED CONTRACTOR  • A $100,000 LLC/worker bond in addition to the $25,000 contractor bond