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i The California Contractor's License 1 GENERAL REQUIREMENTS Who can become a contractor? A licensed contractor is a person 18 years of age or older who has the experience and skills necessary to manage the daily activities of a construction business, including field supervision, or who is represented by someone else with the necessary experience and skills, who serves as the qualifying individual. The contractor or other person who will act as the qualifying individual must have had, within the ten years immediately before the filing of the application, at least four full years of experience as a journeyman, foreman, supervisor, or contractor in the classification for which he or she is applying. The applicant must also submit a Certificate in Support of Experience QuaLfrcarions. 2. Who must be licensed as a contractor? All businesses or individuals who construct, offer to construct, or alter any building, highway, road, parking facility, railroad, excavation, or other structure in California must be licensed by the California Contractors State License Board (CSLB) if the total cost (labor and materials) of one or more contracts on the project is S300 or more. Contractors, including subcontractors, specialty contractors, and persons engaged in the business of home improvement (with the exception of joint ventures and projects involving federal funding) must be licensed before submitting bids. Licenses may be issued to individuals, partnerships, corporations or joint ventures. 3. Is anyone exempt from the requirement to be licensed? Yes. Here are some of the exemptions: • Work on a project for which the combined value of labor, materials, and all other items on one or more contracts is less than $300 falls within the minor work exemption. Work which is part of a larger or major project, whether undertaken by the same or different contractors, may not be divided into amounts less than $300 in an attempt to meet the $300 exemption; • An employee who is paid wages, who does not usually work in an independently established business, and who does not have direction or control over the performance of work or who does not determine the final results of the work or project; 0 Public personnel working on public projects;