Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 30 - Professions and Occupations › Part 803 - Residential Builders and Remodelers › Chapter 1 - Licensing › Rule 30-803-1.1 - Application for License

Current through June 25, 2024
1. An applicant for
				a License or Renewal thereof shall observe the following requirements:
a. Licenses or any renewals thereof may be
				issued at any time during the course of a calendar year by the Executive
				Director after his determination that the applicant has satisfied all statutory
				and other requirements prerequisite to the issuance of a license or a renewal
				thereof.
b. An application must be
				filed on a form provided by the Board. No substitute will be
				accepted.
c. The Board's
				application form must be completed in ink or with a typewriter. Only one copy
				need by filed.
d. All questions
				must be answered. All schedules must be completed. Write "None" where
				applicable. No application will be considered unless it is completed as
				directed on the Board's form.
e.
				Additional information including supplementary or explanatory notes considered
				necessary may be furnished by inserting where needed.
f. All signatures must be affixed where
				called for and notarized where indicated.
g. An applicant for a residential remodeler's
				license may seek licensing for a subclassification to be known as a residential
				roofer. For this subclassification, there shall be administered a separate
				roofer's examination and the license shall be clearly marked that it only
				licenses the holder as a residential roofer.
h. A check in the amount of Fifty Dollars
				($50.00), representing the initial license fee, made payable to the State Board
				of Contractors should accompany the application but may be submitted
				separately. A check in the amount of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) made payable
				to the State Board of Contractors, shall accompany all requests for renewal of
				licenses. No application will be acted upon until such check is
				received.
i. The privilege tax
				levied under this Chapter is an annual tax. The licensee is under a duty to
				renew the license annually, and the failure to the Board to notify the licensee
				holder as to the date of the expiration shall not excuse the licensee from
				renewing the license and paying the annual tax.
j. An applicant shall provide a certificate
				of insurance evidencing current workers' compensation insurance, if applicable,
				and a federal employment identification number or social security number of the
				person making application.
k. An
				applicant for a residential builder or remodeler's license, or renewal thereof,
				shall provide a copy of a certificate of insurance evidencing current coverage
				for general liability purposes. The Mississippi State Board of Contractors
				shall be listed on the policy of the insured to be notified if there is
				cancellation of coverage. Liability insurance shall not be required for
				inactive licensees.
l. A foreign
				corporation or a corporation domiciled outside the State of Mississippi must
				qualify to do business in this State with the office of the Secretary of State
				and provide the Board proof of good standing. (Applicants may contact the
				office of the Secretary of State by mail to Post Office Box 136, Jackson,
				Mississippi 39205, or by telephone at 601/359-1350.
m. An applicant for a license must pass the
				applicable written examination(s) with a grade of at least 70%.
n. The Board will hold examinations at
				locations and times to be determined by the Board. Applicants will be notified
				of the time and place of the examination.
o. A licensee of another state who desires to
				obtain a license duly issued and authorized by this Chapter shall be exempt
				from taking the written examination provided the Board determines that the
				requirements for a license in the foreign state are equivalent to such
				examination in this state and provided that the foreign state in question
				extends the same privilege to Mississippi licensees.
p. If a license is lost, mutilated or
				destroyed, a new license may be issued, upon receipt of a written request from
				the licensee stating the reason for the request, the license number and check
				in the amount of Twenty-Five Dollars ($25.00).