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📝LICENSE APPLICATIONS SIMPLIFIED AND STREAMLINED WITH CSLB’S EASY-FILL FORMS

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📌 Important Note: Once completed, the Easy-Fill form must be printed, signed, and mailed to CSLB. Electronic submissions are not accepted.

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📥 How to Get Started: Download your CSLB Application Form or complete your applications online using the new Easy-Fill forms.

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CONTRACTOR LICENSING MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS.

Work Experience: Applicants for licensure with the Contractors State License Board (CSLB) must have had, within the last 10 years, a minimum of four (4) years of work experience as a journeyman, foreman, supervising employee, or contractor in the classification for which the applicant is applying. https://www.cslb.ca.gov/Experiance Requirements

Work Experience and Higher Education, Technical Training, and/or Vocational Training Applicants can receive credit for up to three (3) years of their four (4) years requirement due to formal training and/or education. https://www.cslb.ca.gov/Education Requirements

Application for Original Contractors License

New applicants must use the “Application for Original Contractor License” for all business entity types, including limited liability companies when experience and examinations are required. Consequently, this application results in a new license.

Do not use this form if you have an existing license and wish to add a classification or replace the qualifying individual.

View a sample “Application.”

Select Easy Fill or print a PDF.

Easy-Fill: Fill out the form online, then print and mail it to CSLB with the $450 fee.

PDF: Print a blank form, then fill it out and mail it to CSLB with the $450 fee.

Certification of Work Experience

This form is to be used to report and confirm the journey-level work experience requirement. Include this form when submitting an “Application for Original Contractor License,” “Application for Additional Classification,” or “Application for Replacing the Qualifying Individual.”

Select Easy Fill or print a PDF.

Easy-Fill: Fill out the form online, then print and mail it to CSLB with the original application.

PDF: Print a blank form, then fill it out and mail it to CSLB with the original application.

NOTE: Make your WORK EXPERIENCE AND CERTIFICATION STATEMENT Audit Proof.

To ensure that your Work Experience statement in your Certification of Work Experience application has the maximum chance of being accepted, make sure that your work experience can be verified via one of the methods listed in the Acceptable Supporting Experience Documentation form. https://www.cslb.ca.gov/AcceptableDocuments

Application for Additional Classification

The “Application for Additional Classification” is to be used only for adding classifications to an existing license for all business entity types, including limited liability companies. However, you can add any classification to a current license for which you have qualifying experience and for which you pass the appropriate examination.

Qualifiers are limited in the number of additional licenses for which they may qualify. Factors such as common ownership between or among the entities being qualified are considered. Persons granted qualifier status are restricted to qualifying for no more than three firms in any one-year period.

A responsible managing employee must inactivate his or her sole proprietor license to qualify for another license and must meet specific employment requirements. For reference purposes, view a sample “Application for Original Contractor License.”

Select Easy Fill or print a PDF.

Easy-Fill: Fill out the form online, then print and mail it to CSLB with the $230 fee.

PDF: Print a blank form, then fill it out and mail it to CSLB with the $230 fee.

Application for Asbestos Certification

Use this form if you are a currently licensed contractor who performs asbestos-related contracting in relation to the other classification(s) held by the licensee. When a licensee has qualified for the asbestos certification, it’s added to the license much like an additional classification. To obtain the asbestos certification, a contractor must be registered with the Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA).

Please note that this application is not for the asbestos open-book examination that is required for asbestos awareness purposes by all applicants for licensure. (That exam booklet is furnished to applicants with their notices to comply with issuance requirements.)

If you are an existing contractor, who wants to add the C-22 Asbestos Abatement classification to perform asbestos abatement work as a stand-alone classification, use the “Application for Additional Classification.”

The asbestos certification and the C-22 classification are not required for bidding purposes only, as long as the contractor subcontracts with and the work is performed by a duly licensed asbestos abatement contractor.

Select Easy Fill or print a PDF.

Easy-Fill: Fill out the form online, then print and mail it to CSLB with the $125 fee.

PDF: Print a blank form, then fill it out and mail it to CSLB with the $125 fee.

Special Accommodation Request for Examination

In compliance with The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), CSLB provides “reasonable accommodation” for applicants with disabilities that may affect their ability to take required examinations. The “Special Accommodation Request for Examination” (form 13E-77) must be completed by the applicant and submitted with the application and may require professional verification by a medical authority or learning institution.

Print a PDF.

PDF: Print a blank form, then fill it out and mail it to CSLB.