NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 739

SENATE BILL 637

 

 

AN ACT TO INCREASE FEES TO BE PAID TO THE STATE LICENSING BOARD FOR GENERAL CONTRACTORS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. The first sentence of G.S. 87-10 is rewritten to read:

"Anyone seeking to be licensed as a general contractor in this State shall file an application for an examination on a form provided by the Board, at least 30 days before any regular or special meeting of the Board accompanied by an examination fee of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) and by the sum of one hundred dollars ($100.00) if the application is for an unlimited license, the sum of seventy-five dollars ($75.00) if the application is for an intermediate license or the sum of fifty dollars ($50.00) if the application is for a limited license; the fees and sum accompanying any application shall be nonrefundable. The holder of an unlimited license shall be entitled to act as general contractor without restriction as to value of any single project; the holder of an intermediate license shall be entitled to act as general contractor for any single project with a value of up to five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000); the holder of a limited license shall be entitled to act as general contractor for any single project with a value of up to one hundred seventy-five thousand dollars ($175,000); and the license certificate shall be classified in accordance with this section."

Sec. 2. The last paragraph of G.S. 87-10 is amended by deleting the words "without additional fee" and substituting: "upon payment of an examination fee of twenty-five dollars ($25.00). Anyone requesting to take the examination a third or subsequent time shall submit a new application with the appropriate examination and license fees"; by deleting the words "sixty dollars ($60.00)", "forty dollars ($40.00)", and "twenty dollars ($20.00)" and substituting the words "seventy-five dollars ($75.00)", "fifty dollars ($50.00)", and "twenty-five dollars ($25.00)" respectively; and by adding new sentences, at the end, to read: "Renewal applications received by the Board after January shall be accompanied by a late payment of ten dollars ($10.00) for each month or part after January. After a lapse of two years no renewal shall be effected and the applicant shall fulfill all requirements of a new applicant as set forth in this section."

Sec. 3. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 30th day of June, 1981.