and examination/licensing requirements, you will not be permitted to hold the specialty
on your license. See Step Five for additional information about the QI.
Step Four – Identify your Responsible Management.
All licensed contractors are required, by law, to identify officers, members, partners,
owners, etc., of their business entities. These are the individuals responsible for the
license and for ensuring that all regulations and statutes are followed. The individuals
that must be identified depend on the types of business entity formed for your company.
Sole proprietorships, for example, must only identify the one individual who owns the
business. Partnerships must identify the partners, corporations the officers, LLCs the
members/managers, etc. In order to complete the application you must provide the names
of these individuals, their birthdates, Social Security Numbers OR Virginia DMV Control
Number, and their address and you must include a copy of a government issued photo ID.
Step Five – Identify your Qualified Individual(s).
You must have a Qualified Individual (QI) for each of the specialties wanted on the
license. The QI must be either a bona fide full-time employee (minimum 30 hours per
week and not a 1099 employee) OR one of the members of Responsible Management
identified in step four. All QIs are required to have experience in the specialty they will
be linked to and the amount of that experience is determined by the class of license. The
QI for a Class A license must have five years of experience in the specialty, Class B must
have three years of experience, and Class C two years of experience. The type of work
that may be counted towards meeting the experience requirements can be found in the
definition of each specialty listed in the Board for Contractors Regulations.
Qualified Individuals must have an additional license or certification OR complete a
technical examination that is based on the scope of work allowed by that particular
specialty. Trade-related specialties, for example, require that the QI hold a valid Master
Tradesman license, issued by the Board for Contractors, in the appropriate specialty. In
another example, the QI of the home improvement specialty must successfully complete
the home improvement technical examination. You can find a list of the specialties that
have additional QI requirements on the Trade Related Examinations and Qualifications
Information sheet that is included in the application packet.
In order to complete the application you must provide the names of these individuals,
their birthdates, Social Security Numbers OR Virginia DMV Control Number, and
their address and you must include a copy of a government issued photo ID.