Moving to Nevada as a residential contractor: every state's rule

Nevada licenses residential builders statewide through the Nevada State Contractors Board, and the homes tier is subclassification B-2, Residential and Small Commercial, which sits inside classification B, General Building. NAC 624.170(2) defines it as the construction and remodeling of houses and other structures that support, shelter or enclose people, animals or chattels and do not extend more than three stories above the ground and one story below, and the same classification B also carries the narrower B-1 Premanufactured Housing, B-3 Speculative Building and B-7 Residential Remodeling subclassifications. The license is held by the business rather than the person: it is issued to an individual, partnership, corporation, limited-liability company or joint venture and qualified by named individuals, a management qualified individual who passes the Business and Law examination and a trade qualified individual who shows four full years of experience as a journeyman, foreman, supervising employee or contractor within the past 15 years, and one person may do both jobs. Every Nevada license also carries a monetary limit, the largest contract it may undertake on one construction site or subdivision site for a single client, and the Board sets that limit from a financial statement whose required standard rises with the limit requested, so financial strength rather than classification decides how large a job the license permits. A contractor doing residential work also pays into the Residential Recovery Fund, and the Board fixes a bond of between $1,000 and $500,000 at approval. Classification A, General Engineering, is a separate and mutually exclusive branch for fixed works such as highways, bridges and pipelines, and the 42 C-series subclassifications cover the specialty trades.