Terms of Use
Reading the site means accepting what is on this page. If any of it does not suit you, the remedy is easy: close the tab and work from the Board’s published materials instead.
What you are using
A privately published, independent guide to how general contractor licensing works in North Carolina. It is not affiliated with the North Carolina Licensing Board for General Contractors, nor with any other state body, and what it publishes is information rather than legal or professional advice. The disclaimer says that at length and forms part of these terms — read the two together, because the limits set out there are the limits that matter.
What you may do with these pages
- Read them, print them, and pass them to a colleague, a client or a qualifier.
- Quote from them, with attribution and a link back to the page the words came from.
- Treat a figure here as a starting point, then confirm it against the source that figure cites.
What you may not
- Republish the site, or a substantial part of it, as your own work.
- Harvest it to assemble a competing guide, dataset or product.
- Present anything from it in a way that suggests this site endorses you, or that a licensing authority endorses either of us.
No warranty
Real care goes into accuracy. Every regulatory fact is read against a primary source and dated, which about this site describes in detail. That is a claim about work done before a page goes up. It is not a guarantee about the condition of that page on the morning you happen to read it, and the two statements sit together without contradiction. What follows is the second of them.
- The pages are provided “as is.” They come as they stand. Nothing here is warranted to be accurate, current, complete, or applicable to the job in front of you — rules move, a check goes stale, and mistakes are possible.
- The site is provided “as available.” It is there when it is there. Nothing promises that it will load at a given moment, that a tool will run, or that a page up today is up tomorrow.
No other warranty of any kind is given, express or implied. That excludes, without limitation, the ones the law would otherwise supply — merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement — so far as each lawfully may be. Confirming a current requirement with the Board is the step this guide is built to make quicker, never the step it replaces.
Limitation of liability
The short answer is that you do, and that is deliberate rather than grudging: a free reference you can check against its own citations is worth having, and it only works if the reliance sits with the reader.
As far as the law allows, no liability is accepted by this site, by its publisher, or by any party involved in creating, operating or supplying it, for loss or damage arising out of — or connected with — your use of the site or your reliance on anything in it. Loss of every description is excluded — direct and indirect, incidental, consequential, special and punitive — and so are the kinds that bite in this trade in particular: a rejected or delayed application, a bid priced off a stale figure, a contract or an opportunity lost, profit or business forgone, a penalty, a dispute, and the professional fees spent putting any of it right.
Some liability may not lawfully be excluded by anybody. Where that is so, ours is reduced to the least the law permits, and no further.
Check anything you mean to act on — with the Board, or with a lawyer, an accountant or another professional who can look at your own circumstances. This guide is built to shorten the reading, not to take the decision.
Links that leave this site
Official sources and other outside links are offered for convenience. Those sites are not ours to control, a link is not an endorsement, and no responsibility is taken here for their content, their accuracy or whether they are up.
If these terms change
Revisions may happen without notice. Whichever wording is live on the day you read the site is the wording that binds that visit.
Data
What this site does and does not collect is set out separately at privacy policy.