State licence requiredAccepts NASCLAUnverified
Tennessee Contractor License Requirements
We could not reach an official Tennessee source to confirm the current figures, so this page shows none. What is below is only what could be confirmed elsewhere; check with the board before you rely on any of it.
No figures are shown for Tennessee. The state’s own sites could not be read when this page was built, and a figure we have not read off an official source does not go on the page. Check with TBLC directly.
What the state requires
- Licence
- General contractor licence
- Issued by
- Tennessee Board for Licensing Contractors, Department of Commerce and Insurance
- Exam
- No exam
- Exam fee
- No verified figure
- Application fee
- No verified figure
- Initial licence fee
- No verified figure
- Licence bond
- Required; amount varies
- General liability
- Required; no verified minimum
- Workers compensation
- No verified rule
- Experience
- No verified figure
- Continuing education
- No verified rule
- Renewal
- No verified period
- NASCLA exam
- AcceptedThe Tennessee Board for Licensing Contractors appears on NASCLA's participating-agency list for the Commercial General Building Contractor examination. This is the only Tennessee fact that could be confirmed on a fetchable source.
Frequently asked questions
- Do I need a contractor licence in Tennessee?
- Yes. Tennessee issues a state general contractor licence — — through the Tennessee Board for Licensing Contractors, Department of Commerce and Insurance. Not verified because every Tennessee official host refused this network. tn.gov and www.tn.gov returned HTTP 403 to plain fetches, to WebFetch and to the built-in browser, which covers the Board for Licensing Contractors pages and the board's application and renewal PDFs under tn.gov/content/dam. publications.tnsosfiles.com — the Secretary of State's rules repository holding Rules ch. 0680-01 — returned a CloudFront 403 block. sos.tn.gov returned 403. capitol.tn.gov and wapp.capitol.tn.gov did not connect at all. Tennessee's statutes are not published free on a state host, so the fallback in the spec was not available either. That Tennessee HAS a state licence and a board is safe, so state_level_gc_license is 'yes' and the board is named, but every figure is null. Re-run this state from a network these hosts will serve.
- How much continuing education does Tennessee require?
- No verified rule.
- Does Tennessee accept the NASCLA exam?
- Yes. The Tennessee Board for Licensing Contractors appears on NASCLA's participating-agency list for the Commercial General Building Contractor examination. This is the only Tennessee fact that could be confirmed on a fetchable source.
Sources
“Tennessee Board for Licensing Contractors”
https://www.nascla.org/nascla-commercial-exam-participating-state-agencies