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VA Residential Building Contractor (2023-01-23)

18 VAC 50-22-20 of the Board for Contractors Rules and Regulations defines Building Contractors (Abbr: BLD) as those individuals whose contracts include “construction on real property owned, controlled or leased by another person of commercial, industrial, institutional, governmental, residential (single-family, two - family, or multi-family) and accessory use buildings or structures.” This includes the remodeling, repair, improvement or demolition of these buildings and structures. If the BLD contractor performs specialty services, all required specialty designations shall be obtained. The building classification includes but is not limited to the functions carried out by the following specialties:

Concrete Contracting
Home Improvement Contracting
Industrialized building contracting
Landscape Service Contracting
Masonry Contracting
Painting and Wallcovering Contracting
Roofing Contracting 
Swimming Pool Construction Contracting

Questions - 80
Minimum Passing Score of 70%
Time Allowed - 160 Minutes

The reference material listed below was used to prepare the questions for this examination.  The examination may also contain questions based on trade knowledge or general industry practices. Except for Code books, you can base your answers on later editions of references as they become available.  For Code questions, the examinations will be based only on the edition of the Code book that is listed.

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