A contractor's license has been expired for six years. To resume contracting, the contractor must:

Explanation

§7141(a) is the window and it is five years: an expired licence may be renewed at any time within five years of expiration, on the prescribed form, with the renewal fee and — past the grace period — a delinquency fee, and the record still shows a break in licensing for the whole gap. Six years is outside it, so there is nothing left to renew and the contractor files as a new applicant under §7065, meeting the requirements in force now. That is why (a) and (b) both fail: no fee and no request reopens a closed window, and §7141.5 does not help either, because it grants retroactive renewal only where the application is delivered or postmarked within 90 days of expiration. (c) inverts the rule — waiting makes the position worse rather than better, and no ten-year period appears anywhere in the article. Examination is not automatic on the new application: §7065.1 can waive it where the qualifying individual was on a licensee's record in the same classification for five of the seven preceding years. The different animal here is the inactive licence, valid four years from its due date under §7076.5(c).