An applicant for a contractor's license must generally show how many years of journey-level experience in the classification applied for within the 10 years immediately preceding the application?

Explanation

§7068(a) leaves the degree of experience to the board, and the board's regulation, 16 CCR §825, sets it at four years of journey-level experience in the classification applied for, gained within the 10 years immediately preceding the application; journey-level means fully qualified to do the work unsupervised, and time as a foreman, supervising employee or contractor counts too. (a) shortens the period, and (d) both shortens it and treats the trade examination as a substitute for experience when it is an additional requirement everyone must meet. (b) overstates the years and imports a supervisory year the rule never demands. An applicant who wants out of the examination is looking at a different section, §7065.1, which turns on five of the last seven years on the record of a licensee in the same classification.