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Board adopts three-option plan to fix improperly granted residential monetary limits, grants on-the-spot waiver to Memphis contractor
Summary
After staff found several BCAR residential licenses with monetary limits above the statutory $125,000 threshold, the board gave affected licensees three remediation options (lower limit, take full exam within 90 days, or request interview/waiver) and authorized complaints for noncompliance; the board also granted an immediate exam waiver and equivalent BCA monetary limit to public commenter Billy Irby.
Tennessee's Board for Licensing Contractors voted Nov. 19 to address a small set of residential BCAR licenses it found were granted monetary limits above the statutory $125,000 cap.
Staff said an administrative review uncovered about 40 licenses with potential mismatches and that further work narrowed the list to about six unresolved cases that could not be fixed administratively. "They should not have been granted," staff said, and recommended offering each affected licensee three informal avenues: (1) agree to lower the limit to the statutory…
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