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Secure Your Success for the Florida State Certified Contractors Licensing Exam with our Mastery Online Course- Your Essential Pathway to Passing and Excelling.
Gain one-year access to self-paced learning with book-specific questions and practice exams. This course ensures continuity and familiarity by maintaining a consistent set of questions throughout the one-year access period, fostering a stable and effective learning experience. This course includes:
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Underground Utility Trade Course
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Online Practice Exam
Evaluate your skills for the Florida State Certified Contractors Licensing Exam confidently with our responsive practice exam.
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Underground Utility Trade Knowledge Exam
License Requirements
Excerpts from the Florida Licensing Law ( F.S. Ch. 489 ):
Definitions
“Underground utility and excavation contractor” means a contractor whose services are limited to the construction, installation, and repair, on public or private property, whether accomplished through open excavations or through other means, including, but not limited to, directional drilling, auger boring, jacking and boring, trenchless technologies, wet and dry taps, grouting, and slip lining, of main sanitary sewer collection systems, main water distribution systems, storm sewer collection systems, and the continuation of utility lines from the main systems to a point of termination up to and including the meter location for the individual occupancy, sewer collection systems at property line on residential or single-occupancy commercial properties, or on multioccupancy properties at manhole or wye lateral extended to an invert elevation as engineered to accommodate future building sewers, water distribution systems, or storm sewer collection systems at storm sewer structures. However, an underground utility and excavation contractor may install empty underground conduits in rights-of-way, easements, platted rights-of-way in new site development, and sleeves for parking lot crossings no smaller than 2 inches in diameter, provided that each conduit system installed is designed by a licensed professional engineer or an authorized employee of a municipality, county, or public utility and that the installation of any such conduit does not include installation of any conductor wiring or connection to an energized electrical system. An underground utility and excavation contractor shall not install any piping that is an integral part of a fire protection system beginning at the point where the piping is used exclusively for such system.
Qualifications
You must be- 18 years of age, of good moral character, and meet eligibility requirements according to one of the following criteria:
1. – Has received a baccalaureate degree from an accredited 4-year college in the appropriate field of engineering, architecture, or building construction and has 1 year of proven experience in the category in which the person seeks to qualify. For the purpose of this part, a minimum of 2,000 person-hours shall be used in determining full-time equivalency.
2. – Has a total of at least 4 years of active experience as a worker who has learned the trade by serving an apprenticeship as a skilled worker who is able to command the rate of a mechanic in the particular trade or as a foreman who is in charge of a group of workers and usually is responsible to a superintendent or a contractor or his or her equivalent, provided, however, that at least 1 year of active experience shall be as a foreman.
3. – Has a combination of not less than 1 year of experience as a foreman and not less than 3 years of credits for any accredited college-level courses; has a combination of not less than 1 year of experience as a skilled worker, 1 year of experience as a foreman, and not less than 2 years of credits for any accredited college-level courses; or has a combination of not less than 2 years of experience as a skilled worker, 1 year of experience as a foreman, and not less than 1 year of credits for any accredited college-level courses. All junior college or community college-level courses shall be considered accredited college-level courses.
The Exam
Obtaining your Residential Contractors License requires a 70% or higher on the following 2 exams.
Business and Finance Exam
This computer-based exam, spanning 6 ½ hours, offers the flexibility to be scheduled at your convenience. The assessment comprises 120 questions.
Trade Knowledge
This computer-based exam, spanning 5 hours, offers the flexibility to be scheduled at your convenience. The assessment comprises 80 questions.
Every exam is open-book and requires the use of the provided book bundle.
To register for your exam, visit Professional Testing Inc.
Application Cut-Off Date is 30 Days Prior to First Day of Exam
Palm Construction School cannot schedule or administer your state exam.