No entity or individual may practice as a contractor by performing or offering to perform contracting work for which the total cost of construction is greater than ten thousand dollars for general contracting or greater than ten thousand dollars for mechanical contracting without a license issued in accordance with this chapter.
S.C. Code Ann. § 40-11-30
Licensing requirement
Applied in 9 court decisions — leading case Earthscapes Unlimited, Inc. v. Ulbrich (2010)
Most recently applied in Midsouth Steel, Inc. v. DPR Construction, Inc. (July 2016)
1998 Act No. 440, SECTION 1; 2023 Act No. 69 (H.4115), SECTION 3, eff May 19, 2023.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: South Carolina Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Carolina statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.