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Contractor’s License

Business-entity license authorizing contracting only in its approved classifications; general, specialty, electrical and mechanical classifications are applicant scope conditions.

Licensing authority: New Mexico Regulation and Licensing Department, Construction Industries Division · Application information

Addition or replacement of an existing qualifying party or classification

No examination is required for this applicant pathway.

Application: Submit the signed/notarized status-change form with fees; use an already valid certificate within its reattachment period.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Qualifying Party: Employ or be owned by a CID-certified qualifying party in every requested classification. This route uses an already issued, eligible certificate rather than first-issuance examination scores.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

CID Status Change Form Instructions
p.1, existing unattached and newly certified qualifying parties
New Mexico Contractor Licensing Frequently Asked Questions
p.2, question 7, existing and new qualifying parties
NMSA 1978, Chapter 60, Construction Industries Licensing Act and Elevator Safety Act
NMSA 1978 §60-13-14(A), qualifying party and licensing

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — EE 98

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
EE-98 Residential and Commercial Electrical (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: EE-98 — (a) EE-98. Residential, and commercial and industrial electrical wiring 5000 volts, nominal or less. Requires four years’ experience. Includes all electrical systems and wiring methods operating at 5000 volts, nominal, or less; electrical systems and wiring methods identified in electrical specialty classifications ES-1, ES-2, ES-3 and ES-7 ES-10R, or ES-10 residential electrical systems and wiring methods identified in classification ER-1; trenching and ductwork associated with classification EL-1; associated excavating, trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting for all electrical systems and wiring methods of 5000 volts, nominal or less. Does not include electrical wiring defined in the EL-1 classification other than trenching and duct work as specified above.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: four years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Nascla Waiver: May 2025 QP instructions: waiver for GB98 and EE98 only; use NASCLA scores to obtain another-jurisdiction license, hold that license at least one year, release the NASCLA transcript, and receive CID approval. The waiver removes only the trade test; experience and business-law requirements remain.
Nationwide Accredited Exam: The state accepts the electrical NASCLA accredited examination for a discretionary trade-examination waiver under 14.6.3.8(G)(2)(f). No corresponding nationwide version was supplied in sharedExamContext or knownRegistrations; this accepted examination is retained as an applicant condition pending nationwide registration.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in EE-98 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — EL 1

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
EL-1 Electrical Distribution Systems, including Transmission Lines (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: EL-1 — (c) EL-1. Electrical distribution and transmission systems over 5000 volts, nominal. Requires four years’ experience. Includes all electrical systems and wiring methods operating at over 5000 volts, nominal; overhead or underground electrical distribution and transmission circuits, equipment,; associated towers, tower foundations and other supporting structures; associated excavating, trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting and ductwork; sub-stations and terminal facilities. Does not include any electrical wiring specified or other electrical classifications EE-98, ER-1, ES-1, ES-2, ES-3, ES-7, ES-10R or ES-10. (2) Electrical Specialty licenses.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: four years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in EL-1 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — ER 1

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
ER-1 Residential Electrical Wiring (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: ER-1 — (b) ER-1. Residential electrical wiring 5000 volts, nominal or less. Requires two years’ experience. Includes electrical systems and wiring methods of 5000 volts, nominal or less at residential one and two-family dwelling units; multi-family dwellings when all such units are all on the ground floor with no occupancies above or below, as set forth in 14.10.4 NMAC. Does not include wiring for commercial use, such as motels, hotels and similar occupancies. May not contract for more than four dwelling units in any single building or structure.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in ER-1 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — ES 1

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
ES-1 Electrical Signs and Outline Lighting (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: ES-1 — (a) ES-1. Electrical signs and outline lighting. Requires two years’ experience. Installation at commercial locations only. Outline lighting is an arrangement of LED, incandescent lamps, or gaseous tubes to outline and call attention to certain features such as the shape of a building or the decoration of a window and may or may not contribute to the general illumination of an area. Includes commercial electrical wiring methods of 5000 volts, nominal or less required to complete the installation of the sign or outline lighting where a “sign circuit” or outline lighting circuit has been provided within 10 feet of the roof or wall of the structure supporting the sign or outline lighting; concrete for the foundation of poles; build structures for the support of such signs associated excavating, trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting; installation of underground electrical wiring methods of 5000 volts, nominal or less required to complete the installation of the “sign circuit” not to exceed 10 feet from the foundation of the sign. 14.6.6 NMAC 6
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in ES-1 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — ES 10

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
ES-10 Water Well Pump Installer (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: ES-10 — (f) ES-10. Water well pump installer. Requires two years’ experience. Commercial water well pumps, 600 volts or less, single or three phase. Includes the installation, maintenance, repairing or replacing electrical equipment, wiring, and accessories directly associated with water well pump systems; variable frequency drives; subpanels, luminaires, and receptacle outlets installed within the well pit or well enclosure; branch circuit or feeder conductors from the service equipment or panel board to the well pump location; incidental excavation and trenching; solar photo-voltaic arrays 5 kW or less when dedicated to pumping equipment. Does not include systems over 600 volts, electrical services, building wiring or any other electrical wiring.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in ES-10 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — ES 10R

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
ES-10R Residential Water Well Pump Installer (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: ES-10R — (e) ES-10R. Residential water well pump installer. Requires two years’ experience. Residential water well pumps, 120/240 volts or less, single phase 15 HP or less. Includes the installation, maintenance, repairing or replacement of electrical equipment, wiring, and accessories directly associated with water well pump systems; single phase variable frequency drives; subpanels, luminaires, and receptacle outlets installed within the well pit or well enclosure; branch circuit or feeder conductors from the service equipment or panel board to the well pump location; incidental excavation, trenching; solar photo-voltaic arrays 5 kW or less when dedicated to pumping equipment; does not include electrical systems over 240 volts, pumps over 15 HP, electrical services, building wiring or any other electrical wiring.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in ES-10R and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — ES 2

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
ES-2 Cathodic Protection and Lightning Protection (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: ES-2 — (b) ES-2. Cathodic protection and lightening protection systems. Requires two years’ experience. Includes interior and exterior cathodic protection and lightening protection systems at commercial and residential locations; electrical wiring methods of 5000 volts, nominal or less required to complete a cathodic grounding protection system only; electrical wiring methods of 5000 volts, nominal or less required to complete a lightening protection system only. May not install the service riser, main service or service grounding.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in ES-2 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — ES 3

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
ES-3 Low Voltage Special Systems (under 50 Volts) (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: ES-3 — (c) ES-3. Low voltage special systems (under 50 volts). Requires two years’ experience. Interior and exterior special systems, cabling and interconnections at commercial and residential locations, privately and publically owned operating at 50 volts or less; includes telecommunications systems; fire alarm systems, CATV systems; audio and visual systems; security systems; door and gate operated control circuits; temperature control circuits, other low voltage specialty systems operating at 50 volts or less; low voltage special systems cables installed in plenum or non-plenum rated walls or ceilings; low voltage special systems cables in existing raceways installed by others as defined at Paragraph (2) of Subsection A of 14.6.6.10 NMAC; direct burial low voltage special systems cables; overhead low voltage special systems cabling to structures; terminations and splicing of low voltage special system conductors; associated excavating, trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting; installation of underground electrical wiring methods required to complete any of the special systems listed above. An installer of television receive-only (TVROs) (dishes) is not required to have a contractor’s license when the installation is in a single-family dwelling and does not require the use of 120 volts for tracking. Does not include interior or exterior wiring of circuits operating above 50 volts which requires an EE-98 or ER-1 classification.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in ES-3 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — ES 7

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
ES-7 Telephone Communication Systems and Telephone Interconnect Systems (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: ES-7 — (d) ES-7. Telephone communication systems. Requires two years’ experience. Interior and exterior telecommunications cabling and interconnections at commercial and residential locations, in publicly or privately owned buildings; includes telecommunication cables installed in plenum or non-plenum rated walls or ceilings; telecommunication cables in existing raceways installed by others as defined at Paragraph (2) of Subsection A of 14.6.6.10 NMAC; direct burial telecommunication cables; overhead telecommunication cabling to structures; terminations and splicing of communication conductors; associated excavating trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting, installation of underground electrical wiring methods required to complete the installation of telecommunications systems; terminal facilities; installation of integrated services digital network cross connect equipment; installation of VoIP switching technology equipment, repeaters, including the installation of instruments at their terminating locations. Does not include Interior or exterior wiring of circuits operating above 50 volts which requires an EE-98 classification.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in ES-7 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — GA 1

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GA-1 Streets, Roads, and Highways (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GA-1 — (1) GA-1. Streets, roads and highways, including tunnels, parking lots, alleys, seal coat and surfacing. Requires two years’ experience. Clear, align, fill, compress, compact, build up or remove earth and do all work necessary to prepare, within the assigned rights-of-way, the land to accept a streets, roads, highways including culverts and tunnels, and alleys; includes parking lots, sidewalks or driveways; place and finish concrete or bituminous materials and apply sealcoat. This classification includes the scopes of work authorized by GA-2 and GA-3.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GA-1 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — GA 2

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GA-2 Maintenance and Repair (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GA-2 — (2) GA-2. Maintenance and repair. Requires two years’ experience. Fix, maintain, repair, patch, mend, cover, fill or replace with materials of like substances to that currently existing on streets, roads, highways, parking lots, driveways, sidewalks and alleys; apply seal coat to driveways and parking lots. Install rumble strips.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GA-2 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — GA 3

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GA-3 Curbs, Gutters, and Culverts (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GA-3 — (3) GA-3. Curbs, gutters and driveway culverts. Requires two years’ experience. Form, place and finish concrete curbs, gutters, driveway culverts, public sidewalks and bituminous ridge curbs for the deflection of water.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GA-3 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — GA 4

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GA-4 Striping (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GA-4 — (4) GA-4. Striping. Requires two years’ experience. Paint directional stripes on paved roads, streets, highways, alleys and parking lots; install auto parking bumpers or stops and highway lane markers/reflectors.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GA-4 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — GA 5

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GA-5 Highway Signs and Guard Rails (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GA-5 — (5) GA-5. Highway signs and guard rails. Requires two years’ experience. Erect and stabilize signs and guard rails along public highways, streets, roads and alleys, which are used for the direction and safety of vehicular traffic. Electrical signs must be installed by a properly licensed electrical contractor.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GA-5 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — GA 98

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GA-98 — (6) GA-98. Asphalt, bitumen and concrete construction. Indicates licensure in classifications GA-1 through GA-5; and covers all work authorized in those classifications. B. Residential and commercial building.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: Four years under the May 2025 QP application for GA-98
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GA-98 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — GB 2

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GB-2 Residential Building Contractor Part 1 Examination (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GB-2 — (1) GB-2. Residential. Requires two years’ of foreman level practical or related trade experience. Erect, alter, repair or demolish residences and apartment houses accommodating not more than four family units, Groups R-1, R-2 and R-3, as those groups are defined in 14.7.2 NMAC; items included in Group U, as defined in 14.7.2 NMAC, when incidental to these structures; includes all work described by the GS specialty classifications, provided the work is limited to residential construction as defined under this provision.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ of foreman level practical or related trade experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GB-2 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — GB 98

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GB-98 General Building Contractor Examination (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GB-98 — (2) GB-98. General building. Requires four years of foreman level practical or related trade experience of which at two years must be commercial experience. Erect, alter, repair or demolish residential and commercial buildings, and certain structures; includes all work authorized by the GB-2, GF-5, GF-7 and GS classifications; seal coating and striping of driveways and parking lots; excludes those structures covered by the EE, MM, GA or GF classifications. C. Fixed works. Construct, alter or repair fixed or public works facilities; provided, however, that work in any trade or craft that is authorized by any one, or a combination of, the mechanical, electrical, or general building or LP Gas classifications must be performed by an entity validly licensed in the appropriate classification. Except as may be expressly provided in a specific classification description, fixed works licensees may not construct buildings that are primarily for the use and occupancy of the general public, but may bid and contract for such buildings when they are incidental to a fixed works project; however, such work must be subcontracted pursuant to Subsection B of 14.6.6.8 NMAC, above. Incidental storage buildings used exclusively for storage and not for occupancy are allowed within these classifications. 14.6.6 NMAC 2
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: Four years of foreman-level practical or related trade experience, including two years of commercial experience.
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Nascla Waiver: May 2025 QP instructions: waiver for GB98 and EE98 only; use NASCLA scores to obtain another-jurisdiction license, hold that license at least one year, release the NASCLA transcript, and receive CID approval. The waiver removes only the trade test; experience and business-law requirements remain.
Nationwide Accredited Exam: The state accepts the general construction NASCLA accredited examination for a discretionary trade-examination waiver under 14.6.3.8(G)(2)(f). No corresponding nationwide version was supplied in sharedExamContext or knownRegistrations; this accepted examination is retained as an applicant condition pending nationwide registration.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GB-98 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — GF 1

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-1 Airports (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GF-1 — (1) GF-1. Airports. Requires two years’ experience. Construct, alter and repair airports, including excavating, grading, compacting, sub-surfacing, surfacing (dirt or bitumen and concrete), marking and other work on surfaces to be used for aircraft traffic, landing, take-off and taxi.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GF-1 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — GF 2

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-2 Bridges (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GF-2 — (2) GF-2. Bridges. Requires two years’ experience. Erect, construct, alter, repair or demolish any bridge, overpass or underpass, culvert or ramp, generally used for vehicular traffic.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GF-2 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — GF 3

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-3 Canals, Reservoirs, or Irrigation Systems (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GF-3 — (3) GF-3. Canals, reservoirs, dams and irrigation systems. Requires two years’ experience. Construct, erect, alter, repair, or demolish canals, dams, reservoirs irrigation systems; excavate, ditch, fill, compact and place pre-cast components, waterproof membranes and liners, concrete reinforcement, abutments and buttresses in connection therewith; install tanks, pumps, pipelines and substations incidental to the project; irrigation activities and piping when applicable solely to the production of agriculture or maintenance of livestock on a farm or ranch, excluding electrical work, are exempt from licensing requirements.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GF-3 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — GF 4

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-4 Drainage or Flood Control Systems (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GF-4 — (4) GF-4. Drainage or flood control systems. Requires two years’ experience. Construct, erect, install, repair and alter drainage or flood control systems; dig, excavate, fill, prepare embankments for such purposes, place pre-cast components, concrete reinforcement and perform all other work incidental to these projects.; install storm sewers, including trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting, and paving.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GF-4 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — GF 5

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-5 Recreation Areas (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GF-5 — (5) GF-5. Recreation areas. Requires two years’ experience. Construct, prepare, clear, repair or alter facilities for use as recreation areas, including but not limited to golf courses, driving ranges, water parks, tennis courts, playgrounds, outdoor athletic facilities, miniature golf courses, pitch-and-putt golf courses; prepare the area by excavation, fill, including foundations, retaining walls, sprinkler systems, rest benches, shade and rain shelters and foot bridges relative to recreation areas; public campgrounds and parks or similar facilities, including toilet facilities and lean-tos.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GF-5 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — GF 6

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-6 Railroad and Tunnel Construction (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GF-6 — (6) GF-6. Railroad and tunnel construction. Requires two years’ experience. Construct railroad lines, including clearing, filling, shaping, compacting, placing rip-rap, stabilizing, setting roadbeds, ties, tie plates, rails, rail connectors, frogs, switch plates, switches, and all appurtenances necessary for an operational railroad line, including bridges, culverts, tunnels, retaining walls, dikes, gates, tool sheds and landing or parking platforms for equipment. Includes welding operations necessary for rail construction.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GF-6 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — GF 7

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-7 Tanks and Towers (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GF-7 — (7) GF-7. Tanks and towers. Requires two years’ experience. Construct or fabricate on site and install tanks for the storage of solids or liquids, above or below ground, and towers such as radio, television and telecommunications towers, including all necessary site-work, excavation and construction of concrete tanks, pads and foundations, cutting, welding, placement of structural members, engineered structural support systems for elevated tanks, and engineered or prefabricated towers; includes the repair and placement of liners in tanks, and incidental storage buildings.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GF-7 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — GF 8

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-8 Transmission Lines, Tanks, and Substations (Non- Electrical) (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GF-8 — (8) GF-8. Transmission lines, tanks and substations (non-electrical). Requires two years’ experience. Build, construct and place lines for the transmission or conveyance of natural gas or petroleum, water and other fluid substances, including the application of protective coatings, trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting, paving and surfacing necessary and incidental to the completion of the installation of such facilities. Includes incidental buildings, tanks, and substations required for the project; construct, alter or repair industrial plants, including, but not limited to, refineries and power generation plants.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GF-8 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — GF 9

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-9 Utility Lines (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GF-9 — (9) GF-9. Utility lines and systems (sewage, water, natural gas and underground telephone cables). Requires two years’ experience. Construct, install, alter or repair utility lines and utility systems for the transmission of sewage, natural gas and water, including excavating, grading, trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting, paving and surfacing; includes tanks, pumps, lift-stations and substations incidental to the project; construct, alter, or repair treatment plants and facilities incidental thereto; install direct burial communications cable by trenching, direct plowing or pulling direct burial cable through existing raceways and install vaults as directed by the telecommunications utility; associated excavating, trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting, paving and surfacing. Shall not perform installation of electrical raceways including directional boring or pipe jacking methods, splicing, termination, installation of load pots, installation of integrated services digital network cross connect equipment, installation of VoIP switching technology equipment, overhead cabling work, or other activities considered under the scope of the ES-7, EL-1, ES-3 or EE-98 electrical classifications.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GF-9 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — GF 98

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GF-98 — (10) GF-98. Construct, alter or repair fixed works facilities. Requires four years’ experience; indicates licensure in classifications GF-1 through GF-9 and authorizes all work described in these classifications. D. General Specialty classifications. General construction includes numerous specialties. Therefore, CID has established the GS classification series to enable entities that perform this kind of work to be 14.6.6 NMAC 3
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: four years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GF-98 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — GS 1

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-1 — (1) GS-1. Acoustical insulation and insulation. Requires two years’ experience. Install any insulating material, including urethane foam and approved waterproof membranes and coatings, in or on buildings, structures and on piping for the purpose of energy conservation, temperature and sound control, and fireproofing. Does not include the installation of urethane roof systems.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GS-1 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — GS 13

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-13 Framing (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-13 — (8) GS-13. Framing. Requires two years of foreman level practical or related trade experience; cut, join, install wood, metal or other products approved by the division and utilized for the framing of a structure or building, including bearing and non-bearing walls, rafters, headers, trusses, joists, studs, door and window rough frames, and roof decks, including repair to any of the above.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years of foreman level practical or related trade experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GS-13 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — GS 14

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-14 — (9) GS-14. Windows, doors and skylights. Requires two years’ experience. Fabricate and install windows and doors in buildings and structures, including the necessary installation of window, door and skylight framing, and the installation of necessary hardware; cut, assemble and install glass work, and execute the glazing of frames, panels, sash and doors; fabricate and install storm doors, windows, and skylights including flashing; does not include structural alterations to enlarge any opening.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GS-14 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Vendor Door Exam: The April 2026 PSI bulletin names GS-6 Door Installation, whereas the March 2022 codified classification is GS-14 Windows, doors and skylights. Neither source explicitly assigns the GS-6 paper to GS-14; that association is undetermined and is not inferred from topic overlap.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — GS 15

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-15 — (10) GS-15. Caissons, piers and pile driving. Requires two years’ experience. Install piers, caissons and pilings through the use of pile driving equipment and machinery, including necessary excavation, grading and clearing for site preparation for pile driving activities; cut, weld, join and fabricate caissons or piles; install all necessary concrete and reinforcing steel within the caissons to create a structural member; soil stabilization and rock-fall mitigation.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GS-15 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — GS 16

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-16 Masonry (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-16 — (11) GS-16. Masonry. Requires two years’ experience. Install or erect brick and other baked clay products, rough cut and dressed stone, artificial stone and pre-cast blocks, structural glass brick or block adobe, laid at random or in courses, with or without mortar, to form masonry walls, anchored stone or masonry veneer, including building walls, freestanding walls six feet or higher from ground level and retaining walls measuring thirty-six inches or more measured from the bottom of the footing; does not include the execution, fabrication and erecting of poured cement and concrete, except as a foundation for a wall. 14.6.6 NMAC 4
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GS-16 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — GS 2

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-2 — (2) GS-2. Awnings and canopies. Requires two years’ experience. Construct, erect and install awnings and canopies, attached to buildings and structures or free standing, including, but not limited to carports and service station canopies, and including necessary excavation and foundation work. All electrical work shall be performed by a properly licensed electrical contractor.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GS-2 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — GS 21

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-21 Roofing (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-21 — (12) GS-21. Roofing. Requires two years of foreman level practical or related trade experience. Install, alter or repair roof systems on new or existing roof decks to create a weatherproof and waterproof protective membrane, with or without insulation, using asphalt, pitch, tar, sealants, felt, shakes, shingles, roof tile, slate, urethane or any other approved materials including the preparatory work necessary to bring a roof deck or an existing roof to a condition where roofing can be installed, and sealed or repaired; includes cutting, shaping, fabricating, and installing of sheet metal such as cornices, flashing, skylights (excluding alterations to structural framing), roof coatings, gutters, leaders, rainwater downspouts, pans, prefabricated chimneys, at or near roof lines, metal flues, or doing any part of any combination thereof, which relate to and are incidental to roofing projects.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years of foreman level practical or related trade experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GS-21 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — GS 23

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-23 — (13) GS-23. Sign construction (non-electrical). Requires two years’ experience. Fabricate on site, install and erect signs of wood, steel, plastic or any material, or any combination of materials, which are to be embedded in the earth, in concrete or other base material, or attached to buildings or structures using anchors, attached cables, bars or similar devices and appurtenances; electrified signs shall only be installed by contractors holding an ES-1 or an EE-98 classification.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GS-23 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — GS 24

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-24 Structural Steel Erection (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-24 — (14) GS-24. Structural steel erection. Requires two years of foreman level practical or related trade experience. Fabricate on site and erect structural steel shapes and plates, of any profile, perimeter or cross-section that may be used as structural members for buildings and structures, including riveting and welding; does not authorize construction of concrete foundations or complete buildings.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years of foreman level practical or related trade experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GS-24 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — GS 25

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-25 Swimming Pools (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-25 — (15) GS-25. Swimming pools (non-plumbing, mechanical or electrical). Requires two years’ experience. Construct and repair swimming pools including excavation, installation of reinforcing steel or mesh, application of concrete and special coatings; shall not perform any scope of work which is authorized by a plumbing, mechanical, electrical or LP Gas classification.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GS-25 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — GS 29

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-29 — (20) GS-29 specialties. Requires up to four years’ experience as determined on a case-by- case basis. The GS-29 classification is a sub-category of the general specialty classifications. It is a miscellaneous classification that is used to identify specific specialties on a case-by-case basis.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: up to four years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GS-29 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — GS 30

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-30 Plastering, Stucco and Lathing (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-30 — (16) GS-30. Plastering, stucco and lathing. Requires two years’ experience. Prepare wall and ceiling surfaces, interior or exterior, with wood, metal lath, wallboard or other properly prepared surfaces which will accept and hold a mixture of sand, plaster (including gypsum plaster), lime and water, or sand and cement with water or any combination of materials to create a permanent surface coating; these coatings may be applied manually or mechanically on surfaces which will support such coating; install steel or wood or other division approved stud systems (non-structural), channel iron work and affix lath or any other materials or products, prepared or manufactured to provide a base for such coatings.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GS-30 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — GS 31

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-31 — (17) GS-31. Siding. Requires two years’ experience. Apply, replace, or repair siding consisting of slate, gypsum, wood, plastics or other products, including the application of furred up networks on which the siding can be installed.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GS-31 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — GS 32

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-32 — (18) GS-32. Miscellaneous sheet metal. Requires two years’ experience. Fabricate on site and install sheet metal (galvanized iron) such as cornices, flashing, gutters, leaders, rainwater downspouts, pans, and prefabricated chimneys; shall not install heating, ventilation & air conditioning (HVAC) duct systems, vents, grease hoods, or other appurtenances that are authorized by mechanical or plumbing classifications.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GS-32 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — GS 34

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-34 — (19) GS-34. Concrete coring, drilling and slab sawing. Requires two years’ experience. Coring, boring, drilling, cutting, and sawing concrete, including the removal or demolition of the material; does not include the installation of electrical wiring or plumbing in such bored, drilled, cut or sawed concrete. (20) GS-29 specialties. Requires up to four years’ experience as determined on a case-by- case basis. The GS-29 classification is a sub-category of the general specialty classifications. It is a miscellaneous classification that is used to identify specific specialties on a case-by-case basis. [14.6.6.9 NMAC - Rp, 14.6.6.9 NMAC, 3/10/2022]
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GS-34 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — GS 4

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-4 Concrete, Cement, Walkways, and Driveways (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-4 — (3) GS-4. Concrete, cement, walkways and driveways. Requires two years’ experience practical trade experience, one year of which must be foreman level. Mix, pour, place, and finish concrete,; includes all necessary preparatory work including excavation, form work, and placing of reinforcement materials; includes the installation on private property of curbs, gutters, sidewalks, and driveway culverts; may not perform this work in public rights-of-way unless subcontracted to a validly licensed GA licensee.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: Two years of practical trade experience, including one year at foreman level.
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GS-4 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — GS 5

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-5 — (4) GS-5. Demolition. Requires two years’ experience. Demolish all or any portion of a buildings and structures authorized by the GB-98 classification, including demolition to portions of buildings and structures allowing additions and alterations to be completed to the remaining portions of the building or structure.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GS-5 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — GS 7

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-7 Drywall Installation and Texture (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-7 — (5) GS-7. Drywall installation and texture. Requires two years’ experience. Installation of gypsum wallboard, and gypsum sheathing; includes taping, bedding and coating the surfaces of the wallboard and sheathing with gypsum joint systems, tape and drywall mud, or a combination of other materials to create a permanent surface or coating and of walls and ceilings; install steel or wood stud systems (non-structural) and channel iron work to provide a base for the application of drywall.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GS-7 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — GS 8

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-8 Earthmoving, Excavation, and Ditching (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-8 — (6) GS-8. Earthmoving, excavating and ditching. Requires two years’ experience. Perform earthwork associated with or incidental to construction projects regulated by CID, using hand or power tools, machines that use air, fluids, or other material under pressure, or heavy equipment, in such a manner that cutting, filling, excavating, grading, trenching, backfilling, boring and any similar excavating activity can be executed; earthmoving, excavating and ditching activities applicable to the preparation and production of agriculture or maintenance of livestock on a farm or ranch are exempt from licensing requirements.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GS-8 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — GS 9

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-9 Elevators, Escalators, Conveyors (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-9 — (7) GS-9. Elevators, escalators, and related machinery (non-electrical). Requires two years’ experience. Erect, install or repair elevators, escalators and related machinery, including sheave beams, sheaves, cable and wire rope, guides, cab, counterweights, doors, including sidewalk elevators, automatic and manual controls, signal systems and all other devices, apparatus, machinery and equipment (including fabrication on job site) essential to the safe and efficient installation and operation of electrical, hydraulic and manually operated elevators and escalators and conveyors designed specifically for the transportation of people.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GS-9 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — MM 1

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
MM-1 Plumbing (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: MM-1 — (1) MM-1. Plumbing. Requires four years’ experience. Install, alter, repair, service, and maintain plumbing, plumbing fixtures, and piping, includes incidental concrete supports, and excavating, trenching and backfilling; includes hot water heating systems not exceeding 30 p.s.i. or 400,000 b.t.u./hour input; piping for fuel, oil and gasoline; piping and appurtenances for solar thermal energy systems; potable water irrigation sprinkler systems; swimming pools and spas; includes pneumatic or electric controls and control wiring not greater than 24 volts; septic tanks, manholes and sewer lines; does not include installation of natural gas fired appliances or natural gas piping; piping and agricultural sprinkler irrigation system installation and maintenance on farm or ranch property that moves water for livestock use or irrigation purposes from a privately owned well or pipeline, not connected to a public potable water supply are exempt from licensing requirements. When connected to a potable water source all connections must be downstream of an approved back flow prevention device. If a backflow prevention device is required it shall be permitted and installed by a properly certified journeyman employed by an appropriately licensed contractor.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: four years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in MM-1 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — MM 2

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
MM-2 Natural Gas Fitting (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: MM-2 — (2) MM-2. Natural gas fitting. Requires four years’ experience. Install, alter, repair, service and maintain natural gas piping and fittings; install hot water heating systems not exceeding 30 p.s.i. or 400,000 b.t.u./hour input; steam and hot water boilers; may connect water to existing valved outlets; warm air heating systems including chimney connections, flues, refractories, burners, fittings valves, thermal insulation, accessories and incidental piping; warm air appliances and other listed gas appliances; incidental controls and control wiring, pneumatic control systems; includes all required excavating, trenching and backfilling. May not install LP Gas systems.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: four years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in MM-2 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — MM 3

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
MM-3 Heat, Vent and Air Conditioning (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: MM-3 — (3) MM-3. Heating, ventilation & air conditioning (HVAC). Requires four years’ experience. Install, alter, repair, service and maintain HVAC air handling and refrigeration equipment and piping, including fans, coils, condensing units, self-contained packaged air conditioning or heating units, evaporative cooling units, and ductwork and accessories including solar air heating and cooled mechanical air handling and 14.6.6 NMAC 8
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: four years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in MM-3 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — MM 4

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
MM-4 Heat, Cooling, and Process Pipe (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: MM-4 — (4) MM-4. Heating, cooling and process piping. Requires four years’ experience. Install, alter, repair, service and maintain hydronic heating, cooling and process piping, piping and appurtenances for steam and hot water systems of any temperature or pressure range, chilled water systems, condensing water systems and other process piping systems; includes air handling equipment, pressure vessels, heat exchangers, boilers, refrigeration water chillers, cooling towers, fuel oil tanks and fuel oil piping; electric controls and control wiring not to exceed 24 volts; install high pressure and process piping solar thermal energy systems of any temperature or pressure range conveying gas or fluids other than potable water; water based fire protection sprinkler systems, dry chemical fire protection systems.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: four years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in MM-4 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — MM 98

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: MM-98 — (5) MM-98. Mechanical. Requires four years’ experience. Indicates licensure in individual classifications MM-1 through MM-4 and covers all work described in these classifications, as well as work described in the MS-3, MS-6, MS-12 and MS-14. C. Mechanical Specialty classifications:
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: four years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in MM-98 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — MS 12

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
MS-12 Fire Protection Systems (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: MS-12 — (3) MS-12. Fire protection sprinkler systems. Requires four years’ experience. Install alter, repair, service or maintain water-based fire protection systems required pressure or storage tanks, controls and control wiring up to 24 volts; excavate and backfill and install piping from structure to off-site water supply adjacent to fire protection system property; bid or contract for structural alterations, electrical wiring, etc., incidental to the system installation, provided such work is performed by a validly licensed contractor.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: four years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in MS-12 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — MS 14

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
MS-14 Dry Chemical Fire Protection (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: MS-14 — (4) MS-14. Dry chemical fire protection. Requires four years’ experience. Install, alter, repair, or service or maintain gaseous or chemical based fire protection systems including carbon dioxide (CO), or clean agents; pressurized storage tanks, valves, temperature sensing devices, solenoid or safety shut-off devices and other incidental controls and control wiring up to 24 volts; bid or contract for structural alterations, electrical wiring, etc., incidental to the system installation, provided such work is performed by a properly licensed contractor.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: four years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in MS-14 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — MS 3

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
MS-3 Cesspools, Septic Tanks and Sewers (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: MS-3 — (1) MS-3. Septic tanks & sewer. Requires two years’ experience. Install, alter, repair, service or maintain septic tanks and private sewage disposal systems, manholes and sewer lines, beginning at a connection to a public or private utility and ending at a point five feet beyond the outside wall of a building or structured; excavate, trench, backfill and grade as necessary; install or repair incidental plug-in type electrical control panels, controls and control wiring not to exceed 24 volts.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in MS-3 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — MS 6

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
MS-6 Lawn Sprinklers (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: MS-6 — (2) MS-6. Lawn sprinklers. Requires two years’ experience. Install, alter, repair, service or maintain potable water sprinkler systems; excavate, trench, backfill and grade as necessary; backflow prevention devices incidental plug-in type electrical control panels, controls and control wiring not to exceed 24 volts.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in MS-6 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

New contractor license following revocation

No examination is required for this applicant pathway.

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Qualifying Party: Employ or be owned by a CID-certified qualifying party in every requested classification. This route uses an already issued, eligible certificate rather than first-issuance examination scores.
Revocation: Wait at least one year after the revocation order and do not violate CILA during the revocation; submit a new ordinary application.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

NMSA 1978, Chapter 60, Construction Industries Licensing Act and Elevator Safety Act
NMSA 1978 §60-13-29(A)-(B), new application after revocation
NMSA 1978, Chapter 60, Construction Industries Licensing Act and Elevator Safety Act
NMSA 1978 §60-13-14(A), qualifying party and licensing
CID Contractor License Application Instructions
p.1, existing licensed qualifying party and certification instructions

Licensure after unlicensed contracting within the preceding year

No examination is required for this applicant pathway.

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Prior Unlicensed Work: Director must find no monetary damage or unresolved complaint; pay the additional statutory assessment and satisfy all ordinary license requirements.
Qualifying Party: Employ or be owned by a CID-certified qualifying party in every requested classification. This route uses an already issued, eligible certificate rather than first-issuance examination scores.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

NMSA 1978, Chapter 60, Construction Industries Licensing Act and Elevator Safety Act
NMSA 1978 §60-13-14(D)(1), applicant with recent unlicensed work
NMSA 1978, Chapter 60, Construction Industries Licensing Act and Elevator Safety Act
NMSA 1978 §60-13-14(D)(2), consumer-harm conditions
NMSA 1978, Chapter 60, Construction Industries Licensing Act and Elevator Safety Act
NMSA 1978 §60-13-14(A), qualifying party and licensing
CID Contractor License Application Instructions
p.1, existing licensed qualifying party and certification instructions

Reinstatement of a suspended or revoked contractor license

No examination is required for this applicant pathway.

Approval: CID/commission must approve restoration; further payment default may result in additional discipline.
Eligibility: Remain eligible under all other provisions. This route restores an existing eligible record; a new certificate application or retest after expiration follows the separate recertification route.
Penalties: Pay assessed fees and administrative penalties, or obtain a commission-approved payment plan with good-faith payments.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

Contractor’s License Requirements, 14.6.3 NMAC
14.6.3.9(A)-(C), administrative-penalty reinstatement

Initial licensure with an existing certified qualifying party

No examination is required for this applicant pathway.

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Qualifying Party: Employ or be owned by a CID-certified qualifying party in every requested classification. This route uses an already issued, eligible certificate rather than first-issuance examination scores.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

NMSA 1978, Chapter 60, Construction Industries Licensing Act and Elevator Safety Act
NMSA 1978 §60-13-14(A), qualifying party and licensing
CID Contractor License Application Instructions
p.1, existing licensed qualifying party and certification instructions

Joint venture licensure

No examination is required for this applicant pathway.

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Qualifying Party: Employ or be owned by a CID-certified qualifying party in every requested classification. This route uses an already issued, eligible certificate rather than first-issuance examination scores.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Venture Members: Each member must have a valid New Mexico contractor license and be authorized to do business in New Mexico.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

Contractor’s License Requirements, 14.6.3 NMAC
14.6.3.8(B)(2), joint venture entity qualification
NMSA 1978, Chapter 60, Construction Industries Licensing Act and Elevator Safety Act
NMSA 1978 §60-13-14(A), qualifying party and licensing
CID Contractor License Application Instructions
p.1, existing licensed qualifying party and certification instructions

Late renewal of a suspended license within ninety days

No examination is required for this applicant pathway.

Application: Provide a complete notarized renewal, applicable fee, bond continuation or new bond, and current information.
Certificate: Retain qualifying parties in all licensed classifications and obtain their signatures.
Compliance: Maintain legal authority to do business, workers’ compensation compliance, financial responsibility and child-support compliance.
Late Fees: Within the grace period, pay the specified late fees; beyond ninety days the license is canceled and a new application is required.
Time: Current PSI instructions use a three-year cycle; renewal is due by expiration and late renewal is allowed within ninety days.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

NMSA 1978, Chapter 60, Construction Industries Licensing Act and Elevator Safety Act
NMSA 1978 §60-13-18(G), suspended license renewal
How to Renew a Contractor License
p.1, renewal submission requirements

Expedited military licensure

No examination is required for this applicant pathway.

Application: Submit a complete application, military/family-status documents and background check if required.
Eligibility: Military service member, eligible spouse or dependent child, surviving spouse, or honorably discharged veteran as defined in §60-13-14.1(F).
Fee Waiver: Initial license/certificate fees are waived for the first three years; other applicable document or replacement charges remain.
Issuance: Issue as soon as practicable, no later than thirty days after a complete qualifying application.
Prior License: Hold a current good-standing license or certificate from another jurisdiction, including the armed forces, with substantially equivalent minimum requirements.
Renewal: The ordinary issuance and renewal requirements apply at renewal; the issued license is not provisional.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

NMSA 1978, Chapter 60, Construction Industries Licensing Act and Elevator Safety Act
NMSA 1978 §60-13-14.1(A), expedited issuance
Contractor’s License Requirements, 14.6.3 NMAC
14.6.3.8(H)(1)-(2)(b), expedited qualifying-party certification

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — EE 98

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
EE-98 Residential and Commercial Electrical (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: EE-98 — (a) EE-98. Residential, and commercial and industrial electrical wiring 5000 volts, nominal or less. Requires four years’ experience. Includes all electrical systems and wiring methods operating at 5000 volts, nominal, or less; electrical systems and wiring methods identified in electrical specialty classifications ES-1, ES-2, ES-3 and ES-7 ES-10R, or ES-10 residential electrical systems and wiring methods identified in classification ER-1; trenching and ductwork associated with classification EL-1; associated excavating, trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting for all electrical systems and wiring methods of 5000 volts, nominal or less. Does not include electrical wiring defined in the EL-1 classification other than trenching and duct work as specified above.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: four years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Nascla Waiver: May 2025 QP instructions: waiver for GB98 and EE98 only; use NASCLA scores to obtain another-jurisdiction license, hold that license at least one year, release the NASCLA transcript, and receive CID approval. The waiver removes only the trade test; experience and business-law requirements remain.
Nationwide Accredited Exam: The state accepts the electrical NASCLA accredited examination for a discretionary trade-examination waiver under 14.6.3.8(G)(2)(f). No corresponding nationwide version was supplied in sharedExamContext or knownRegistrations; this accepted examination is retained as an applicant condition pending nationwide registration.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in EE-98 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — EL 1

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
EL-1 Electrical Distribution Systems, including Transmission Lines (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: EL-1 — (c) EL-1. Electrical distribution and transmission systems over 5000 volts, nominal. Requires four years’ experience. Includes all electrical systems and wiring methods operating at over 5000 volts, nominal; overhead or underground electrical distribution and transmission circuits, equipment,; associated towers, tower foundations and other supporting structures; associated excavating, trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting and ductwork; sub-stations and terminal facilities. Does not include any electrical wiring specified or other electrical classifications EE-98, ER-1, ES-1, ES-2, ES-3, ES-7, ES-10R or ES-10. (2) Electrical Specialty licenses.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: four years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in EL-1 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — ER 1

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
ER-1 Residential Electrical Wiring (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: ER-1 — (b) ER-1. Residential electrical wiring 5000 volts, nominal or less. Requires two years’ experience. Includes electrical systems and wiring methods of 5000 volts, nominal or less at residential one and two-family dwelling units; multi-family dwellings when all such units are all on the ground floor with no occupancies above or below, as set forth in 14.10.4 NMAC. Does not include wiring for commercial use, such as motels, hotels and similar occupancies. May not contract for more than four dwelling units in any single building or structure.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in ER-1 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — ES 1

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
ES-1 Electrical Signs and Outline Lighting (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: ES-1 — (a) ES-1. Electrical signs and outline lighting. Requires two years’ experience. Installation at commercial locations only. Outline lighting is an arrangement of LED, incandescent lamps, or gaseous tubes to outline and call attention to certain features such as the shape of a building or the decoration of a window and may or may not contribute to the general illumination of an area. Includes commercial electrical wiring methods of 5000 volts, nominal or less required to complete the installation of the sign or outline lighting where a “sign circuit” or outline lighting circuit has been provided within 10 feet of the roof or wall of the structure supporting the sign or outline lighting; concrete for the foundation of poles; build structures for the support of such signs associated excavating, trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting; installation of underground electrical wiring methods of 5000 volts, nominal or less required to complete the installation of the “sign circuit” not to exceed 10 feet from the foundation of the sign. 14.6.6 NMAC 6
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in ES-1 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — ES 10

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
ES-10 Water Well Pump Installer (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: ES-10 — (f) ES-10. Water well pump installer. Requires two years’ experience. Commercial water well pumps, 600 volts or less, single or three phase. Includes the installation, maintenance, repairing or replacing electrical equipment, wiring, and accessories directly associated with water well pump systems; variable frequency drives; subpanels, luminaires, and receptacle outlets installed within the well pit or well enclosure; branch circuit or feeder conductors from the service equipment or panel board to the well pump location; incidental excavation and trenching; solar photo-voltaic arrays 5 kW or less when dedicated to pumping equipment. Does not include systems over 600 volts, electrical services, building wiring or any other electrical wiring.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in ES-10 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — ES 10R

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
ES-10R Residential Water Well Pump Installer (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: ES-10R — (e) ES-10R. Residential water well pump installer. Requires two years’ experience. Residential water well pumps, 120/240 volts or less, single phase 15 HP or less. Includes the installation, maintenance, repairing or replacement of electrical equipment, wiring, and accessories directly associated with water well pump systems; single phase variable frequency drives; subpanels, luminaires, and receptacle outlets installed within the well pit or well enclosure; branch circuit or feeder conductors from the service equipment or panel board to the well pump location; incidental excavation, trenching; solar photo-voltaic arrays 5 kW or less when dedicated to pumping equipment; does not include electrical systems over 240 volts, pumps over 15 HP, electrical services, building wiring or any other electrical wiring.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in ES-10R and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — ES 2

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
ES-2 Cathodic Protection and Lightning Protection (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: ES-2 — (b) ES-2. Cathodic protection and lightening protection systems. Requires two years’ experience. Includes interior and exterior cathodic protection and lightening protection systems at commercial and residential locations; electrical wiring methods of 5000 volts, nominal or less required to complete a cathodic grounding protection system only; electrical wiring methods of 5000 volts, nominal or less required to complete a lightening protection system only. May not install the service riser, main service or service grounding.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in ES-2 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — ES 3

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
ES-3 Low Voltage Special Systems (under 50 Volts) (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: ES-3 — (c) ES-3. Low voltage special systems (under 50 volts). Requires two years’ experience. Interior and exterior special systems, cabling and interconnections at commercial and residential locations, privately and publically owned operating at 50 volts or less; includes telecommunications systems; fire alarm systems, CATV systems; audio and visual systems; security systems; door and gate operated control circuits; temperature control circuits, other low voltage specialty systems operating at 50 volts or less; low voltage special systems cables installed in plenum or non-plenum rated walls or ceilings; low voltage special systems cables in existing raceways installed by others as defined at Paragraph (2) of Subsection A of 14.6.6.10 NMAC; direct burial low voltage special systems cables; overhead low voltage special systems cabling to structures; terminations and splicing of low voltage special system conductors; associated excavating, trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting; installation of underground electrical wiring methods required to complete any of the special systems listed above. An installer of television receive-only (TVROs) (dishes) is not required to have a contractor’s license when the installation is in a single-family dwelling and does not require the use of 120 volts for tracking. Does not include interior or exterior wiring of circuits operating above 50 volts which requires an EE-98 or ER-1 classification.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in ES-3 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — ES 7

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
ES-7 Telephone Communication Systems and Telephone Interconnect Systems (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: ES-7 — (d) ES-7. Telephone communication systems. Requires two years’ experience. Interior and exterior telecommunications cabling and interconnections at commercial and residential locations, in publicly or privately owned buildings; includes telecommunication cables installed in plenum or non-plenum rated walls or ceilings; telecommunication cables in existing raceways installed by others as defined at Paragraph (2) of Subsection A of 14.6.6.10 NMAC; direct burial telecommunication cables; overhead telecommunication cabling to structures; terminations and splicing of communication conductors; associated excavating trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting, installation of underground electrical wiring methods required to complete the installation of telecommunications systems; terminal facilities; installation of integrated services digital network cross connect equipment; installation of VoIP switching technology equipment, repeaters, including the installation of instruments at their terminating locations. Does not include Interior or exterior wiring of circuits operating above 50 volts which requires an EE-98 classification.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in ES-7 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — GA 1

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GA-1 Streets, Roads, and Highways (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GA-1 — (1) GA-1. Streets, roads and highways, including tunnels, parking lots, alleys, seal coat and surfacing. Requires two years’ experience. Clear, align, fill, compress, compact, build up or remove earth and do all work necessary to prepare, within the assigned rights-of-way, the land to accept a streets, roads, highways including culverts and tunnels, and alleys; includes parking lots, sidewalks or driveways; place and finish concrete or bituminous materials and apply sealcoat. This classification includes the scopes of work authorized by GA-2 and GA-3.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GA-1 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — GA 2

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GA-2 Maintenance and Repair (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GA-2 — (2) GA-2. Maintenance and repair. Requires two years’ experience. Fix, maintain, repair, patch, mend, cover, fill or replace with materials of like substances to that currently existing on streets, roads, highways, parking lots, driveways, sidewalks and alleys; apply seal coat to driveways and parking lots. Install rumble strips.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GA-2 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — GA 3

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GA-3 Curbs, Gutters, and Culverts (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GA-3 — (3) GA-3. Curbs, gutters and driveway culverts. Requires two years’ experience. Form, place and finish concrete curbs, gutters, driveway culverts, public sidewalks and bituminous ridge curbs for the deflection of water.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GA-3 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — GA 4

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GA-4 Striping (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GA-4 — (4) GA-4. Striping. Requires two years’ experience. Paint directional stripes on paved roads, streets, highways, alleys and parking lots; install auto parking bumpers or stops and highway lane markers/reflectors.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GA-4 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — GA 5

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GA-5 Highway Signs and Guard Rails (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GA-5 — (5) GA-5. Highway signs and guard rails. Requires two years’ experience. Erect and stabilize signs and guard rails along public highways, streets, roads and alleys, which are used for the direction and safety of vehicular traffic. Electrical signs must be installed by a properly licensed electrical contractor.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GA-5 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — GA 98

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GA-98 — (6) GA-98. Asphalt, bitumen and concrete construction. Indicates licensure in classifications GA-1 through GA-5; and covers all work authorized in those classifications. B. Residential and commercial building.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: Four years under the May 2025 QP application for GA-98
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GA-98 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — GB 2

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GB-2 Residential Building Contractor Part 1 Examination (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GB-2 — (1) GB-2. Residential. Requires two years’ of foreman level practical or related trade experience. Erect, alter, repair or demolish residences and apartment houses accommodating not more than four family units, Groups R-1, R-2 and R-3, as those groups are defined in 14.7.2 NMAC; items included in Group U, as defined in 14.7.2 NMAC, when incidental to these structures; includes all work described by the GS specialty classifications, provided the work is limited to residential construction as defined under this provision.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ of foreman level practical or related trade experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GB-2 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — GB 98

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GB-98 General Building Contractor Examination (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GB-98 — (2) GB-98. General building. Requires four years of foreman level practical or related trade experience of which at two years must be commercial experience. Erect, alter, repair or demolish residential and commercial buildings, and certain structures; includes all work authorized by the GB-2, GF-5, GF-7 and GS classifications; seal coating and striping of driveways and parking lots; excludes those structures covered by the EE, MM, GA or GF classifications. C. Fixed works. Construct, alter or repair fixed or public works facilities; provided, however, that work in any trade or craft that is authorized by any one, or a combination of, the mechanical, electrical, or general building or LP Gas classifications must be performed by an entity validly licensed in the appropriate classification. Except as may be expressly provided in a specific classification description, fixed works licensees may not construct buildings that are primarily for the use and occupancy of the general public, but may bid and contract for such buildings when they are incidental to a fixed works project; however, such work must be subcontracted pursuant to Subsection B of 14.6.6.8 NMAC, above. Incidental storage buildings used exclusively for storage and not for occupancy are allowed within these classifications. 14.6.6 NMAC 2
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: Four years of foreman-level practical or related trade experience, including two years of commercial experience.
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Nascla Waiver: May 2025 QP instructions: waiver for GB98 and EE98 only; use NASCLA scores to obtain another-jurisdiction license, hold that license at least one year, release the NASCLA transcript, and receive CID approval. The waiver removes only the trade test; experience and business-law requirements remain.
Nationwide Accredited Exam: The state accepts the general construction NASCLA accredited examination for a discretionary trade-examination waiver under 14.6.3.8(G)(2)(f). No corresponding nationwide version was supplied in sharedExamContext or knownRegistrations; this accepted examination is retained as an applicant condition pending nationwide registration.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GB-98 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — GF 1

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-1 Airports (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GF-1 — (1) GF-1. Airports. Requires two years’ experience. Construct, alter and repair airports, including excavating, grading, compacting, sub-surfacing, surfacing (dirt or bitumen and concrete), marking and other work on surfaces to be used for aircraft traffic, landing, take-off and taxi.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GF-1 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — GF 2

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-2 Bridges (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GF-2 — (2) GF-2. Bridges. Requires two years’ experience. Erect, construct, alter, repair or demolish any bridge, overpass or underpass, culvert or ramp, generally used for vehicular traffic.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GF-2 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — GF 3

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-3 Canals, Reservoirs, or Irrigation Systems (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GF-3 — (3) GF-3. Canals, reservoirs, dams and irrigation systems. Requires two years’ experience. Construct, erect, alter, repair, or demolish canals, dams, reservoirs irrigation systems; excavate, ditch, fill, compact and place pre-cast components, waterproof membranes and liners, concrete reinforcement, abutments and buttresses in connection therewith; install tanks, pumps, pipelines and substations incidental to the project; irrigation activities and piping when applicable solely to the production of agriculture or maintenance of livestock on a farm or ranch, excluding electrical work, are exempt from licensing requirements.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GF-3 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — GF 4

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-4 Drainage or Flood Control Systems (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GF-4 — (4) GF-4. Drainage or flood control systems. Requires two years’ experience. Construct, erect, install, repair and alter drainage or flood control systems; dig, excavate, fill, prepare embankments for such purposes, place pre-cast components, concrete reinforcement and perform all other work incidental to these projects.; install storm sewers, including trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting, and paving.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GF-4 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — GF 5

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-5 Recreation Areas (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GF-5 — (5) GF-5. Recreation areas. Requires two years’ experience. Construct, prepare, clear, repair or alter facilities for use as recreation areas, including but not limited to golf courses, driving ranges, water parks, tennis courts, playgrounds, outdoor athletic facilities, miniature golf courses, pitch-and-putt golf courses; prepare the area by excavation, fill, including foundations, retaining walls, sprinkler systems, rest benches, shade and rain shelters and foot bridges relative to recreation areas; public campgrounds and parks or similar facilities, including toilet facilities and lean-tos.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GF-5 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — GF 6

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-6 Railroad and Tunnel Construction (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GF-6 — (6) GF-6. Railroad and tunnel construction. Requires two years’ experience. Construct railroad lines, including clearing, filling, shaping, compacting, placing rip-rap, stabilizing, setting roadbeds, ties, tie plates, rails, rail connectors, frogs, switch plates, switches, and all appurtenances necessary for an operational railroad line, including bridges, culverts, tunnels, retaining walls, dikes, gates, tool sheds and landing or parking platforms for equipment. Includes welding operations necessary for rail construction.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GF-6 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — GF 7

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-7 Tanks and Towers (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GF-7 — (7) GF-7. Tanks and towers. Requires two years’ experience. Construct or fabricate on site and install tanks for the storage of solids or liquids, above or below ground, and towers such as radio, television and telecommunications towers, including all necessary site-work, excavation and construction of concrete tanks, pads and foundations, cutting, welding, placement of structural members, engineered structural support systems for elevated tanks, and engineered or prefabricated towers; includes the repair and placement of liners in tanks, and incidental storage buildings.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GF-7 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — GF 8

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-8 Transmission Lines, Tanks, and Substations (Non- Electrical) (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GF-8 — (8) GF-8. Transmission lines, tanks and substations (non-electrical). Requires two years’ experience. Build, construct and place lines for the transmission or conveyance of natural gas or petroleum, water and other fluid substances, including the application of protective coatings, trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting, paving and surfacing necessary and incidental to the completion of the installation of such facilities. Includes incidental buildings, tanks, and substations required for the project; construct, alter or repair industrial plants, including, but not limited to, refineries and power generation plants.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GF-8 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — GF 9

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-9 Utility Lines (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GF-9 — (9) GF-9. Utility lines and systems (sewage, water, natural gas and underground telephone cables). Requires two years’ experience. Construct, install, alter or repair utility lines and utility systems for the transmission of sewage, natural gas and water, including excavating, grading, trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting, paving and surfacing; includes tanks, pumps, lift-stations and substations incidental to the project; construct, alter, or repair treatment plants and facilities incidental thereto; install direct burial communications cable by trenching, direct plowing or pulling direct burial cable through existing raceways and install vaults as directed by the telecommunications utility; associated excavating, trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting, paving and surfacing. Shall not perform installation of electrical raceways including directional boring or pipe jacking methods, splicing, termination, installation of load pots, installation of integrated services digital network cross connect equipment, installation of VoIP switching technology equipment, overhead cabling work, or other activities considered under the scope of the ES-7, EL-1, ES-3 or EE-98 electrical classifications.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GF-9 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — GF 98

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GF-98 — (10) GF-98. Construct, alter or repair fixed works facilities. Requires four years’ experience; indicates licensure in classifications GF-1 through GF-9 and authorizes all work described in these classifications. D. General Specialty classifications. General construction includes numerous specialties. Therefore, CID has established the GS classification series to enable entities that perform this kind of work to be 14.6.6 NMAC 3
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: four years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GF-98 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — GS 1

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-1 — (1) GS-1. Acoustical insulation and insulation. Requires two years’ experience. Install any insulating material, including urethane foam and approved waterproof membranes and coatings, in or on buildings, structures and on piping for the purpose of energy conservation, temperature and sound control, and fireproofing. Does not include the installation of urethane roof systems.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GS-1 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — GS 13

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-13 Framing (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-13 — (8) GS-13. Framing. Requires two years of foreman level practical or related trade experience; cut, join, install wood, metal or other products approved by the division and utilized for the framing of a structure or building, including bearing and non-bearing walls, rafters, headers, trusses, joists, studs, door and window rough frames, and roof decks, including repair to any of the above.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years of foreman level practical or related trade experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GS-13 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — GS 14

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-14 — (9) GS-14. Windows, doors and skylights. Requires two years’ experience. Fabricate and install windows and doors in buildings and structures, including the necessary installation of window, door and skylight framing, and the installation of necessary hardware; cut, assemble and install glass work, and execute the glazing of frames, panels, sash and doors; fabricate and install storm doors, windows, and skylights including flashing; does not include structural alterations to enlarge any opening.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GS-14 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Vendor Door Exam: The April 2026 PSI bulletin names GS-6 Door Installation, whereas the March 2022 codified classification is GS-14 Windows, doors and skylights. Neither source explicitly assigns the GS-6 paper to GS-14; that association is undetermined and is not inferred from topic overlap.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — GS 15

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-15 — (10) GS-15. Caissons, piers and pile driving. Requires two years’ experience. Install piers, caissons and pilings through the use of pile driving equipment and machinery, including necessary excavation, grading and clearing for site preparation for pile driving activities; cut, weld, join and fabricate caissons or piles; install all necessary concrete and reinforcing steel within the caissons to create a structural member; soil stabilization and rock-fall mitigation.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GS-15 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — GS 16

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-16 Masonry (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-16 — (11) GS-16. Masonry. Requires two years’ experience. Install or erect brick and other baked clay products, rough cut and dressed stone, artificial stone and pre-cast blocks, structural glass brick or block adobe, laid at random or in courses, with or without mortar, to form masonry walls, anchored stone or masonry veneer, including building walls, freestanding walls six feet or higher from ground level and retaining walls measuring thirty-six inches or more measured from the bottom of the footing; does not include the execution, fabrication and erecting of poured cement and concrete, except as a foundation for a wall. 14.6.6 NMAC 4
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GS-16 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — GS 2

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-2 — (2) GS-2. Awnings and canopies. Requires two years’ experience. Construct, erect and install awnings and canopies, attached to buildings and structures or free standing, including, but not limited to carports and service station canopies, and including necessary excavation and foundation work. All electrical work shall be performed by a properly licensed electrical contractor.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GS-2 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — GS 21

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-21 Roofing (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-21 — (12) GS-21. Roofing. Requires two years of foreman level practical or related trade experience. Install, alter or repair roof systems on new or existing roof decks to create a weatherproof and waterproof protective membrane, with or without insulation, using asphalt, pitch, tar, sealants, felt, shakes, shingles, roof tile, slate, urethane or any other approved materials including the preparatory work necessary to bring a roof deck or an existing roof to a condition where roofing can be installed, and sealed or repaired; includes cutting, shaping, fabricating, and installing of sheet metal such as cornices, flashing, skylights (excluding alterations to structural framing), roof coatings, gutters, leaders, rainwater downspouts, pans, prefabricated chimneys, at or near roof lines, metal flues, or doing any part of any combination thereof, which relate to and are incidental to roofing projects.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years of foreman level practical or related trade experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GS-21 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — GS 23

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-23 — (13) GS-23. Sign construction (non-electrical). Requires two years’ experience. Fabricate on site, install and erect signs of wood, steel, plastic or any material, or any combination of materials, which are to be embedded in the earth, in concrete or other base material, or attached to buildings or structures using anchors, attached cables, bars or similar devices and appurtenances; electrified signs shall only be installed by contractors holding an ES-1 or an EE-98 classification.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GS-23 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — GS 24

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-24 Structural Steel Erection (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-24 — (14) GS-24. Structural steel erection. Requires two years of foreman level practical or related trade experience. Fabricate on site and erect structural steel shapes and plates, of any profile, perimeter or cross-section that may be used as structural members for buildings and structures, including riveting and welding; does not authorize construction of concrete foundations or complete buildings.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years of foreman level practical or related trade experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GS-24 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — GS 25

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-25 Swimming Pools (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-25 — (15) GS-25. Swimming pools (non-plumbing, mechanical or electrical). Requires two years’ experience. Construct and repair swimming pools including excavation, installation of reinforcing steel or mesh, application of concrete and special coatings; shall not perform any scope of work which is authorized by a plumbing, mechanical, electrical or LP Gas classification.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GS-25 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — GS 29

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-29 — (20) GS-29 specialties. Requires up to four years’ experience as determined on a case-by- case basis. The GS-29 classification is a sub-category of the general specialty classifications. It is a miscellaneous classification that is used to identify specific specialties on a case-by-case basis.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: up to four years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GS-29 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — GS 30

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-30 Plastering, Stucco and Lathing (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-30 — (16) GS-30. Plastering, stucco and lathing. Requires two years’ experience. Prepare wall and ceiling surfaces, interior or exterior, with wood, metal lath, wallboard or other properly prepared surfaces which will accept and hold a mixture of sand, plaster (including gypsum plaster), lime and water, or sand and cement with water or any combination of materials to create a permanent surface coating; these coatings may be applied manually or mechanically on surfaces which will support such coating; install steel or wood or other division approved stud systems (non-structural), channel iron work and affix lath or any other materials or products, prepared or manufactured to provide a base for such coatings.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GS-30 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — GS 31

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-31 — (17) GS-31. Siding. Requires two years’ experience. Apply, replace, or repair siding consisting of slate, gypsum, wood, plastics or other products, including the application of furred up networks on which the siding can be installed.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GS-31 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — GS 32

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-32 — (18) GS-32. Miscellaneous sheet metal. Requires two years’ experience. Fabricate on site and install sheet metal (galvanized iron) such as cornices, flashing, gutters, leaders, rainwater downspouts, pans, and prefabricated chimneys; shall not install heating, ventilation & air conditioning (HVAC) duct systems, vents, grease hoods, or other appurtenances that are authorized by mechanical or plumbing classifications.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GS-32 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — GS 34

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-34 — (19) GS-34. Concrete coring, drilling and slab sawing. Requires two years’ experience. Coring, boring, drilling, cutting, and sawing concrete, including the removal or demolition of the material; does not include the installation of electrical wiring or plumbing in such bored, drilled, cut or sawed concrete. (20) GS-29 specialties. Requires up to four years’ experience as determined on a case-by- case basis. The GS-29 classification is a sub-category of the general specialty classifications. It is a miscellaneous classification that is used to identify specific specialties on a case-by-case basis. [14.6.6.9 NMAC - Rp, 14.6.6.9 NMAC, 3/10/2022]
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GS-34 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — GS 4

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-4 Concrete, Cement, Walkways, and Driveways (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-4 — (3) GS-4. Concrete, cement, walkways and driveways. Requires two years’ experience practical trade experience, one year of which must be foreman level. Mix, pour, place, and finish concrete,; includes all necessary preparatory work including excavation, form work, and placing of reinforcement materials; includes the installation on private property of curbs, gutters, sidewalks, and driveway culverts; may not perform this work in public rights-of-way unless subcontracted to a validly licensed GA licensee.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: Two years of practical trade experience, including one year at foreman level.
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GS-4 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — GS 5

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-5 — (4) GS-5. Demolition. Requires two years’ experience. Demolish all or any portion of a buildings and structures authorized by the GB-98 classification, including demolition to portions of buildings and structures allowing additions and alterations to be completed to the remaining portions of the building or structure.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GS-5 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — GS 7

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-7 Drywall Installation and Texture (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-7 — (5) GS-7. Drywall installation and texture. Requires two years’ experience. Installation of gypsum wallboard, and gypsum sheathing; includes taping, bedding and coating the surfaces of the wallboard and sheathing with gypsum joint systems, tape and drywall mud, or a combination of other materials to create a permanent surface or coating and of walls and ceilings; install steel or wood stud systems (non-structural) and channel iron work to provide a base for the application of drywall.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GS-7 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — GS 8

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-8 Earthmoving, Excavation, and Ditching (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-8 — (6) GS-8. Earthmoving, excavating and ditching. Requires two years’ experience. Perform earthwork associated with or incidental to construction projects regulated by CID, using hand or power tools, machines that use air, fluids, or other material under pressure, or heavy equipment, in such a manner that cutting, filling, excavating, grading, trenching, backfilling, boring and any similar excavating activity can be executed; earthmoving, excavating and ditching activities applicable to the preparation and production of agriculture or maintenance of livestock on a farm or ranch are exempt from licensing requirements.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GS-8 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — GS 9

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-9 Elevators, Escalators, Conveyors (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-9 — (7) GS-9. Elevators, escalators, and related machinery (non-electrical). Requires two years’ experience. Erect, install or repair elevators, escalators and related machinery, including sheave beams, sheaves, cable and wire rope, guides, cab, counterweights, doors, including sidewalk elevators, automatic and manual controls, signal systems and all other devices, apparatus, machinery and equipment (including fabrication on job site) essential to the safe and efficient installation and operation of electrical, hydraulic and manually operated elevators and escalators and conveyors designed specifically for the transportation of people.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in GS-9 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — MM 1

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
MM-1 Plumbing (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: MM-1 — (1) MM-1. Plumbing. Requires four years’ experience. Install, alter, repair, service, and maintain plumbing, plumbing fixtures, and piping, includes incidental concrete supports, and excavating, trenching and backfilling; includes hot water heating systems not exceeding 30 p.s.i. or 400,000 b.t.u./hour input; piping for fuel, oil and gasoline; piping and appurtenances for solar thermal energy systems; potable water irrigation sprinkler systems; swimming pools and spas; includes pneumatic or electric controls and control wiring not greater than 24 volts; septic tanks, manholes and sewer lines; does not include installation of natural gas fired appliances or natural gas piping; piping and agricultural sprinkler irrigation system installation and maintenance on farm or ranch property that moves water for livestock use or irrigation purposes from a privately owned well or pipeline, not connected to a public potable water supply are exempt from licensing requirements. When connected to a potable water source all connections must be downstream of an approved back flow prevention device. If a backflow prevention device is required it shall be permitted and installed by a properly certified journeyman employed by an appropriately licensed contractor.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: four years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in MM-1 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — MM 2

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
MM-2 Natural Gas Fitting (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: MM-2 — (2) MM-2. Natural gas fitting. Requires four years’ experience. Install, alter, repair, service and maintain natural gas piping and fittings; install hot water heating systems not exceeding 30 p.s.i. or 400,000 b.t.u./hour input; steam and hot water boilers; may connect water to existing valved outlets; warm air heating systems including chimney connections, flues, refractories, burners, fittings valves, thermal insulation, accessories and incidental piping; warm air appliances and other listed gas appliances; incidental controls and control wiring, pneumatic control systems; includes all required excavating, trenching and backfilling. May not install LP Gas systems.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: four years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in MM-2 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — MM 3

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
MM-3 Heat, Vent and Air Conditioning (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: MM-3 — (3) MM-3. Heating, ventilation & air conditioning (HVAC). Requires four years’ experience. Install, alter, repair, service and maintain HVAC air handling and refrigeration equipment and piping, including fans, coils, condensing units, self-contained packaged air conditioning or heating units, evaporative cooling units, and ductwork and accessories including solar air heating and cooled mechanical air handling and 14.6.6 NMAC 8
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: four years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in MM-3 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — MM 4

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
MM-4 Heat, Cooling, and Process Pipe (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: MM-4 — (4) MM-4. Heating, cooling and process piping. Requires four years’ experience. Install, alter, repair, service and maintain hydronic heating, cooling and process piping, piping and appurtenances for steam and hot water systems of any temperature or pressure range, chilled water systems, condensing water systems and other process piping systems; includes air handling equipment, pressure vessels, heat exchangers, boilers, refrigeration water chillers, cooling towers, fuel oil tanks and fuel oil piping; electric controls and control wiring not to exceed 24 volts; install high pressure and process piping solar thermal energy systems of any temperature or pressure range conveying gas or fluids other than potable water; water based fire protection sprinkler systems, dry chemical fire protection systems.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: four years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in MM-4 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — MM 98

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: MM-98 — (5) MM-98. Mechanical. Requires four years’ experience. Indicates licensure in individual classifications MM-1 through MM-4 and covers all work described in these classifications, as well as work described in the MS-3, MS-6, MS-12 and MS-14. C. Mechanical Specialty classifications:
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: four years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in MM-98 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — MS 12

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
MS-12 Fire Protection Systems (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: MS-12 — (3) MS-12. Fire protection sprinkler systems. Requires four years’ experience. Install alter, repair, service or maintain water-based fire protection systems required pressure or storage tanks, controls and control wiring up to 24 volts; excavate and backfill and install piping from structure to off-site water supply adjacent to fire protection system property; bid or contract for structural alterations, electrical wiring, etc., incidental to the system installation, provided such work is performed by a validly licensed contractor.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: four years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in MS-12 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — MS 14

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
MS-14 Dry Chemical Fire Protection (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: MS-14 — (4) MS-14. Dry chemical fire protection. Requires four years’ experience. Install, alter, repair, or service or maintain gaseous or chemical based fire protection systems including carbon dioxide (CO), or clean agents; pressurized storage tanks, valves, temperature sensing devices, solenoid or safety shut-off devices and other incidental controls and control wiring up to 24 volts; bid or contract for structural alterations, electrical wiring, etc., incidental to the system installation, provided such work is performed by a properly licensed contractor.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: four years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in MS-14 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — MS 3

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
MS-3 Cesspools, Septic Tanks and Sewers (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: MS-3 — (1) MS-3. Septic tanks & sewer. Requires two years’ experience. Install, alter, repair, service or maintain septic tanks and private sewage disposal systems, manholes and sewer lines, beginning at a connection to a public or private utility and ending at a point five feet beyond the outside wall of a building or structured; excavate, trench, backfill and grade as necessary; install or repair incidental plug-in type electrical control panels, controls and control wiring not to exceed 24 volts.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in MS-3 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — MS 6

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
MS-6 Lawn Sprinklers (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: MS-6 — (2) MS-6. Lawn sprinklers. Requires two years’ experience. Install, alter, repair, service or maintain potable water sprinkler systems; excavate, trench, backfill and grade as necessary; backflow prevention devices incidental plug-in type electrical control panels, controls and control wiring not to exceed 24 volts.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: two years’ experience
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in MS-6 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Reinstatement after child support suspension or revocation

No examination is required for this applicant pathway.

Compliance Certificate: Submit the human services department certificate of compliance and pay amounts owed to CID.
Expiry Limit: If more than ninety days have passed since expiration of a revoked license, apply for a new license instead; the one-year revocation wait is waived.
Other Grounds: Reinstatement is unavailable if independent grounds for suspension or revocation remain.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

Contractor’s License Requirements, 14.6.3 NMAC
14.6.3.8(L)(3), child-support reinstatement
Contractor’s License Requirements, 14.6.3 NMAC
14.6.3.8(L)(3)(a), expired revoked license limit

Timely license renewal

No examination is required for this applicant pathway.

Application: Provide a complete notarized renewal, applicable fee, bond continuation or new bond, and current information.
Certificate: Retain qualifying parties in all licensed classifications and obtain their signatures.
Compliance: Maintain legal authority to do business, workers’ compensation compliance, financial responsibility and child-support compliance.
Late Fees: Within the grace period, pay the specified late fees; beyond ninety days the license is canceled and a new application is required.
Time: Renew before expiration.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

NMSA 1978, Chapter 60, Construction Industries Licensing Act and Elevator Safety Act
NMSA 1978 §60-13-18(B)-(C), renewal by application and fees
How to Renew a Contractor License
p.1, renewal submission requirements

Elevator Contractor License

Contractor license to perform work on conveyances under the Elevator Safety Act; qualified mechanics perform the conveyance work.

Licensing authority: New Mexico Regulation and Licensing Department, Construction Industries Division, Elevator Safety Bureau · Application information

Addition of a new qualifying party/classification — EV 98

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
EV-98 Elevators, Escalators, Conveyors (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: EV-98 — EV-98 Elevators, Escalators, Conveyors. Requires four years of experience.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: four years of experience
Experience Alternatives: Four years (8,000 hours), or completion of NAEC CETT or the IUEC program with a mechanic’s card; those program credentials waive the experience affidavit, not the EV98 exam.
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in EV-98 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Initial contractor licensure with a newly certified qualifying party — EV 98

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
EV-98 Elevators, Escalators, Conveyors (practice unavailable)

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: EV-98 — EV-98 Elevators, Escalators, Conveyors. Requires four years of experience.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Experience: four years of experience
Experience Alternatives: Four years (8,000 hours), or completion of NAEC CETT or the IUEC program with a mechanic’s card; those program credentials waive the experience affidavit, not the EV98 exam.
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Qualifying Party: This route certifies a new qualifying party in EV-98 and submits the passing scores/course certificate for first certificate issuance with the contractor application or status change.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Elevator contractor licensure with an existing EV98 qualifying party

No examination is required for this applicant pathway.

Application: Submit the complete signed and notarized application, fees and supporting documents to PSI.
Conduct: Disqualifying convictions, unresolved disciplinary matters, unlicensed activity and child-support noncompliance may prevent approval.
Entity Registration: Be legally authorized to do business in New Mexico; corporations, LLCs and partnerships submit Secretary of State registration as applicable.
Financial Responsibility: Maintain a $10,000 code bond covering the full license term.
Name: Obtain approval of the proposed name; it must not imply an unauthorized trade.
Ownership Age: The majority of the business may not be owned by an individual aged seventeen or younger.
Qualifying Party: Employ or be owned by a CID-certified qualifying party in every requested classification. This route uses an already issued, eligible certificate rather than first-issuance examination scores.
Scope: Conveyance installation, alteration, servicing, repair, testing, erection, maintenance, removal or dismantling; work performed by appropriately certified mechanics or supervised apprentices.
Tax Registration: Submit current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue registration in the applicant’s exact name.
Workers Compensation: Comply with workers’ compensation requirements. The May 2025 contractor application states that a sole proprietor without employees may be exempt.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

NMSA 1978, Chapter 60, Construction Industries Licensing Act and Elevator Safety Act
NMSA 1978 §60-13B-6(A), elevator contractor licensure
CID Contractor License Application Instructions
p.1, existing licensed qualifying party and certification instructions
EV98 Qualifying Party Certificate Application Instructions
p.1, each elevator license needs a qualifying party

Elevator contractor license renewal

No examination is required for this applicant pathway.

Application: Provide a complete notarized renewal, applicable fee, bond continuation or new bond, and current information.
Certificate: Retain qualifying parties in all licensed classifications and obtain their signatures.
Compliance: Maintain legal authority to do business, workers’ compensation compliance, financial responsibility and child-support compliance.
Late Fees: Within the grace period, pay the specified late fees; beyond ninety days the license is canceled and a new application is required.
Time: Current PSI instructions use a three-year cycle; renewal is due by expiration and late renewal is allowed within ninety days.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

NMSA 1978, Chapter 60, Construction Industries Licensing Act and Elevator Safety Act
NMSA 1978 §60-13B-7(A), contractor license validity
NMSA 1978, Chapter 60, Construction Industries Licensing Act and Elevator Safety Act
NMSA 1978 §60-13-18(B)-(C), renewal by application and fees
How to Renew a Contractor License
p.1, renewal submission requirements

Certificate of Qualification

Individual qualifying-party certification for specified contractor classifications; the entity must hold its own contractor license.

Licensing authority: New Mexico Regulation and Licensing Department, Construction Industries Division · Application information

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — EE 98

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
EE-98 Residential and Commercial Electrical (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: EE-98 — (a) EE-98. Residential, and commercial and industrial electrical wiring 5000 volts, nominal or less. Requires four years’ experience. Includes all electrical systems and wiring methods operating at 5000 volts, nominal, or less; electrical systems and wiring methods identified in electrical specialty classifications ES-1, ES-2, ES-3 and ES-7 ES-10R, or ES-10 residential electrical systems and wiring methods identified in classification ER-1; trenching and ductwork associated with classification EL-1; associated excavating, trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting for all electrical systems and wiring methods of 5000 volts, nominal or less. Does not include electrical wiring defined in the EL-1 classification other than trenching and duct work as specified above.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: four years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Nascla Waiver: May 2025 QP instructions: waiver for GB98 and EE98 only; use NASCLA scores to obtain another-jurisdiction license, hold that license at least one year, release the NASCLA transcript, and receive CID approval. The waiver removes only the trade test; experience and business-law requirements remain.
Nationwide Accredited Exam: The state accepts the electrical NASCLA accredited examination for a discretionary trade-examination waiver under 14.6.3.8(G)(2)(f). No corresponding nationwide version was supplied in sharedExamContext or knownRegistrations; this accepted examination is retained as an applicant condition pending nationwide registration.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — EL 1

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
EL-1 Electrical Distribution Systems, including Transmission Lines (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: EL-1 — (c) EL-1. Electrical distribution and transmission systems over 5000 volts, nominal. Requires four years’ experience. Includes all electrical systems and wiring methods operating at over 5000 volts, nominal; overhead or underground electrical distribution and transmission circuits, equipment,; associated towers, tower foundations and other supporting structures; associated excavating, trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting and ductwork; sub-stations and terminal facilities. Does not include any electrical wiring specified or other electrical classifications EE-98, ER-1, ES-1, ES-2, ES-3, ES-7, ES-10R or ES-10. (2) Electrical Specialty licenses.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: four years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — ER 1

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
ER-1 Residential Electrical Wiring (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: ER-1 — (b) ER-1. Residential electrical wiring 5000 volts, nominal or less. Requires two years’ experience. Includes electrical systems and wiring methods of 5000 volts, nominal or less at residential one and two-family dwelling units; multi-family dwellings when all such units are all on the ground floor with no occupancies above or below, as set forth in 14.10.4 NMAC. Does not include wiring for commercial use, such as motels, hotels and similar occupancies. May not contract for more than four dwelling units in any single building or structure.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — ES 1

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
ES-1 Electrical Signs and Outline Lighting (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: ES-1 — (a) ES-1. Electrical signs and outline lighting. Requires two years’ experience. Installation at commercial locations only. Outline lighting is an arrangement of LED, incandescent lamps, or gaseous tubes to outline and call attention to certain features such as the shape of a building or the decoration of a window and may or may not contribute to the general illumination of an area. Includes commercial electrical wiring methods of 5000 volts, nominal or less required to complete the installation of the sign or outline lighting where a “sign circuit” or outline lighting circuit has been provided within 10 feet of the roof or wall of the structure supporting the sign or outline lighting; concrete for the foundation of poles; build structures for the support of such signs associated excavating, trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting; installation of underground electrical wiring methods of 5000 volts, nominal or less required to complete the installation of the “sign circuit” not to exceed 10 feet from the foundation of the sign. 14.6.6 NMAC 6
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — ES 10

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
ES-10 Water Well Pump Installer (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: ES-10 — (f) ES-10. Water well pump installer. Requires two years’ experience. Commercial water well pumps, 600 volts or less, single or three phase. Includes the installation, maintenance, repairing or replacing electrical equipment, wiring, and accessories directly associated with water well pump systems; variable frequency drives; subpanels, luminaires, and receptacle outlets installed within the well pit or well enclosure; branch circuit or feeder conductors from the service equipment or panel board to the well pump location; incidental excavation and trenching; solar photo-voltaic arrays 5 kW or less when dedicated to pumping equipment. Does not include systems over 600 volts, electrical services, building wiring or any other electrical wiring.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — ES 10R

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
ES-10R Residential Water Well Pump Installer (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: ES-10R — (e) ES-10R. Residential water well pump installer. Requires two years’ experience. Residential water well pumps, 120/240 volts or less, single phase 15 HP or less. Includes the installation, maintenance, repairing or replacement of electrical equipment, wiring, and accessories directly associated with water well pump systems; single phase variable frequency drives; subpanels, luminaires, and receptacle outlets installed within the well pit or well enclosure; branch circuit or feeder conductors from the service equipment or panel board to the well pump location; incidental excavation, trenching; solar photo-voltaic arrays 5 kW or less when dedicated to pumping equipment; does not include electrical systems over 240 volts, pumps over 15 HP, electrical services, building wiring or any other electrical wiring.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — ES 2

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
ES-2 Cathodic Protection and Lightning Protection (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: ES-2 — (b) ES-2. Cathodic protection and lightening protection systems. Requires two years’ experience. Includes interior and exterior cathodic protection and lightening protection systems at commercial and residential locations; electrical wiring methods of 5000 volts, nominal or less required to complete a cathodic grounding protection system only; electrical wiring methods of 5000 volts, nominal or less required to complete a lightening protection system only. May not install the service riser, main service or service grounding.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — ES 3

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
ES-3 Low Voltage Special Systems (under 50 Volts) (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: ES-3 — (c) ES-3. Low voltage special systems (under 50 volts). Requires two years’ experience. Interior and exterior special systems, cabling and interconnections at commercial and residential locations, privately and publically owned operating at 50 volts or less; includes telecommunications systems; fire alarm systems, CATV systems; audio and visual systems; security systems; door and gate operated control circuits; temperature control circuits, other low voltage specialty systems operating at 50 volts or less; low voltage special systems cables installed in plenum or non-plenum rated walls or ceilings; low voltage special systems cables in existing raceways installed by others as defined at Paragraph (2) of Subsection A of 14.6.6.10 NMAC; direct burial low voltage special systems cables; overhead low voltage special systems cabling to structures; terminations and splicing of low voltage special system conductors; associated excavating, trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting; installation of underground electrical wiring methods required to complete any of the special systems listed above. An installer of television receive-only (TVROs) (dishes) is not required to have a contractor’s license when the installation is in a single-family dwelling and does not require the use of 120 volts for tracking. Does not include interior or exterior wiring of circuits operating above 50 volts which requires an EE-98 or ER-1 classification.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — ES 7

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
ES-7 Telephone Communication Systems and Telephone Interconnect Systems (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: ES-7 — (d) ES-7. Telephone communication systems. Requires two years’ experience. Interior and exterior telecommunications cabling and interconnections at commercial and residential locations, in publicly or privately owned buildings; includes telecommunication cables installed in plenum or non-plenum rated walls or ceilings; telecommunication cables in existing raceways installed by others as defined at Paragraph (2) of Subsection A of 14.6.6.10 NMAC; direct burial telecommunication cables; overhead telecommunication cabling to structures; terminations and splicing of communication conductors; associated excavating trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting, installation of underground electrical wiring methods required to complete the installation of telecommunications systems; terminal facilities; installation of integrated services digital network cross connect equipment; installation of VoIP switching technology equipment, repeaters, including the installation of instruments at their terminating locations. Does not include Interior or exterior wiring of circuits operating above 50 volts which requires an EE-98 classification.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — EV 98

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
EV-98 Elevators, Escalators, Conveyors (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: EV-98 — EV-98 Elevators, Escalators, Conveyors. Requires four years of experience.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: four years of experience
Experience Alternatives: Four years (8,000 hours), or completion of NAEC CETT or the IUEC program with a mechanic’s card; those program credentials waive the experience affidavit, not the EV98 exam.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — GA 1

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GA-1 Streets, Roads, and Highways (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: GA-1 — (1) GA-1. Streets, roads and highways, including tunnels, parking lots, alleys, seal coat and surfacing. Requires two years’ experience. Clear, align, fill, compress, compact, build up or remove earth and do all work necessary to prepare, within the assigned rights-of-way, the land to accept a streets, roads, highways including culverts and tunnels, and alleys; includes parking lots, sidewalks or driveways; place and finish concrete or bituminous materials and apply sealcoat. This classification includes the scopes of work authorized by GA-2 and GA-3.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — GA 2

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GA-2 Maintenance and Repair (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: GA-2 — (2) GA-2. Maintenance and repair. Requires two years’ experience. Fix, maintain, repair, patch, mend, cover, fill or replace with materials of like substances to that currently existing on streets, roads, highways, parking lots, driveways, sidewalks and alleys; apply seal coat to driveways and parking lots. Install rumble strips.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — GA 3

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GA-3 Curbs, Gutters, and Culverts (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: GA-3 — (3) GA-3. Curbs, gutters and driveway culverts. Requires two years’ experience. Form, place and finish concrete curbs, gutters, driveway culverts, public sidewalks and bituminous ridge curbs for the deflection of water.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — GA 4

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GA-4 Striping (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: GA-4 — (4) GA-4. Striping. Requires two years’ experience. Paint directional stripes on paved roads, streets, highways, alleys and parking lots; install auto parking bumpers or stops and highway lane markers/reflectors.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — GA 5

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GA-5 Highway Signs and Guard Rails (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: GA-5 — (5) GA-5. Highway signs and guard rails. Requires two years’ experience. Erect and stabilize signs and guard rails along public highways, streets, roads and alleys, which are used for the direction and safety of vehicular traffic. Electrical signs must be installed by a properly licensed electrical contractor.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — GA 98

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: GA-98 — (6) GA-98. Asphalt, bitumen and concrete construction. Indicates licensure in classifications GA-1 through GA-5; and covers all work authorized in those classifications. B. Residential and commercial building.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: Four years under the May 2025 QP application for GA-98
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — GB 2

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GB-2 Residential Building Contractor Part 1 Examination (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: GB-2 — (1) GB-2. Residential. Requires two years’ of foreman level practical or related trade experience. Erect, alter, repair or demolish residences and apartment houses accommodating not more than four family units, Groups R-1, R-2 and R-3, as those groups are defined in 14.7.2 NMAC; items included in Group U, as defined in 14.7.2 NMAC, when incidental to these structures; includes all work described by the GS specialty classifications, provided the work is limited to residential construction as defined under this provision.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ of foreman level practical or related trade experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — GB 98

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GB-98 General Building Contractor Examination (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: GB-98 — (2) GB-98. General building. Requires four years of foreman level practical or related trade experience of which at two years must be commercial experience. Erect, alter, repair or demolish residential and commercial buildings, and certain structures; includes all work authorized by the GB-2, GF-5, GF-7 and GS classifications; seal coating and striping of driveways and parking lots; excludes those structures covered by the EE, MM, GA or GF classifications. C. Fixed works. Construct, alter or repair fixed or public works facilities; provided, however, that work in any trade or craft that is authorized by any one, or a combination of, the mechanical, electrical, or general building or LP Gas classifications must be performed by an entity validly licensed in the appropriate classification. Except as may be expressly provided in a specific classification description, fixed works licensees may not construct buildings that are primarily for the use and occupancy of the general public, but may bid and contract for such buildings when they are incidental to a fixed works project; however, such work must be subcontracted pursuant to Subsection B of 14.6.6.8 NMAC, above. Incidental storage buildings used exclusively for storage and not for occupancy are allowed within these classifications. 14.6.6 NMAC 2
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: Four years of foreman-level practical or related trade experience, including two years of commercial experience.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Nascla Waiver: May 2025 QP instructions: waiver for GB98 and EE98 only; use NASCLA scores to obtain another-jurisdiction license, hold that license at least one year, release the NASCLA transcript, and receive CID approval. The waiver removes only the trade test; experience and business-law requirements remain.
Nationwide Accredited Exam: The state accepts the general construction NASCLA accredited examination for a discretionary trade-examination waiver under 14.6.3.8(G)(2)(f). No corresponding nationwide version was supplied in sharedExamContext or knownRegistrations; this accepted examination is retained as an applicant condition pending nationwide registration.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — GF 1

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-1 Airports (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: GF-1 — (1) GF-1. Airports. Requires two years’ experience. Construct, alter and repair airports, including excavating, grading, compacting, sub-surfacing, surfacing (dirt or bitumen and concrete), marking and other work on surfaces to be used for aircraft traffic, landing, take-off and taxi.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — GF 2

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-2 Bridges (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: GF-2 — (2) GF-2. Bridges. Requires two years’ experience. Erect, construct, alter, repair or demolish any bridge, overpass or underpass, culvert or ramp, generally used for vehicular traffic.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — GF 3

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-3 Canals, Reservoirs, or Irrigation Systems (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: GF-3 — (3) GF-3. Canals, reservoirs, dams and irrigation systems. Requires two years’ experience. Construct, erect, alter, repair, or demolish canals, dams, reservoirs irrigation systems; excavate, ditch, fill, compact and place pre-cast components, waterproof membranes and liners, concrete reinforcement, abutments and buttresses in connection therewith; install tanks, pumps, pipelines and substations incidental to the project; irrigation activities and piping when applicable solely to the production of agriculture or maintenance of livestock on a farm or ranch, excluding electrical work, are exempt from licensing requirements.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — GF 4

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-4 Drainage or Flood Control Systems (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: GF-4 — (4) GF-4. Drainage or flood control systems. Requires two years’ experience. Construct, erect, install, repair and alter drainage or flood control systems; dig, excavate, fill, prepare embankments for such purposes, place pre-cast components, concrete reinforcement and perform all other work incidental to these projects.; install storm sewers, including trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting, and paving.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — GF 5

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-5 Recreation Areas (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: GF-5 — (5) GF-5. Recreation areas. Requires two years’ experience. Construct, prepare, clear, repair or alter facilities for use as recreation areas, including but not limited to golf courses, driving ranges, water parks, tennis courts, playgrounds, outdoor athletic facilities, miniature golf courses, pitch-and-putt golf courses; prepare the area by excavation, fill, including foundations, retaining walls, sprinkler systems, rest benches, shade and rain shelters and foot bridges relative to recreation areas; public campgrounds and parks or similar facilities, including toilet facilities and lean-tos.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — GF 6

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-6 Railroad and Tunnel Construction (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: GF-6 — (6) GF-6. Railroad and tunnel construction. Requires two years’ experience. Construct railroad lines, including clearing, filling, shaping, compacting, placing rip-rap, stabilizing, setting roadbeds, ties, tie plates, rails, rail connectors, frogs, switch plates, switches, and all appurtenances necessary for an operational railroad line, including bridges, culverts, tunnels, retaining walls, dikes, gates, tool sheds and landing or parking platforms for equipment. Includes welding operations necessary for rail construction.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — GF 7

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-7 Tanks and Towers (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: GF-7 — (7) GF-7. Tanks and towers. Requires two years’ experience. Construct or fabricate on site and install tanks for the storage of solids or liquids, above or below ground, and towers such as radio, television and telecommunications towers, including all necessary site-work, excavation and construction of concrete tanks, pads and foundations, cutting, welding, placement of structural members, engineered structural support systems for elevated tanks, and engineered or prefabricated towers; includes the repair and placement of liners in tanks, and incidental storage buildings.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — GF 8

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-8 Transmission Lines, Tanks, and Substations (Non- Electrical) (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: GF-8 — (8) GF-8. Transmission lines, tanks and substations (non-electrical). Requires two years’ experience. Build, construct and place lines for the transmission or conveyance of natural gas or petroleum, water and other fluid substances, including the application of protective coatings, trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting, paving and surfacing necessary and incidental to the completion of the installation of such facilities. Includes incidental buildings, tanks, and substations required for the project; construct, alter or repair industrial plants, including, but not limited to, refineries and power generation plants.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — GF 9

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-9 Utility Lines (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: GF-9 — (9) GF-9. Utility lines and systems (sewage, water, natural gas and underground telephone cables). Requires two years’ experience. Construct, install, alter or repair utility lines and utility systems for the transmission of sewage, natural gas and water, including excavating, grading, trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting, paving and surfacing; includes tanks, pumps, lift-stations and substations incidental to the project; construct, alter, or repair treatment plants and facilities incidental thereto; install direct burial communications cable by trenching, direct plowing or pulling direct burial cable through existing raceways and install vaults as directed by the telecommunications utility; associated excavating, trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting, paving and surfacing. Shall not perform installation of electrical raceways including directional boring or pipe jacking methods, splicing, termination, installation of load pots, installation of integrated services digital network cross connect equipment, installation of VoIP switching technology equipment, overhead cabling work, or other activities considered under the scope of the ES-7, EL-1, ES-3 or EE-98 electrical classifications.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — GF 98

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: GF-98 — (10) GF-98. Construct, alter or repair fixed works facilities. Requires four years’ experience; indicates licensure in classifications GF-1 through GF-9 and authorizes all work described in these classifications. D. General Specialty classifications. General construction includes numerous specialties. Therefore, CID has established the GS classification series to enable entities that perform this kind of work to be 14.6.6 NMAC 3
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: four years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — GS 1

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: GS-1 — (1) GS-1. Acoustical insulation and insulation. Requires two years’ experience. Install any insulating material, including urethane foam and approved waterproof membranes and coatings, in or on buildings, structures and on piping for the purpose of energy conservation, temperature and sound control, and fireproofing. Does not include the installation of urethane roof systems.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — GS 13

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-13 Framing (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: GS-13 — (8) GS-13. Framing. Requires two years of foreman level practical or related trade experience; cut, join, install wood, metal or other products approved by the division and utilized for the framing of a structure or building, including bearing and non-bearing walls, rafters, headers, trusses, joists, studs, door and window rough frames, and roof decks, including repair to any of the above.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years of foreman level practical or related trade experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — GS 14

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: GS-14 — (9) GS-14. Windows, doors and skylights. Requires two years’ experience. Fabricate and install windows and doors in buildings and structures, including the necessary installation of window, door and skylight framing, and the installation of necessary hardware; cut, assemble and install glass work, and execute the glazing of frames, panels, sash and doors; fabricate and install storm doors, windows, and skylights including flashing; does not include structural alterations to enlarge any opening.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Vendor Door Exam: The April 2026 PSI bulletin names GS-6 Door Installation, whereas the March 2022 codified classification is GS-14 Windows, doors and skylights. Neither source explicitly assigns the GS-6 paper to GS-14; that association is undetermined and is not inferred from topic overlap.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — GS 15

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: GS-15 — (10) GS-15. Caissons, piers and pile driving. Requires two years’ experience. Install piers, caissons and pilings through the use of pile driving equipment and machinery, including necessary excavation, grading and clearing for site preparation for pile driving activities; cut, weld, join and fabricate caissons or piles; install all necessary concrete and reinforcing steel within the caissons to create a structural member; soil stabilization and rock-fall mitigation.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — GS 16

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-16 Masonry (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: GS-16 — (11) GS-16. Masonry. Requires two years’ experience. Install or erect brick and other baked clay products, rough cut and dressed stone, artificial stone and pre-cast blocks, structural glass brick or block adobe, laid at random or in courses, with or without mortar, to form masonry walls, anchored stone or masonry veneer, including building walls, freestanding walls six feet or higher from ground level and retaining walls measuring thirty-six inches or more measured from the bottom of the footing; does not include the execution, fabrication and erecting of poured cement and concrete, except as a foundation for a wall. 14.6.6 NMAC 4
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — GS 2

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: GS-2 — (2) GS-2. Awnings and canopies. Requires two years’ experience. Construct, erect and install awnings and canopies, attached to buildings and structures or free standing, including, but not limited to carports and service station canopies, and including necessary excavation and foundation work. All electrical work shall be performed by a properly licensed electrical contractor.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — GS 21

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-21 Roofing (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: GS-21 — (12) GS-21. Roofing. Requires two years of foreman level practical or related trade experience. Install, alter or repair roof systems on new or existing roof decks to create a weatherproof and waterproof protective membrane, with or without insulation, using asphalt, pitch, tar, sealants, felt, shakes, shingles, roof tile, slate, urethane or any other approved materials including the preparatory work necessary to bring a roof deck or an existing roof to a condition where roofing can be installed, and sealed or repaired; includes cutting, shaping, fabricating, and installing of sheet metal such as cornices, flashing, skylights (excluding alterations to structural framing), roof coatings, gutters, leaders, rainwater downspouts, pans, prefabricated chimneys, at or near roof lines, metal flues, or doing any part of any combination thereof, which relate to and are incidental to roofing projects.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years of foreman level practical or related trade experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — GS 23

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: GS-23 — (13) GS-23. Sign construction (non-electrical). Requires two years’ experience. Fabricate on site, install and erect signs of wood, steel, plastic or any material, or any combination of materials, which are to be embedded in the earth, in concrete or other base material, or attached to buildings or structures using anchors, attached cables, bars or similar devices and appurtenances; electrified signs shall only be installed by contractors holding an ES-1 or an EE-98 classification.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — GS 24

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-24 Structural Steel Erection (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: GS-24 — (14) GS-24. Structural steel erection. Requires two years of foreman level practical or related trade experience. Fabricate on site and erect structural steel shapes and plates, of any profile, perimeter or cross-section that may be used as structural members for buildings and structures, including riveting and welding; does not authorize construction of concrete foundations or complete buildings.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years of foreman level practical or related trade experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — GS 25

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-25 Swimming Pools (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: GS-25 — (15) GS-25. Swimming pools (non-plumbing, mechanical or electrical). Requires two years’ experience. Construct and repair swimming pools including excavation, installation of reinforcing steel or mesh, application of concrete and special coatings; shall not perform any scope of work which is authorized by a plumbing, mechanical, electrical or LP Gas classification.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — GS 29

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: GS-29 — (20) GS-29 specialties. Requires up to four years’ experience as determined on a case-by- case basis. The GS-29 classification is a sub-category of the general specialty classifications. It is a miscellaneous classification that is used to identify specific specialties on a case-by-case basis.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: up to four years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — GS 30

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-30 Plastering, Stucco and Lathing (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: GS-30 — (16) GS-30. Plastering, stucco and lathing. Requires two years’ experience. Prepare wall and ceiling surfaces, interior or exterior, with wood, metal lath, wallboard or other properly prepared surfaces which will accept and hold a mixture of sand, plaster (including gypsum plaster), lime and water, or sand and cement with water or any combination of materials to create a permanent surface coating; these coatings may be applied manually or mechanically on surfaces which will support such coating; install steel or wood or other division approved stud systems (non-structural), channel iron work and affix lath or any other materials or products, prepared or manufactured to provide a base for such coatings.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — GS 31

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: GS-31 — (17) GS-31. Siding. Requires two years’ experience. Apply, replace, or repair siding consisting of slate, gypsum, wood, plastics or other products, including the application of furred up networks on which the siding can be installed.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — GS 32

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: GS-32 — (18) GS-32. Miscellaneous sheet metal. Requires two years’ experience. Fabricate on site and install sheet metal (galvanized iron) such as cornices, flashing, gutters, leaders, rainwater downspouts, pans, and prefabricated chimneys; shall not install heating, ventilation & air conditioning (HVAC) duct systems, vents, grease hoods, or other appurtenances that are authorized by mechanical or plumbing classifications.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — GS 34

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: GS-34 — (19) GS-34. Concrete coring, drilling and slab sawing. Requires two years’ experience. Coring, boring, drilling, cutting, and sawing concrete, including the removal or demolition of the material; does not include the installation of electrical wiring or plumbing in such bored, drilled, cut or sawed concrete. (20) GS-29 specialties. Requires up to four years’ experience as determined on a case-by- case basis. The GS-29 classification is a sub-category of the general specialty classifications. It is a miscellaneous classification that is used to identify specific specialties on a case-by-case basis. [14.6.6.9 NMAC - Rp, 14.6.6.9 NMAC, 3/10/2022]
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — GS 4

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-4 Concrete, Cement, Walkways, and Driveways (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: GS-4 — (3) GS-4. Concrete, cement, walkways and driveways. Requires two years’ experience practical trade experience, one year of which must be foreman level. Mix, pour, place, and finish concrete,; includes all necessary preparatory work including excavation, form work, and placing of reinforcement materials; includes the installation on private property of curbs, gutters, sidewalks, and driveway culverts; may not perform this work in public rights-of-way unless subcontracted to a validly licensed GA licensee.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: Two years of practical trade experience, including one year at foreman level.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — GS 5

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: GS-5 — (4) GS-5. Demolition. Requires two years’ experience. Demolish all or any portion of a buildings and structures authorized by the GB-98 classification, including demolition to portions of buildings and structures allowing additions and alterations to be completed to the remaining portions of the building or structure.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — GS 7

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-7 Drywall Installation and Texture (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: GS-7 — (5) GS-7. Drywall installation and texture. Requires two years’ experience. Installation of gypsum wallboard, and gypsum sheathing; includes taping, bedding and coating the surfaces of the wallboard and sheathing with gypsum joint systems, tape and drywall mud, or a combination of other materials to create a permanent surface or coating and of walls and ceilings; install steel or wood stud systems (non-structural) and channel iron work to provide a base for the application of drywall.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — GS 8

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-8 Earthmoving, Excavation, and Ditching (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: GS-8 — (6) GS-8. Earthmoving, excavating and ditching. Requires two years’ experience. Perform earthwork associated with or incidental to construction projects regulated by CID, using hand or power tools, machines that use air, fluids, or other material under pressure, or heavy equipment, in such a manner that cutting, filling, excavating, grading, trenching, backfilling, boring and any similar excavating activity can be executed; earthmoving, excavating and ditching activities applicable to the preparation and production of agriculture or maintenance of livestock on a farm or ranch are exempt from licensing requirements.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — GS 9

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-9 Elevators, Escalators, Conveyors (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: GS-9 — (7) GS-9. Elevators, escalators, and related machinery (non-electrical). Requires two years’ experience. Erect, install or repair elevators, escalators and related machinery, including sheave beams, sheaves, cable and wire rope, guides, cab, counterweights, doors, including sidewalk elevators, automatic and manual controls, signal systems and all other devices, apparatus, machinery and equipment (including fabrication on job site) essential to the safe and efficient installation and operation of electrical, hydraulic and manually operated elevators and escalators and conveyors designed specifically for the transportation of people.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — MM 1

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
MM-1 Plumbing (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: MM-1 — (1) MM-1. Plumbing. Requires four years’ experience. Install, alter, repair, service, and maintain plumbing, plumbing fixtures, and piping, includes incidental concrete supports, and excavating, trenching and backfilling; includes hot water heating systems not exceeding 30 p.s.i. or 400,000 b.t.u./hour input; piping for fuel, oil and gasoline; piping and appurtenances for solar thermal energy systems; potable water irrigation sprinkler systems; swimming pools and spas; includes pneumatic or electric controls and control wiring not greater than 24 volts; septic tanks, manholes and sewer lines; does not include installation of natural gas fired appliances or natural gas piping; piping and agricultural sprinkler irrigation system installation and maintenance on farm or ranch property that moves water for livestock use or irrigation purposes from a privately owned well or pipeline, not connected to a public potable water supply are exempt from licensing requirements. When connected to a potable water source all connections must be downstream of an approved back flow prevention device. If a backflow prevention device is required it shall be permitted and installed by a properly certified journeyman employed by an appropriately licensed contractor.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: four years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — MM 2

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
MM-2 Natural Gas Fitting (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: MM-2 — (2) MM-2. Natural gas fitting. Requires four years’ experience. Install, alter, repair, service and maintain natural gas piping and fittings; install hot water heating systems not exceeding 30 p.s.i. or 400,000 b.t.u./hour input; steam and hot water boilers; may connect water to existing valved outlets; warm air heating systems including chimney connections, flues, refractories, burners, fittings valves, thermal insulation, accessories and incidental piping; warm air appliances and other listed gas appliances; incidental controls and control wiring, pneumatic control systems; includes all required excavating, trenching and backfilling. May not install LP Gas systems.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: four years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — MM 3

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
MM-3 Heat, Vent and Air Conditioning (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: MM-3 — (3) MM-3. Heating, ventilation & air conditioning (HVAC). Requires four years’ experience. Install, alter, repair, service and maintain HVAC air handling and refrigeration equipment and piping, including fans, coils, condensing units, self-contained packaged air conditioning or heating units, evaporative cooling units, and ductwork and accessories including solar air heating and cooled mechanical air handling and 14.6.6 NMAC 8
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: four years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — MM 4

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
MM-4 Heat, Cooling, and Process Pipe (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: MM-4 — (4) MM-4. Heating, cooling and process piping. Requires four years’ experience. Install, alter, repair, service and maintain hydronic heating, cooling and process piping, piping and appurtenances for steam and hot water systems of any temperature or pressure range, chilled water systems, condensing water systems and other process piping systems; includes air handling equipment, pressure vessels, heat exchangers, boilers, refrigeration water chillers, cooling towers, fuel oil tanks and fuel oil piping; electric controls and control wiring not to exceed 24 volts; install high pressure and process piping solar thermal energy systems of any temperature or pressure range conveying gas or fluids other than potable water; water based fire protection sprinkler systems, dry chemical fire protection systems.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: four years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — MM 98

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: MM-98 — (5) MM-98. Mechanical. Requires four years’ experience. Indicates licensure in individual classifications MM-1 through MM-4 and covers all work described in these classifications, as well as work described in the MS-3, MS-6, MS-12 and MS-14. C. Mechanical Specialty classifications:
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: four years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — MS 12

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
MS-12 Fire Protection Systems (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: MS-12 — (3) MS-12. Fire protection sprinkler systems. Requires four years’ experience. Install alter, repair, service or maintain water-based fire protection systems required pressure or storage tanks, controls and control wiring up to 24 volts; excavate and backfill and install piping from structure to off-site water supply adjacent to fire protection system property; bid or contract for structural alterations, electrical wiring, etc., incidental to the system installation, provided such work is performed by a validly licensed contractor.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: four years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — MS 14

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
MS-14 Dry Chemical Fire Protection (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: MS-14 — (4) MS-14. Dry chemical fire protection. Requires four years’ experience. Install, alter, repair, or service or maintain gaseous or chemical based fire protection systems including carbon dioxide (CO), or clean agents; pressurized storage tanks, valves, temperature sensing devices, solenoid or safety shut-off devices and other incidental controls and control wiring up to 24 volts; bid or contract for structural alterations, electrical wiring, etc., incidental to the system installation, provided such work is performed by a properly licensed contractor.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: four years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — MS 3

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
MS-3 Cesspools, Septic Tanks and Sewers (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: MS-3 — (1) MS-3. Septic tanks & sewer. Requires two years’ experience. Install, alter, repair, service or maintain septic tanks and private sewage disposal systems, manholes and sewer lines, beginning at a connection to a public or private utility and ending at a point five feet beyond the outside wall of a building or structured; excavate, trench, backfill and grade as necessary; install or repair incidental plug-in type electrical control panels, controls and control wiring not to exceed 24 volts.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Additional classification for an active qualifying party — MS 6

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
MS-6 Lawn Sprinklers (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Business Law Implementation: PSI Contractor Licensing FAQ question 7 states: "Business & Law exam is not required for active QPs." This removes a new sitting for that applicant; the statutory examination remains a leaf and the existing qualification/course is an applicant condition.
Classification: MS-6 — (2) MS-6. Lawn sprinklers. Requires two years’ experience. Install, alter, repair, service or maintain potable water sprinkler systems; excavate, trench, backfill and grade as necessary; backflow prevention devices incidental plug-in type electrical control panels, controls and control wiring not to exceed 24 volts.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Current Certificate: Applicant is already an active QP and seeks a new classification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Reinstatement of a suspended or revoked qualifying party certificate

No examination is required for this applicant pathway.

Approval: CID/commission must approve restoration; further payment default may result in additional discipline.
Eligibility: Remain eligible under all other provisions. This route restores an existing eligible record; a new certificate application or retest after expiration follows the separate recertification route.
Penalties: Pay assessed fees and administrative penalties, or obtain a commission-approved payment plan with good-faith payments.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

Contractor’s License Requirements, 14.6.3 NMAC
14.6.3.9(A)-(C), administrative-penalty reinstatement

Initial qualifying party certification — EE 98

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
EE-98 Residential and Commercial Electrical (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: EE-98 — (a) EE-98. Residential, and commercial and industrial electrical wiring 5000 volts, nominal or less. Requires four years’ experience. Includes all electrical systems and wiring methods operating at 5000 volts, nominal, or less; electrical systems and wiring methods identified in electrical specialty classifications ES-1, ES-2, ES-3 and ES-7 ES-10R, or ES-10 residential electrical systems and wiring methods identified in classification ER-1; trenching and ductwork associated with classification EL-1; associated excavating, trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting for all electrical systems and wiring methods of 5000 volts, nominal or less. Does not include electrical wiring defined in the EL-1 classification other than trenching and duct work as specified above.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: four years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Nascla Waiver: May 2025 QP instructions: waiver for GB98 and EE98 only; use NASCLA scores to obtain another-jurisdiction license, hold that license at least one year, release the NASCLA transcript, and receive CID approval. The waiver removes only the trade test; experience and business-law requirements remain.
Nationwide Accredited Exam: The state accepts the electrical NASCLA accredited examination for a discretionary trade-examination waiver under 14.6.3.8(G)(2)(f). No corresponding nationwide version was supplied in sharedExamContext or knownRegistrations; this accepted examination is retained as an applicant condition pending nationwide registration.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — EL 1

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
EL-1 Electrical Distribution Systems, including Transmission Lines (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: EL-1 — (c) EL-1. Electrical distribution and transmission systems over 5000 volts, nominal. Requires four years’ experience. Includes all electrical systems and wiring methods operating at over 5000 volts, nominal; overhead or underground electrical distribution and transmission circuits, equipment,; associated towers, tower foundations and other supporting structures; associated excavating, trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting and ductwork; sub-stations and terminal facilities. Does not include any electrical wiring specified or other electrical classifications EE-98, ER-1, ES-1, ES-2, ES-3, ES-7, ES-10R or ES-10. (2) Electrical Specialty licenses.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: four years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — ER 1

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
ER-1 Residential Electrical Wiring (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: ER-1 — (b) ER-1. Residential electrical wiring 5000 volts, nominal or less. Requires two years’ experience. Includes electrical systems and wiring methods of 5000 volts, nominal or less at residential one and two-family dwelling units; multi-family dwellings when all such units are all on the ground floor with no occupancies above or below, as set forth in 14.10.4 NMAC. Does not include wiring for commercial use, such as motels, hotels and similar occupancies. May not contract for more than four dwelling units in any single building or structure.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — ES 1

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
ES-1 Electrical Signs and Outline Lighting (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: ES-1 — (a) ES-1. Electrical signs and outline lighting. Requires two years’ experience. Installation at commercial locations only. Outline lighting is an arrangement of LED, incandescent lamps, or gaseous tubes to outline and call attention to certain features such as the shape of a building or the decoration of a window and may or may not contribute to the general illumination of an area. Includes commercial electrical wiring methods of 5000 volts, nominal or less required to complete the installation of the sign or outline lighting where a “sign circuit” or outline lighting circuit has been provided within 10 feet of the roof or wall of the structure supporting the sign or outline lighting; concrete for the foundation of poles; build structures for the support of such signs associated excavating, trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting; installation of underground electrical wiring methods of 5000 volts, nominal or less required to complete the installation of the “sign circuit” not to exceed 10 feet from the foundation of the sign. 14.6.6 NMAC 6
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — ES 10

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
ES-10 Water Well Pump Installer (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: ES-10 — (f) ES-10. Water well pump installer. Requires two years’ experience. Commercial water well pumps, 600 volts or less, single or three phase. Includes the installation, maintenance, repairing or replacing electrical equipment, wiring, and accessories directly associated with water well pump systems; variable frequency drives; subpanels, luminaires, and receptacle outlets installed within the well pit or well enclosure; branch circuit or feeder conductors from the service equipment or panel board to the well pump location; incidental excavation and trenching; solar photo-voltaic arrays 5 kW or less when dedicated to pumping equipment. Does not include systems over 600 volts, electrical services, building wiring or any other electrical wiring.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — ES 10R

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
ES-10R Residential Water Well Pump Installer (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: ES-10R — (e) ES-10R. Residential water well pump installer. Requires two years’ experience. Residential water well pumps, 120/240 volts or less, single phase 15 HP or less. Includes the installation, maintenance, repairing or replacement of electrical equipment, wiring, and accessories directly associated with water well pump systems; single phase variable frequency drives; subpanels, luminaires, and receptacle outlets installed within the well pit or well enclosure; branch circuit or feeder conductors from the service equipment or panel board to the well pump location; incidental excavation, trenching; solar photo-voltaic arrays 5 kW or less when dedicated to pumping equipment; does not include electrical systems over 240 volts, pumps over 15 HP, electrical services, building wiring or any other electrical wiring.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — ES 2

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
ES-2 Cathodic Protection and Lightning Protection (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: ES-2 — (b) ES-2. Cathodic protection and lightening protection systems. Requires two years’ experience. Includes interior and exterior cathodic protection and lightening protection systems at commercial and residential locations; electrical wiring methods of 5000 volts, nominal or less required to complete a cathodic grounding protection system only; electrical wiring methods of 5000 volts, nominal or less required to complete a lightening protection system only. May not install the service riser, main service or service grounding.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — ES 3

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
ES-3 Low Voltage Special Systems (under 50 Volts) (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: ES-3 — (c) ES-3. Low voltage special systems (under 50 volts). Requires two years’ experience. Interior and exterior special systems, cabling and interconnections at commercial and residential locations, privately and publically owned operating at 50 volts or less; includes telecommunications systems; fire alarm systems, CATV systems; audio and visual systems; security systems; door and gate operated control circuits; temperature control circuits, other low voltage specialty systems operating at 50 volts or less; low voltage special systems cables installed in plenum or non-plenum rated walls or ceilings; low voltage special systems cables in existing raceways installed by others as defined at Paragraph (2) of Subsection A of 14.6.6.10 NMAC; direct burial low voltage special systems cables; overhead low voltage special systems cabling to structures; terminations and splicing of low voltage special system conductors; associated excavating, trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting; installation of underground electrical wiring methods required to complete any of the special systems listed above. An installer of television receive-only (TVROs) (dishes) is not required to have a contractor’s license when the installation is in a single-family dwelling and does not require the use of 120 volts for tracking. Does not include interior or exterior wiring of circuits operating above 50 volts which requires an EE-98 or ER-1 classification.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — ES 7

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
ES-7 Telephone Communication Systems and Telephone Interconnect Systems (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: ES-7 — (d) ES-7. Telephone communication systems. Requires two years’ experience. Interior and exterior telecommunications cabling and interconnections at commercial and residential locations, in publicly or privately owned buildings; includes telecommunication cables installed in plenum or non-plenum rated walls or ceilings; telecommunication cables in existing raceways installed by others as defined at Paragraph (2) of Subsection A of 14.6.6.10 NMAC; direct burial telecommunication cables; overhead telecommunication cabling to structures; terminations and splicing of communication conductors; associated excavating trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting, installation of underground electrical wiring methods required to complete the installation of telecommunications systems; terminal facilities; installation of integrated services digital network cross connect equipment; installation of VoIP switching technology equipment, repeaters, including the installation of instruments at their terminating locations. Does not include Interior or exterior wiring of circuits operating above 50 volts which requires an EE-98 classification.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — EV 98

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
EV-98 Elevators, Escalators, Conveyors (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: EV-98 — EV-98 Elevators, Escalators, Conveyors. Requires four years of experience.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: four years of experience
Experience Alternatives: Four years (8,000 hours), or completion of NAEC CETT or the IUEC program with a mechanic’s card; those program credentials waive the experience affidavit, not the EV98 exam.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — GA 1

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GA-1 Streets, Roads, and Highways (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GA-1 — (1) GA-1. Streets, roads and highways, including tunnels, parking lots, alleys, seal coat and surfacing. Requires two years’ experience. Clear, align, fill, compress, compact, build up or remove earth and do all work necessary to prepare, within the assigned rights-of-way, the land to accept a streets, roads, highways including culverts and tunnels, and alleys; includes parking lots, sidewalks or driveways; place and finish concrete or bituminous materials and apply sealcoat. This classification includes the scopes of work authorized by GA-2 and GA-3.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — GA 2

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GA-2 Maintenance and Repair (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GA-2 — (2) GA-2. Maintenance and repair. Requires two years’ experience. Fix, maintain, repair, patch, mend, cover, fill or replace with materials of like substances to that currently existing on streets, roads, highways, parking lots, driveways, sidewalks and alleys; apply seal coat to driveways and parking lots. Install rumble strips.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — GA 3

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GA-3 Curbs, Gutters, and Culverts (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GA-3 — (3) GA-3. Curbs, gutters and driveway culverts. Requires two years’ experience. Form, place and finish concrete curbs, gutters, driveway culverts, public sidewalks and bituminous ridge curbs for the deflection of water.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — GA 4

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GA-4 Striping (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GA-4 — (4) GA-4. Striping. Requires two years’ experience. Paint directional stripes on paved roads, streets, highways, alleys and parking lots; install auto parking bumpers or stops and highway lane markers/reflectors.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — GA 5

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GA-5 Highway Signs and Guard Rails (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GA-5 — (5) GA-5. Highway signs and guard rails. Requires two years’ experience. Erect and stabilize signs and guard rails along public highways, streets, roads and alleys, which are used for the direction and safety of vehicular traffic. Electrical signs must be installed by a properly licensed electrical contractor.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — GA 98

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GA-98 — (6) GA-98. Asphalt, bitumen and concrete construction. Indicates licensure in classifications GA-1 through GA-5; and covers all work authorized in those classifications. B. Residential and commercial building.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: Four years under the May 2025 QP application for GA-98
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — GB 2

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GB-2 Residential Building Contractor Part 1 Examination (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GB-2 — (1) GB-2. Residential. Requires two years’ of foreman level practical or related trade experience. Erect, alter, repair or demolish residences and apartment houses accommodating not more than four family units, Groups R-1, R-2 and R-3, as those groups are defined in 14.7.2 NMAC; items included in Group U, as defined in 14.7.2 NMAC, when incidental to these structures; includes all work described by the GS specialty classifications, provided the work is limited to residential construction as defined under this provision.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ of foreman level practical or related trade experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — GB 98

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GB-98 General Building Contractor Examination (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GB-98 — (2) GB-98. General building. Requires four years of foreman level practical or related trade experience of which at two years must be commercial experience. Erect, alter, repair or demolish residential and commercial buildings, and certain structures; includes all work authorized by the GB-2, GF-5, GF-7 and GS classifications; seal coating and striping of driveways and parking lots; excludes those structures covered by the EE, MM, GA or GF classifications. C. Fixed works. Construct, alter or repair fixed or public works facilities; provided, however, that work in any trade or craft that is authorized by any one, or a combination of, the mechanical, electrical, or general building or LP Gas classifications must be performed by an entity validly licensed in the appropriate classification. Except as may be expressly provided in a specific classification description, fixed works licensees may not construct buildings that are primarily for the use and occupancy of the general public, but may bid and contract for such buildings when they are incidental to a fixed works project; however, such work must be subcontracted pursuant to Subsection B of 14.6.6.8 NMAC, above. Incidental storage buildings used exclusively for storage and not for occupancy are allowed within these classifications. 14.6.6 NMAC 2
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: Four years of foreman-level practical or related trade experience, including two years of commercial experience.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Nascla Waiver: May 2025 QP instructions: waiver for GB98 and EE98 only; use NASCLA scores to obtain another-jurisdiction license, hold that license at least one year, release the NASCLA transcript, and receive CID approval. The waiver removes only the trade test; experience and business-law requirements remain.
Nationwide Accredited Exam: The state accepts the general construction NASCLA accredited examination for a discretionary trade-examination waiver under 14.6.3.8(G)(2)(f). No corresponding nationwide version was supplied in sharedExamContext or knownRegistrations; this accepted examination is retained as an applicant condition pending nationwide registration.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — GF 1

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-1 Airports (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GF-1 — (1) GF-1. Airports. Requires two years’ experience. Construct, alter and repair airports, including excavating, grading, compacting, sub-surfacing, surfacing (dirt or bitumen and concrete), marking and other work on surfaces to be used for aircraft traffic, landing, take-off and taxi.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — GF 2

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-2 Bridges (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GF-2 — (2) GF-2. Bridges. Requires two years’ experience. Erect, construct, alter, repair or demolish any bridge, overpass or underpass, culvert or ramp, generally used for vehicular traffic.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — GF 3

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-3 Canals, Reservoirs, or Irrigation Systems (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GF-3 — (3) GF-3. Canals, reservoirs, dams and irrigation systems. Requires two years’ experience. Construct, erect, alter, repair, or demolish canals, dams, reservoirs irrigation systems; excavate, ditch, fill, compact and place pre-cast components, waterproof membranes and liners, concrete reinforcement, abutments and buttresses in connection therewith; install tanks, pumps, pipelines and substations incidental to the project; irrigation activities and piping when applicable solely to the production of agriculture or maintenance of livestock on a farm or ranch, excluding electrical work, are exempt from licensing requirements.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — GF 4

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-4 Drainage or Flood Control Systems (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GF-4 — (4) GF-4. Drainage or flood control systems. Requires two years’ experience. Construct, erect, install, repair and alter drainage or flood control systems; dig, excavate, fill, prepare embankments for such purposes, place pre-cast components, concrete reinforcement and perform all other work incidental to these projects.; install storm sewers, including trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting, and paving.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — GF 5

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-5 Recreation Areas (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GF-5 — (5) GF-5. Recreation areas. Requires two years’ experience. Construct, prepare, clear, repair or alter facilities for use as recreation areas, including but not limited to golf courses, driving ranges, water parks, tennis courts, playgrounds, outdoor athletic facilities, miniature golf courses, pitch-and-putt golf courses; prepare the area by excavation, fill, including foundations, retaining walls, sprinkler systems, rest benches, shade and rain shelters and foot bridges relative to recreation areas; public campgrounds and parks or similar facilities, including toilet facilities and lean-tos.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — GF 6

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-6 Railroad and Tunnel Construction (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GF-6 — (6) GF-6. Railroad and tunnel construction. Requires two years’ experience. Construct railroad lines, including clearing, filling, shaping, compacting, placing rip-rap, stabilizing, setting roadbeds, ties, tie plates, rails, rail connectors, frogs, switch plates, switches, and all appurtenances necessary for an operational railroad line, including bridges, culverts, tunnels, retaining walls, dikes, gates, tool sheds and landing or parking platforms for equipment. Includes welding operations necessary for rail construction.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — GF 7

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-7 Tanks and Towers (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GF-7 — (7) GF-7. Tanks and towers. Requires two years’ experience. Construct or fabricate on site and install tanks for the storage of solids or liquids, above or below ground, and towers such as radio, television and telecommunications towers, including all necessary site-work, excavation and construction of concrete tanks, pads and foundations, cutting, welding, placement of structural members, engineered structural support systems for elevated tanks, and engineered or prefabricated towers; includes the repair and placement of liners in tanks, and incidental storage buildings.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — GF 8

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-8 Transmission Lines, Tanks, and Substations (Non- Electrical) (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GF-8 — (8) GF-8. Transmission lines, tanks and substations (non-electrical). Requires two years’ experience. Build, construct and place lines for the transmission or conveyance of natural gas or petroleum, water and other fluid substances, including the application of protective coatings, trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting, paving and surfacing necessary and incidental to the completion of the installation of such facilities. Includes incidental buildings, tanks, and substations required for the project; construct, alter or repair industrial plants, including, but not limited to, refineries and power generation plants.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — GF 9

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-9 Utility Lines (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GF-9 — (9) GF-9. Utility lines and systems (sewage, water, natural gas and underground telephone cables). Requires two years’ experience. Construct, install, alter or repair utility lines and utility systems for the transmission of sewage, natural gas and water, including excavating, grading, trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting, paving and surfacing; includes tanks, pumps, lift-stations and substations incidental to the project; construct, alter, or repair treatment plants and facilities incidental thereto; install direct burial communications cable by trenching, direct plowing or pulling direct burial cable through existing raceways and install vaults as directed by the telecommunications utility; associated excavating, trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting, paving and surfacing. Shall not perform installation of electrical raceways including directional boring or pipe jacking methods, splicing, termination, installation of load pots, installation of integrated services digital network cross connect equipment, installation of VoIP switching technology equipment, overhead cabling work, or other activities considered under the scope of the ES-7, EL-1, ES-3 or EE-98 electrical classifications.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — GF 98

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GF-98 — (10) GF-98. Construct, alter or repair fixed works facilities. Requires four years’ experience; indicates licensure in classifications GF-1 through GF-9 and authorizes all work described in these classifications. D. General Specialty classifications. General construction includes numerous specialties. Therefore, CID has established the GS classification series to enable entities that perform this kind of work to be 14.6.6 NMAC 3
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: four years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — GS 1

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-1 — (1) GS-1. Acoustical insulation and insulation. Requires two years’ experience. Install any insulating material, including urethane foam and approved waterproof membranes and coatings, in or on buildings, structures and on piping for the purpose of energy conservation, temperature and sound control, and fireproofing. Does not include the installation of urethane roof systems.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — GS 13

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-13 Framing (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-13 — (8) GS-13. Framing. Requires two years of foreman level practical or related trade experience; cut, join, install wood, metal or other products approved by the division and utilized for the framing of a structure or building, including bearing and non-bearing walls, rafters, headers, trusses, joists, studs, door and window rough frames, and roof decks, including repair to any of the above.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years of foreman level practical or related trade experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — GS 14

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-14 — (9) GS-14. Windows, doors and skylights. Requires two years’ experience. Fabricate and install windows and doors in buildings and structures, including the necessary installation of window, door and skylight framing, and the installation of necessary hardware; cut, assemble and install glass work, and execute the glazing of frames, panels, sash and doors; fabricate and install storm doors, windows, and skylights including flashing; does not include structural alterations to enlarge any opening.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Vendor Door Exam: The April 2026 PSI bulletin names GS-6 Door Installation, whereas the March 2022 codified classification is GS-14 Windows, doors and skylights. Neither source explicitly assigns the GS-6 paper to GS-14; that association is undetermined and is not inferred from topic overlap.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — GS 15

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-15 — (10) GS-15. Caissons, piers and pile driving. Requires two years’ experience. Install piers, caissons and pilings through the use of pile driving equipment and machinery, including necessary excavation, grading and clearing for site preparation for pile driving activities; cut, weld, join and fabricate caissons or piles; install all necessary concrete and reinforcing steel within the caissons to create a structural member; soil stabilization and rock-fall mitigation.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — GS 16

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-16 Masonry (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-16 — (11) GS-16. Masonry. Requires two years’ experience. Install or erect brick and other baked clay products, rough cut and dressed stone, artificial stone and pre-cast blocks, structural glass brick or block adobe, laid at random or in courses, with or without mortar, to form masonry walls, anchored stone or masonry veneer, including building walls, freestanding walls six feet or higher from ground level and retaining walls measuring thirty-six inches or more measured from the bottom of the footing; does not include the execution, fabrication and erecting of poured cement and concrete, except as a foundation for a wall. 14.6.6 NMAC 4
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — GS 2

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-2 — (2) GS-2. Awnings and canopies. Requires two years’ experience. Construct, erect and install awnings and canopies, attached to buildings and structures or free standing, including, but not limited to carports and service station canopies, and including necessary excavation and foundation work. All electrical work shall be performed by a properly licensed electrical contractor.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — GS 21

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-21 Roofing (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-21 — (12) GS-21. Roofing. Requires two years of foreman level practical or related trade experience. Install, alter or repair roof systems on new or existing roof decks to create a weatherproof and waterproof protective membrane, with or without insulation, using asphalt, pitch, tar, sealants, felt, shakes, shingles, roof tile, slate, urethane or any other approved materials including the preparatory work necessary to bring a roof deck or an existing roof to a condition where roofing can be installed, and sealed or repaired; includes cutting, shaping, fabricating, and installing of sheet metal such as cornices, flashing, skylights (excluding alterations to structural framing), roof coatings, gutters, leaders, rainwater downspouts, pans, prefabricated chimneys, at or near roof lines, metal flues, or doing any part of any combination thereof, which relate to and are incidental to roofing projects.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years of foreman level practical or related trade experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — GS 23

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-23 — (13) GS-23. Sign construction (non-electrical). Requires two years’ experience. Fabricate on site, install and erect signs of wood, steel, plastic or any material, or any combination of materials, which are to be embedded in the earth, in concrete or other base material, or attached to buildings or structures using anchors, attached cables, bars or similar devices and appurtenances; electrified signs shall only be installed by contractors holding an ES-1 or an EE-98 classification.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — GS 24

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-24 Structural Steel Erection (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-24 — (14) GS-24. Structural steel erection. Requires two years of foreman level practical or related trade experience. Fabricate on site and erect structural steel shapes and plates, of any profile, perimeter or cross-section that may be used as structural members for buildings and structures, including riveting and welding; does not authorize construction of concrete foundations or complete buildings.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years of foreman level practical or related trade experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — GS 25

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-25 Swimming Pools (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-25 — (15) GS-25. Swimming pools (non-plumbing, mechanical or electrical). Requires two years’ experience. Construct and repair swimming pools including excavation, installation of reinforcing steel or mesh, application of concrete and special coatings; shall not perform any scope of work which is authorized by a plumbing, mechanical, electrical or LP Gas classification.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — GS 29

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-29 — (20) GS-29 specialties. Requires up to four years’ experience as determined on a case-by- case basis. The GS-29 classification is a sub-category of the general specialty classifications. It is a miscellaneous classification that is used to identify specific specialties on a case-by-case basis.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: up to four years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — GS 30

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-30 Plastering, Stucco and Lathing (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-30 — (16) GS-30. Plastering, stucco and lathing. Requires two years’ experience. Prepare wall and ceiling surfaces, interior or exterior, with wood, metal lath, wallboard or other properly prepared surfaces which will accept and hold a mixture of sand, plaster (including gypsum plaster), lime and water, or sand and cement with water or any combination of materials to create a permanent surface coating; these coatings may be applied manually or mechanically on surfaces which will support such coating; install steel or wood or other division approved stud systems (non-structural), channel iron work and affix lath or any other materials or products, prepared or manufactured to provide a base for such coatings.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — GS 31

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-31 — (17) GS-31. Siding. Requires two years’ experience. Apply, replace, or repair siding consisting of slate, gypsum, wood, plastics or other products, including the application of furred up networks on which the siding can be installed.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — GS 32

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-32 — (18) GS-32. Miscellaneous sheet metal. Requires two years’ experience. Fabricate on site and install sheet metal (galvanized iron) such as cornices, flashing, gutters, leaders, rainwater downspouts, pans, and prefabricated chimneys; shall not install heating, ventilation & air conditioning (HVAC) duct systems, vents, grease hoods, or other appurtenances that are authorized by mechanical or plumbing classifications.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — GS 34

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-34 — (19) GS-34. Concrete coring, drilling and slab sawing. Requires two years’ experience. Coring, boring, drilling, cutting, and sawing concrete, including the removal or demolition of the material; does not include the installation of electrical wiring or plumbing in such bored, drilled, cut or sawed concrete. (20) GS-29 specialties. Requires up to four years’ experience as determined on a case-by- case basis. The GS-29 classification is a sub-category of the general specialty classifications. It is a miscellaneous classification that is used to identify specific specialties on a case-by-case basis. [14.6.6.9 NMAC - Rp, 14.6.6.9 NMAC, 3/10/2022]
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — GS 4

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-4 Concrete, Cement, Walkways, and Driveways (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-4 — (3) GS-4. Concrete, cement, walkways and driveways. Requires two years’ experience practical trade experience, one year of which must be foreman level. Mix, pour, place, and finish concrete,; includes all necessary preparatory work including excavation, form work, and placing of reinforcement materials; includes the installation on private property of curbs, gutters, sidewalks, and driveway culverts; may not perform this work in public rights-of-way unless subcontracted to a validly licensed GA licensee.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: Two years of practical trade experience, including one year at foreman level.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — GS 5

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-5 — (4) GS-5. Demolition. Requires two years’ experience. Demolish all or any portion of a buildings and structures authorized by the GB-98 classification, including demolition to portions of buildings and structures allowing additions and alterations to be completed to the remaining portions of the building or structure.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — GS 7

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-7 Drywall Installation and Texture (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-7 — (5) GS-7. Drywall installation and texture. Requires two years’ experience. Installation of gypsum wallboard, and gypsum sheathing; includes taping, bedding and coating the surfaces of the wallboard and sheathing with gypsum joint systems, tape and drywall mud, or a combination of other materials to create a permanent surface or coating and of walls and ceilings; install steel or wood stud systems (non-structural) and channel iron work to provide a base for the application of drywall.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — GS 8

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-8 Earthmoving, Excavation, and Ditching (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-8 — (6) GS-8. Earthmoving, excavating and ditching. Requires two years’ experience. Perform earthwork associated with or incidental to construction projects regulated by CID, using hand or power tools, machines that use air, fluids, or other material under pressure, or heavy equipment, in such a manner that cutting, filling, excavating, grading, trenching, backfilling, boring and any similar excavating activity can be executed; earthmoving, excavating and ditching activities applicable to the preparation and production of agriculture or maintenance of livestock on a farm or ranch are exempt from licensing requirements.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — GS 9

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-9 Elevators, Escalators, Conveyors (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-9 — (7) GS-9. Elevators, escalators, and related machinery (non-electrical). Requires two years’ experience. Erect, install or repair elevators, escalators and related machinery, including sheave beams, sheaves, cable and wire rope, guides, cab, counterweights, doors, including sidewalk elevators, automatic and manual controls, signal systems and all other devices, apparatus, machinery and equipment (including fabrication on job site) essential to the safe and efficient installation and operation of electrical, hydraulic and manually operated elevators and escalators and conveyors designed specifically for the transportation of people.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — MM 1

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
MM-1 Plumbing (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: MM-1 — (1) MM-1. Plumbing. Requires four years’ experience. Install, alter, repair, service, and maintain plumbing, plumbing fixtures, and piping, includes incidental concrete supports, and excavating, trenching and backfilling; includes hot water heating systems not exceeding 30 p.s.i. or 400,000 b.t.u./hour input; piping for fuel, oil and gasoline; piping and appurtenances for solar thermal energy systems; potable water irrigation sprinkler systems; swimming pools and spas; includes pneumatic or electric controls and control wiring not greater than 24 volts; septic tanks, manholes and sewer lines; does not include installation of natural gas fired appliances or natural gas piping; piping and agricultural sprinkler irrigation system installation and maintenance on farm or ranch property that moves water for livestock use or irrigation purposes from a privately owned well or pipeline, not connected to a public potable water supply are exempt from licensing requirements. When connected to a potable water source all connections must be downstream of an approved back flow prevention device. If a backflow prevention device is required it shall be permitted and installed by a properly certified journeyman employed by an appropriately licensed contractor.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: four years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — MM 2

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
MM-2 Natural Gas Fitting (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: MM-2 — (2) MM-2. Natural gas fitting. Requires four years’ experience. Install, alter, repair, service and maintain natural gas piping and fittings; install hot water heating systems not exceeding 30 p.s.i. or 400,000 b.t.u./hour input; steam and hot water boilers; may connect water to existing valved outlets; warm air heating systems including chimney connections, flues, refractories, burners, fittings valves, thermal insulation, accessories and incidental piping; warm air appliances and other listed gas appliances; incidental controls and control wiring, pneumatic control systems; includes all required excavating, trenching and backfilling. May not install LP Gas systems.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: four years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — MM 3

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
MM-3 Heat, Vent and Air Conditioning (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: MM-3 — (3) MM-3. Heating, ventilation & air conditioning (HVAC). Requires four years’ experience. Install, alter, repair, service and maintain HVAC air handling and refrigeration equipment and piping, including fans, coils, condensing units, self-contained packaged air conditioning or heating units, evaporative cooling units, and ductwork and accessories including solar air heating and cooled mechanical air handling and 14.6.6 NMAC 8
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: four years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — MM 4

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
MM-4 Heat, Cooling, and Process Pipe (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: MM-4 — (4) MM-4. Heating, cooling and process piping. Requires four years’ experience. Install, alter, repair, service and maintain hydronic heating, cooling and process piping, piping and appurtenances for steam and hot water systems of any temperature or pressure range, chilled water systems, condensing water systems and other process piping systems; includes air handling equipment, pressure vessels, heat exchangers, boilers, refrigeration water chillers, cooling towers, fuel oil tanks and fuel oil piping; electric controls and control wiring not to exceed 24 volts; install high pressure and process piping solar thermal energy systems of any temperature or pressure range conveying gas or fluids other than potable water; water based fire protection sprinkler systems, dry chemical fire protection systems.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: four years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — MM 98

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: MM-98 — (5) MM-98. Mechanical. Requires four years’ experience. Indicates licensure in individual classifications MM-1 through MM-4 and covers all work described in these classifications, as well as work described in the MS-3, MS-6, MS-12 and MS-14. C. Mechanical Specialty classifications:
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: four years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — MS 12

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
MS-12 Fire Protection Systems (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: MS-12 — (3) MS-12. Fire protection sprinkler systems. Requires four years’ experience. Install alter, repair, service or maintain water-based fire protection systems required pressure or storage tanks, controls and control wiring up to 24 volts; excavate and backfill and install piping from structure to off-site water supply adjacent to fire protection system property; bid or contract for structural alterations, electrical wiring, etc., incidental to the system installation, provided such work is performed by a validly licensed contractor.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: four years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — MS 14

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
MS-14 Dry Chemical Fire Protection (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: MS-14 — (4) MS-14. Dry chemical fire protection. Requires four years’ experience. Install, alter, repair, or service or maintain gaseous or chemical based fire protection systems including carbon dioxide (CO), or clean agents; pressurized storage tanks, valves, temperature sensing devices, solenoid or safety shut-off devices and other incidental controls and control wiring up to 24 volts; bid or contract for structural alterations, electrical wiring, etc., incidental to the system installation, provided such work is performed by a properly licensed contractor.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: four years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — MS 3

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
MS-3 Cesspools, Septic Tanks and Sewers (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: MS-3 — (1) MS-3. Septic tanks & sewer. Requires two years’ experience. Install, alter, repair, service or maintain septic tanks and private sewage disposal systems, manholes and sewer lines, beginning at a connection to a public or private utility and ending at a point five feet beyond the outside wall of a building or structured; excavate, trench, backfill and grade as necessary; install or repair incidental plug-in type electrical control panels, controls and control wiring not to exceed 24 volts.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Initial qualifying party certification — MS 6

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
MS-6 Lawn Sprinklers (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: MS-6 — (2) MS-6. Lawn sprinklers. Requires two years’ experience. Install, alter, repair, service or maintain potable water sprinkler systems; excavate, trench, backfill and grade as necessary; backflow prevention devices incidental plug-in type electrical control panels, controls and control wiring not to exceed 24 volts.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Expedited military qualifying party certification

No examination is required for this applicant pathway.

Application: Submit a complete application, military/family-status documents and background check if required.
Eligibility: Military service member, eligible spouse or dependent child, surviving spouse, or honorably discharged veteran as defined in §60-13-14.1(F).
Fee Waiver: Initial license/certificate fees are waived for the first three years; other applicable document or replacement charges remain.
Issuance: Issue as soon as practicable, no later than thirty days after a complete qualifying application.
Prior License: Hold a current good-standing license or certificate from another jurisdiction, including the armed forces, with substantially equivalent minimum requirements.
Renewal: The ordinary issuance and renewal requirements apply at renewal; the issued license is not provisional.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

NMSA 1978, Chapter 60, Construction Industries Licensing Act and Elevator Safety Act
NMSA 1978 §60-13-14.1(A), expedited issuance
Contractor’s License Requirements, 14.6.3 NMAC
14.6.3.8(H)(1)-(2)(b), expedited qualifying-party certification

Reinstatement of a qualifying party certificate after child support enforcement

No examination is required for this applicant pathway.

Certificate Status: The certificate must otherwise remain eligible; expiration under 14.6.3.8(K) requires recertification.
Compliance Certificate: Provide the human services department certificate and pay amounts owed.
Other Grounds: Independent grounds for discipline remain effective.
Time Limit: Within two years of the qualifying-party revocation order; after that a new certificate application is required with the one-year wait waived.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

Contractor’s License Requirements, 14.6.3 NMAC
14.6.3.8(L)(3), child-support reinstatement
Contractor’s License Requirements, 14.6.3 NMAC
14.6.3.8(L)(3)(c), revoked qualifying-party limit

Reattachment of an existing qualifying party certificate within its eligibility period

No examination is required for this applicant pathway.

Certificate: An existing unattached certificate must be within the two-year grace period.
Entity: Attach to a validly licensed contractor using the signed/notarized status-change request and fees.
Multiple Entities: At least thirty-percent common ownership is required to qualify multiple companies, except joint ventures.
New Certificate: A never-attached new QP has one-year score validity and must retain active six-month approval.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

CID Status Change Form Instructions
p.1, existing unattached and newly certified qualifying parties
Contractor’s License Requirements, 14.6.3 NMAC
14.6.3.8(K)(3)(a)-(b), unattached certificate periods

Qualifying party recertification — EE 98

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
EE-98 Residential and Commercial Electrical (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: EE-98 — (a) EE-98. Residential, and commercial and industrial electrical wiring 5000 volts, nominal or less. Requires four years’ experience. Includes all electrical systems and wiring methods operating at 5000 volts, nominal, or less; electrical systems and wiring methods identified in electrical specialty classifications ES-1, ES-2, ES-3 and ES-7 ES-10R, or ES-10 residential electrical systems and wiring methods identified in classification ER-1; trenching and ductwork associated with classification EL-1; associated excavating, trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting for all electrical systems and wiring methods of 5000 volts, nominal or less. Does not include electrical wiring defined in the EL-1 classification other than trenching and duct work as specified above.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: four years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Nascla Waiver: May 2025 QP instructions: waiver for GB98 and EE98 only; use NASCLA scores to obtain another-jurisdiction license, hold that license at least one year, release the NASCLA transcript, and receive CID approval. The waiver removes only the trade test; experience and business-law requirements remain.
Nationwide Accredited Exam: The state accepts the electrical NASCLA accredited examination for a discretionary trade-examination waiver under 14.6.3.8(G)(2)(f). No corresponding nationwide version was supplied in sharedExamContext or knownRegistrations; this accepted examination is retained as an applicant condition pending nationwide registration.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — EL 1

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
EL-1 Electrical Distribution Systems, including Transmission Lines (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: EL-1 — (c) EL-1. Electrical distribution and transmission systems over 5000 volts, nominal. Requires four years’ experience. Includes all electrical systems and wiring methods operating at over 5000 volts, nominal; overhead or underground electrical distribution and transmission circuits, equipment,; associated towers, tower foundations and other supporting structures; associated excavating, trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting and ductwork; sub-stations and terminal facilities. Does not include any electrical wiring specified or other electrical classifications EE-98, ER-1, ES-1, ES-2, ES-3, ES-7, ES-10R or ES-10. (2) Electrical Specialty licenses.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: four years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — ER 1

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
ER-1 Residential Electrical Wiring (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: ER-1 — (b) ER-1. Residential electrical wiring 5000 volts, nominal or less. Requires two years’ experience. Includes electrical systems and wiring methods of 5000 volts, nominal or less at residential one and two-family dwelling units; multi-family dwellings when all such units are all on the ground floor with no occupancies above or below, as set forth in 14.10.4 NMAC. Does not include wiring for commercial use, such as motels, hotels and similar occupancies. May not contract for more than four dwelling units in any single building or structure.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — ES 1

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
ES-1 Electrical Signs and Outline Lighting (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: ES-1 — (a) ES-1. Electrical signs and outline lighting. Requires two years’ experience. Installation at commercial locations only. Outline lighting is an arrangement of LED, incandescent lamps, or gaseous tubes to outline and call attention to certain features such as the shape of a building or the decoration of a window and may or may not contribute to the general illumination of an area. Includes commercial electrical wiring methods of 5000 volts, nominal or less required to complete the installation of the sign or outline lighting where a “sign circuit” or outline lighting circuit has been provided within 10 feet of the roof or wall of the structure supporting the sign or outline lighting; concrete for the foundation of poles; build structures for the support of such signs associated excavating, trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting; installation of underground electrical wiring methods of 5000 volts, nominal or less required to complete the installation of the “sign circuit” not to exceed 10 feet from the foundation of the sign. 14.6.6 NMAC 6
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — ES 10

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
ES-10 Water Well Pump Installer (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: ES-10 — (f) ES-10. Water well pump installer. Requires two years’ experience. Commercial water well pumps, 600 volts or less, single or three phase. Includes the installation, maintenance, repairing or replacing electrical equipment, wiring, and accessories directly associated with water well pump systems; variable frequency drives; subpanels, luminaires, and receptacle outlets installed within the well pit or well enclosure; branch circuit or feeder conductors from the service equipment or panel board to the well pump location; incidental excavation and trenching; solar photo-voltaic arrays 5 kW or less when dedicated to pumping equipment. Does not include systems over 600 volts, electrical services, building wiring or any other electrical wiring.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — ES 10R

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
ES-10R Residential Water Well Pump Installer (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: ES-10R — (e) ES-10R. Residential water well pump installer. Requires two years’ experience. Residential water well pumps, 120/240 volts or less, single phase 15 HP or less. Includes the installation, maintenance, repairing or replacement of electrical equipment, wiring, and accessories directly associated with water well pump systems; single phase variable frequency drives; subpanels, luminaires, and receptacle outlets installed within the well pit or well enclosure; branch circuit or feeder conductors from the service equipment or panel board to the well pump location; incidental excavation, trenching; solar photo-voltaic arrays 5 kW or less when dedicated to pumping equipment; does not include electrical systems over 240 volts, pumps over 15 HP, electrical services, building wiring or any other electrical wiring.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — ES 2

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
ES-2 Cathodic Protection and Lightning Protection (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: ES-2 — (b) ES-2. Cathodic protection and lightening protection systems. Requires two years’ experience. Includes interior and exterior cathodic protection and lightening protection systems at commercial and residential locations; electrical wiring methods of 5000 volts, nominal or less required to complete a cathodic grounding protection system only; electrical wiring methods of 5000 volts, nominal or less required to complete a lightening protection system only. May not install the service riser, main service or service grounding.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — ES 3

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
ES-3 Low Voltage Special Systems (under 50 Volts) (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: ES-3 — (c) ES-3. Low voltage special systems (under 50 volts). Requires two years’ experience. Interior and exterior special systems, cabling and interconnections at commercial and residential locations, privately and publically owned operating at 50 volts or less; includes telecommunications systems; fire alarm systems, CATV systems; audio and visual systems; security systems; door and gate operated control circuits; temperature control circuits, other low voltage specialty systems operating at 50 volts or less; low voltage special systems cables installed in plenum or non-plenum rated walls or ceilings; low voltage special systems cables in existing raceways installed by others as defined at Paragraph (2) of Subsection A of 14.6.6.10 NMAC; direct burial low voltage special systems cables; overhead low voltage special systems cabling to structures; terminations and splicing of low voltage special system conductors; associated excavating, trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting; installation of underground electrical wiring methods required to complete any of the special systems listed above. An installer of television receive-only (TVROs) (dishes) is not required to have a contractor’s license when the installation is in a single-family dwelling and does not require the use of 120 volts for tracking. Does not include interior or exterior wiring of circuits operating above 50 volts which requires an EE-98 or ER-1 classification.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — ES 7

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
ES-7 Telephone Communication Systems and Telephone Interconnect Systems (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: ES-7 — (d) ES-7. Telephone communication systems. Requires two years’ experience. Interior and exterior telecommunications cabling and interconnections at commercial and residential locations, in publicly or privately owned buildings; includes telecommunication cables installed in plenum or non-plenum rated walls or ceilings; telecommunication cables in existing raceways installed by others as defined at Paragraph (2) of Subsection A of 14.6.6.10 NMAC; direct burial telecommunication cables; overhead telecommunication cabling to structures; terminations and splicing of communication conductors; associated excavating trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting, installation of underground electrical wiring methods required to complete the installation of telecommunications systems; terminal facilities; installation of integrated services digital network cross connect equipment; installation of VoIP switching technology equipment, repeaters, including the installation of instruments at their terminating locations. Does not include Interior or exterior wiring of circuits operating above 50 volts which requires an EE-98 classification.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — EV 98

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
EV-98 Elevators, Escalators, Conveyors (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: EV-98 — EV-98 Elevators, Escalators, Conveyors. Requires four years of experience.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: four years of experience
Experience Alternatives: Four years (8,000 hours), or completion of NAEC CETT or the IUEC program with a mechanic’s card; those program credentials waive the experience affidavit, not the EV98 exam.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — GA 1

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GA-1 Streets, Roads, and Highways (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GA-1 — (1) GA-1. Streets, roads and highways, including tunnels, parking lots, alleys, seal coat and surfacing. Requires two years’ experience. Clear, align, fill, compress, compact, build up or remove earth and do all work necessary to prepare, within the assigned rights-of-way, the land to accept a streets, roads, highways including culverts and tunnels, and alleys; includes parking lots, sidewalks or driveways; place and finish concrete or bituminous materials and apply sealcoat. This classification includes the scopes of work authorized by GA-2 and GA-3.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — GA 2

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GA-2 Maintenance and Repair (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GA-2 — (2) GA-2. Maintenance and repair. Requires two years’ experience. Fix, maintain, repair, patch, mend, cover, fill or replace with materials of like substances to that currently existing on streets, roads, highways, parking lots, driveways, sidewalks and alleys; apply seal coat to driveways and parking lots. Install rumble strips.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — GA 3

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GA-3 Curbs, Gutters, and Culverts (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GA-3 — (3) GA-3. Curbs, gutters and driveway culverts. Requires two years’ experience. Form, place and finish concrete curbs, gutters, driveway culverts, public sidewalks and bituminous ridge curbs for the deflection of water.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — GA 4

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GA-4 Striping (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GA-4 — (4) GA-4. Striping. Requires two years’ experience. Paint directional stripes on paved roads, streets, highways, alleys and parking lots; install auto parking bumpers or stops and highway lane markers/reflectors.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — GA 5

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GA-5 Highway Signs and Guard Rails (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GA-5 — (5) GA-5. Highway signs and guard rails. Requires two years’ experience. Erect and stabilize signs and guard rails along public highways, streets, roads and alleys, which are used for the direction and safety of vehicular traffic. Electrical signs must be installed by a properly licensed electrical contractor.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — GA 98

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GA-98 — (6) GA-98. Asphalt, bitumen and concrete construction. Indicates licensure in classifications GA-1 through GA-5; and covers all work authorized in those classifications. B. Residential and commercial building.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: Four years under the May 2025 QP application for GA-98
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — GB 2

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GB-2 Residential Building Contractor Part 1 Examination (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GB-2 — (1) GB-2. Residential. Requires two years’ of foreman level practical or related trade experience. Erect, alter, repair or demolish residences and apartment houses accommodating not more than four family units, Groups R-1, R-2 and R-3, as those groups are defined in 14.7.2 NMAC; items included in Group U, as defined in 14.7.2 NMAC, when incidental to these structures; includes all work described by the GS specialty classifications, provided the work is limited to residential construction as defined under this provision.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ of foreman level practical or related trade experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — GB 98

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GB-98 General Building Contractor Examination (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GB-98 — (2) GB-98. General building. Requires four years of foreman level practical or related trade experience of which at two years must be commercial experience. Erect, alter, repair or demolish residential and commercial buildings, and certain structures; includes all work authorized by the GB-2, GF-5, GF-7 and GS classifications; seal coating and striping of driveways and parking lots; excludes those structures covered by the EE, MM, GA or GF classifications. C. Fixed works. Construct, alter or repair fixed or public works facilities; provided, however, that work in any trade or craft that is authorized by any one, or a combination of, the mechanical, electrical, or general building or LP Gas classifications must be performed by an entity validly licensed in the appropriate classification. Except as may be expressly provided in a specific classification description, fixed works licensees may not construct buildings that are primarily for the use and occupancy of the general public, but may bid and contract for such buildings when they are incidental to a fixed works project; however, such work must be subcontracted pursuant to Subsection B of 14.6.6.8 NMAC, above. Incidental storage buildings used exclusively for storage and not for occupancy are allowed within these classifications. 14.6.6 NMAC 2
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: Four years of foreman-level practical or related trade experience, including two years of commercial experience.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Nascla Waiver: May 2025 QP instructions: waiver for GB98 and EE98 only; use NASCLA scores to obtain another-jurisdiction license, hold that license at least one year, release the NASCLA transcript, and receive CID approval. The waiver removes only the trade test; experience and business-law requirements remain.
Nationwide Accredited Exam: The state accepts the general construction NASCLA accredited examination for a discretionary trade-examination waiver under 14.6.3.8(G)(2)(f). No corresponding nationwide version was supplied in sharedExamContext or knownRegistrations; this accepted examination is retained as an applicant condition pending nationwide registration.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — GF 1

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-1 Airports (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GF-1 — (1) GF-1. Airports. Requires two years’ experience. Construct, alter and repair airports, including excavating, grading, compacting, sub-surfacing, surfacing (dirt or bitumen and concrete), marking and other work on surfaces to be used for aircraft traffic, landing, take-off and taxi.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — GF 2

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-2 Bridges (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GF-2 — (2) GF-2. Bridges. Requires two years’ experience. Erect, construct, alter, repair or demolish any bridge, overpass or underpass, culvert or ramp, generally used for vehicular traffic.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — GF 3

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-3 Canals, Reservoirs, or Irrigation Systems (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GF-3 — (3) GF-3. Canals, reservoirs, dams and irrigation systems. Requires two years’ experience. Construct, erect, alter, repair, or demolish canals, dams, reservoirs irrigation systems; excavate, ditch, fill, compact and place pre-cast components, waterproof membranes and liners, concrete reinforcement, abutments and buttresses in connection therewith; install tanks, pumps, pipelines and substations incidental to the project; irrigation activities and piping when applicable solely to the production of agriculture or maintenance of livestock on a farm or ranch, excluding electrical work, are exempt from licensing requirements.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — GF 4

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-4 Drainage or Flood Control Systems (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GF-4 — (4) GF-4. Drainage or flood control systems. Requires two years’ experience. Construct, erect, install, repair and alter drainage or flood control systems; dig, excavate, fill, prepare embankments for such purposes, place pre-cast components, concrete reinforcement and perform all other work incidental to these projects.; install storm sewers, including trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting, and paving.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — GF 5

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-5 Recreation Areas (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GF-5 — (5) GF-5. Recreation areas. Requires two years’ experience. Construct, prepare, clear, repair or alter facilities for use as recreation areas, including but not limited to golf courses, driving ranges, water parks, tennis courts, playgrounds, outdoor athletic facilities, miniature golf courses, pitch-and-putt golf courses; prepare the area by excavation, fill, including foundations, retaining walls, sprinkler systems, rest benches, shade and rain shelters and foot bridges relative to recreation areas; public campgrounds and parks or similar facilities, including toilet facilities and lean-tos.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — GF 6

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-6 Railroad and Tunnel Construction (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GF-6 — (6) GF-6. Railroad and tunnel construction. Requires two years’ experience. Construct railroad lines, including clearing, filling, shaping, compacting, placing rip-rap, stabilizing, setting roadbeds, ties, tie plates, rails, rail connectors, frogs, switch plates, switches, and all appurtenances necessary for an operational railroad line, including bridges, culverts, tunnels, retaining walls, dikes, gates, tool sheds and landing or parking platforms for equipment. Includes welding operations necessary for rail construction.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — GF 7

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-7 Tanks and Towers (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GF-7 — (7) GF-7. Tanks and towers. Requires two years’ experience. Construct or fabricate on site and install tanks for the storage of solids or liquids, above or below ground, and towers such as radio, television and telecommunications towers, including all necessary site-work, excavation and construction of concrete tanks, pads and foundations, cutting, welding, placement of structural members, engineered structural support systems for elevated tanks, and engineered or prefabricated towers; includes the repair and placement of liners in tanks, and incidental storage buildings.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — GF 8

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-8 Transmission Lines, Tanks, and Substations (Non- Electrical) (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GF-8 — (8) GF-8. Transmission lines, tanks and substations (non-electrical). Requires two years’ experience. Build, construct and place lines for the transmission or conveyance of natural gas or petroleum, water and other fluid substances, including the application of protective coatings, trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting, paving and surfacing necessary and incidental to the completion of the installation of such facilities. Includes incidental buildings, tanks, and substations required for the project; construct, alter or repair industrial plants, including, but not limited to, refineries and power generation plants.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — GF 9

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-9 Utility Lines (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GF-9 — (9) GF-9. Utility lines and systems (sewage, water, natural gas and underground telephone cables). Requires two years’ experience. Construct, install, alter or repair utility lines and utility systems for the transmission of sewage, natural gas and water, including excavating, grading, trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting, paving and surfacing; includes tanks, pumps, lift-stations and substations incidental to the project; construct, alter, or repair treatment plants and facilities incidental thereto; install direct burial communications cable by trenching, direct plowing or pulling direct burial cable through existing raceways and install vaults as directed by the telecommunications utility; associated excavating, trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting, paving and surfacing. Shall not perform installation of electrical raceways including directional boring or pipe jacking methods, splicing, termination, installation of load pots, installation of integrated services digital network cross connect equipment, installation of VoIP switching technology equipment, overhead cabling work, or other activities considered under the scope of the ES-7, EL-1, ES-3 or EE-98 electrical classifications.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — GF 98

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GF-98 — (10) GF-98. Construct, alter or repair fixed works facilities. Requires four years’ experience; indicates licensure in classifications GF-1 through GF-9 and authorizes all work described in these classifications. D. General Specialty classifications. General construction includes numerous specialties. Therefore, CID has established the GS classification series to enable entities that perform this kind of work to be 14.6.6 NMAC 3
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: four years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — GS 1

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-1 — (1) GS-1. Acoustical insulation and insulation. Requires two years’ experience. Install any insulating material, including urethane foam and approved waterproof membranes and coatings, in or on buildings, structures and on piping for the purpose of energy conservation, temperature and sound control, and fireproofing. Does not include the installation of urethane roof systems.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — GS 13

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-13 Framing (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-13 — (8) GS-13. Framing. Requires two years of foreman level practical or related trade experience; cut, join, install wood, metal or other products approved by the division and utilized for the framing of a structure or building, including bearing and non-bearing walls, rafters, headers, trusses, joists, studs, door and window rough frames, and roof decks, including repair to any of the above.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years of foreman level practical or related trade experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — GS 14

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-14 — (9) GS-14. Windows, doors and skylights. Requires two years’ experience. Fabricate and install windows and doors in buildings and structures, including the necessary installation of window, door and skylight framing, and the installation of necessary hardware; cut, assemble and install glass work, and execute the glazing of frames, panels, sash and doors; fabricate and install storm doors, windows, and skylights including flashing; does not include structural alterations to enlarge any opening.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Vendor Door Exam: The April 2026 PSI bulletin names GS-6 Door Installation, whereas the March 2022 codified classification is GS-14 Windows, doors and skylights. Neither source explicitly assigns the GS-6 paper to GS-14; that association is undetermined and is not inferred from topic overlap.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — GS 15

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-15 — (10) GS-15. Caissons, piers and pile driving. Requires two years’ experience. Install piers, caissons and pilings through the use of pile driving equipment and machinery, including necessary excavation, grading and clearing for site preparation for pile driving activities; cut, weld, join and fabricate caissons or piles; install all necessary concrete and reinforcing steel within the caissons to create a structural member; soil stabilization and rock-fall mitigation.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — GS 16

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-16 Masonry (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-16 — (11) GS-16. Masonry. Requires two years’ experience. Install or erect brick and other baked clay products, rough cut and dressed stone, artificial stone and pre-cast blocks, structural glass brick or block adobe, laid at random or in courses, with or without mortar, to form masonry walls, anchored stone or masonry veneer, including building walls, freestanding walls six feet or higher from ground level and retaining walls measuring thirty-six inches or more measured from the bottom of the footing; does not include the execution, fabrication and erecting of poured cement and concrete, except as a foundation for a wall. 14.6.6 NMAC 4
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — GS 2

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-2 — (2) GS-2. Awnings and canopies. Requires two years’ experience. Construct, erect and install awnings and canopies, attached to buildings and structures or free standing, including, but not limited to carports and service station canopies, and including necessary excavation and foundation work. All electrical work shall be performed by a properly licensed electrical contractor.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — GS 21

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-21 Roofing (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-21 — (12) GS-21. Roofing. Requires two years of foreman level practical or related trade experience. Install, alter or repair roof systems on new or existing roof decks to create a weatherproof and waterproof protective membrane, with or without insulation, using asphalt, pitch, tar, sealants, felt, shakes, shingles, roof tile, slate, urethane or any other approved materials including the preparatory work necessary to bring a roof deck or an existing roof to a condition where roofing can be installed, and sealed or repaired; includes cutting, shaping, fabricating, and installing of sheet metal such as cornices, flashing, skylights (excluding alterations to structural framing), roof coatings, gutters, leaders, rainwater downspouts, pans, prefabricated chimneys, at or near roof lines, metal flues, or doing any part of any combination thereof, which relate to and are incidental to roofing projects.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years of foreman level practical or related trade experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — GS 23

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-23 — (13) GS-23. Sign construction (non-electrical). Requires two years’ experience. Fabricate on site, install and erect signs of wood, steel, plastic or any material, or any combination of materials, which are to be embedded in the earth, in concrete or other base material, or attached to buildings or structures using anchors, attached cables, bars or similar devices and appurtenances; electrified signs shall only be installed by contractors holding an ES-1 or an EE-98 classification.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — GS 24

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-24 Structural Steel Erection (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-24 — (14) GS-24. Structural steel erection. Requires two years of foreman level practical or related trade experience. Fabricate on site and erect structural steel shapes and plates, of any profile, perimeter or cross-section that may be used as structural members for buildings and structures, including riveting and welding; does not authorize construction of concrete foundations or complete buildings.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years of foreman level practical or related trade experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — GS 25

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-25 Swimming Pools (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-25 — (15) GS-25. Swimming pools (non-plumbing, mechanical or electrical). Requires two years’ experience. Construct and repair swimming pools including excavation, installation of reinforcing steel or mesh, application of concrete and special coatings; shall not perform any scope of work which is authorized by a plumbing, mechanical, electrical or LP Gas classification.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — GS 29

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-29 — (20) GS-29 specialties. Requires up to four years’ experience as determined on a case-by- case basis. The GS-29 classification is a sub-category of the general specialty classifications. It is a miscellaneous classification that is used to identify specific specialties on a case-by-case basis.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: up to four years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — GS 30

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-30 Plastering, Stucco and Lathing (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-30 — (16) GS-30. Plastering, stucco and lathing. Requires two years’ experience. Prepare wall and ceiling surfaces, interior or exterior, with wood, metal lath, wallboard or other properly prepared surfaces which will accept and hold a mixture of sand, plaster (including gypsum plaster), lime and water, or sand and cement with water or any combination of materials to create a permanent surface coating; these coatings may be applied manually or mechanically on surfaces which will support such coating; install steel or wood or other division approved stud systems (non-structural), channel iron work and affix lath or any other materials or products, prepared or manufactured to provide a base for such coatings.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — GS 31

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-31 — (17) GS-31. Siding. Requires two years’ experience. Apply, replace, or repair siding consisting of slate, gypsum, wood, plastics or other products, including the application of furred up networks on which the siding can be installed.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — GS 32

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-32 — (18) GS-32. Miscellaneous sheet metal. Requires two years’ experience. Fabricate on site and install sheet metal (galvanized iron) such as cornices, flashing, gutters, leaders, rainwater downspouts, pans, and prefabricated chimneys; shall not install heating, ventilation & air conditioning (HVAC) duct systems, vents, grease hoods, or other appurtenances that are authorized by mechanical or plumbing classifications.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — GS 34

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-34 — (19) GS-34. Concrete coring, drilling and slab sawing. Requires two years’ experience. Coring, boring, drilling, cutting, and sawing concrete, including the removal or demolition of the material; does not include the installation of electrical wiring or plumbing in such bored, drilled, cut or sawed concrete. (20) GS-29 specialties. Requires up to four years’ experience as determined on a case-by- case basis. The GS-29 classification is a sub-category of the general specialty classifications. It is a miscellaneous classification that is used to identify specific specialties on a case-by-case basis. [14.6.6.9 NMAC - Rp, 14.6.6.9 NMAC, 3/10/2022]
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — GS 4

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-4 Concrete, Cement, Walkways, and Driveways (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-4 — (3) GS-4. Concrete, cement, walkways and driveways. Requires two years’ experience practical trade experience, one year of which must be foreman level. Mix, pour, place, and finish concrete,; includes all necessary preparatory work including excavation, form work, and placing of reinforcement materials; includes the installation on private property of curbs, gutters, sidewalks, and driveway culverts; may not perform this work in public rights-of-way unless subcontracted to a validly licensed GA licensee.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: Two years of practical trade experience, including one year at foreman level.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — GS 5

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-5 — (4) GS-5. Demolition. Requires two years’ experience. Demolish all or any portion of a buildings and structures authorized by the GB-98 classification, including demolition to portions of buildings and structures allowing additions and alterations to be completed to the remaining portions of the building or structure.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — GS 7

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-7 Drywall Installation and Texture (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-7 — (5) GS-7. Drywall installation and texture. Requires two years’ experience. Installation of gypsum wallboard, and gypsum sheathing; includes taping, bedding and coating the surfaces of the wallboard and sheathing with gypsum joint systems, tape and drywall mud, or a combination of other materials to create a permanent surface or coating and of walls and ceilings; install steel or wood stud systems (non-structural) and channel iron work to provide a base for the application of drywall.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — GS 8

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-8 Earthmoving, Excavation, and Ditching (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-8 — (6) GS-8. Earthmoving, excavating and ditching. Requires two years’ experience. Perform earthwork associated with or incidental to construction projects regulated by CID, using hand or power tools, machines that use air, fluids, or other material under pressure, or heavy equipment, in such a manner that cutting, filling, excavating, grading, trenching, backfilling, boring and any similar excavating activity can be executed; earthmoving, excavating and ditching activities applicable to the preparation and production of agriculture or maintenance of livestock on a farm or ranch are exempt from licensing requirements.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — GS 9

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-9 Elevators, Escalators, Conveyors (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-9 — (7) GS-9. Elevators, escalators, and related machinery (non-electrical). Requires two years’ experience. Erect, install or repair elevators, escalators and related machinery, including sheave beams, sheaves, cable and wire rope, guides, cab, counterweights, doors, including sidewalk elevators, automatic and manual controls, signal systems and all other devices, apparatus, machinery and equipment (including fabrication on job site) essential to the safe and efficient installation and operation of electrical, hydraulic and manually operated elevators and escalators and conveyors designed specifically for the transportation of people.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — MM 1

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
MM-1 Plumbing (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: MM-1 — (1) MM-1. Plumbing. Requires four years’ experience. Install, alter, repair, service, and maintain plumbing, plumbing fixtures, and piping, includes incidental concrete supports, and excavating, trenching and backfilling; includes hot water heating systems not exceeding 30 p.s.i. or 400,000 b.t.u./hour input; piping for fuel, oil and gasoline; piping and appurtenances for solar thermal energy systems; potable water irrigation sprinkler systems; swimming pools and spas; includes pneumatic or electric controls and control wiring not greater than 24 volts; septic tanks, manholes and sewer lines; does not include installation of natural gas fired appliances or natural gas piping; piping and agricultural sprinkler irrigation system installation and maintenance on farm or ranch property that moves water for livestock use or irrigation purposes from a privately owned well or pipeline, not connected to a public potable water supply are exempt from licensing requirements. When connected to a potable water source all connections must be downstream of an approved back flow prevention device. If a backflow prevention device is required it shall be permitted and installed by a properly certified journeyman employed by an appropriately licensed contractor.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: four years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — MM 2

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
MM-2 Natural Gas Fitting (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: MM-2 — (2) MM-2. Natural gas fitting. Requires four years’ experience. Install, alter, repair, service and maintain natural gas piping and fittings; install hot water heating systems not exceeding 30 p.s.i. or 400,000 b.t.u./hour input; steam and hot water boilers; may connect water to existing valved outlets; warm air heating systems including chimney connections, flues, refractories, burners, fittings valves, thermal insulation, accessories and incidental piping; warm air appliances and other listed gas appliances; incidental controls and control wiring, pneumatic control systems; includes all required excavating, trenching and backfilling. May not install LP Gas systems.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: four years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — MM 3

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
MM-3 Heat, Vent and Air Conditioning (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: MM-3 — (3) MM-3. Heating, ventilation & air conditioning (HVAC). Requires four years’ experience. Install, alter, repair, service and maintain HVAC air handling and refrigeration equipment and piping, including fans, coils, condensing units, self-contained packaged air conditioning or heating units, evaporative cooling units, and ductwork and accessories including solar air heating and cooled mechanical air handling and 14.6.6 NMAC 8
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: four years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — MM 4

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
MM-4 Heat, Cooling, and Process Pipe (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: MM-4 — (4) MM-4. Heating, cooling and process piping. Requires four years’ experience. Install, alter, repair, service and maintain hydronic heating, cooling and process piping, piping and appurtenances for steam and hot water systems of any temperature or pressure range, chilled water systems, condensing water systems and other process piping systems; includes air handling equipment, pressure vessels, heat exchangers, boilers, refrigeration water chillers, cooling towers, fuel oil tanks and fuel oil piping; electric controls and control wiring not to exceed 24 volts; install high pressure and process piping solar thermal energy systems of any temperature or pressure range conveying gas or fluids other than potable water; water based fire protection sprinkler systems, dry chemical fire protection systems.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: four years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — MM 98

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: MM-98 — (5) MM-98. Mechanical. Requires four years’ experience. Indicates licensure in individual classifications MM-1 through MM-4 and covers all work described in these classifications, as well as work described in the MS-3, MS-6, MS-12 and MS-14. C. Mechanical Specialty classifications:
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: four years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — MS 12

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
MS-12 Fire Protection Systems (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: MS-12 — (3) MS-12. Fire protection sprinkler systems. Requires four years’ experience. Install alter, repair, service or maintain water-based fire protection systems required pressure or storage tanks, controls and control wiring up to 24 volts; excavate and backfill and install piping from structure to off-site water supply adjacent to fire protection system property; bid or contract for structural alterations, electrical wiring, etc., incidental to the system installation, provided such work is performed by a validly licensed contractor.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: four years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — MS 14

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
MS-14 Dry Chemical Fire Protection (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: MS-14 — (4) MS-14. Dry chemical fire protection. Requires four years’ experience. Install, alter, repair, or service or maintain gaseous or chemical based fire protection systems including carbon dioxide (CO), or clean agents; pressurized storage tanks, valves, temperature sensing devices, solenoid or safety shut-off devices and other incidental controls and control wiring up to 24 volts; bid or contract for structural alterations, electrical wiring, etc., incidental to the system installation, provided such work is performed by a properly licensed contractor.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: four years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — MS 3

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
MS-3 Cesspools, Septic Tanks and Sewers (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: MS-3 — (1) MS-3. Septic tanks & sewer. Requires two years’ experience. Install, alter, repair, service or maintain septic tanks and private sewage disposal systems, manholes and sewer lines, beginning at a connection to a public or private utility and ending at a point five feet beyond the outside wall of a building or structured; excavate, trench, backfill and grade as necessary; install or repair incidental plug-in type electrical control panels, controls and control wiring not to exceed 24 volts.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Qualifying party recertification — MS 6

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
MS-6 Lawn Sprinklers (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: MS-6 — (2) MS-6. Lawn sprinklers. Requires two years’ experience. Install, alter, repair, service or maintain potable water sprinkler systems; excavate, trench, backfill and grade as necessary; backflow prevention devices incidental plug-in type electrical control panels, controls and control wiring not to exceed 24 volts.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Director Waiver: Director may waive the retest for an additional twelve months on documented work experience showing equivalent technical and business knowledge.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Prior Certificate: Certificate expired after two consecutive years without qualifying a valid license, or a new qualifying-party certificate is required following revocation.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary Certificate of Qualification

Temporary replacement qualifying-party certificate for an experienced employee after loss of the regular qualifying party; regular examinations must be passed within ninety days.

Licensing authority: New Mexico Regulation and Licensing Department, Construction Industries Division · Application information

Temporary replacement qualifying party — EE 98

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
EE-98 Residential and Commercial Electrical (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: EE-98 — (a) EE-98. Residential, and commercial and industrial electrical wiring 5000 volts, nominal or less. Requires four years’ experience. Includes all electrical systems and wiring methods operating at 5000 volts, nominal, or less; electrical systems and wiring methods identified in electrical specialty classifications ES-1, ES-2, ES-3 and ES-7 ES-10R, or ES-10 residential electrical systems and wiring methods identified in classification ER-1; trenching and ductwork associated with classification EL-1; associated excavating, trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting for all electrical systems and wiring methods of 5000 volts, nominal or less. Does not include electrical wiring defined in the EL-1 classification other than trenching and duct work as specified above.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: four years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Nascla Waiver: May 2025 QP instructions: waiver for GB98 and EE98 only; use NASCLA scores to obtain another-jurisdiction license, hold that license at least one year, release the NASCLA transcript, and receive CID approval. The waiver removes only the trade test; experience and business-law requirements remain.
Nationwide Accredited Exam: The state accepts the electrical NASCLA accredited examination for a discretionary trade-examination waiver under 14.6.3.8(G)(2)(f). No corresponding nationwide version was supplied in sharedExamContext or knownRegistrations; this accepted examination is retained as an applicant condition pending nationwide registration.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — EL 1

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
EL-1 Electrical Distribution Systems, including Transmission Lines (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: EL-1 — (c) EL-1. Electrical distribution and transmission systems over 5000 volts, nominal. Requires four years’ experience. Includes all electrical systems and wiring methods operating at over 5000 volts, nominal; overhead or underground electrical distribution and transmission circuits, equipment,; associated towers, tower foundations and other supporting structures; associated excavating, trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting and ductwork; sub-stations and terminal facilities. Does not include any electrical wiring specified or other electrical classifications EE-98, ER-1, ES-1, ES-2, ES-3, ES-7, ES-10R or ES-10. (2) Electrical Specialty licenses.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: four years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — ER 1

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
ER-1 Residential Electrical Wiring (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: ER-1 — (b) ER-1. Residential electrical wiring 5000 volts, nominal or less. Requires two years’ experience. Includes electrical systems and wiring methods of 5000 volts, nominal or less at residential one and two-family dwelling units; multi-family dwellings when all such units are all on the ground floor with no occupancies above or below, as set forth in 14.10.4 NMAC. Does not include wiring for commercial use, such as motels, hotels and similar occupancies. May not contract for more than four dwelling units in any single building or structure.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — ES 1

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
ES-1 Electrical Signs and Outline Lighting (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: ES-1 — (a) ES-1. Electrical signs and outline lighting. Requires two years’ experience. Installation at commercial locations only. Outline lighting is an arrangement of LED, incandescent lamps, or gaseous tubes to outline and call attention to certain features such as the shape of a building or the decoration of a window and may or may not contribute to the general illumination of an area. Includes commercial electrical wiring methods of 5000 volts, nominal or less required to complete the installation of the sign or outline lighting where a “sign circuit” or outline lighting circuit has been provided within 10 feet of the roof or wall of the structure supporting the sign or outline lighting; concrete for the foundation of poles; build structures for the support of such signs associated excavating, trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting; installation of underground electrical wiring methods of 5000 volts, nominal or less required to complete the installation of the “sign circuit” not to exceed 10 feet from the foundation of the sign. 14.6.6 NMAC 6
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — ES 10

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
ES-10 Water Well Pump Installer (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: ES-10 — (f) ES-10. Water well pump installer. Requires two years’ experience. Commercial water well pumps, 600 volts or less, single or three phase. Includes the installation, maintenance, repairing or replacing electrical equipment, wiring, and accessories directly associated with water well pump systems; variable frequency drives; subpanels, luminaires, and receptacle outlets installed within the well pit or well enclosure; branch circuit or feeder conductors from the service equipment or panel board to the well pump location; incidental excavation and trenching; solar photo-voltaic arrays 5 kW or less when dedicated to pumping equipment. Does not include systems over 600 volts, electrical services, building wiring or any other electrical wiring.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — ES 10R

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
ES-10R Residential Water Well Pump Installer (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: ES-10R — (e) ES-10R. Residential water well pump installer. Requires two years’ experience. Residential water well pumps, 120/240 volts or less, single phase 15 HP or less. Includes the installation, maintenance, repairing or replacement of electrical equipment, wiring, and accessories directly associated with water well pump systems; single phase variable frequency drives; subpanels, luminaires, and receptacle outlets installed within the well pit or well enclosure; branch circuit or feeder conductors from the service equipment or panel board to the well pump location; incidental excavation, trenching; solar photo-voltaic arrays 5 kW or less when dedicated to pumping equipment; does not include electrical systems over 240 volts, pumps over 15 HP, electrical services, building wiring or any other electrical wiring.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — ES 2

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
ES-2 Cathodic Protection and Lightning Protection (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: ES-2 — (b) ES-2. Cathodic protection and lightening protection systems. Requires two years’ experience. Includes interior and exterior cathodic protection and lightening protection systems at commercial and residential locations; electrical wiring methods of 5000 volts, nominal or less required to complete a cathodic grounding protection system only; electrical wiring methods of 5000 volts, nominal or less required to complete a lightening protection system only. May not install the service riser, main service or service grounding.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — ES 3

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
ES-3 Low Voltage Special Systems (under 50 Volts) (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: ES-3 — (c) ES-3. Low voltage special systems (under 50 volts). Requires two years’ experience. Interior and exterior special systems, cabling and interconnections at commercial and residential locations, privately and publically owned operating at 50 volts or less; includes telecommunications systems; fire alarm systems, CATV systems; audio and visual systems; security systems; door and gate operated control circuits; temperature control circuits, other low voltage specialty systems operating at 50 volts or less; low voltage special systems cables installed in plenum or non-plenum rated walls or ceilings; low voltage special systems cables in existing raceways installed by others as defined at Paragraph (2) of Subsection A of 14.6.6.10 NMAC; direct burial low voltage special systems cables; overhead low voltage special systems cabling to structures; terminations and splicing of low voltage special system conductors; associated excavating, trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting; installation of underground electrical wiring methods required to complete any of the special systems listed above. An installer of television receive-only (TVROs) (dishes) is not required to have a contractor’s license when the installation is in a single-family dwelling and does not require the use of 120 volts for tracking. Does not include interior or exterior wiring of circuits operating above 50 volts which requires an EE-98 or ER-1 classification.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — ES 7

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
ES-7 Telephone Communication Systems and Telephone Interconnect Systems (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: ES-7 — (d) ES-7. Telephone communication systems. Requires two years’ experience. Interior and exterior telecommunications cabling and interconnections at commercial and residential locations, in publicly or privately owned buildings; includes telecommunication cables installed in plenum or non-plenum rated walls or ceilings; telecommunication cables in existing raceways installed by others as defined at Paragraph (2) of Subsection A of 14.6.6.10 NMAC; direct burial telecommunication cables; overhead telecommunication cabling to structures; terminations and splicing of communication conductors; associated excavating trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting, installation of underground electrical wiring methods required to complete the installation of telecommunications systems; terminal facilities; installation of integrated services digital network cross connect equipment; installation of VoIP switching technology equipment, repeaters, including the installation of instruments at their terminating locations. Does not include Interior or exterior wiring of circuits operating above 50 volts which requires an EE-98 classification.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — EV 98

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
EV-98 Elevators, Escalators, Conveyors (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: EV-98 — EV-98 Elevators, Escalators, Conveyors. Requires four years of experience.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: four years of experience
Experience Alternatives: Four years (8,000 hours), or completion of NAEC CETT or the IUEC program with a mechanic’s card; those program credentials waive the experience affidavit, not the EV98 exam.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — GA 1

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GA-1 Streets, Roads, and Highways (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GA-1 — (1) GA-1. Streets, roads and highways, including tunnels, parking lots, alleys, seal coat and surfacing. Requires two years’ experience. Clear, align, fill, compress, compact, build up or remove earth and do all work necessary to prepare, within the assigned rights-of-way, the land to accept a streets, roads, highways including culverts and tunnels, and alleys; includes parking lots, sidewalks or driveways; place and finish concrete or bituminous materials and apply sealcoat. This classification includes the scopes of work authorized by GA-2 and GA-3.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — GA 2

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GA-2 Maintenance and Repair (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GA-2 — (2) GA-2. Maintenance and repair. Requires two years’ experience. Fix, maintain, repair, patch, mend, cover, fill or replace with materials of like substances to that currently existing on streets, roads, highways, parking lots, driveways, sidewalks and alleys; apply seal coat to driveways and parking lots. Install rumble strips.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — GA 3

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GA-3 Curbs, Gutters, and Culverts (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GA-3 — (3) GA-3. Curbs, gutters and driveway culverts. Requires two years’ experience. Form, place and finish concrete curbs, gutters, driveway culverts, public sidewalks and bituminous ridge curbs for the deflection of water.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — GA 4

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GA-4 Striping (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GA-4 — (4) GA-4. Striping. Requires two years’ experience. Paint directional stripes on paved roads, streets, highways, alleys and parking lots; install auto parking bumpers or stops and highway lane markers/reflectors.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — GA 5

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GA-5 Highway Signs and Guard Rails (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GA-5 — (5) GA-5. Highway signs and guard rails. Requires two years’ experience. Erect and stabilize signs and guard rails along public highways, streets, roads and alleys, which are used for the direction and safety of vehicular traffic. Electrical signs must be installed by a properly licensed electrical contractor.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — GA 98

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GA-98 — (6) GA-98. Asphalt, bitumen and concrete construction. Indicates licensure in classifications GA-1 through GA-5; and covers all work authorized in those classifications. B. Residential and commercial building.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: Four years under the May 2025 QP application for GA-98
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — GB 2

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GB-2 Residential Building Contractor Part 1 Examination (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GB-2 — (1) GB-2. Residential. Requires two years’ of foreman level practical or related trade experience. Erect, alter, repair or demolish residences and apartment houses accommodating not more than four family units, Groups R-1, R-2 and R-3, as those groups are defined in 14.7.2 NMAC; items included in Group U, as defined in 14.7.2 NMAC, when incidental to these structures; includes all work described by the GS specialty classifications, provided the work is limited to residential construction as defined under this provision.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: two years’ of foreman level practical or related trade experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — GB 98

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GB-98 General Building Contractor Examination (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GB-98 — (2) GB-98. General building. Requires four years of foreman level practical or related trade experience of which at two years must be commercial experience. Erect, alter, repair or demolish residential and commercial buildings, and certain structures; includes all work authorized by the GB-2, GF-5, GF-7 and GS classifications; seal coating and striping of driveways and parking lots; excludes those structures covered by the EE, MM, GA or GF classifications. C. Fixed works. Construct, alter or repair fixed or public works facilities; provided, however, that work in any trade or craft that is authorized by any one, or a combination of, the mechanical, electrical, or general building or LP Gas classifications must be performed by an entity validly licensed in the appropriate classification. Except as may be expressly provided in a specific classification description, fixed works licensees may not construct buildings that are primarily for the use and occupancy of the general public, but may bid and contract for such buildings when they are incidental to a fixed works project; however, such work must be subcontracted pursuant to Subsection B of 14.6.6.8 NMAC, above. Incidental storage buildings used exclusively for storage and not for occupancy are allowed within these classifications. 14.6.6 NMAC 2
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: Four years of foreman-level practical or related trade experience, including two years of commercial experience.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Nascla Waiver: May 2025 QP instructions: waiver for GB98 and EE98 only; use NASCLA scores to obtain another-jurisdiction license, hold that license at least one year, release the NASCLA transcript, and receive CID approval. The waiver removes only the trade test; experience and business-law requirements remain.
Nationwide Accredited Exam: The state accepts the general construction NASCLA accredited examination for a discretionary trade-examination waiver under 14.6.3.8(G)(2)(f). No corresponding nationwide version was supplied in sharedExamContext or knownRegistrations; this accepted examination is retained as an applicant condition pending nationwide registration.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — GF 1

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-1 Airports (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GF-1 — (1) GF-1. Airports. Requires two years’ experience. Construct, alter and repair airports, including excavating, grading, compacting, sub-surfacing, surfacing (dirt or bitumen and concrete), marking and other work on surfaces to be used for aircraft traffic, landing, take-off and taxi.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — GF 2

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-2 Bridges (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GF-2 — (2) GF-2. Bridges. Requires two years’ experience. Erect, construct, alter, repair or demolish any bridge, overpass or underpass, culvert or ramp, generally used for vehicular traffic.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — GF 3

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-3 Canals, Reservoirs, or Irrigation Systems (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GF-3 — (3) GF-3. Canals, reservoirs, dams and irrigation systems. Requires two years’ experience. Construct, erect, alter, repair, or demolish canals, dams, reservoirs irrigation systems; excavate, ditch, fill, compact and place pre-cast components, waterproof membranes and liners, concrete reinforcement, abutments and buttresses in connection therewith; install tanks, pumps, pipelines and substations incidental to the project; irrigation activities and piping when applicable solely to the production of agriculture or maintenance of livestock on a farm or ranch, excluding electrical work, are exempt from licensing requirements.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — GF 4

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-4 Drainage or Flood Control Systems (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GF-4 — (4) GF-4. Drainage or flood control systems. Requires two years’ experience. Construct, erect, install, repair and alter drainage or flood control systems; dig, excavate, fill, prepare embankments for such purposes, place pre-cast components, concrete reinforcement and perform all other work incidental to these projects.; install storm sewers, including trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting, and paving.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — GF 5

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-5 Recreation Areas (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GF-5 — (5) GF-5. Recreation areas. Requires two years’ experience. Construct, prepare, clear, repair or alter facilities for use as recreation areas, including but not limited to golf courses, driving ranges, water parks, tennis courts, playgrounds, outdoor athletic facilities, miniature golf courses, pitch-and-putt golf courses; prepare the area by excavation, fill, including foundations, retaining walls, sprinkler systems, rest benches, shade and rain shelters and foot bridges relative to recreation areas; public campgrounds and parks or similar facilities, including toilet facilities and lean-tos.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — GF 6

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-6 Railroad and Tunnel Construction (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GF-6 — (6) GF-6. Railroad and tunnel construction. Requires two years’ experience. Construct railroad lines, including clearing, filling, shaping, compacting, placing rip-rap, stabilizing, setting roadbeds, ties, tie plates, rails, rail connectors, frogs, switch plates, switches, and all appurtenances necessary for an operational railroad line, including bridges, culverts, tunnels, retaining walls, dikes, gates, tool sheds and landing or parking platforms for equipment. Includes welding operations necessary for rail construction.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — GF 7

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-7 Tanks and Towers (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GF-7 — (7) GF-7. Tanks and towers. Requires two years’ experience. Construct or fabricate on site and install tanks for the storage of solids or liquids, above or below ground, and towers such as radio, television and telecommunications towers, including all necessary site-work, excavation and construction of concrete tanks, pads and foundations, cutting, welding, placement of structural members, engineered structural support systems for elevated tanks, and engineered or prefabricated towers; includes the repair and placement of liners in tanks, and incidental storage buildings.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — GF 8

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-8 Transmission Lines, Tanks, and Substations (Non- Electrical) (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GF-8 — (8) GF-8. Transmission lines, tanks and substations (non-electrical). Requires two years’ experience. Build, construct and place lines for the transmission or conveyance of natural gas or petroleum, water and other fluid substances, including the application of protective coatings, trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting, paving and surfacing necessary and incidental to the completion of the installation of such facilities. Includes incidental buildings, tanks, and substations required for the project; construct, alter or repair industrial plants, including, but not limited to, refineries and power generation plants.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — GF 9

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-9 Utility Lines (practice unavailable)
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GF-9 — (9) GF-9. Utility lines and systems (sewage, water, natural gas and underground telephone cables). Requires two years’ experience. Construct, install, alter or repair utility lines and utility systems for the transmission of sewage, natural gas and water, including excavating, grading, trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting, paving and surfacing; includes tanks, pumps, lift-stations and substations incidental to the project; construct, alter, or repair treatment plants and facilities incidental thereto; install direct burial communications cable by trenching, direct plowing or pulling direct burial cable through existing raceways and install vaults as directed by the telecommunications utility; associated excavating, trenching, boring, shoring, backfilling, compacting, paving and surfacing. Shall not perform installation of electrical raceways including directional boring or pipe jacking methods, splicing, termination, installation of load pots, installation of integrated services digital network cross connect equipment, installation of VoIP switching technology equipment, overhead cabling work, or other activities considered under the scope of the ES-7, EL-1, ES-3 or EE-98 electrical classifications.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — GF 98

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GF-CORE (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GF-98 — (10) GF-98. Construct, alter or repair fixed works facilities. Requires four years’ experience; indicates licensure in classifications GF-1 through GF-9 and authorizes all work described in these classifications. D. General Specialty classifications. General construction includes numerous specialties. Therefore, CID has established the GS classification series to enable entities that perform this kind of work to be 14.6.6 NMAC 3
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: four years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — GS 1

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-1 — (1) GS-1. Acoustical insulation and insulation. Requires two years’ experience. Install any insulating material, including urethane foam and approved waterproof membranes and coatings, in or on buildings, structures and on piping for the purpose of energy conservation, temperature and sound control, and fireproofing. Does not include the installation of urethane roof systems.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — GS 13

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-13 Framing (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-13 — (8) GS-13. Framing. Requires two years of foreman level practical or related trade experience; cut, join, install wood, metal or other products approved by the division and utilized for the framing of a structure or building, including bearing and non-bearing walls, rafters, headers, trusses, joists, studs, door and window rough frames, and roof decks, including repair to any of the above.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: two years of foreman level practical or related trade experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — GS 14

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-14 — (9) GS-14. Windows, doors and skylights. Requires two years’ experience. Fabricate and install windows and doors in buildings and structures, including the necessary installation of window, door and skylight framing, and the installation of necessary hardware; cut, assemble and install glass work, and execute the glazing of frames, panels, sash and doors; fabricate and install storm doors, windows, and skylights including flashing; does not include structural alterations to enlarge any opening.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Vendor Door Exam: The April 2026 PSI bulletin names GS-6 Door Installation, whereas the March 2022 codified classification is GS-14 Windows, doors and skylights. Neither source explicitly assigns the GS-6 paper to GS-14; that association is undetermined and is not inferred from topic overlap.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — GS 15

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-15 — (10) GS-15. Caissons, piers and pile driving. Requires two years’ experience. Install piers, caissons and pilings through the use of pile driving equipment and machinery, including necessary excavation, grading and clearing for site preparation for pile driving activities; cut, weld, join and fabricate caissons or piles; install all necessary concrete and reinforcing steel within the caissons to create a structural member; soil stabilization and rock-fall mitigation.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — GS 16

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-16 Masonry (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-16 — (11) GS-16. Masonry. Requires two years’ experience. Install or erect brick and other baked clay products, rough cut and dressed stone, artificial stone and pre-cast blocks, structural glass brick or block adobe, laid at random or in courses, with or without mortar, to form masonry walls, anchored stone or masonry veneer, including building walls, freestanding walls six feet or higher from ground level and retaining walls measuring thirty-six inches or more measured from the bottom of the footing; does not include the execution, fabrication and erecting of poured cement and concrete, except as a foundation for a wall. 14.6.6 NMAC 4
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — GS 2

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-2 — (2) GS-2. Awnings and canopies. Requires two years’ experience. Construct, erect and install awnings and canopies, attached to buildings and structures or free standing, including, but not limited to carports and service station canopies, and including necessary excavation and foundation work. All electrical work shall be performed by a properly licensed electrical contractor.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — GS 21

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-21 Roofing (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-21 — (12) GS-21. Roofing. Requires two years of foreman level practical or related trade experience. Install, alter or repair roof systems on new or existing roof decks to create a weatherproof and waterproof protective membrane, with or without insulation, using asphalt, pitch, tar, sealants, felt, shakes, shingles, roof tile, slate, urethane or any other approved materials including the preparatory work necessary to bring a roof deck or an existing roof to a condition where roofing can be installed, and sealed or repaired; includes cutting, shaping, fabricating, and installing of sheet metal such as cornices, flashing, skylights (excluding alterations to structural framing), roof coatings, gutters, leaders, rainwater downspouts, pans, prefabricated chimneys, at or near roof lines, metal flues, or doing any part of any combination thereof, which relate to and are incidental to roofing projects.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: two years of foreman level practical or related trade experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — GS 23

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-23 — (13) GS-23. Sign construction (non-electrical). Requires two years’ experience. Fabricate on site, install and erect signs of wood, steel, plastic or any material, or any combination of materials, which are to be embedded in the earth, in concrete or other base material, or attached to buildings or structures using anchors, attached cables, bars or similar devices and appurtenances; electrified signs shall only be installed by contractors holding an ES-1 or an EE-98 classification.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — GS 24

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-24 Structural Steel Erection (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-24 — (14) GS-24. Structural steel erection. Requires two years of foreman level practical or related trade experience. Fabricate on site and erect structural steel shapes and plates, of any profile, perimeter or cross-section that may be used as structural members for buildings and structures, including riveting and welding; does not authorize construction of concrete foundations or complete buildings.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: two years of foreman level practical or related trade experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — GS 25

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-25 Swimming Pools (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-25 — (15) GS-25. Swimming pools (non-plumbing, mechanical or electrical). Requires two years’ experience. Construct and repair swimming pools including excavation, installation of reinforcing steel or mesh, application of concrete and special coatings; shall not perform any scope of work which is authorized by a plumbing, mechanical, electrical or LP Gas classification.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — GS 29

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-29 — (20) GS-29 specialties. Requires up to four years’ experience as determined on a case-by- case basis. The GS-29 classification is a sub-category of the general specialty classifications. It is a miscellaneous classification that is used to identify specific specialties on a case-by-case basis.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: up to four years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — GS 30

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-30 Plastering, Stucco and Lathing (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-30 — (16) GS-30. Plastering, stucco and lathing. Requires two years’ experience. Prepare wall and ceiling surfaces, interior or exterior, with wood, metal lath, wallboard or other properly prepared surfaces which will accept and hold a mixture of sand, plaster (including gypsum plaster), lime and water, or sand and cement with water or any combination of materials to create a permanent surface coating; these coatings may be applied manually or mechanically on surfaces which will support such coating; install steel or wood or other division approved stud systems (non-structural), channel iron work and affix lath or any other materials or products, prepared or manufactured to provide a base for such coatings.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — GS 31

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-31 — (17) GS-31. Siding. Requires two years’ experience. Apply, replace, or repair siding consisting of slate, gypsum, wood, plastics or other products, including the application of furred up networks on which the siding can be installed.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — GS 32

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-32 — (18) GS-32. Miscellaneous sheet metal. Requires two years’ experience. Fabricate on site and install sheet metal (galvanized iron) such as cornices, flashing, gutters, leaders, rainwater downspouts, pans, and prefabricated chimneys; shall not install heating, ventilation & air conditioning (HVAC) duct systems, vents, grease hoods, or other appurtenances that are authorized by mechanical or plumbing classifications.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — GS 34

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-34 — (19) GS-34. Concrete coring, drilling and slab sawing. Requires two years’ experience. Coring, boring, drilling, cutting, and sawing concrete, including the removal or demolition of the material; does not include the installation of electrical wiring or plumbing in such bored, drilled, cut or sawed concrete. (20) GS-29 specialties. Requires up to four years’ experience as determined on a case-by- case basis. The GS-29 classification is a sub-category of the general specialty classifications. It is a miscellaneous classification that is used to identify specific specialties on a case-by-case basis. [14.6.6.9 NMAC - Rp, 14.6.6.9 NMAC, 3/10/2022]
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — GS 4

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-4 Concrete, Cement, Walkways, and Driveways (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-4 — (3) GS-4. Concrete, cement, walkways and driveways. Requires two years’ experience practical trade experience, one year of which must be foreman level. Mix, pour, place, and finish concrete,; includes all necessary preparatory work including excavation, form work, and placing of reinforcement materials; includes the installation on private property of curbs, gutters, sidewalks, and driveway culverts; may not perform this work in public rights-of-way unless subcontracted to a validly licensed GA licensee.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: Two years of practical trade experience, including one year at foreman level.
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — GS 5

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-5 — (4) GS-5. Demolition. Requires two years’ experience. Demolish all or any portion of a buildings and structures authorized by the GB-98 classification, including demolition to portions of buildings and structures allowing additions and alterations to be completed to the remaining portions of the building or structure.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — GS 7

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-7 Drywall Installation and Texture (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-7 — (5) GS-7. Drywall installation and texture. Requires two years’ experience. Installation of gypsum wallboard, and gypsum sheathing; includes taping, bedding and coating the surfaces of the wallboard and sheathing with gypsum joint systems, tape and drywall mud, or a combination of other materials to create a permanent surface or coating and of walls and ceilings; install steel or wood stud systems (non-structural) and channel iron work to provide a base for the application of drywall.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — GS 8

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-8 Earthmoving, Excavation, and Ditching (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-8 — (6) GS-8. Earthmoving, excavating and ditching. Requires two years’ experience. Perform earthwork associated with or incidental to construction projects regulated by CID, using hand or power tools, machines that use air, fluids, or other material under pressure, or heavy equipment, in such a manner that cutting, filling, excavating, grading, trenching, backfilling, boring and any similar excavating activity can be executed; earthmoving, excavating and ditching activities applicable to the preparation and production of agriculture or maintenance of livestock on a farm or ranch are exempt from licensing requirements.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — GS 9

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
GS-9 Elevators, Escalators, Conveyors (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: GS-9 — (7) GS-9. Elevators, escalators, and related machinery (non-electrical). Requires two years’ experience. Erect, install or repair elevators, escalators and related machinery, including sheave beams, sheaves, cable and wire rope, guides, cab, counterweights, doors, including sidewalk elevators, automatic and manual controls, signal systems and all other devices, apparatus, machinery and equipment (including fabrication on job site) essential to the safe and efficient installation and operation of electrical, hydraulic and manually operated elevators and escalators and conveyors designed specifically for the transportation of people.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — MM 1

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
MM-1 Plumbing (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: MM-1 — (1) MM-1. Plumbing. Requires four years’ experience. Install, alter, repair, service, and maintain plumbing, plumbing fixtures, and piping, includes incidental concrete supports, and excavating, trenching and backfilling; includes hot water heating systems not exceeding 30 p.s.i. or 400,000 b.t.u./hour input; piping for fuel, oil and gasoline; piping and appurtenances for solar thermal energy systems; potable water irrigation sprinkler systems; swimming pools and spas; includes pneumatic or electric controls and control wiring not greater than 24 volts; septic tanks, manholes and sewer lines; does not include installation of natural gas fired appliances or natural gas piping; piping and agricultural sprinkler irrigation system installation and maintenance on farm or ranch property that moves water for livestock use or irrigation purposes from a privately owned well or pipeline, not connected to a public potable water supply are exempt from licensing requirements. When connected to a potable water source all connections must be downstream of an approved back flow prevention device. If a backflow prevention device is required it shall be permitted and installed by a properly certified journeyman employed by an appropriately licensed contractor.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: four years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — MM 2

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
MM-2 Natural Gas Fitting (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: MM-2 — (2) MM-2. Natural gas fitting. Requires four years’ experience. Install, alter, repair, service and maintain natural gas piping and fittings; install hot water heating systems not exceeding 30 p.s.i. or 400,000 b.t.u./hour input; steam and hot water boilers; may connect water to existing valved outlets; warm air heating systems including chimney connections, flues, refractories, burners, fittings valves, thermal insulation, accessories and incidental piping; warm air appliances and other listed gas appliances; incidental controls and control wiring, pneumatic control systems; includes all required excavating, trenching and backfilling. May not install LP Gas systems.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: four years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — MM 3

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
MM-3 Heat, Vent and Air Conditioning (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: MM-3 — (3) MM-3. Heating, ventilation & air conditioning (HVAC). Requires four years’ experience. Install, alter, repair, service and maintain HVAC air handling and refrigeration equipment and piping, including fans, coils, condensing units, self-contained packaged air conditioning or heating units, evaporative cooling units, and ductwork and accessories including solar air heating and cooled mechanical air handling and 14.6.6 NMAC 8
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: four years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — MM 4

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
MM-4 Heat, Cooling, and Process Pipe (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: MM-4 — (4) MM-4. Heating, cooling and process piping. Requires four years’ experience. Install, alter, repair, service and maintain hydronic heating, cooling and process piping, piping and appurtenances for steam and hot water systems of any temperature or pressure range, chilled water systems, condensing water systems and other process piping systems; includes air handling equipment, pressure vessels, heat exchangers, boilers, refrigeration water chillers, cooling towers, fuel oil tanks and fuel oil piping; electric controls and control wiring not to exceed 24 volts; install high pressure and process piping solar thermal energy systems of any temperature or pressure range conveying gas or fluids other than potable water; water based fire protection sprinkler systems, dry chemical fire protection systems.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: four years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — MM 98

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: MM-98 — (5) MM-98. Mechanical. Requires four years’ experience. Indicates licensure in individual classifications MM-1 through MM-4 and covers all work described in these classifications, as well as work described in the MS-3, MS-6, MS-12 and MS-14. C. Mechanical Specialty classifications:
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: four years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Trade Examination Slot: CID determines the required trade-specific examination(s), if any, for this approved classification. The official sources do not assign a currently identifiable named examination to this exact classification; this slot is an applicant condition under the contract. No umbrella examination is invented from its scope.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — MS 12

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
MS-12 Fire Protection Systems (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: MS-12 — (3) MS-12. Fire protection sprinkler systems. Requires four years’ experience. Install alter, repair, service or maintain water-based fire protection systems required pressure or storage tanks, controls and control wiring up to 24 volts; excavate and backfill and install piping from structure to off-site water supply adjacent to fire protection system property; bid or contract for structural alterations, electrical wiring, etc., incidental to the system installation, provided such work is performed by a validly licensed contractor.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: four years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — MS 14

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
MS-14 Dry Chemical Fire Protection (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: MS-14 — (4) MS-14. Dry chemical fire protection. Requires four years’ experience. Install, alter, repair, or service or maintain gaseous or chemical based fire protection systems including carbon dioxide (CO), or clean agents; pressurized storage tanks, valves, temperature sensing devices, solenoid or safety shut-off devices and other incidental controls and control wiring up to 24 volts; bid or contract for structural alterations, electrical wiring, etc., incidental to the system installation, provided such work is performed by a properly licensed contractor.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: four years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — MS 3

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
MS-3 Cesspools, Septic Tanks and Sewers (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: MS-3 — (1) MS-3. Septic tanks & sewer. Requires two years’ experience. Install, alter, repair, service or maintain septic tanks and private sewage disposal systems, manholes and sewer lines, beginning at a connection to a public or private utility and ending at a point five feet beyond the outside wall of a building or structured; excavate, trench, backfill and grade as necessary; install or repair incidental plug-in type electrical control panels, controls and control wiring not to exceed 24 volts.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

Temporary replacement qualifying party — MS 6

All of the following:

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination
MS-6 Lawn Sprinklers (practice unavailable)

Attachment: Attach the certificate to a valid license; a never-attached certificate expires after twelve months and a detached certificate after two consecutive years.
Business Law Alternative: NMSA 1978 §60-13-16(C) permits an approved accredited business-and-law course completion certificate in lieu of the Business and Law exam. The exam remains a route leaf under this contract’s applicant-waiver rule.
Classification: MS-6 — (2) MS-6. Lawn sprinklers. Requires two years’ experience. Install, alter, repair, service or maintain potable water sprinkler systems; excavate, trench, backfill and grade as necessary; backflow prevention devices incidental plug-in type electrical control panels, controls and control wiring not to exceed 24 volts.
Conduct: Comply with child-support requirements; disqualifying convictions and CILA violations may prevent certification.
Education Credit: Accredited technical training counts at one-half year of experience for each training year, not exceeding half the required experience.
Examination Deadline: Temporary certificate is issued without an initial sitting, but the regular examinations must be passed within ninety days; subsequent required exams remain leaves.
Experience: two years’ experience
Minimum Age: At least eighteen years old.
Preapproval: Submit the complete application and notarized experience affidavits; obtain approval before examination and finish certification requirements within the six-month application/approval period.
Score Validity: Passing examination scores are valid for one year.
Temporary Eligibility: Regular qualifying-party employment ended without fault of the licensed contractor; employee is experienced in the same classification and has worked for that contractor for at least five years.
Work Recency: Required practical/trade experience must be within the ten years before application.

New Mexico Contractor Business and Law Examination

Examination outline

Licensing Requirements
Estimating and Bidding
Business Organization and Financial Management
Tax Laws
Labor Laws
Project Management and Lien Law
Contracts
Risk Management
Environmental and Safety

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EE-98 Residential and Commercial Electrical

Examination outline

EE-98 Residential and Commercial Electrical Part 1
- General Knowledge and Electrical Installation Requirements
- Services, Feeders, and Branch Circuits
- Overcurrent Protection
- Grounding and Bonding
- Conductors and Cables
- Raceways and Boxes
- Hazardous Locations, Special Occupancies, and Special Equipment
- Lighting, Signs, and General-Use Equipment
- Motors, Transformers, and Generators
- New Mexico State Code
EE-98 Residential and Commercial Electrical Part 2
- General Knowledge and Electrical Installation Requirements
- Services, Feeders, and Branch Circuits
- Overcurrent Protection
- Grounding and Bonding
- Conductors and Cables
- Raceways and Boxes
- Special Occupancies and Special Equipment, including Pools
- Lighting and General-Use Equipment
- New Mexico State Code
EE-98 Residential and Commercial Electrical Part 3 (Specialties)
- Low Voltage, including Alarms
- Electrical Signs and Outline Lighting
- Cathodic Protection and Lightning Protection Systems
- Telephone and Computer Systems
- Sound and Communication Systems

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EL-1 Electrical Distribution Systems, including Transmission Lines

Examination outline

General Knowledge and Electrical Installation Requirements
Electrical Supply/Substations
Transformers
Conductors
Poles and Structures
Grounding Methods
Overhead
Underground
Equipment and Safety
Equipment over 600 Volts

Examination sources

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ER-1 Residential Electrical Wiring

Examination outline

General Knowledge and Electrical Installation Requirements
Services, Feeders, and Branch Circuits
Overcurrent Protection
Grounding and Bonding
Conductors and Cables
Raceways and Boxes
Special Occupancies and Special Equipment, including Pools
Lighting and General-Use Equipment
New Mexico State Code
Low Voltage

Examination sources

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ES-1 Electrical Signs and Outline Lighting

Examination outline

General Knowledge and Theory
Wiring and Protection
Wiring Methods and Material
Equipment For General Use
Special Occupancies
Special Equipment

Examination sources

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ES-10 Water Well Pump Installer

Examination outline

General Knowledge and Electrical Installation Requirements
Feeders and Branch Circuits
Overcurrent Protection
Grounding and Bonding
Conductors and Cables
Raceways and Boxes
Panelboards and Switchboards
Motors, Pumps, and Controls
Solar PV Systems
New Mexico Electrical Code

Examination sources

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ES-10R Residential Water Well Pump Installer

Examination outline

General Knowledge and Electrical Installation Requirements
Feeders and Branch Circuits
Overcurrent Protection
Grounding and Bonding
Conductors and Cables
Raceways and Boxes
Panelboards and Switchboards
Motors, Pumps, and Controls
Solar PV Systems
New Mexico Electrical Code

Examination sources

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ES-2 Cathodic Protection and Lightning Protection

Examination outline

General Electrical Knowledge
National Electrical Code
Lightning Protection
Cathodic Protection

Examination sources

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ES-3 Low Voltage Special Systems (under 50 Volts)

Examination outline

Grounding and Bonding
Conductors
Electrical Power Conditioning
Electrical and Electronic Knowledge
General Low Voltage
Sound and Video Systems
Intrusion Detection and Alarms
Fire Detection and Alarms
Computer and Data Systems
CCTV Systems
Testing Equipment
CATV and MATV Systems
Applied Systems Design

Examination sources

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ES-7 Telephone Communication Systems and Telephone Interconnect Systems

Examination outline

Grounding and Bonding
Conductors
Special Occupancies and Equipment
General Electrical Knowledge
Communication Systems
Outside Cabling
Cable Transmission and Reception
Poles
Inside Cabling
Network/Data
Switching
Telephones
Underground Cabling

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GA-1 Streets, Roads, and Highways

Examination outline

Bituminous Surface Treatments and Pavement
Earthwork
Project Management (Planning, Estimating, Basis of Payment, One Call)
Heavy Equipment / Safety
Portland Cement Surface Treatments and Pavement
Erosion Control
Surveying
Miscellaneous (Curbs and Gutters, Concrete Wall Barrier, Fences, Signs)

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GA-2 Maintenance and Repair

Examination outline

Bituminous Surface Treatments and Pavements
Project Management (Planning, Estimating, Basis of Payment)
Portland Cement Surface Treatments and Pavements
Heavy Equipment / Safety

Examination sources

New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.16, GA-2 examination heading, line 31
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
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New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
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Contractor’s License Requirements, 14.6.3 NMAC
14.6.3.8(G)(2)(b)-(c), examination administrator and score
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.16, ga2 scored questions, threshold and time, line 35
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.1, candidates require examination preapproval

GA-3 Curbs, Gutters, and Culverts

Examination outline

Earthwork / Surveying
Concrete
Curbs and Gutters
Culverts
Project Management (Planning, Estimating, Basis of Payment, One Call)
Heavy Equipment / Safety

Examination sources

New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.17, GA-3 examination heading, line 34
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
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New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.17, ga3 content outline, extracted line 59
Contractor’s License Requirements, 14.6.3 NMAC
14.6.3.8(G)(2)(b)-(c), examination administrator and score
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.17, ga3 scored questions, threshold and time, line 41
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.1, candidates require examination preapproval

GA-4 Striping

Examination outline

Pavement Markings
Planning
Equipment/Safety
Estimating/Basis of Payment

Examination sources

New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.17, GA-4 examination heading, line 50
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.17, ga4 content outline, extracted line 65
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.17, ga4 content outline, extracted line 66
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
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New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.17, ga4 content outline, extracted line 68
Contractor’s License Requirements, 14.6.3 NMAC
14.6.3.8(G)(2)(b)-(c), examination administrator and score
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.17, ga4 scored questions, threshold and time, line 57
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.1, candidates require examination preapproval

GA-5 Highway Signs and Guard Rails

Examination outline

Metal Barriers, Barricades, Traffic Control Devices
Highway Signs
Equipment Safety
Estimating/Basis of Payment
Planning

Examination sources

New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.18, GA-5 examination heading, line 39
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
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New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
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New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.18, ga5 content outline, extracted line 55
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.18, ga5 content outline, extracted line 56
Contractor’s License Requirements, 14.6.3 NMAC
14.6.3.8(G)(2)(b)-(c), examination administrator and score
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.18, ga5 scored questions, threshold and time, line 43
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.1, candidates require examination preapproval

GB-2 Residential Building Contractor Part 1 Examination

Examination outline

Sitework, Footings, and Foundations
Concrete and Concrete Reinforcement
Masonry
Carpentry
Roofing
Associated Trades
General Code, Plan Reading, and Estimating
OSHA Safety

Examination sources

New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.18, GB-2 examination heading, line 38
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
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New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
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p.18, gb2 content outline, extracted line 57
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.18, gb2 content outline, extracted line 58
Contractor’s License Requirements, 14.6.3 NMAC
14.6.3.8(G)(2)(b)-(c), examination administrator and score
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.18, gb2 scored questions, threshold and time, line 43
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.1, candidates require examination preapproval

GB-98 General Building Contractor Examination

Examination outline

GB-2 Residential Building Contractor Part 1 Examination
- Sitework, Footings, and Foundations
- Concrete and Concrete Reinforcement
- Masonry
- Carpentry
- Roofing
- Associated Trades
- General Code, Plan Reading, and Estimating
- OSHA Safety
GB-98 General Building Contractor Part 2 Examination
- Sitework, Footings, and Foundations
- Concrete and Concrete Reinforcement
- Masonry
- Carpentry
- Metals
- Roofing
- Associated Trades
- General Code, Plan Reading, and Estimating
- OSHA Safety

Examination sources

New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.2, Combination Exams registration and part-level retakes
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
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Contractor’s License Requirements, 14.6.3 NMAC
14.6.3.8(G)(2)(b)-(c), examination administrator and score
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.18, gb2 scored questions, threshold and time, line 43
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.19, gb98-p2 scored questions, threshold and time, line 7
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.1, candidates require examination preapproval

GF-CORE

Examination outline

Stormwater Management
OSHA Safety
Project Management
Surveying / Layout
New Mexico One-Call
Building Code / Inspections

Examination sources

New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
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New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.20, gf-core content outline, extracted line 80
Contractor’s License Requirements, 14.6.3 NMAC
14.6.3.8(G)(2)(b)-(c), examination administrator and score
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.20, gf-core scored questions, threshold and time, line 69
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.1, candidates require examination preapproval

GF-1 Airports

Examination outline

Sitework
Runways
FAA Regulations
Lighting

Examination sources

New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.20, GF-1 examination heading, line 71
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
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Contractor’s License Requirements, 14.6.3 NMAC
14.6.3.8(G)(2)(b)-(c), examination administrator and score
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.20, gf1 scored questions, threshold and time, line 75
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.1, candidates require examination preapproval

GF-2 Bridges

Examination outline

Sitework
Concrete
Metals
Asphalt Pavement
Rigging
Project Management

Examination sources

New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.21, GF-2 examination heading, line 51
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
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New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
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New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
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Contractor’s License Requirements, 14.6.3 NMAC
14.6.3.8(G)(2)(b)-(c), examination administrator and score
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.21, gf2 scored questions, threshold and time, line 56
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.1, candidates require examination preapproval

GF-3 Canals, Reservoirs, or Irrigation Systems

Examination outline

Irrigation
Concrete
Sitework

Examination sources

New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.21, GF-3 examination heading, line 60
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
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New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
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New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
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Contractor’s License Requirements, 14.6.3 NMAC
14.6.3.8(G)(2)(b)-(c), examination administrator and score
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.21, gf3 scored questions, threshold and time, line 66
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.1, candidates require examination preapproval

GF-4 Drainage or Flood Control Systems

Examination outline

Earthwork
Culverts and Pipe
Concrete
Project Management

Examination sources

New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.22, GF-4 examination heading, line 57
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
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New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
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New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.22, gf4 content outline, extracted line 1
Contractor’s License Requirements, 14.6.3 NMAC
14.6.3.8(G)(2)(b)-(c), examination administrator and score
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.22, gf4 scored questions, threshold and time, line 62
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.1, candidates require examination preapproval

GF-5 Recreation Areas

Examination outline

Sitework
Irrigation
Concrete
Project Management

Examination sources

New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.22, GF-5 examination heading, line 51
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
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Contractor’s License Requirements, 14.6.3 NMAC
14.6.3.8(G)(2)(b)-(c), examination administrator and score
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.22, gf5 scored questions, threshold and time, line 57
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.1, candidates require examination preapproval

GF-6 Railroad and Tunnel Construction

Examination outline

Railroad and tunnel construction

Examination sources

New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.23, GF-6 examination heading, line 61
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.23, GF-6 published scope of work, line 1
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.23, GF-6 published scope of work, line 66
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.23, GF-6 published scope of work, line 67
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.23, GF-6 published scope of work, line 69
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.23, GF-6 published scope of work, line 70
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.23, GF-6 published scope of work, line 71
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.23, GF-6 published scope of work, line 72
Contractor’s License Requirements, 14.6.3 NMAC
14.6.3.8(G)(2)(b)-(c), examination administrator and score
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.23, GF-6 essay assessment, line 4
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.23, GF-6 essay assessment, line 10
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.1, candidates require examination preapproval

GF-7 Tanks and Towers

Examination outline

Miscellaneous Structures
Sitework / Excavation
Welding
Paving and Surfacing
Tanks
Towers

Examination sources

New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.23, GF-7 examination heading, line 15
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
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New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
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New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
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New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.23, gf7 content outline, extracted line 37
Contractor’s License Requirements, 14.6.3 NMAC
14.6.3.8(G)(2)(b)-(c), examination administrator and score
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.23, gf7 scored questions, threshold and time, line 21
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.1, candidates require examination preapproval

GF-8 Transmission Lines, Tanks, and Substations (Non- Electrical)

Examination outline

Tanks and Pipelines
Miscellaneous Structures / Corrosion Protection
Welding
Heavy Equipment / Safety
Paving and Surfacing

Examination sources

New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.24, GF-8 examination heading, line 37
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
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New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
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New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.24, gf8 content outline, extracted line 57
Contractor’s License Requirements, 14.6.3 NMAC
14.6.3.8(G)(2)(b)-(c), examination administrator and score
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.24, gf8 scored questions, threshold and time, line 43
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.1, candidates require examination preapproval

GF-9 Utility Lines

Examination outline

Pipe/Miscellaneous Structures
Earthwork
Surface Repair
Project Management

Examination sources

New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.24, GF-9 examination heading, line 66
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
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New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
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New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
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New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
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Contractor’s License Requirements, 14.6.3 NMAC
14.6.3.8(G)(2)(b)-(c), examination administrator and score
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.24, gf9 scored questions, threshold and time, line 72
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.1, candidates require examination preapproval

GS-13 Framing

Examination outline

Estimating and Plan Reading
Layout
Walls
Floors and Stairs
Roofs
OSHA Safety

Examination sources

New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.28, GS-13 examination heading, line 12
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
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New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
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New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
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New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
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New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.28, gs13 content outline, extracted line 33
Contractor’s License Requirements, 14.6.3 NMAC
14.6.3.8(G)(2)(b)-(c), examination administrator and score
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.28, gs13 scored questions, threshold and time, line 19
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.1, candidates require examination preapproval

GS-16 Masonry

Examination outline

Estimating and Plan Reading
Unit Masonry
Mortar and Grout
Accessories
Stone
Tools
Restoration and Cleaning
Safety

Examination sources

New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.28, GS-16 examination heading, line 27
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
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New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
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New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
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New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
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New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
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New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
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New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
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New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.28, gs16 content outline, extracted line 46
Contractor’s License Requirements, 14.6.3 NMAC
14.6.3.8(G)(2)(b)-(c), examination administrator and score
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.28, gs16 scored questions, threshold and time, line 19
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.1, candidates require examination preapproval

GS-21 Roofing

Examination outline

Estimating and Plan Reading
Surface Preparation and Planning
Steep and Low Slope Roofing
Roofing Components
Safety

Examination sources

New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.29, GS-21 examination heading, line 35
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
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New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
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New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
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New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.29, gs21 content outline, extracted line 55
Contractor’s License Requirements, 14.6.3 NMAC
14.6.3.8(G)(2)(b)-(c), examination administrator and score
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.29, gs21 scored questions, threshold and time, line 43
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.1, candidates require examination preapproval

GS-24 Structural Steel Erection

Examination outline

Materials
Rigging
Steel Erection
Attachment
Safety

Examination sources

New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.29, GS-24 examination heading, line 56
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
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New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
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p.29, gs24 content outline, extracted line 72
Contractor’s License Requirements, 14.6.3 NMAC
14.6.3.8(G)(2)(b)-(c), examination administrator and score
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.29, gs24 scored questions, threshold and time, line 61
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.1, candidates require examination preapproval

GS-25 Swimming Pools

Examination outline

Plan Reading and Estimating
Sitework and Excavating
Forming and Reinforcing
Concrete
Shotcrete
Pool Equipment, Including ADA (No Plumbing or Electric)
Safety, Including CFR, Pool and Security Fencing

Examination sources

New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.30, GS-25 examination heading, line 60
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
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Contractor’s License Requirements, 14.6.3 NMAC
14.6.3.8(G)(2)(b)-(c), examination administrator and score
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.30, gs25 scored questions, threshold and time, line 65
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.1, candidates require examination preapproval

GS-30 Plastering, Stucco and Lathing

Examination outline

Estimating and Plan Reading
Surface Preparation
Materials
Installation
E.I.F.S.
Tools
Safety

Examination sources

New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.31, GS-30 examination heading, line 16
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
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New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.31, gs30 content outline, extracted line 37
Contractor’s License Requirements, 14.6.3 NMAC
14.6.3.8(G)(2)(b)-(c), examination administrator and score
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.31, gs30 scored questions, threshold and time, line 23
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.1, candidates require examination preapproval

GS-4 Concrete, Cement, Walkways, and Driveways

Examination outline

Estimating and Plan Reading
Layout and Excavation
Formwork
Reinforcing Steel
General Concrete
Safety

Examination sources

New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.25, GS-4 examination heading, line 82
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
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New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.25, gs4 content outline, extracted line 1
Contractor’s License Requirements, 14.6.3 NMAC
14.6.3.8(G)(2)(b)-(c), examination administrator and score
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.25, gs4 scored questions, threshold and time, line 87
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.1, candidates require examination preapproval

GS-7 Drywall Installation and Texture

Examination outline

Estimating and Plan Reading
Materials and Installation
Taping
Special Applications
Safety

Examination sources

New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.26, GS-7 examination heading, line 1
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
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New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
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New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
p.26, gs7 content outline, extracted line 21
Contractor’s License Requirements, 14.6.3 NMAC
14.6.3.8(G)(2)(b)-(c), examination administrator and score
New Mexico Contractor Examinations Candidate Information Bulletin
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GS-8 Earthmoving, Excavation, and Ditching

Examination outline

Estimating and Plan Reading
Equipment and Technique
Compaction
Soil Types
Specialty Work (Blasting, Shoring)
Safety

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GS-9 Elevators, Escalators, Conveyors

Examination outline

Commercial Elevators
Residential Elevators
Escalators/Moving Walks
Dumbwaiters
Emergency Service

Examination sources

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MM-1 Plumbing

Examination outline

Drainage Waste and Vents
Water Supply Systems
Backflow Prevention
Storm Drainage Systems
Plumbing Fixtures incl Water Heaters/Accessibility
General Knowledge and General Regulations
Interceptors and Traps
Isometric Analysis
Septic and Sewer

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MM-2 Natural Gas Fitting

Examination outline

General Knowledge and Principles
Piping
Gas Sizing
Safety and Testing
Appliances
Combustion Air
Chimneys, Flues, and Vents
Heating Systems

Examination sources

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MM-3 Heat, Vent and Air Conditioning

Examination outline

Motors, Controls, and Low Voltage Wiring
Piping
Heating and Cooling General Knowledge
Heating and Cooling Equipment and Components
Refrigerants and Refrigeration
Duct Work, Ventilation, and Exhaust

Examination sources

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MM-4 Heat, Cooling, and Process Pipe

Examination outline

General Knowledge
Steam and Hot Water Boiler Systems
Process Piping and Systems
Fire Suppression Systems
Controls and Components
Combustion Air and Venting

Examination sources

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MS-12 Fire Protection Systems

Examination outline

Backflow Prevention
Hydraulic Calculations and Design
Residential Systems
Fire pumps and Standpipes
Sprinkler Systems
Water Supply, Storage, and Distribution
General and Code Knowledge
Materials and Methods
Testing and Inspections (NFPA 25)

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MS-14 Dry Chemical Fire Protection

Examination outline

Clean Agents and Alternative Systems
Foam Systems
Wet Chemical Systems
Dry Chemical Systems
Carbon Dioxide Systems
Portable Fire Extinguishers
Commercial Kitchen Equipment

Examination sources

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MS-3 Cesspools, Septic Tanks and Sewers

Examination outline

General Knowledge
Installation and Materials
Septic Tanks
Disposal Absorption Fields
Building Sewers
Alternative Disposal

Examination sources

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MS-6 Lawn Sprinklers

Examination outline

General Knowledge
Design
Materials
Controls and Wiring
Excavation
Pumps
Water Supply
Sprinkler Heads

Examination sources

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EV-98 Elevators, Escalators, Conveyors

Examination outline

Commercial Elevators
Escalators/Moving Walks
Dumbwaiters
Emergency Service

Examination sources

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