Georgia required licensing starting in 1980 (rule 122-2-01), and it was an absolute free-for-all as far as grandfathering people in. Pay the money, get a license.
We are now finally starting to see the very last of these guys go. Some of them were well-qualified, most were not. When I got my license 13 years ago, there were over 10,000 Class II license holders in the state, more than half of which were grandfathered in. The next highest was HVAC at 5,000, and then plumbing with less than 2500. I have no idea what the numbers are now as I haven’t looked in years. I do remember at the time my county with a population of 100k had at least 150 licensed electrical contractors.
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