no GC license is required for any project in GA, although there are 6 jurisdictions in the state that require you to pass the ICC contractors exam, mine being one of them. this will change 01/2008 as they passed a bill requiring a licenses for residential contractors, resi-light comm. contractors, and gen. contractors. most of us will get grandfathered in. the only thing that really pissed everyone off is that you can only get a license to cover work you've already done, and you had to already have the level of insurance required by the license you applied for to get it. we also had to provide bank account statements, corporate financial statements, and credit info to get the license. it mainly hurt people like project managers who may have all the experience needed, but now have to buy insurance just to get a license that may not be required if they work for another contractor and don't have enough assets. the state really screwed up in the way they handled this. i went to the q&a forum held by the SOS office. the rep. from the sos office had NO answer for 90% of the questions he was asked. i could go on for days about this.
