How to get a contractor license in Delaware
Delaware uses a split system: part state, part local. Delaware has no state competency license or exam for general contractors; contractors must register with the Division of Revenue for a state business license (a tax registration, with additional bonding rules for non-resident contractors), and cities and towns impose their own separate local licensing requirements.
- Licensing level
- hybrid
- Exam vendor
- See agency
- Verified
- Partially
Start at the source
Delaware Division of Revenue is the official authority. Its site, revenue.delaware.gov, carries the current requirements, applications and any candidate bulletin. Everything on this page routes back to it, because requirements change and the agency's version is the one that counts.
Verify locally
Parts of this state's structure could not be fully confirmed against official sources at the time of writing. Treat this page as a map, and the agency as the territory.
The path, wherever you are
- Confirm the licensing level above with the authority, then pull the current application checklist from its site.
- Where a trade exam is required, get the candidate bulletin: it names the exam vendor, the topics, and the exact reference editions allowed on the table.
- Buy the referenced code books in the exact editions listed, and tab them yourself within whatever marking the bulletin permits.
- Train the lookup, not just the knowledge: contractor trade exams are commonly open book, which makes finding the governing section fast the actual tested skill.
- Expect a separate business and law exam in many jurisdictions, with its own reference book.
Why open book changes your prep
An open-book exam gives you the answers and takes away the time to find them. The candidates who fail are rarely the ones who knew the least; they are the ones who found things slowest. That lookup skill is what this site trains:the free timed drill shows you your seconds-per-lookup in two minutes.
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The kit that goes on the table
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