148. How do we know our HOA contractor license is registered in WV?

ARTICLE 42. WEST VIRGINIA CONTRACTOR LICENSING ACT requires all contractors to be  registered with the West Virginia Tax Department, verify workers’ compensation and unemployment coverage, if applicable, and be in compliance with the wage bonding requirements.

West Virginia Code §30-42-3. Definitions.
   (d)       “Contractor” means a person who in any capacity for compensation, other than as an employee of another, undertakes, offers to undertake, purports to have the capacity to undertake, or submits a bid to construct, alter, repair, add to, subtract from, improve, move, wreck, or demolish any building, highway, road, railroad, structure, or excavation associated with a project, development, or improvement, or to do any part thereof, including the erection of scaffolding or other structures or works in connection therewith, where the cost of the undertaking is $5,000 or more for residential work or $25,000 or more for commercial work.