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La. Rev. Stat. § 37:2151 (2026)

State licensing board for contractors; membership; qualifications; tenure; vacancies; term limits

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§2151. State licensing board for contractors; membership; qualifications; tenure; vacancies; term limits

           A. There is hereby created the State Licensing Board for Contractors within the office of the governor. The members shall serve without compensation.

           (1) Each member shall be of full age of majority and shall have been a resident of the state of Louisiana for the last five successive years.

           (2) Each member shall have been actively engaged as a responsible contractor in the construction classification that he represents for the five-year period prior to his appointment as a board member, except for any member appointed pursuant to Paragraph (B)(7) of this Section if he represents the public at large.

           (3) There shall be at least one board member from each congressional district in the state of Louisiana.

           B. The members shall be selected and appointed as follows:

           (1) At least four members shall have had the greater part of their experience as a licensed contractor in the field of highway and street construction. Three members shall be appointed from a list of six names submitted by the Louisiana Associated General Contractors. One member shall be appointed from a list of three names submitted by the Louisiana Asphalt Pavement Association.

           (2) At least six members shall have had the greater part of their experience as a licensed contractor in the fields of building or industrial construction, or both fields. Two members shall be appointed from a list of four names submitted by the Louisiana Associated General Contractors. Four members shall be appointed from a list of eight names submitted by the Associated Builders and Contractors of Louisiana.

           (3) At least one member shall have had the greater part of his experience as a licensed contractor in the field of mechanical construction, and shall be appointed from a list of three names submitted by the Mechanical Contractors Association of Louisiana.

           (4) At least one member shall have had the greater part of his experience as a licensed contractor in the field of electrical construction, and shall be appointed from a list of three names submitted by the Louisiana Council of the National Electrical Contractors Association.

           (5) There shall be one member with the greater part of his experience as a licensed concrete contractor. The speaker of the House of Representatives shall submit to the governor a list of three members of the Louisiana Concrete Association, and the governor shall appoint this member.

           (6) There shall be one member with the greater part of his experience as a subcontractor. The president of the Senate shall submit to the governor a list of three members of the American Subcontractors Association of Louisiana, and the governor shall appoint this member.

           (7) At least three members shall be from and represent the public at large and shall not earn their livelihood in a construction-related industry.

           (8) At least one member shall have had the greater experience as a licensed contractor in the field of oil field construction and shall be appointed from a list of three names submitted by the Louisiana Oilfield Contractors Association.

           (9) There shall be one member from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

           C. All vacancies shall be filled within ninety days of the vacancy, by appointment of the governor within the classification of area and qualification where the vacancy shall occur.

           D. Members shall serve terms of six years. No member appointed after August 1, 2025, shall serve more than three consecutive terms. A member may be removed by the governor for cause or at the request of the chairman for failure to attend more than half of the regularly scheduled meetings within a twelve-month period or for cause.

           Added by Acts 1956, No. 233, §1; Amended by Acts 1964, No. 113, §1; Acts 1976, No. 377, §1; Acts 1981, No. 668, §1; Acts 1984, No. 916, §1, eff. July 20, 1984; Acts 1985, No. 645, §1, eff. July 16, 1985; Acts 1991, No. 649, §§1 and 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1992; Acts 1992, No. 344, §1; Acts 1992, No. 681, §1, eff. July 6, 1992; Acts 2001, No. 8, §12, eff. July 1, 2001; Acts 2018, No. 529, §1, eff. August 1, 2018; Acts 2019, No. 371, §1, eff. August 1, 2019; Acts 2024, No. 227, §1, eff. August 1, 2024; Acts 2025, No. 422, §1, eff. August 1, 2025.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 10 cases, 1960–2017 · leading case: Lemoine/Brasfield & Gorrie Jt. Venture, LLC v. Orleans Par. Crim. Sheriff's Off., 63 So. 3d 1068 (La. Ct. App. 2011).
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Lemoine/Brasfield & Gorrie Jt. Venture, LLC v. Orleans Par. Crim. Sheriff's Off., 63 So. 3d 1068 (La. Ct. App. 2011). “R.S. 37:2151, et seq. provides for the creation of the State Licensing Board for Contractors, and La.”
State Licensing Bd. for Contractors v. State Civil Serv. Comm'n, 123 So. 2d 76 (La. 1960). “, tention in adopting Act 233 of 1956, by which the State Licensing Board for Contractors was created (LSA-R.S. 37:2151 et seq.) was not to constitute the Board as a State agency and not to subject the Board to civil service, analyzed the various provisions of the said Act, and…”
A.M.E. Disaster Recovery Servs., Inc. v. St. John the Baptist Par. Sch. Bd., 54 So. 3d 719 (La. Ct. App. 2010). “R.S. 37:2151, et seq. The Instructions to Bidders requires the ^bidder for this project to be “fully qualified under all Louisiana State Laws, and all local licensing laws for Contractors in effect at the time and at the location(s) of the Work before submitting his Bid .”
United Stage Equip., Inc. v. CHAS. CARTER & CO., INC., 342 So. 2d 1153 (La. Ct. App. 1977). “The defendants filed an exception of no right or cause of action as well as defending on the basis that United, who was a nonresident corporation, had not complied with Louisiana law requiring a contractor to obtain a license, specifically LSA-R.S. 37:2151 et seq., the violation…”
J. Caldarera & Co. v. Hosp. Serv. Dist. No. 2, 707 So. 2d 1023 (La. Ct. App. 1998). “R.S. 37:2151, et seq. provides for the creation of the State Licensing Board for Contractors.”
Messina v. Koch Indus., Inc., 267 So. 2d 221 (La. Ct. App. 1972). “37:2157 1 and was not licensed as required by R.S. 37:2151 — 2163. 2 We do not agree that the work performed by Messina was prohibited by the cited statutes.”
A. Copeland Enter., Inc. v. R. Jones Enter., Inc., 433 So. 2d 1066 (La. Ct. App. 1982). · cites it 2× “Jones answered and filed an "exception of no cause and no right of action" [1] directed at Copeland's failure to comply with state law, requiring a contractor to be licensed in the State of Louisiana pursuant to LSA-R.S. 37:2151 et seq. After a hearing, the trial judge rendered…”
Spinks Constr., Inc. v. Quad States Constr., LLC, 240 So. 3d 215 (La. Ct. App. 2017). “R.S. 37:2151 and 37:2156.1. Clearly, the scope of representation granted a "qualifying person" as defined in La.”
Messina v. Koch Indus., Inc., 283 So. 2d 204 (La. 1973). “Their reason for so concluding was that Messina's "contract" with the defendants was a cost plus fixed fee contract which type contract was not covered by the contractors' statute, R.S. 37:2151 et seq. We affirm, finding no merit in defendants' contention that Messina's activity…”
Quality Contractors Inc. v. State Licensing Bd. for Contractors, 206 So. 2d 738 (La. Ct. App. 1968). · cites it 2× “” The law providing for licensing of contractors is contained in R.S. 37:2151— 37:2163. Section 37:2160 provides that it shall be unlawful for any person to engage in the business of contracting without having qualified as a contractor under the *740 above act.”
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