Contractor License Lookup - TX FL VA NC WA NV MI

Look up contractor and professional licenses on official state licensing-board portals and get the result in one normalized schema, regardless of which board issued the license.

Use it to verify a contractor before hiring, check credentials during onboarding or KYB, or monitor license expirations across a vendor list.

Supported licensing boards

jurisdiction	Board	Lookup by
us-fl-contractors	Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR): Construction Industry Licensing Board (general, building, residential, roofing, plumbing, mechanical, pool and other contractors) and Electrical Contractors' Licensing Board	license number (e.g. CGC1530424), business name
us-mi-contractors	Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA), Bureau of Construction Codes: residential builders, maintenance and alteration contractors, electrical, mechanical, plumbing, boiler and elevator licenses	license number (e.g. 2102165263), business name
us-nc-general-contractors	North Carolina Licensing Board for General Contractors	license number, company name
us-nv-contractors	Nevada State Contractors Board	license number (e.g. 0038442), company name
us-tx-tdlr	Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation: A/C, electrical, elevator and appliance-installation contractors, electricians and every other TDLR license type	license number (e.g. TACLA00001392C, JE - 13380), person or business name
us-va-contractors	Virginia Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation (DPOR), Board for Contractors: Class A, B and C contractors and tradesmen (electricians, plumbers, HVAC technicians), backflow prevention device workers, elevator mechanics and water well providers	license number (e.g. 2701000041), business or person name
us-wa-contractors	Washington State Department of Labor & Industries: construction, electrical, plumbing and elevator contractors	license number (e.g. SKANSUB985RT), business name

Washington data comes from L&I's official open dataset on data.wa.gov, which L&I refreshes daily, so a change made on the board's site today may appear tomorrow. It includes expired, suspended and out-of-business licenses. Washington records have no qualifiers or disciplinary actions; name searches list active licenses first.

Nevada name searches match the start of the company name and list active licenses first. Nevada records include the monetary limit (limitation), qualified individuals and, for revoked or suspended licenses, the board's reason in statusRaw.

Texas license numbers are unique only within a license type. Type the number with its prefix (TACLA00001392C, JE - 13380) to get that license; a bare number (13380) returns every license type that uses it. Texas name searches match the start of the name; people are listed as LAST, FIRST.

Michigan name searches match the beginning of the business name (Pulte finds "PULTE HOMES OF MICHIGAN LLC"); put % in front to match anywhere in the name (%Homes). Individual tradespeople such as electricians and plumbers have no business name, so look them up by license number. LARA's status Issued is reported as active. The address is limited to city, state and ZIP, and only name searches return it. Michigan records have no qualifiers or disciplinary actions.

In Florida a contractor license is held by a person who qualifies the business, so holderName is that person and the business appears in alsoKnownAs. Name searches match business names anywhere in the name. Only Current, Active licenses are reported as active; for example Delinquent, Active (not renewed) is inactive. disciplinaryActions lists the public complaints DBPR publishes for the license. Florida records have no qualifiers.

Virginia's DPOR shows a status only when it is exceptional (for example REVOKED), so a license without one is reported as active until its expiration date and inactive after it; statusRaw is then empty. limitation holds the contractor class (Class A, B or C), which caps the value of a single contract, and classifications the specialties. disciplinaryActions lists open and closed complaints. Name searches match anywhere in the name and return at most 200 licenses. DPOR asks for a CAPTCHA after many requests in a short time from one IP address; the run then fails with a message saying so. Use a proxy for large Virginia runs. Virginia records have no qualifiers.

More boards are added over time. Request one via the Issues tab.

Input

{
    "jurisdiction": "us-nc-general-contractors",
    "licenseNumbers": ["L.02077"],
    "names": ["Clancy"],
    "maxResultsPerQuery": 10
}

• licenseNumbers returns at most one record each (Texas: one per license type for a bare number).
• names returns up to maxResultsPerQuery records each.

Output

One dataset item per license record:

{
    "jurisdiction": "us-nc-general-contractors",
    "licenseNumber": "L.02077",
    "licenseType": "License",
    "holderName": "Clancy & Theys Construction Co.",
    "alsoKnownAs": [],
    "status": "active",
    "statusRaw": "Active",
    "issuedDate": "1949-07-07",
    "expirationDate": "2026-12-31",
    "address": { "street": "421 N. Harrington Street, Suite 200", "city": "Raleigh", "state": "NC", "postalCode": "27603" },
    "phone": "9198343601",
    "classifications": ["Unclassified"],
    "limitation": "Unlimited",
    "qualifiers": [{ "name": "David Timothy Clancy", "number": "Q.00181", "status": "Active" }],
    "disciplinaryActions": [],
    "sourceUrl": "https://portal.nclbgc.org/Public/_ShowAccountDetails/?key=...",
    "fetchedAt": "2026-10-07T04:30:00Z",
    "query": { "licenseNumber": "L.02077" }
}

status is normalized to active, inactive or unknown; statusRaw keeps the board's own wording. Fields the board does not publish are null or empty.

Pricing

Pay per event: you are charged once per license-record returned. Queries with no match are free.

Data source and legality

All data comes from public license-verification pages that the boards publish for exactly this purpose. No login, no personal data beyond what the board itself makes public.