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How do you check a contractor license in Louisiana?

The Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors keeps a public contractor search on its contractor search page at lslbc.gov, by contractor name, license number, city or town, parish and qualifying party; it lists only contractors whose license or registration is current, and the board warns its pages may lag behind recent changes.

Source: Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors, frequently asked questions, read 22 October 2026.
Source: Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors, contractor search page, read 22 October 2026.

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By InstaBids editorial team with AI research agents. Sources last read: 22 October 2026

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Where is the Louisiana contractor search, and what does it leave out?

The search is on the board's contractor search page at lslbc.gov; it shows only contractors whose license or registration is current, and the board says it may not reflect recent changes.

Source: Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors, contractor search page, read 22 October 2026.

The board's FAQ, read 22 October 2026, lists the ways to search: "Additionally, you can search by contractor name; license number; city/town; parish; and qualifying party."

Source: Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors, frequently asked questions, read 22 October 2026.

The same FAQ describes a drop-down to "select either: Commercial, Residential, Mold Remediation or Home Improvement from the drop down of options."

Source: Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors, frequently asked questions, read 22 October 2026.

The contractor search page adds a note on who appears: "Note, only currently licensed / registered contractors appear in search results."

Source: Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors, contractor search page, read 22 October 2026.

The same page warns about how current its data is: "The information contained on these pages is provided as a courtesy and may not reflect recent changes or updates."

Source: Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors, contractor search page, read 22 October 2026.

Which Louisiana jobs need a state license or registration?

It depends on the kind of job and its value. The board says its statutes provide for four basic license types; its search lets you filter by Commercial, Residential, Mold Remediation or Home Improvement. Its license types page lists residential construction, and home improvement on an existing home, under the Residential license once the project passes the figure quoted below. For smaller home improvement jobs, the FAQ says a home improvement registration is required, and the statute's wording of that band is quoted below.

Source: Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors, types of licenses, read 22 October 2026.
Source: Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors, frequently asked questions, read 22 October 2026.

The board's page on license types opens: "The statutes of the Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors (LSLBC) provide for four basic license types."

Source: Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors, types of licenses, read 22 October 2026.

Asked whether a Commercial license covers building a single home, the FAQ says: "A Residential license with the Residential Construction classification is required for new home construction."

Source: Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors, frequently asked questions, read 22 October 2026.

Under Residential, the license types page lists "Residential Construction exceeding $50,000 (including labor and materials) of any residential structure."

Source: Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors, types of licenses, read 22 October 2026.

The same list adds: "Home Improvements projects on existing residential structures exceeding $50,000."

Source: Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors, types of licenses, read 22 October 2026.

For home improvement projects inside a set band of total project amounts, the FAQ says "a home improvement registration is required."

Source: Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors, frequently asked questions, read 22 October 2026.

The band also appears, in words, in the statute's definition of a home improvement contractor, and its wording differs a little from the FAQ's. Section 37:2150.1 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes, defining that term, reads: a home improvement contractor "means any person who undertakes or attempts to undertake or submits a price or bid or offers to construct, supervise, superintend, oversee, direct, perform, or in any manner assume charge of a home improvement project for which the project value is at least seven thousand five hundred dollars but less than fifty thousand dollars."

Source: Louisiana State Legislature, Revised Statutes section 37:2150.1, read 22 October 2026.

Mold work has its own line on the license types page: "A Mold Remediation license is required for remediation projects with a value of $7,500 or more."

Source: Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors, types of licenses, read 22 October 2026.

What work is off limits under a home improvement registration?

Structural work. The statute bars a home improvement contractor from structural work integral to a structure's integrity; in its words: "A home improvement contractor shall not perform any structural work that is integral to the structural integrity of any new or existing structure, including but not limited to footings, foundations, outside walls, skeleton, bearing columns and interior load bearing walls, floor slabs, or roofing systems to any type."

Source: Louisiana State Legislature, Revised Statutes section 37:2150.1, read 22 October 2026.

In our reading: a home improvement registration does not cover structural work, so if your job includes structural work, you can use the drop-down the FAQ describes to see which types the contractor appears under.

Source: Louisiana State Legislature, Revised Statutes section 37:2150.1, read 22 October 2026.
Source: Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors, frequently asked questions, read 22 October 2026.

What else can a Louisiana homeowner look up?

Two more things: whether a local license is the state one, and the board's separate section on disciplinary actions and violations.

Source: Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors, frequently asked questions, read 22 October 2026.
Source: Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors, contractor violations, read 22 October 2026.

On local licenses, the board's FAQ says: "An occupational license is NOT a contractor’s license."

Source: Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors, frequently asked questions, read 22 October 2026.

On its contractor violations page, the board describes that section this way: "This section provides information about disciplinary actions and violations to help consumers make informed decisions and hold contractors accountable."

Source: Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors, contractor violations, read 22 October 2026.

What should you ask a Louisiana contractor before you search?

Ask for the name the contractor works under and any license or registration number, ask what the whole job will cost and whether it includes structural work; then you can search the board's records before you sign, as an optional public-record step. The search fields and the structural limit come from the board and the statute; the order of the steps is a practical suggestion, not a board rule.

Source: Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors, frequently asked questions, read 22 October 2026.
Source: Louisiana State Legislature, Revised Statutes section 37:2150.1, read 22 October 2026.

  1. Ask for the contractor's name and any license or registration number; the board's search takes either.

    Source: Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors, frequently asked questions, read 22 October 2026.

  2. Ask what the whole project will come to, and compare it with the statute's wording of that band, quoted above; above that band, the board's license types page lists, under Residential: "Home Improvements projects on existing residential structures exceeding $50,000."

    Source: Louisiana State Legislature, Revised Statutes section 37:2150.1, read 22 October 2026.
    Source: Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors, types of licenses, read 22 October 2026.

  3. If the job includes structural work such as footings, foundations, interior load bearing walls, floor slabs or roofing systems, ask which license the contractor holds; the statute bars a home improvement contractor from structural work integral to a structure's integrity (quoted above).

    Source: Louisiana State Legislature, Revised Statutes section 37:2150.1, read 22 October 2026.

  4. Search by contractor name or license number on the contractor search page at lslbc.gov, or pick Commercial, Residential, Mold Remediation or Home Improvement from the drop-down the FAQ describes to see whether the contractor appears under that type; keep in mind that it lists only current license and registration holders, and that the board says its pages may not reflect recent changes.

    Source: Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors, contractor search page, read 22 October 2026.
    Source: Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors, frequently asked questions, read 22 October 2026.

  5. Do not take a local occupational license as the state contractor's license; the board says it is not one.

    Source: Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors, frequently asked questions, read 22 October 2026.

  6. Read the board's contractor violations section for any disciplinary actions it lists.

    Source: Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors, contractor violations, read 22 October 2026.

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Source: InstaBids process and privacy, live-page excerpts, read 22 October 2026.

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