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and all residential building construction. It includes parking decks; all
site work, grading and paving of parking lots, driveways, sidewalks, and
gutters; storm drainage, retaining or screen walls, and hardware and ac-
cessory structures; and indoor and outdoor recreational facilities includ-
ing natural and articial surface athletic elds, running tracks, bleachers,
and seating. It also covers work done under the specialty classications
of S(Concrete Construction), S(Insulation), S(Interior Construction),
S(Marine Construction), S(Masonry Construction), S(Roong), S(Metal
Erection), S(Swimming Pools), and S(Asbestos), and S(Wind Turbine).
(2) Residential Contractor. is classication covers all construction and
demolition activity pertaining to the construction of residential units that
are required to conform to the residential building code adopted by the
Building Code Council pursuant to G.S. 143-138; all site work, drive-
ways, sidewalks, and water and wastewater systems ancillary to the afore-
mentioned structures and improvements; and the work done as part of
such residential units under the specialty classications of S(Insulation),
S(Interior Construction), S(Masonry Construction), S(Roong),
S(Swimming Pools), and S(Asbestos).
(3) Highway Contractor. is classication covers all highway construction
activity including: grading, paving of all types, installation of exterior
articial athletic surfaces, relocation of public and private utility lines
ancillary to a principal project, bridge construction and repair, culvert
construction and repair, parking decks, sidewalks, curbs, gutters and
storm drainage. It also includes installation and erection of guard rails,
fencing, signage and ancillary highway hardware; covers paving and
grading of airport and aireld runways, taxiways, and aprons, including
the installation of fencing, signage, runway lighting and marking; and
work done under the specialty classications of S(Boring and Tunneling),
S(Concrete Construction), S(Marine Construction), S(Railroad
Construction), and H(Grading and Excavating).
(4) Public Utilities Contractor. is classication includes operations that are
the performance of construction work on water and wastewater systems
and on the subclassications of facilities set forth in G.S. 87-10(b)(3). e
Board shall issue a license to a public utilities contractor that is limited
to any of the subclassications set forth in G.S. 87-10(b)(3) for which
the contractor qualies. A public utilities contractor license covers work
done under the specialty classications of S(Boring and Tunneling),
PU(Communications), PU(Fuel Distribution), PU(Electrical-Ahead
of Point of Delivery), PU(Water Lines and Sewer Lines), PU(Water
Purication and Sewage Disposal), and S(Swimming Pools).
(5) Specialty Contractor. is classication covers all construction operation
and performance of contract work outlined as follows:
(A) H(Grading and Excavating). is classication covers the digging,
moving, and placing of materials forming the surface of the earth,
excluding air and water, in such a manner that the cut, ll, excava-
tion, grade, trench, backll, or any similar operation may be exe-
cuted with the use of hand and power tools and machines used for
these types of digging, moving, and material placing. It covers work
on earthen dams and the use of explosives used in connection with
all or any part of the activities described in this Subparagraph. It also
includes clearing and grubbing, and erosion control activities.