Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:2156.2 – Major categories; subclassifications; specialty classifications; requirements for contractors holding major classification to perform mechanical, electric, or plumbing work
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:2156.2
- contractor: includes persons who receive an additional fee for the employment or direction of labor, or any other work beyond the normal architectural or engineering services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:2150.1
Any contractor possessing a major classification is permitted to bid or perform any of the specialty type work required to perform its scope of work for its respective classification. Under each major category listed in this Section is a list of subclassifications that a specialty contractor may obtain, as follows:
I. Building construction
Subclassifications:
1. Acoustical treatments
2. Fire sprinkler work
3. Foundations for buildings, equipment, or machinery
4. Incinerator construction
5. Installation of equipment, machinery, and engines
6. Installation of pneumatic tubes and conveyors
7. Insulation for cold storage and buildings
8. Insulation for pipes and boilers
9. Landscaping, grading, and beautification
10. Lathing, plastering, and stuccoing
11. Masonry, brick, stone
12. Painting and flooring
13. Pile driving
14. Rigging, house moving, wrecking, and dismantling
15. Roof decks
16. Roofing and sheet metal, siding
17. Sheet metal duct work
18. Steam and hot water heating in buildings or plants
19. Steel erection and installation
20. Stone, granite, slate, resilient floor installations
21. Swimming pools
22. Tile, terrazzo, and marble
23. Water cooling towers and accessories
24. Drywall
25. Driveways, parking areas, asphalt, and concrete, exclusive of highway and street work
26. Fencing
27. Labor only
II. Highway, street, and bridge construction
Subclassifications:
1. Driveways, parking areas, asphalt, and concrete
2. Highway and street subsurface drainage and sewer work
3. Permanent or paved highways and streets (asphalt hot and cold plant mix)
4. Permanent or paved highways and streets (asphalt surface treatment)
5. Permanent or paved highways and streets (concrete)
6. Permanent or paved highways and streets (soil cement)
7. Secondary roads
8. Undersealing or leveling of roads
9. Earthwork, drainage, and levees
10. Clearing, grubbing, and snagging
11. Culverts and drainage structures
12. Bridges, over and underpasses
13. Landscaping, grading, and beautification
14. Fencing
15. Furnishing and installation of movable structures or machinery, excluding electrical and mechanical work
16. Labor only
III. Heavy construction
Subclassifications:
1. Clearing, grubbing, and snagging
2. Dams, reservoirs, and flood control work other than levees
3. Dredging
4. Electrical transmission lines
5. Foundations and pile driving
6. Industrial piping
7. Industrial plants
8. Industrial ventilation
9. Oil field construction
10. Railroads
11. Transmission pipeline construction
12. Tunnels
13. Wharves, docks, harbor improvements, and terminals
14. Landscaping, grading, and beautification
15. Fencing
16. Labor only
IV. Municipal and public works construction
Subclassifications:
1. Filter plants and water purification
2. Pipe work (gas lines)
3. Pipe work (sewer)
4. Pipe work (storm drains)
5. Pipe work (waterlines)
6. Power plants
7. Sewer plant or sewer disposal
8. Underground electrical conduit installation
9. Landscaping, grading, and beautification
10. Fencing
11. Labor only
V. Electrical
Subclassifications:
1. Electrical transmission lines
2. Underground electrical conduit installation
3. Electrical controls
VI. Mechanical
Subclassifications:
1. Heat, air conditioning, ventilation, duct work, and refrigeration
2. Industrial pipe work and insulation
3. Plumbing
4. Controls for mechanical work
VII. Plumbing
Subclassifications:
1. Potable and nonpotable water systems; construction, removal, repair, and maintenance for buildings and premises.
2. Sanitary and nonsanitary waste and sewerage construction; removal, repair, and maintenance for buildings and premises.
VIII. Hazardous materials
Subclassifications:
1. Asbestos removal and abatement
2. Hazardous waste treatment or removal
3. Any other classification for which the Department of Environmental Quality requires certification pursuant to law or regulation.
IX. Residential construction
Added by Acts 1976, No. 82, §2, eff. July 8, 1976; Acts 1988, No. 635, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1989; Acts 1992, No. 681, §1, eff. July 6, 1992; Acts 2001, No. 968, §1; Acts 2019, No. 371, §§1, 2; Acts 2022, No. 195, §1.
{{NOTE: SEE ACTS 1988, NO. 635, §§2, 3.}}