NC Landscape study guide
NC Landscape · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The North Carolina landscape contractor credential is issued by the NC Landscape Contractors' Licensing Board, a state licensing board created by the General Assembly by statute on August 1, 2014, replacing the former NC Landscape Contractors' Registration Board. The Board consists of nine appointed citizens responsible for administering Chapter 89D of the General Statutes of North Carolina. The NC Landscape study guide has 4 sections and about 1,558 words.
01Landscape Contracting Practice and Regulation (Chapter 89D)
This domain tests whether you can place a real job inside or outside Chapter 89D, the Landscape Contractors' Licensing Act. The exam does not ask you to recite policy; it asks whether the contracting business on the facts needed a license, and what in the scope of work triggered it.
399 words, about 2 min02Statutes, Rules, and Code of Conduct
This domain tests how three layers stack: the statute, the Board's administrative rules, and the code of conduct the rules impose. Exam items here are usually conduct scenarios - advertising, subcontracting, records, cooperation - rather than scope-of-work questions.
385 words, about 2 min03Minimum Standards and Enforcement
This domain tests the Board's disciplinary machinery: what conduct violates the minimum standards, how a complaint travels from intake to sanction, and what the Board can and cannot order. Typical grounds include fraud or deceit in obtaining a license or in contracting; incompetence, negligence, or work below accepted industry standards; abandoning a project or failing to perform a contract; failure to comply with building codes or safety laws on the job; conviction of a crime bearing on fitness to contract; aiding unlicensed practice; and failing to respond to Board inquiries or to maintain required records.
394 words, about 2 min04Continuing Education and Licensing Administration
This domain covers the administrative plumbing: how a license is obtained, renewed, changed, and restored, and how the Board tracks continuing education. Items are procedural and reward attention to entity structure and deadlines.
380 words, about 2 min