Home Builders Licensure Law Alabama Code Chapter 14A

This course presents Alabama Home Builders Licensure Law, Chapter 14A, providing for the licensure of those persons who engage in home building, private residence construction, and home improvement industries, including remodeling, and to provide home building standards in the State of Alabama. 

The legislature recognizes that the home building and home improvement construction industries are significant industries. Home builders may pose significant harm to the public when unqualified, incompetent, or dishonest home builders and remodelers provide inadequate, unsafe, or inferior building services. Because of this, the state legislature found it necessary to regulate the residential home building and home improvement industries.

Upon successful completion of this course participants will be able to:

• Define a variety of terms specific to the chapter
• Describe the Home Builder’s Licensure Board, how its members are assembled, the makeup of the board, compensation to and meetings
• Determine how the board is authorized to establish or adopt, or both, standards of practice for residential home builders within the state
• Explain the process of applying for and issuance of a license
• Discuss the revocation and reissuance process of a license
• Understand the privacy of records of license holders
• Summarize the duty of the building official, or other authority charged with the duty, of issuing building or similar permits
• State the various aspects of the Recovery Fund

Ryan Higgins, Esq.
Partner at Gaudry, Ranson, Higgins & Gremillion

Ryan has over 10 years of experience in civil litigation and business transactions. He has first and second chair jury trial experience and has tried several bench trials to verdict in cases involving construction and surety bonds, zoning and land use, and breach of contract. Ryan is admitted to practice in all Louisiana state and federal courts, including the U.S. Fifth Circuit.

Ryan’s practice focuses on representing companies and individuals in proceedings involving contract and business disputes, construction, property damage, labor and employment, zoning and land use, trade secrets, unfair trade practices, and administrative law. His practice involves not only litigation but also business matters and transactions involving contract drafting and negotiation, as well as lien rights of contractors, subcontractors and mechanics under the Louisiana Private and Public Works Acts.

Ryan has been a continuing education instructor since 2017.