Sanchez asks how often DOB finds unlicensed work
Sanchez asks how much work is done by unlicensed contractors, electricians, and plumbers and how often DOB finds such sites; Tigani notes DOB licenses about 28,000 licensees across roughly 31 license types, publishes special inspection investigation data online, and describes three registration buckets, with Shamash promising specific numbers later.
That was actually my next question is how many...
Whatever figure you might have that can shed light on this, but how much work is happening by just straight up unlicensed folks?
They don't have a general contractor's license.
They don't have, they're not electricians, they're not plumbers.
How often is DOB finding that kind of work site?
We do report, so there are different divisions that handle different parts of it.
So we license over 2,000 trades, I think about 31 different licensees, over 28,000 licensees.
This is done in addition to the work that the state, the Department of Education at the state level has in...
On this oversight.
We do publish our data on investigations that the Office of Special Inspections does for unlicensed plumbers or unlicensed electricians.
That's on our website.
And then for
There is in the general contractor license, there's a safety registration that must be obtained through the department.
And I don't know if we have all those numbers, but I think you guys will share what we have.
I can get you the specific numbers.
Later, but we have three basically registrations, one for GC 123s.
So those are general contractors that work on 123 family homes.
And then as the commissioner mentioned, we have what's known as a GC safety registration.
And then we have a general contractor insurance tracking number that we use to track other folks.
So we have three different buckets of where folks can...
Fall into.
The safety registration bucket is typically the folks that are doing the larger buildings, new buildings, alterations,
major alterations, again 50% of the existing floor area, generally fall into that safety registration bucket.
I'll get you the individual numbers in each one of those buckets.
All right.