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Arizona contractor compliance checklist

What Arizona law asks of a contractor on residential work, from the rules ProntoBill keeps for Arizona: licensing, bond and insurance where the state sets them, and the notices and contract requirements. Each item links the law’s own text, and the page says plainly what it doesn’t cover. No account and no email.

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Informational guidance, not a legal determination. This page summarizes the rules as they were checked on the dates shown. Each section has conditions a summary can’t hold, so read the law it links. Check with a construction lawyer how the rules apply to your contracts.

Your contractor license

Arizona contractors are licensed by the Registrar of Contractors (ROC).

Checked against the law’s own text, not reviewed by a lawyer.

This section doesn’t list every document your number must appear on; the contract requirements below name some.

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Bond and liability insurance minimums

The minimums by type of license. They are the floor the law sets: the state may require more of you.

General residential: bond $5,000 (or a cash deposit or an assigned savings account); no insurance minimum in the sources read (A.R.S. 32-1152, checked November 5, 2026). Checked against the law’s own text, not reviewed by a lawyer.
Source A.R.S. 32-1152.01
Specialty residential: bond $1,000 (or a cash deposit or an assigned savings account); no insurance minimum in the sources read (A.R.S. 32-1152, checked November 5, 2026). Checked against the law’s own text, not reviewed by a lawyer.
Source A.R.S. 32-1152.01
General commercial or engineering: bond $5,000 (or a cash deposit or an assigned savings account); no insurance minimum in the sources read (A.R.S. 32-1152, checked November 5, 2026). Checked against the law’s own text, not reviewed by a lawyer.
Source A.R.S. 32-1152.01
Specialty commercial: bond $2,500 (or a cash deposit or an assigned savings account); no insurance minimum in the sources read (A.R.S. 32-1152, checked November 5, 2026). Checked against the law’s own text, not reviewed by a lawyer.
Source A.R.S. 32-1152.01
General dual: bond $10,000 (or a cash deposit or an assigned savings account); no insurance minimum in the sources read (A.R.S. 32-1152, checked November 5, 2026). Checked against the law’s own text, not reviewed by a lawyer.
Source A.R.S. 32-1152.01
Specialty dual: bond $3,500 (or a cash deposit or an assigned savings account); no insurance minimum in the sources read (A.R.S. 32-1152, checked November 5, 2026). Checked against the law’s own text, not reviewed by a lawyer.
Source A.R.S. 32-1152.01

Arizona’s law sets a range for each kind of license, and this is the bottom of it. The Registrar of Contractors sets your bond by the volume of work you expect, so yours may need to be higher (A.R.S. 32-1152).
Residential and dual licensees also either join the Residential Contractors’ Recovery Fund or post a separate $200,000 bond for its claims (A.R.S. 32-1152).
Arizona’s contractor statute sets no liability insurance minimum.

Notices and contract requirements

What the law asks you to give the customer, or put in the contract, on a job. A summary of each, from the rule’s data: the section itself can narrow when it applies.

Written contract requirements (A.R.S. 32-1158)

Price: Over $1,000
When: Before the contract is signed
Can cover: Homes and buildings of 1–4 units, residential buildings of 5 or more units and commercial work
Signed by: You and the customer

Not owed when your customer is another contractor.
If the price grows past the threshold after work starts, it is due at once and the deadline has already passed.

Checked against the law’s own text, not reviewed by a lawyer. Checked November 5, 2026.

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Lien rights on an owner-occupied home need a written contract (A.R.S. 33-1002)

Price: At any price
When: Before work starts. The law names no deadline; this is the cautious course.
Applies to: A home the owner lives in (a condominium unit counts): it counts as owner-occupied if the owner lives there for at least 30 days in the 12 months after the work.

Checked against the law’s own text, not reviewed by a lawyer. Checked November 5, 2026.

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Federal Cooling-Off Rule notice of cancellation (16 CFR 429)

Price: $25 or more
When: Before the contract is signed
Can cover: Homes and buildings of 1–4 units and residential buildings of 5 or more units
Not covered: Commercial work

Not owed when your customer is another contractor.
Only when the sale was made at the customer’s home, or anywhere away from your place of business. The $25 is for a sale at the home; elsewhere away from your business, the rule covers sales of $130 or more (16 CFR 429.0(a)).

Checked against the law’s own text, not reviewed by a lawyer. Checked November 5, 2026.

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More on each notice: the contractor notices guide

Questions

Is this legal advice?: No. It’s informational guidance, not a legal determination: the state’s law as it was read on the dates shown. Check with a construction lawyer how it applies to your contracts.
Do I need an account?: No. Nothing here needs an account or an email, and the page sends nothing anywhere. Print it or take a screenshot to keep it.
What isn’t covered?: Anything the page doesn’t list: local licenses and permits, lead paint in pre-1978 homes, employees and workers’ compensation beyond the notes above, and sales tax (see the sales-tax guide).

Sales tax by state: the contractor sales-tax guide