What a painting website in Los Angeles has to show: the license rules that apply, the counties you can serve, and a free audit of the site you have now.
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Businesses: painting and wall covering contractors with paid staff in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro. Census County Business Patterns, 2023. Counties: Census metro and county estimates, 2024.
License
What Los Angeles asks of a painting business, and where your website comes in.
Checked 2026-10-05 at each source. Not legal advice: rules change, so check with the board before you rely on one.
State · California Contractors State License Board (CSLB)
Painting is the C-33 classification, and the license number goes on your ads.
“Every person licensed pursuant to this chapter shall include his license number in: (a) all construction contracts; (b) subcontracts and calls for bid; and (c) all forms of advertising”
What it covers
“A painting and decorating contractor prepares by scraping, sandblasting or other means and applies any of the following: paints, papers, textures, fabrics, pigments, oils, turpentines, japans, driers, thinners, varnishes, shellacs, stains, fillers, waxes, adhesives, water and any other vehicles, mediums and materials which adhere by evaporation and may be mixed, used and applied to the surfaces of structures and the appurtenances thereto for purposes of decorating, protecting, fireproofing and waterproofing.”
California · every trade
CSLB counts any website or post that asks for work on the internet as advertising.
CSLB, Advertising Guidelines for ContractorsCalifornia · every trade
Advertise only the work your classification covers, and never say you are bonded.
CSLB, Advertising Guidelines for ContractorsOn your website
Put the number in the footer of every page and beside every quote form, under the business name it is issued to. Read every page as an ad: that is the safe reading of these rules.
Service area
The Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro: 2 counties.
California licenses contractors state-wide through the CSLB, so these rules hold across both counties of the metro.
Census metro and county estimates, 2024Census County Business Patterns, 2023, by county
Painting and wall covering contractors with paid staff, by county, 2023.
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New York City · every home-improvement trade
Painting a home in the five boroughs is home improvement work: a DCWP license, and its number in every ad. 6 RCNY §2-222(a)
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