Garage door rules & licensing in Mississippi

Mississippi State Board of Contractors (MSBOC) — official site

MSBOC states: "All contractors performing new residential construction over $50,000, residential remodeling or additions over $10,000, or residential roofing over $10,000, are required to have a license" and "All contractors and subcontractors performing work on commercial jobs over $50,000, including equipment installation, are required to have a commercial license." The Board's published classifications are Residential Builder, Residential Remodeler, Residential Roofer, Residential Electrical, Residential HVAC, Residential Plumbing, Residential Mechanical, Residential Construction Manager and Residential Solar (residential), and Building Construction, Electrical, Highway Street and Bridge Construction, Heavy Construction, Mechanical, and Municipal and Public Works (commercial). No garage-door or overhead-door specific classification appears on the Board's classifications page.

Residential remodeling or additions over $10,000; residential roofing over $10,000; new residential construction over $50,000; commercial jobs over $50,000.

Building code adoption is at county and municipal level but mandated by state law. Under SB 2378 (2014 Regular Session), counties and municipalities must adopt as minimum codes one of the last three adopted editions of the International Building Code (IBC) or one of the last three adopted editions of the International Residential Code (IRC) - the IRC adoption excluding provisions requiring installation of a multipurpose residential fire protection sprinkler system or any other fire sprinkler protection system in a new or existing one- or two-family dwelling - together with appendices approved by the Mississippi Building Codes Council. A local governing body had 120 days after the section took effect to adopt a resolution declining to be subject to the requirement. The requirements do not apply to buildings exempt under Sections 17-2-7 and 17-2-9, or to manufactured and mobile homes.

The coastal wind mandate was enacted by HB 1406, 2006 Regular Session ("Building a Safer and Stronger Mississippi") and is codified at Miss. Code Ann. Section 17-2-1. Section 1(1): "The counties of Jackson, Harrison, Hancock, Stone and Pearl River, including all municipalities therein, shall enforce, on an emergency basis, all the wind and flood mitigation requirements prescribed by the 2003 International Residential Code and the 2003 International Building Code, as supplemented." CONFLICT RESOLVED - the 2003-edition reference was a stopgap, not the standing rule. Section 1(2) provides that those emergency requirements "shall remain in force until the county board of supervisors or municipal governing authorities, as the case may be, adopts as minimum mandatory codes the latest editions of the codes described in subsection (3)(a) of this section," and Section 1(3)(a) requires those same counties and municipalities to adopt as minimum codes the latest editions of the International Building Code and the International Residential Code and their referenced standards. Section 1(4) allowed a county or municipality to opt out by resolution entered on its minutes within sixty days of the section taking effect. The coastal provision is still live and still controls: SB 2378, 2014 Regular Session, which imposed the general statewide minimum-code requirement, opens "Except as provided in Section 17-2-1(1) and subsection (3) of this section, a county board of supervisors or municipal governing authority shall adopt and amend as minimum codes one (1) of the following as the State Uniform Construction Code ...", expressly carving the five coastal counties out of the general rule. The design wind speeds and windborne-debris ratings themselves come from the referenced IBC/IRC editions, not from the statute - confirm the edition actually adopted with the county or municipal building department.