Eleven unlicensed contractors have been netted in a Natomas-area sting, the Contractors State Licensing Board said Tuesday.

The Contractors State License Board has been keeping busy this summer staging multiple sting operations in order to crack down on unlicensed contracting. Just last week, the CSLB cited ten unlicensed contractors in Petaluma, CA. This week eleven more were caught in a sting. All eleven suspects were issued a notice to appear in Sacramento County Superior Court for contracting without a license. Ten of the eleven were also cited for illegal advertising. Contracting law requires unlicensed operators to state in their advertisements that they are not licensed; the penalty is a fine of $700 to $1,000.

A statewide crackdown targeting unlicensed contractors in Arizona resulted in multiple arrests and citations.

The Arizona Registrar of Contractors, along with law enforcement officers from four counties, used sting houses, targeted sweeps and proactive operations in an effort to curb unlicensed activity in the state.

“If you operate without a business license, you will end up on the wrong side of the law.”

An unlicensed contractor in Nevada was sentenced to five years’ probation after he contracted without a license and diverted funds for his own personal use.