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Hiring an Electrician in New Jersey: What I’d Want to Know Before Someone Starts Opening My Walls

By Tiffany Slowinski There are certain home projects I am perfectly willing to fake my way through. Electrical work is not one of them. If a light fixture needs to be changed, an outlet suddenly stops working or half the kitchen goes dark every time someone uses the toaster and the air fryer at the same time, I do not want to become an electrician. I want to know who to call. The problem is that most of us do not have an electrician until we suddenly need one. Then you Google. You ask in a Facebook group. You text a neighbor. You get three names and very quickly realize you have almost no idea how to compare them. That is where I would start.

First, are they actually licensed?

This seems like a ridiculously basic question. It is also one I would check before letting anyone do electrical work in my house. New Jersey regulates electrical contractors through the state. There is a business permit tied to the electrical contracting company and a licensed electrical contractor of record attached to it. I do not expect homeowners to memorize license numbers. I do think we should know that there is a state record and that we can check it. That is one of the reasons we built this guide around the licensing records instead of simply pulling together the companies that appear first on Google. Because here is what surprised me: a lot of legitimate electricians are barely online at all. In Long Branch and Red Bank, Garden State Circle found 87 electrical companies that met our criteria. Sixty-nine of them had no website we could find. That does not mean they are less qualified. It means Google is showing you the businesses that are easiest for Google to find. Those are not always the same thing.

What kind of electrical work do you actually do?

This would probably be my next question because “electrician” covers a lot. Maybe I need a dead outlet fixed. Maybe I am renovating a kitchen and need new lighting everywhere. Maybe we are adding an EV charger. Maybe I want landscape lighting, a generator or a new electrical panel because the house was built when nobody owned six televisions, three laptops and an air fryer. Those are very different jobs. I would tell the electrician exactly what I am trying to accomplish and ask how often they do that kind of work. I am not looking for the person who technically can do everything. I want the person who regularly does the thing I need done.

Do I need a permit for this?

This is one of those questions I would rather ask before the job starts than after someone has already opened a wall. Some electrical work requires permits and inspections. The exact process runs through the local construction office. I do not expect to know which form gets filed with which town department. That is why I am hiring a professional. What I do want is a very clear answer: Does this job require a permit? Who is pulling it? Who schedules the inspection? Is that included in the quote? If the answer is some version of “we usually just skip that,” I would have more questions.

What exactly am I paying for?

Electrical estimates can get confusing quickly because the part you can see is often the smallest part of the job. You may think you are paying for six recessed lights. The electrician may be looking at wiring, the panel, switches, dimmers, access above the ceiling, permits and three other things you did not know existed. That is fine. Just explain it to me. I do not need to understand every wire in my house. I do want to understand why the job costs what it costs and whether the quote includes everything needed to finish it. If opening the wall could uncover additional problems, tell me what those might be before we start. Nobody likes a surprise invoice. Especially one that arrives after there are holes in the ceiling.

Are you going to solve the problem or just fix the symptom?

This matters more to me than whether someone has the fanciest truck. If an outlet keeps tripping or the lights keep flickering, I do not want someone to make it stop for three days. I want to know why it is happening. The same goes when you are renovating. A good conversation is not just “Where do you want the outlets?” It is also: How do you actually use this room? Where are the lamps going? Are you mounting a television? Do you need outlets inside the bathroom vanity? Are the kitchen appliances changing? Are you going to regret not adding the EV charger while everything is already open? I appreciate anyone who can see the problem I am about to create for myself before I create it.

What if my house is older?

A lot of beautiful New Jersey homes were built long before our current relationship with electricity. We have older houses with additions, renovations, finished basements and decades of previous homeowners making decisions behind the walls. If I owned one of those homes, I would specifically ask whether the electrician regularly works on houses of a similar age. Old does not automatically mean unsafe. It does mean I want someone who understands what they may find when they start looking. And if the electrician tells me something needs to be upgraded, I want to understand whether we are talking about a code requirement, a safety issue, something needed for the project I am doing or simply something they would recommend. Those are not all the same thing.

What should I do before an emergency happens?

This is the part none of us thinks about until the power is out. If you already have an electrician you trust, save the number. If you do not, finding one before you have an actual electrical problem is not the worst idea. Ask whether they handle emergency calls. Ask what their service area is. Ask whether existing customers get priority. Because the worst possible time to investigate electricians is when something smells like it is burning. And if something genuinely seems dangerous, I am not crowdsourcing it on Facebook first.

Pay attention to how they explain things

This may be my biggest filter with anyone working in my house. Do they answer the question you asked? Can they explain the problem without making you feel stupid? Do they tell you what needs to happen now and what can wait? If there are two reasonable ways to solve something, do they explain both? I am completely comfortable paying a professional for expertise. I am considerably less comfortable paying someone who acts like asking what they are doing is an inconvenience. It is my house. I am allowed to understand the plan.

So how do you actually find the right electrician?

This is exactly why we built this guide differently. Garden State Circle did not start with Google rankings or online reviews. We started with the New Jersey licensing record. For Long Branch and Red Bank, we looked for companies with active New Jersey electrical business permits based in these towns, along with companies that specifically say they work here. We checked the business permit and the licensed electrical contractor of record attached to it. Then we published what we could actually verify. Some companies have detailed websites. Some have almost no online presence at all. That does not make this a ranking. It gives you a better starting point. Because when someone is working on the electrical system inside my house, I care a lot less about who has the best website. I care whether they are qualified, whether they know the kind of work I need done and whether I trust them to tell me what actually needs to happen. That is the electrician I want in my phone before I need one.

The Guide: Electricians in Red Bank, NJ

New Jersey licenses electrical work twice over. The company that wires your panel, hangs your fixtures or installs your car charger has to hold a business permit from the State Board of Examiners of Electrical Contractors, and that permit is issued on the license of a named person — the licensed electrical contractor of record — whose name, number and status sit in the state register for anyone to look up in about ninety seconds. Thirty-nine companies do residential electrical work in Red Bank, Fair Haven, Rumson, Little Silver, Shrewsbury Borough, Monmouth Beach, Sea Bright and Middletown Township (Lincroft, Navesink, Locust). Five of them publish an electrical license number anywhere at all. Thirty-two have no website we could find. That is not a criticism of the trade — a two-van electrical company in Red Bank has no particular reason to keep a website — but it does mean the state register is the only public record of who is licensed here, and almost nobody reads it. This guide reports, for every company, exactly what it publishes about its own license and exactly what the state record says: both numbers, and the person behind them.

How We Selected These Companies

A company appears here if it does residential electrical work — wiring, panels, service upgrades, lighting, generators, car chargers, repairs — for homeowners in Red Bank, Fair Haven, Rumson, Little Silver, Shrewsbury Borough, Monmouth Beach, Sea Bright or Middletown Township (Lincroft, Navesink, Locust). In practice that means one of two things. Either the state holds an active electrical business permit for the company at an address in those towns — thirty-six companies here do — or the company works from a few miles out in Monmouth or Ocean County and names one of these towns as an area it serves. Electrical work travels to the customer, so where a company keeps its office is a fact in the table rather than a reason to leave it out. The license is not the gate. It is the first column. Making it a condition of entry would delete companies from the page on the strength of what their websites do not say, and this market shows exactly why that would be wrong: four fifths of these companies say nothing at all, and they are licensed all the same. Where we cannot tell, we say so rather than guess. Thirty-two of the companies below publish no website we could find, so we cannot tell you from their own words whether they will take a small repair call or only quote larger work. What we can tell you is that the state holds an active permit in their name and who it is issued on. If you run one of these companies and want more than the state record on this page, the address at the foot of it is all it takes. Finding all of them took more than one search, and that is worth saying out loud. The state register files a company under whatever city its paperwork carries. We ran every spelling of every municipality in this guide, including Oceanic and Sea Bright, and the count settled at thirty-six. If you have ever searched that register for your own town and concluded there were only a handful of electricians in it, this is why.

About This Guide

This guide is produced by Garden State Circle. Companies appear here because they meet the criterion described above — they do residential electrical work for homeowners in Red Bank, Fair Haven, Rumson, Little Silver, Shrewsbury Borough, Monmouth Beach, Sea Bright or Middletown Township (Lincroft, Navesink, Locust). That is a test, not a judgment, and it is the only route onto this page. No company can pay to be included in this guide, to be listed higher, or to change what the comparison table says about it. Companies are listed alphabetically, and every detail in the table was verified against each company’s own website and against the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs licensee register — both the business search and the person search — in September 2026. Everything under the heading that begins this guide is governed by the rules above, on every guide we publish. Where a sponsor’s message appears above that heading, it is paid for and labelled, and it buys nothing in the guide. Garden State Circle is supported by the businesses that participate in it. Participation pays for our ongoing work: keeping a business’s entry accurate, re-checking its record, and publishing a page of its own details that the business maintains. There is no paid placement in this guide. Participation does not buy a place here, a position here, or anything the comparison table says. Every detail here was verified on the date shown on this page. Garden State Circle is published in New Jersey by Tiffany and Jake Slowinski and covers Red Bank, Fair Haven, Rumson, Little Silver, Shrewsbury Borough, Monmouth Beach, Sea Bright and Middletown Township (Lincroft, Navesink, Locust). Contact the publisher at jake@gardenstatecircle.com. How every guide is made, in one place: how every guide is made.

Which of These Companies Is Actually Nearby

Most homeowners asking whether an electrician is “local” are really asking one question: will they come out for my small job? That is worth separating from geography, because the two are not the same thing. Thirty-six of the companies here hold their state business permit at an address inside the guide’s towns, and they are not spread evenly. Red Bank accounts for nineteen of them, with six in Little Silver, four in Monmouth Beach, three each in Rumson and Fair Haven, and one in Middletown. On the second question — whether a company will take a single repair call rather than only quoting projects — the table reports what each company says on its own site, and for most of this market the honest answer is that it says nothing. We are asking every company on this list directly, and their answers will be published here as they come in.

The Companies, Compared

Listed alphabetically. The three right-hand columns are three different things and the difference is the point: the first reports what the company puts on its own website, the second is the business permit the state holds under the company’s name, and the third is the person the state issued that permit on.

Company	Based in	License, as published on their own site	Business permit (state register)	Licensed electrical contractor of record (state register)
ADV Electric LLC	Red Bank (state record)	No website found	34EB01717900 · active	Alfred Vitalone · active
Al-Ba Electric LLC	Red Bank (state record)	No website found	34EB01541700 · active	James J. Basile · active
Andi Electric Corp.	Red Bank (state record)	No website found	34EB01918900 · active	Albert Joseph DiBenedetto · active
B C Electrical Contracting Inc	Little Silver (state record)	No website found	34EB01523900 · active	William C Christie · active
Bond’s Electric Corp	Rumson (state record)	No website found	34EB00886100 · active	Thomas Bond · active
Broadway Lighting & Electric Corp.	Red Bank (state record)	No website found	34EB01737700 · active	Roderick MacNeil Schwarz · active
Bulldog Electric LLC	Red Bank (state record)	No website found	34EB01470600 · active	Guy W Opie · active
Charger Electric Corp (Facebook)	Red Bank (state record)	No website found	34EB01519000 · active	Mark J Rohrmann · active
Donald K Golden	Fair Haven (state record)	No website found	34EB00791900 · active	Donald K Golden · active
East Coast Lighting & Energy, LLC	Monmouth Beach (state record)	No website found	34EB00634200 · active	Robert F Sickler · active
Encore Electric LLC	Monmouth Beach (state record)	No website found	34EB00873200 · active	Richard R Wagner · active
Energy Electric 15	Little Silver (state record)	No website found	34EB01458400 · active	Lorenzo M Luca · active
Fair Haven Electric LLC	Fair Haven (state record)	No website found	34EB01136000 · active	Michael Sena · active
Grimaldi General & Electrical Contracting LLC	Red Bank (state record)	No website found	34EB01525800 · active	Angelo S Grimaldi · active
Hollywood Electric, LLC	2 Wesleyan Street, Red Bank	34EB01917100	34EB01917100 · active	Andrew M Gross · active
I-AV Pro, LLC (Facebook)	Little Silver (state record)	No website found	34EB00514300 · active	Jack K Cramer Jr · active
J Petryshyn Electr Contr	Red Bank (state record)	No website found	34EB01195900 · active	John P Petryshyn · active
JGB Electric LLC	Leonardo	34EB01858500	34EB01858500 · active	Joseph G Bonadonna · active
John K Markmann Electrical Contractor	Red Bank (state record)	No website found	34EB01379000 · active	John K Markmann · active
K O Electric LLC	Little Silver (state record)	No website found	34EB01843700 · active	Kevin D O’Hara · active
KPK Electrical Contractor	Red Bank (state record)	No website found	34EB01030700 · active	Kenneth P Kukura · active
Marascio Brothers Electric (Facebook)	Rumson (state record)	No website found	34EB01140200 · active	Mark C Marascio · active
Marascio Electric LLC (Facebook)	Red Bank (state record)	No website found	34EB01171900 · active	Neil J Marascio · active
Moretti Electrical Contractors	Red Bank (state record)	No website found	34EB01620700 · active	Mark L Moretti · active
Navesink Electrical Contracting Inc	Little Silver	Not published	34EB01549400 · active	Vincent A Pianoforte · active
New Jersey Solar System Services, LLC	Monmouth Beach (state record)	No website found	34EB01843900 · active	Jason E Stolze · active
New Monmouth Electric	Red Bank (state record)	No website found	34EB01561200 · active	Michael Scagnelli · active
NG Electric LLC	Red Bank (state record)	No website found	34EB01627400 · active	Nicholas G Gizzi · active
R C L E Inc Electr Contrs	Monmouth Beach (state record)	No website found	34EB00765400 · active	Robert C Longo · active
Shore Electrical LLC	Red Bank (state record)	No website found	34EB01601000 · active	John McGowan · active
SLB Electrical Contracting Inc	Belford	New Jersey License #13455	34EB01345500 · active	Steven Burke · active
Super Power Electric Inc	Red Bank (own site) / Oceanport (state record)	NJ Electrical License #12849	34EB01284900 · active	Patrick W O’Neill Jr · active
T3 Electric LLC	Little Silver (state record)	No website found	34EB01840300 · active	Anthony F Trufolo III · active
TFB Electric	Rumson (state record)	No website found	34EB01275300 · active	Thomas F Blumel · active
Timothy Hill Elec Co Inc	Fair Haven (state record)	No website found	34EB01194100 · active	Timothy S Hill · active
Wave Electric Company	Lincroft (register) / Tinton Falls (own site)	Contractor License # NJ 14664	34EB01466400 · active	Vincent A Asaro · active
We Do Electric LLC	Middletown (own site) / Red Bank (state record)	Not published	34EB01697300 · active	Thomas A Bonadonna · active
Whelan Electric LLC (Facebook)	Red Bank (state record)	No website found	34EB01584400 · active	Patrick R Whelan · active
The Wire Doctors Inc.	Red Bank (state record)	No website found	34EB01305800 · active	Michael J Zupp · active

A Note on Reading the License Columns

Three things on this page will look wrong until you know why they are not. A published number is usually short, and that is normal. The state’s permit is twelve characters — 34EB, six digits, then 00 — but most companies publish only the six digits in the middle. “License # 13346” is 34EB01334600. Two companies on this page publish the number in full, which is the exception rather than the rule and makes them the easiest to check. The address on the website and the address in the register are sometimes different towns. Three companies here have that split — Super Power Electric, Wave Electric and We Do Electric — and in each case we print both and choose neither. A company can move, keep an old filing address, or work out of one town and register in another; none of those is a problem, and it is not our place to decide which address is the real one. A permit number can return more than one company. The number belongs to the licensed contractor, not to the business, and New Jersey lets one licensed contractor qualify only one business at a time — so when a contractor moves, the number goes with him and the company he left is marked Closed. One number on this page returns six companies, five of them closed or withdrawn and one active. If you look up a number and land on a closed company, that is very probably what you are looking at.

The Companies

ADV Electric LLC, Red Bank

ADV Electric LLC holds an active business permit at a Red Bank address on the license of Alfred Vitalone. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

Al-Ba Electric LLC, Red Bank

Al-Ba Electric LLC holds an active business permit at a Red Bank address on the license of James J. Basile. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

Andi Electric Corp., Red Bank

Andi Electric Corp. holds an active business permit at a Red Bank address on the license of Albert Joseph DiBenedetto. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

B C Electrical Contracting Inc, Little Silver

B C Electrical Contracting Inc holds an active business permit at a Little Silver address on the license of William C Christie. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

Bond’s Electric Corp, Rumson

Bond’s Electric Corp holds an active business permit at a Rumson address on the license of Thomas Bond. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

Broadway Lighting & Electric Corp., Red Bank

Broadway Lighting & Electric Corp. holds an active business permit at a Red Bank address on the license of Roderick MacNeil Schwarz. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

Bulldog Electric LLC, Red Bank

Bulldog Electric LLC holds an active business permit at a Red Bank address on the license of Guy W Opie. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

Charger Electric Corp, Red Bank

Charger Electric Corp holds an active business permit at a Red Bank address on the license of Mark J Rohrmann. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

Donald K Golden, Fair Haven

Donald K Golden holds an active business permit at a Fair Haven address on his own license, registered in the state under his own name with no trading name attached. We found no website, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

East Coast Lighting & Energy, LLC, Monmouth Beach

East Coast Lighting & Energy, LLC holds an active business permit at a Monmouth Beach address on the license of Robert F Sickler. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

Encore Electric LLC, Monmouth Beach

Encore Electric LLC holds an active business permit at a Monmouth Beach address on the license of Richard R Wagner. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

Energy Electric 15, Little Silver

Energy Electric 15 holds an active business permit at a Little Silver address on the license of Lorenzo M Luca. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

Fair Haven Electric LLC, Fair Haven

Fair Haven Electric LLC holds an active business permit at a Fair Haven address on the license of Michael Sena. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

Grimaldi General & Electrical Contracting LLC, Red Bank

Grimaldi General & Electrical Contracting holds an active business permit at a Red Bank address on the license of Angelo S Grimaldi. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

Hollywood Electric, LLC, Red Bank

Hollywood Electric works from Wesleyan Street in Red Bank and is one of only a handful of companies in this programme to publish its permit in the full twelve-character form the state uses — “34EB01917100” — which needs no decoding at all. It is active on the license of Andrew M Gross. Its service list runs to twenty towns and includes Red Bank, Little Silver, Fair Haven, Rumson, Monmouth Beach, Shrewsbury and Eatontown.

I-AV Pro, LLC, Little Silver

I-AV Pro, LLC holds an active business permit at a Little Silver address on the license of Jack K Cramer Jr. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

J Petryshyn Electr Contr, Red Bank

J Petryshyn Electr Contr holds an active business permit at a Red Bank address on his own license. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

JGB Electric LLC, Leonardo

JGB Electric works from Leonardo in Middletown and publishes its permit in the full twelve-character form — “34EB01858500” — which needs no decoding. It is active on the license of Joseph G Bonadonna. The company runs separate service pages for Red Bank, Rumson, Long Branch, Eatontown and Ocean Township.

John K Markmann Electrical Contractor, Red Bank

John K Markmann Electrical Contractor holds an active business permit at a Red Bank address on his own license. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

K O Electric LLC, Little Silver

K O Electric LLC holds an active business permit at a Little Silver address on the license of Kevin D O’Hara. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

KPK Electrical Contractor, Red Bank

KPK Electrical Contractor holds an active business permit at a Red Bank address on the license of Kenneth P Kukura. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

Marascio Brothers Electric, Rumson

Marascio Brothers Electric holds an active business permit at a Rumson address on the license of Mark C Marascio. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

Marascio Electric LLC, Red Bank

Marascio Electric LLC holds an active business permit at a Red Bank address on the license of Neil J Marascio. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

Moretti Electrical Contractors, Red Bank

Moretti Electrical Contractors holds an active business permit at a Red Bank address on the license of Mark L Moretti. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

Navesink Electrical Contracting Inc, Little Silver

Navesink Electrical Contracting works from Little Silver, and its owner describes more than twenty years running the company and more than forty in the trade. It names Monmouth County and Middletown, Red Bank, Holmdel and Colts Neck rather than a town list, and publishes no license number; the state holds an active business permit on the license of Vincent A Pianoforte.

New Jersey Solar System Services, LLC, Monmouth Beach

New Jersey Solar System Services holds an active electrical business permit at a Monmouth Beach address on the license of Jason E Stolze, whose own license is registered in Howell. It is a solar installer holding the electrical credential rather than a general electrical contractor.

New Monmouth Electric, Red Bank

New Monmouth Electric holds an active business permit at a Red Bank address on the license of Michael Scagnelli. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

NG Electric LLC, Red Bank

NG Electric LLC holds an active business permit at a Red Bank address on the license of Nicholas G Gizzi. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

R C L E Inc Electr Contrs, Monmouth Beach

R C L E Inc Electr Contrs holds an active business permit at a Monmouth Beach address on the license of Robert C Longo. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

Shore Electrical LLC, Red Bank

Shore Electrical LLC holds an active business permit at a Red Bank address on the license of John McGowan. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

SLB Electrical Contracting Inc, Belford

SLB Electrical works from Belford in Middletown and publishes “New Jersey License #13455,” which expands to an active business permit on the license of Steven Burke. Its service list names Long Branch, Red Bank, Rumson, Fair Haven and Monmouth Beach among twenty-two towns.

Super Power Electric Inc, Red Bank

Super Power Electric publishes “NJ Electrical License #12849,” which expands to an active business permit on the license of Patrick W O’Neill Jr, whose own license is registered in Red Bank. The company gives its address as 200 Maple Avenue, Red Bank, while the state holds the permit at an Oceanport address. We record both and have not decided between them. It names Red Bank, Rumson and most of the northern Monmouth shore as its service area.

T3 Electric LLC, Little Silver

T3 Electric LLC holds an active business permit at a Little Silver address on the license of Anthony F Trufolo III. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

TFB Electric, Rumson

TFB Electric holds an active business permit at a Rumson address on the license of Thomas F Blumel. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

Timothy Hill Elec Co Inc, Fair Haven

Timothy Hill Elec Co Inc holds an active business permit at a Fair Haven address on his own license. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

Wave Electric Company, Lincroft

Wave Electric publishes its office in Tinton Falls and names Red Bank among the towns it serves, alongside Middletown, Colts Neck, Holmdel, Marlboro, Manalapan and Atlantic Highlands. The state holds its business permit at a Lincroft address, which is Middletown, not Long Branch. We record both and have not decided between them. It publishes no license number; the permit is active, on the license of Vincent A Asaro.

We Do Electric LLC, Middletown

We Do Electric names Middlesex, Monmouth and Ocean counties and describes itself on its own site as based in Middletown, while the state holds its business permit at a Red Bank address. We record both. It publishes no license number; the permit is active, on the license of Thomas A Bonadonna.

Whelan Electric LLC, Red Bank

Whelan Electric LLC holds an active business permit at a Red Bank address on the license of Patrick R Whelan. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

The Wire Doctors Inc., Red Bank

The Wire Doctors Inc. holds an active business permit at a Red Bank address on the license of Michael J Zupp. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

Common Questions

How do I check whether a New Jersey electrician is licensed?

Go to the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs license verification system at newjersey.mylicense.com and run two searches. In the Business Search, set the profession to Electrical Contractors and the license type to Electrical Business Permit, and search by company name or town; the result gives you the company’s permit number and whether it is active. Then take the six digits in the middle of that number, switch to the Person Search, set the license type to Electrical Contractor, and search by license number 34EI followed by those digits and 00; the result gives you the name of the licensed contractor the permit was issued on, and whether their license is active. Both searches are free and take about a minute together.

I looked up the number my electrician published and the register shows a company that is closed. What does that mean?

Most likely that you are looking at a company he used to qualify, not at a problem. The permit number belongs to the licensed contractor rather than to the business. New Jersey allows one licensed contractor to qualify only one business at a time, so when a contractor leaves one company for another, the same number is issued to the new company and the old one is marked Closed or Withdrawn. Search that number and you get the whole sequence at once. One number that appears on this page returns six companies — five closed or withdrawn, one active. The row that matters is the active one, and there should only ever be one of those. If the number you were given returns an active company that is not the company you are talking to, that is worth asking about.

The register returns nothing for the company I am looking at. What does that mean?

Usually that the name you typed is not the name the state holds, or the town you typed is not the town it filed under. The register stores the registered legal name, which is often not the name on the van — it drops ampersands, abbreviates words, and in this county and its neighbours contains outright spelling mistakes. It matches on the opening words of a name rather than anywhere inside it. And the town field is matched loosely, so a search for a short town name will hand you results from every town in New Jersey whose name begins the same way. Try the shortest distinctive opening words of the company name, try the owner’s surname in the person search, and try every name the post office uses for the town. A company you cannot find is not the same thing as a company that is not licensed.

Which town’s construction office do I actually call?

Not necessarily the one on your envelope, and in this market not necessarily one in your town at all. Rumson, Fair Haven and Little Silver share a single construction office, at the Rumson municipal building; Fair Haven regionalised its office into Rumson’s in 2007 and Little Silver’s permits are issued there too, although Little Silver zoning approval still comes from Little Silver first. This guide covers Red Bank, Fair Haven, Rumson, Little Silver, Shrewsbury Borough, Monmouth Beach, Sea Bright and Middletown Township (Lincroft, Navesink, Locust). The table below lists the offices we have opened; Shrewsbury Borough, Sea Bright and Middletown Township (Lincroft, Navesink, Locust) are each their own municipality with its own construction office that we have not yet opened, and the permit office is found on each town’s own website.

What is the difference between the license and the business permit?

The electrical contractor license is issued to a person who has passed the state examination, and the business permit is issued to a company on that person’s license. New Jersey requires an electrical contracting company to hold both. The person is the qualifier; the company cannot operate without one, and one licensed contractor can qualify only one company at a time.

Does New Jersey license journeyman electricians?

No. New Jersey registers journeyman electricians and apprentices through the same board, and licenses electrical contractors. A journeyman on the job is registered, not licensed, and the license behind the work belongs to the contractor of record in the table above. The state does not issue a “master electrician” credential at all.

A company published a New Jersey license number that starts 13VH. Is that the electrical license?

No. 13VH is a Home Improvement Contractor registration, which nearly every contractor working on New Jersey homes has to hold, and it is issued by a different part of the Division of Consumer Affairs. It says nothing about electrical qualification. The electrical credentials are the two on this page: 34EB for the company and 34EI for the person.

Does an electrician here need a permit for the job?

That depends on the job, and it is your own municipality’s construction office that decides, not us. Each of the offices we have opened for this guide, with its phone number and hours, is in the section below. Ask before the work starts; a licensed contractor will already know the answer.

Who Governs Electrical Work in Red Bank

Electrical work in New Jersey answers to two state agencies with confusingly similar names, and they do different things. The license belongs to the Board of Examiners of Electrical Contractors, part of the Division of Consumer Affairs — (973) 504-6410 — which issues the electrical contractor license and the business permit in the table above. The permit for the job belongs to the Uniform Construction Code, N.J.A.C. 5:23, written by the Department of Community Affairs, Division of Codes and Standards — (609) 292-7899 — and enforced by each municipality’s own construction office, listed below. New Jersey adopted new editions of its construction subcodes on August 17, 2026; the electrical subcode is the National Electrical Code, NFPA 70, 2023 edition (N.J.A.C. 5:23-3.16) — the one subcode in the set that is not a 2024 code — per the Division’s current-codes table, read September 2, 2026. Five municipalities, three offices. One of those offices serves more than one town, and the table says which.

Municipality	Construction permit office, as the town names it	Phone	Construction Official, as published	Electrical official, as published	Hours and location, as published
Borough of Monmouth Beach	Construction Department	(732) 229-2204 ext. 1004	Steve J. Winters, CPM, CFM — Tue and Thu by appointment	Steven Winters, Electrical/Fire Subcode — Mon and Wed 2:30pm–4:30pm	18 Willow Avenue · the hours notice on the borough’s page still refers to summer 2025
Borough of Rumson Borough of Fair Haven Borough of Little Silver	Building & Construction Office — one office for all three boroughs. Fair Haven regionalised into Rumson’s office in June 2007; Little Silver’s permits are issued here after zoning approval from Little Silver	(732) 842-3022	Nicholas A. Fabiano	Nicholas A. Fabiano, Electrical Subcode Official (he holds both roles, and Building Inspector)	Mon–Fri 8:00am–4:00pm · 80 East River Road, Rumson
Borough of Little Silver — zoning only	Planning & Zoning Office — zoning approval comes from here first, then permitting at Rumson	(732) 842-0261	—	—	Mon–Wed 9:00am–4:00pm, Thu 9:00am–7:00pm, Fri 8:00am–12:00pm · zoning officer Tue 10am–noon and Thu 8am–noon · 480 Prospect Avenue
Borough of Red Bank	Building Department	(732) 530-2760	Anthony Neibert, Construction Code Official	Lou Milonas, Electrical Subcode — direct (732) 530-2777 ext. 0363	Mon–Fri 8:00am–4:00pm · 90 Monmouth Street, third floor

All three offices were opened and read on September 3, 2026. Names are published only where the municipality publishes them. Two things about these offices are worth knowing before you call. Every one of the three publishes its electrical official by name. That is not normal. If you have an electrical question rather than a general construction one, this is the rare market where you always know exactly who to ask for. One office covers more than one town, and the arrangement is not obvious from the town’s name. Rumson, Fair Haven and Little Silver run one construction office between them at the Rumson municipal building. If you live in Fair Haven and go looking for a Fair Haven construction office, there is not one, and there has not been since 2007. Little Silver is the one that catches people, because it is genuinely two steps: zoning approval at 480 Prospect Avenue in Little Silver, then the permit at 80 East River Road in Rumson. Fee schedules are adopted by ordinance and change. Whether a particular job needs a permit is interpreted by the town’s own construction office, not by us. We publish what each municipality published, with the date we checked it — confirm with the office before you rely on it, and if any of it has changed, the correction address at the foot of this page is the fastest way to tell us.

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Something out of date?

This guide is maintained. If anything here is wrong or has changed — a name, an address, a permit number, or whether a business has closed — tell us and we will check it. Businesses listed here are welcome to write in directly, and a company that publishes a license number we have recorded as absent, or that we could not find in the register under the name it uses, is exactly the kind of correction we want. And if you run an electrical company that should be on this list and is not, write to us. We would rather be told than be incomplete. The test is the same one every company here cleared: that you do residential electrical work for homeowners in Red Bank, Fair Haven, Rumson, Little Silver, Shrewsbury Borough, Monmouth Beach, Sea Bright or Middletown Township (Lincroft, Navesink, Locust). A permit pulled in one of those municipalities, a completed job, or your business permit will do it. Show us that and you go on the page. admin@gardenstatecircle.com

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