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Karl Messer Excavating

TN license 53258 (A - BC-A Residential ; A - HRA-A Grading and Drainage ; A - MU-A Underground Piping ; B - HRA-B Base and Paving ; C - MU-C Grading and Drainage ; C - HRA-C Bridges and Culverts ; D - MU-D Base and Paving ; E - HRA-E - Miscellaneous and Specialty Items ; AGLM - Aggregate Limit $430,000) · POWELL

License Expired as of 2026-08-25
Source status: "Expired" per Tennessee Board for Licensing Contractors. The badge summarizes the sourced record below; the record and the issuing agency's live page are what count.

The Tennessee Board for Licensing Contractors snapshot dated 2026-08-25 shows license 53258 (A - BC-A Residential ; A - HRA-A Grading and Drainage ; A - MU-A Underground Piping ; B - HRA-B Base and Paving ; C - MU-C Grading and Drainage ; C - HRA-C Bridges and Culverts ; D - MU-D Base and Paving ; E - HRA-E - Miscellaneous and Specialty Items ; AGLM - Aggregate Limit $430,000) with status "Expired", expired 2019-01-31. The issuing agency's live page is authoritative for today.

What this status means

The Tennessee Board for Licensing Contractors snapshot from 2026-08-25 does not show this license as active and in good standing. That is what the record said on that date. It is not a judgment about the person or the business. Before you act on it:

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What the record shows

Status: Expired (in plain terms: inactive)
Expires: 2019-01-31
Issued: 2004-09-28

Source: Tennessee Board for Licensing Contractors, snapshot 2026-08-25. The issuing agency's live page is authoritative for today: official TN lookup.

For developers and AI agents: source snapshot file sha256:901b8537970dcb5e314f3a4792a29a1fd3a80a907c21a50ef686d760ee7e748a (row 17093). This is the archived source file we read this record from, and the row within it; the file hash is shared by every record in the same fetch, so it identifies the snapshot, not the individual record.

What we did not check

Disciplinary actions: not yet indexed for this source. Absence here means nothing.
Mechanics liens: not yet indexed. Absence here means nothing.
Permit activity: not yet indexed for this jurisdiction. Absence here means nothing.
Civil court records: not indexed. Absence here means nothing.