This decision affirms a trial court order vacating an arbitration award in favor of an unlicensed contractor. An award to an unlicensed contractor is in excess of the arbitrator’s powers and contrary to public policy, providing grounds for vacatur of the award. The trial court reviews the licensure issue de novo. The contractor bears the burden of proof on the issue of licensure. It doesn’t satisfy that burden simply by producing a contractor’s license. Here, as an LLC, its license depended on the responsible managing employee. To qualify for continued licensure, the RME had to be a full time employee of the contractor and spend 32 hours a week actively supervising construction. It was the contractor’s burden to prove that the RME met those requirements.