CHAPTER 1438: LICENSING OF CONTRACTORS

Section

1438.01 Contractor defined

1438.02 Certificates of registration and qualification required

1438.03 Exception for home owners

1438.04 Permits

1438.05 Suspension or revocation of certificates

1438.06 Registration fees

1438.07 Appeals

1438.08 Certificate of insurance and bond

1438.09 Registration requirement

1438.10 Registration by Chief Building Official

1438.11 Revocation of registration

1438.14 Notice of revocation

1438.99 Penalty

§ 1438.01 CONTRACTOR DEFINED.

   For the purpose of this chapter, the following definition shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.

   CONTRACTOR.

      (1)   Any individual, firm, copartnership, corporation, association or other organization, or any combination thereof, who or which, by himself, herself or itself, or by or through others, constructs, alters, repairs, adds to, subtracts from, reconstructs or remodels any building, structure or appurtenance thereto, or who or which undertakes, offers to undertake, purports to have the capacity to undertake or submits a bid to undertake any of the foregoing activities.

      (2)   In addition to general contractors, the term includes subcontractors and specialty contractors whose operations as such are the performance of construction work requiring special skill, or whose principal contracting business involves the use of specialized building trades or crafts, such as, but not limited to, plumbers, excavators, carpenters, masons, concrete finishers, tinners, sewer installers, heating equipment installers, sign erectors, roofers, dry wall applicators, lathers, plasterers and/or building movers. CONTRACTOR does not include painters, laborers hired on an hourly basis, floor finishers, insulators and tile applicators.

(Ord. 49-76, passed 4-12-1976; Ord. 39-2010, passed 3-22-2010)

§ 1438.02 CERTIFICATES OF REGISTRATION AND QUALIFICATION REQUIRED.

   No person shall engage in the business or act in the capacity of a contractor except pursuant to a certificate of registration and qualification issued by the city, unless such person is particularly exempted by other provisions of this chapter.

(Ord. 17-59, passed 3-9-1959)