(a) "Accessory" shall mean aiding or contributing to; a subordinate or supplemental part.
(b) "City" shall mean the City of Dunbar, West Virginia.
(c) "Contractor" shall mean any Person who in any capacity, other than as an employee of another, who is a licensed Contractor with the State of West Virginia and currently has general liability insurance who for compensation undertakes, offers to undertake, purports to have the capacity to undertake or submits a bid to construct, renovate, alter, repair, improve or demolish any Structure, or any portion thereof, where the cost of the undertaking is or exceeds $2,500.00 or where the undertaking requires a specialty license from the State of West Virginia. Contractor shall include subcontractors and persons required to obtain a specialty license from the State of West Virginia. Contractor shall not include a Property Owner who personally performs work on the Property Owner's real property. (W. Va. Code § 21-11-3)
(d) "Handyman" shall mean any Person who holds a business license with the State of West Virginia and currently has general liability insurance that has contracted with another for compensation to perform alterations, repairs, improvements or other work on any part of a Structure and who is compensated by the Property Owner less than $2,500.00 for each individual job or contract. Handyman shall not include a Property Owner who personally performs work on the Property Owner's real property or persons required to obtain a specialty license from the State of West Virginia.
(e) “Natural Person" shall mean an individual human being and not a firm, corporation, association, partnership, limited liability company, limited partnership, public entity or entity of any kind.
(f) "Person" shall mean any Natural Person or a firm, trust, corporation, association, partnership, limited liability company, limited partnership, public entity; joint venture or any other kind of entity or enterprise.
(g) "Property Owner'' shall mean that Person or Persons, irrespective of the number, assessed as the owner of the property by the Assessor of Kanawha County, West Virginia.
(h) "Sign" shall mean a display piece used to identify or advertise, among other things, a place of business or a product. Each Sign face shall be regarded as a separate Sign. Sign does not include those Signs that are placed within the City limits on a temporary or short-term basis and are not permanently attached to the earth or affixed to any Structure including but not limited to Signs placed for purposes of real estate sales, yard or garage sales, community events or political campaigns.
(i) "Structure" shall mean any building, house or other object made up of a number of parts that was created to be permanently placed on a property. Structure includes but is not limited to shopping centers, warehouses, apartment complexes, garages, bridges and Signs.
(Ord. 692. Passed 5-6-13.)