(A) Building contractor defined. The term BUILDING CONTRACTOR, as used in this chapter, means and includes any entity or person, as principal, who for a fixed sum, price, fee, percentage, or other compensation shall wreck, build, construct, alter, lay, repair, install, add to, or erect any building, structure, pipeline, or facility above or below ground within the city or who shall undertake to perform any of acts, and shall include the following:
(1) Any company; corporation including a limited liability company or limited liability partnership; other business entity, organization, or individual, who performs such work as a business; and/or
(2) Any company; corporation including a limited liability company or limited liability partnership; other business entity, organization, or individual who owns property including industrial, commercial, or agricultural property that the entity or individual improves or develops.
(B) Exceptions. The following persons are exempted from the definition of BUILDING CONTRACTOR:
(1) Persons or entities performing any of the work described in the above definition when the total value of labor and material utilized for the work does not exceed an amount as set by the city from time to time.
(2) The following exemptions shall apply only to natural persons, who own residential properties within the city. The exemptions shall not apply to corporate entities including limited liability companies, limited liability partnerships or other partnerships involving corporate ownership, or any entity primarily engaged in the business of construction, repair or demolition.
(a) Such business entities shall be required to acquire the appropriate BUILDING CONTRACTOR license(s) before performing construction, repair, wrecking or other contracting work within the city, or be subject to penalty as provided in § 10.9999 of this code.
(b) Nothing in this code shall prevent an individual owner of residential property from performing work on property owned by the individual, provided that the work meets Building Code standards.
(c) A person, not a corporation, limited liability company or limited liability partnership, performing the above described work on residential property owned by the individual shall not be required to obtain a contractor’s license in order to perform work on his or her own residential property, provided that the work is performed in a workman like manner, and the work meets the standard set by the city’s Building Code.
(C) Review and inspection. Divisions (B)(2)(a) and (B)(2)(b) above notwithstanding, where a permit is required for construction, repair, alteration, wrecking, laying, installation or similar work, such work shall be subject to review and inspection by the City Building Commissioner.
(Prior Code, § 115.001) (Ord. 13-0030, passed 10-14-2013; Ord. 15-0025, passed 12-14-2015)