Any person who undertakes to or offers to undertake to, or purports to have the capacity to undertake to or submits a bid to, or does himself or by or through others, construct, build, alter, repair, add to, subtract from, improve, move, wreck or demolish any building, highway, road, railroad, excavation or other structure, project, development or improvement, or to do any part thereof, including the erection of scaffolding or other structures or works in connection therewith, is defined as a contractor and comes under this classification. The term contractor includes general contractor, subcontractor and specialty contractor.
Every person who engages in the business of general contracting or building shall pay a business tax of sixty dollars per year and every person who engages in the business of specialty contracting shall pay a business tax of forty dollars per year. This business tax is in addition to the license tax imposed by other provisions of this code for the business of constructing bedrooms and mobile home park spaces.
All registration certificates issued under this section shall be for a period of one year and shall expire at 12:01 a.m. on the first day of the same month of the year succeeding issuance or, if applicable, at 12:01 a.m. on the first day of the same month of the year succeeding the original due date. (Ord. 2063 § 2 (part), 1975).