CHAPTER 5
CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTORS
SECTION:
3-5-1: Purpose
3-5-2: Definitions
3-5-3: Requirements
3-5-4: Registration To Engage In Business
3-5-5: Job License For Each Contract
3-5-6: Regulations
3-5-7: Records Maintained; Inspection
3-5-1: PURPOSE:
The purpose of this chapter is to establish a system of imposing license fees upon persons engaging in business within the limits of the town as contractors. The licenses are designed to be determined upon the basis of each contract or job being performed. It is the opinion of the town council that this method of determining the amount of fee will result in fair taxation and will not discriminate against the contractor who performs only a few jobs within the town limits as distinguished from the contractor who performs many. (1976 Code § 9-431)
3-5-2: DEFINITIONS:
As used in this chapter, the following words and terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section:
CONTRACTOR: Any person, firm, copartnership, corporation, association or other organization, or any combination thereof, who for a fixed sum, price, fee, percentage or other compensation other than wages, undertakes any building, highway, road, railroad, excavation or other structure, project, development, or improvement, other than to personalty, or any part thereof; provided, that the term "contractor", as used in this chapter, shall include anyone who builds more than one structure on his own property during any one year for the purpose of sale and shall include subcontractors, but shall not include anyone who merely furnishes materials or supplies without fabricating the same into, or consuming the same in the performance of the work of the "contractors", as herein defined.
TYPES OF CONTRACTORS: As an illustrative list of contractors subject to the provisions of this chapter, but not in limitation thereof, the following occupations are subject to this chapter: general contractors, specialty contractors of all kinds, such as, but not limited to, those engaged in the business of installing, repairing or otherwise performing services in connection with: acoustical tile and roof decking; awnings, storm doors and windows; air conditioning, dry heating, sheet metal; boilers, steam fitting; carpentry; cement and concrete; ceramic tile; cabinet and millwork; composition floors, countertops, tile; carpet; drywall; elevator installation; electrical; excavating and grading; fencing; floor coverings; fire prevention (structural); furnaces and burners; glazing; industrial piping; iron and bronze (ornamental); insulation; landscaping; lathing; lawn sprinklers; masonry; mosaic tile and terrazzo; overhead doors; painting and paper hanging; pest control (structural); plastering; plumbing and wet heating; roofing and siding; swimming pools; signs, stone masonry; sewer installation; steel reinforcing and erection; tanks (structural); waterproofing; weatherstripping; welding; wrecking and demolition; wood floor laying and finishing. (1976 Code § 9-432; amd. 2001 Code)
3-5-3: REQUIREMENTS:
Any person desiring to engage in business as a contractor within the corporate limits of the town must comply with the two (2) following requirements:
   A.   Registration: Prior to engaging in any subject business activity during any calendar year, he must register for the calendar year as a contractor by completing and filing a registration form in the office of the town clerk.
   B.   License: Prior to the performance of any services in connection with any specific contract or job, the person shall secure a license to engage in the performance of service connected with said specific job or contract from the office of the town clerk. (1976 Code § 9-433)
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