(a) No person, firm or corporation shall engage in the business or act in the capacity of a prime contractor, as herein defined, except pursuant to a Certificate of Registration issued in conformity with the provisions of this chapter by the Building Inspector, unless such person, firm or corporation is otherwise exempted from registration by the provisions of this chapter.
(b) "Prime contractor," for the purposes of this chapter, means any individual, firm, co-partnership, corporation, association or other organization, or any combination of any 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 or offers to undertake, or purports to have the capacity to undertake the same, or submits a bid to do so.
(Ord. 1992-101. Passed 1-14-92.)