(Added by Ord. No. 168,612, Eff. 4/2/93.)
(a) In connection with any permit or application for inspection, as provided for in Articles 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 of Chapter IX of the LAMC by or on behalf of any contractor, as that term is defined in Subsection (b) below, the Department shall be furnished the business or payroll expense tax registration certificate number or evidence of exemption from business and payroll expense taxes for such contractor. No permit shall be issued by the Department to any contractor, as defined herein, unless such contractor has a business or payroll expense tax registration certificate or is determined by the Office of Finance to be exempt from business and payroll expense taxes. (Amended by Ord. No. 185,587, Eff. 7/16/18.)
(b) The term “contractor” means 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, alter, repair, add to, subtract from, improve, move, wreck or demolish any building, highway, road, parking facility, 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, or the cleaning of grounds or structures in connection therewith, and whether or not the performance of work herein described involves the addition to or fabrication into any structure, project, development or improvement herein described of any material or article of merchandise. The term “contractor” includes subcontractor and specialty contractor.