"Contractor" for the purpose of this Section, means any person, corporation, partnership, firm or other business association or entity or any combination thereof, who or which by himself, herself, or itself or by or through others, and for consideration, constructs, erects, alters, repairs, adds to, subtracts from, reconstructs or remodels any building, structure or appurtenance thereto, which may or may not require the issuance of a building permit, who or which undertakes to or offers to undertake, or purports to have the capacity to undertake, submits a bid or proposal to do so, or offers to retain the others to undertake any of the above acts. The term "contractor" includes prime contractors, subcontractors and specialty contractors, whose operations are such as the performance of construction work requiring special skill and whose principal contracting business involves the use of specialized building trades or crafts requiring the issuance of a building permit, and includes but is not limited to those contractors who are engaged in or work at a trade or occupation of general contractor, plumber, excavator, electrician, pipefitter, plaster, cement contractor, mason contractor, furnace installer, boilermaker, bricklayer, carpenter, roofer, lather, painter, termite control operator, exterminator, sewer builder, radon gas detector, radon gas correction installer or similar trade. (Ord. 2021-17. Passed 3-1-21.)