No contractor shall perform any work in the City without first obtaining a certificate of registration from the Building Inspection Division. Any contractor who contracts with the general public to perform work regulated by this chapter must be registered with the City to do such work.
"Contractor," as used within this chapter, means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association or other organization, or any combination thereof, who or which by himself, 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 to capacity to undertake, or submits a bid to do such work. The term "contractor" includes a subcontractor and all specialty contractors whose operations as such are the performance of construction work requiring special skills, including, but not limited to, plumbing, electrical, air conditioning and heating, and whose principal business involves the use of specialized building trades and crafts. Any subcontractor who performs work which requires a special or trade permit under the provisions of this chapter must be registered with the City to do such work.
(Ord. 08-0-35. Passed 5-6-08.)