(a) "Contractor" means a person who in any capacity for compensation, other than as an employee of another, undertakes, offers to undertake, purports to have the capacity to undertake, or submits a bid to construct, alter, repair, add to, subtract from, improve, move, wreck or demolish any building, highway, road, railroad, structure or excavation associated with a project, development or improvement, or to do any part thereof, including the erection of scaffolding or other structures or works in connection therewith, where the cost of undertaking is three hundred dollars ($300.00) or more.
"Contractor" includes a construction manager who performs management and counseling services for a construction project for a professional fee.
"Contractor" does not include:
(1) One who merely furnishes materials or supplies without fabricating or consuming them in the construction project;
(2) A person who personally performs construction work on the site of real property which the person owns or leases whether for commercial or residential purposes;
(3) A person who is licensed or registered as a professional and who functions under the control of any licensing or regulatory board, whose primary business is real estate sales, appraisal, development, management and maintenance, who, acting in his or her respective professional capacity and any employee of such professional, acting in the course of his or her employment, performs any work which may be considered to be performing contracting work; or
(4) A corporation, partnership or sole proprietorship whose primary purpose is to prepare construction plans and specifications used by the contractors defined in this subsection and who employs full-time a registered architect licensed to practice in this State or a registered professional engineer licensed to practice in this State. Employees of such corporation, partnership or sole proprietorship shall also be exempt from the requirements of this article.
(b) "License" means a license to engage in business in this City as a contractor.
(c) "Person" includes an individual, firm, sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, association or other entity engaged in the undertaking of construction projects or any combination thereof.
(d) "Subcontractor" means a person who performs a portion of a project undertaken by a principal or general contractor or another subcontractor.
(Ord. 11-26-91)