A. For every person, firm or corporation conducting, managing or carrying on the business of constructing houses, buildings or structures, or bidding or submitting a bid on the construction of houses, buildings or structures, as a general contractor, except as provided in Subsections B and C of this section, the fee shall be established by resolution of the Mayor and Common Council.
B. For every person, firm or corporation conducting, managing, or carrying on the business of an electric wiring contractor, engaged in the business of installing electric wires and electric lighting or heating fixtures in houses or buildings, or bidding or submitting a bid on the installation of electric wires and electric lighting or heating fixtures in houses or buildings, or constituting a master electrician within the meaning of the Electrical Code of the City, the fee shall be established by resolution of the Mayor and Common Council.
C. For every person, firm or corporation conducting, managing or carrying on the business of brick mason, building contractor, building, house moving and house wrecking, cement, concrete, excavating, floor polishing, grading, interior decorating or wall-paper contractor, landscaping, paint, paving, plaster, surfacing, trenching and all other subcontractors, and every person, firm or corporation submitting any bid in connection therewith, the fee shall be established by resolution of the Mayor and Common Council.
D. For every person, firm or corporation engaged in or carrying on the business of plumbing, or submitting any bid in connection therewith, the fee shall be established by resolution of the Mayor and Common Council.
E. "Contractor, " within the meaning of this Article, is a person, firm, co-partnership, corporation, association, or other organization, or any combination of any thereof, who, for a fixed sum, price, fee percentage or other compensation, other than wages, undertakes with another for the construction, alteration, repair, addition to or improvement of any building, highway, road, railroad, excavation or other structure, project, development or improvement other than to personality, or any part thereof; provided that "contractor, " as used in this Article, includes subcontractors, but does not include anyone who merely furnishes materials or supplies without fabricating the same into or consuming the same in the performance of the work of the contractor as herein defined.
F. No Business Registration Certificate shall be issued by the City Clerk or any permit issued by the Building Inspector, Plumbing Inspector, or City Electrician pursuant to the provisions of any ordinance of the City requiring the issuance of a license or any permit for building construction, plumbing or wiring installation to any contractor unless and until such contractor either exhibits a contractor's license issued under the authority of and pursuant to the statutes of the state in the proper classification in relationship to the work to be performed or establishes to the satisfaction of the City Clerk, Building Inspector, Plumbing Inspector or City Electrician, as the case may be, that he or she is licensed as a contractor by the state to perform such work in accordance with the law or the Rules and Regulations of the Contractor's State License Board. Nothing, however, in this section shall be deemed to prohibit the issuance of any such permit to the owner of property upon which a building is being constructed, altered or repaired.
(Ord. MC-817, 1-07-92; Ord. MC-744, 10-08-90)