A. "Contractor" means any person, firm, copartnership, corporation, association, or other organization, or any combination thereof, who for a fixed sum, price, fee, percentage, or other compensation other than wages, undertakes any building, highway, road, railroad, excavation or other structure, project, development, or improvement, other than to personality, or any part thereof; provided, however, that the term "contractor" shall not include:
1. Anyone who merely furnishes material or supplies without fabricating the same into, or consuming the same in, the performance of the work of the contractors as herein defined.
2. Anyone who builds not more than one structure on property titled in his or her name (as owner of not less than 50 percent thereof) during any three hundred sixty five (365) day period, and who signs before a notary public at the city office an affidavit, under oath, by which said owner states he or she is constructing said building as his or her own personal residence, and that he or she intends to reside therein and occupy said structure as his or her principal place of residence for a period of not less than one year following completion of construction, and who, when requested, signs a similar affidavit that he or she has actually resided in said structure as that person's principal place of residence.
B. Types Of Contractors: As an illustrative list of contractors subject to the provisions of this chapter, but not in limitation thereof, the following occupations are subject to this chapter; general contractors, specialty contractors of all kinds, such as, but not limited to, those engaged in the business of installing, repairing or otherwise performing services in connection with: acoustical the and roof decking; awnings, storm doors, and windows; air conditioning, dry heating, sheet metal; boilers, steamfitting; carpentry; cement and concrete; ceramic file; cabinet and millwork; composition floor, countertops, tile; carpet; drywall; elevator installation; electrical; excavating and grading; fencing; floor coverings; fire prevention (structural); furnaces and burners; glazing; industrial piping; iron and bronze (ornamental); insulation; landscaping; lathing; lawn sprinklers; masonry; mosaic the and terrazzo; overhead doors; painting and paper hanging; pest control (structural); plastering; plumbing and wet heating; roofing and siding; swimming pool; signs, stone masonry; sewer installation; steel reinforcing and erection; tanks (structural); waterproofing; weatherstripping; welding; wrecking and demolition; wood floor laying and finishing. (Ord. 93-98 § 1: prior code § 9-432)