As used in this chapter, the following words and terms shall have the meanings herein ascribed to them.
CONTRACTOR. Synonymous with BUILDER. Any person, except an owner who contracts for a project with a licensed contractor or a licensed architect or a registered civil engineer acting solely in his or her professional capacity, who in any capacity other than as the employee of another with wages as the sole compensation, undertakes to or offers to undertake or purports to have the capacity to undertake or submits a bid to, or does construct, alter, repair, add to, subtract from, improve, move, wreck, or demolish any building, highway, road, railroad, excavation or other structure, project, development or improvement, or do any part thereof, including the erection of scaffolding or other structures or works in connection therewith.
GENERAL BUILDING CONTRACTOR. A contractor whose principal contracting business is in connection with any structure built, being built or to be built for the support, shelter and enclosure of persons, animals, chattels or movable property of any kind, requiring in its construction the use of more than two unrelated building trades, or to do or superintend the whole or any part thereof.
GENERAL CONTRACTING. The contracting business also includes GENERAL BUILDING CONTRACTING and GENERAL ENGINEERING CONTRACTING.
GENERAL ENGINEERING CONTRACTOR. A contractor whose principal contracting business is in connection with fixed works for any or all of the following divisions or subjects: irrigation, drainage, water power, water supply, flood control, inland waterways, harbors, railroads, highways, tunnels, airports and airways, sewage and bridges.
SPECIALTY CONTRACTOR. A contractor whose operations as such are the performance of construction work requiring special skill and whose principal contracting business involves the use of specialized building trades or crafts.
SUBCONTRACTOR. Included in the meaning of contractor or specialty contractor, but does not included anyone who merely furnishes materials or supplies without fabricating them into, or consuming them in the performance of the work of the contractor.
(1995 Code, § 5.60.010)