Tulare Municipal Code Ch. 5.60 Building Contractors

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)

No person shall engage in the business or act in the capacity of a contractor within the city without having a city license therefor, unless the person is particularly exempted from the provisions of this chapter.

(1995 Code, § 5.60.020)

All of the provisions of Cal. Business and Professions Code §§ 7040, 7041, 7042, 7043, 7044, 7045, 7046, 7047, 7048 and 7049, as amended and in force and effect, applicable to exemptions, are hereby adopted and made a part of this chapter as though fully set forth herein.

(1995 Code, § 5.60.030)

No person shall be issued a city license to engage in the business or act in the capacity of a contractor within the city until he or she has displayed to the Finance Director/Treasurer a duly issued contractor’s license, issued pursuant to the laws of the state, showing the person to have been duly licensed to engage in the business or act in the capacity of a contractor for the period of time for which the city license is to be issued.

(1995 Code, § 5.60.040)

Before a building permit can be issued to any contractor for any type of construction, or for any building, structure, project, development or improvement, or to do any part thereof, or for any alteration or repair, it will be necessary for him or her to first display to the Building Inspector a duly issued contractor’s license, issued pursuant to the laws of the state, showing the person to be duly licensed to engage in the business or act in the capacity of a contractor, bearing the name of the contractor and the classification which he or she is classified and the type of the construction or work in which he or she is qualified to engage, and it will be necessary for him or her to display to the Building Inspector a city contractor’s license issued to him or her pursuant to the provisions of this code, showing the person to be duly licensed to engage in the business or act in the capacity of a contractor in the city.

(1995 Code, § 5.60.050)

Statutory reference:

Statute provisions concerning contractors, see Cal. Business and Professions Code §§ 7000 et seq.