§ 5.08.080. Contractor.

A.

A contractor, within the meaning of this section, is a person who for either a fixed sum, price, fee, percentage, or other compensation, other than wages, undertakes or offers to undertake with another, or purports to have the capacity to undertake with another to construct, alter, repair, add to, or improve any building, highway, road, railroad, excavation, or other structure, project, development, or improvement, other than personally, or to do any part thereof; provided, that the term "contractor" as used in this chapter includes subcontractor, 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 hereby defined; and does not include any owner-builder who is exempt under the provisions of the State Contractors' License Law.

B.

A general building contractor is 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 crafts, or to do or superintend the whole or any part thereof. Persons issued a business tax certificate under this provision shall pay an annual business tax in accordance with the business tax rate schedule.

C.

A specialty contractor is a contractor whose operations as such are the performance of work requiring special skill and whose principal contracting business involves the use of specialized building trades or crafts. Included within but not limited to this category are electrical, plumbing, pipeline, sewer, grading, street, paving, house moving, trenching or excavating contractors. Persons issued a business tax certificate under this provision shall pay an annual business tax in accordance with the business tax rate schedule.

D.

It shall be the responsibility of the prime contractor or the owner-builder at the time of the application for a building or construction permit, to provide the collector with a certified list of those specialty contractors who have been engaged or are intended to be engaged in the completion of the job for which the building or construction permit is issued. Each specialty contractor shall obtain a current and valid business tax certificate.

E.

The inspecting city department will not issue the certificate of occupancy, final inspection or certificate of completion on any job until each specialty contractor who worked on the job has been properly issued a business tax certificate.

F.

Every person engaged in the business of contracting shall show evidence he/she holds a valid state contractor's license before a city business tax certificate will be issued under the provisions of this title.

(Ord. 285 § 2 (part), 1986; Ord. 225 § 7, 1982; Ord. 159 § 7, 1978: Ord. 89 § 2 (part), 1971: prior code § 6206)

(Ord. No. 595, § 34, 9-8-15)