S-3898               _______________________________________________

                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 6182

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State of Washington                              50th Legislature                              1988 Regular Session

By Senator McCaslin

Read first time 1/14/88 and referred to Committee on Economic Development & Labor.

AN ACT Relating to contractors' registration; and reenacting and amending RCW 18.27.030.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

        Sec. 1.  Section 3, chapter 77, Laws of 1963 as last amended by section 9, chapter 111, Laws of 1987 and by section 2, chapter 362, Laws of 1987 and RCW 18.27.030 are each reenacted and amended to read as follows:

          An applicant for registration as a contractor shall submit an application under oath upon a form to be prescribed by the director  and which shall include the following information pertaining to the applicant:

          (1) Employer social security number.

          (2) Industrial insurance number.

          (3) Employment security department number.

          (4) State excise tax registration number.

          (5) Unified business identifier (UBI) account number may be substituted for the information required by subsections (2), (3), and (4) of this section.

          (6) Type of contracting activity, whether a general or a specialty contractor and if the latter, the type of specialty.

          (7) The name and address of each partner if the applicant be a firm or partnership, or the name and address of the owner if the applicant be an individual proprietorship, or the name and address of the corporate officers and statutory agent, if any, if the applicant be a corporation.  The information contained in such application shall be a matter of public record and open to public inspection.

          Registration shall be denied if the applicant has been previously registered as a sole proprietor, partnership or corporation, and was a principal or officer of the corporation, and if the applicant has an unsatisfied final judgment((s or summons and complaints not dismissed that were filed pursuant to)) in an action based on RCW 18.27.040, and that ((were)) was incurred during a previous registration under this chapter.