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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1207
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State of Washington 52nd Legislature 1992 Regular Session
By House Committee on Commerce & Labor (originally sponsored by , Fuhrmans , Jones, R. King and Winsley; by request of Department of Labor & Industries)
Read first time 03/06/91. Referred to Committee on Commerce & Labor.
AN ACT Relating to contractor registration requirements; and amending RCW 18.27.030.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 18.27.030 and 1988 c 285 s 1 are each 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 in an action based on RCW 18.27.040 that incurred during a previous registration under this chapter.
The department may, by rule, require that persons registering as contractors under this chapter for the first time or after a lapse of two years or more attend an informational seminar on laws and practices applicable to the business of contracting in the state of Washington. Failure to attend such a seminar within six months of the date of registration is grounds for revocation of the person's registration.