Z-0688.1/91 _______________________________________________
HOUSE BILL 1207
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State of Washington 52nd Legislature 1991 Regular Session
By Representatives Cole, Fuhrman, Jones, R. King and Winsley; by request of Department of Labor & Industries.
Read first time January 23, 1991. Referred to Committee on Commerce & Labor.
AN ACT Relating to contractor registration requirements; and amending RCW 18.27.010 and 18.27.030.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 18.27.010 and 1973 1st ex.s. c 153 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
Unless the context clearly requires otherwise the definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter.
((A))
"Contractor" ((as used in this chapter is)) means
any person, firm or corporation who or which, in the pursuit of an independent
business undertakes to, or offers to undertake, or submits a bid to, construct,
alter, repair, add to, subtract from, improve, move, wreck or demolish, for
another, any building, highway, road, railroad, excavation or other structure,
project, development, or improvement attached to real estate or to do any part
thereof including the installation of carpeting or other floor covering, the
erection of scaffolding or other structures or works in connection therewith or
who installs or repairs roofing or siding; or, who, to do similar work upon his
or her own property, employs members of more than one trade upon a
single job or project or under a single building permit except as otherwise
provided herein. ((A)) "General contractor" ((is))
means a contractor whose business operations require the use of more
than two unrelated building trades or crafts whose work the contractor shall
superintend or do in whole or in part; the term "general contractor"
((shall)) does not include an individual who does all work
personally without employees or other "specialty contractors" as
defined herein. The terms "general contractor" and
"builder" are synonymous. ((A)) "Specialty
contractor" ((is)) means a contractor whose operations as
such do not fall within the foregoing definition of "general contractor(("))."
"Department"
((as used in this chapter)) means the department of labor and
industries.
"Director"
((as used in this chapter)) means the director of the department of
labor and industries.
"Residential contracting" means the performance of contracting on single-family dwellings, duplexes, or apartment buildings that do not exceed three stories.
Sec. 2. 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) Whether the contractor will engage in residential contracting.
(8) 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.