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SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL NO. 5307
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State of Washington 51st Legislature 1989 Regular Session
By Senate Committee on Economic Development & Labor (originally sponsored by Senators Anderson, McMullen and Moore)
Read first time 2/28/89.
AN ACT Relating to contractor advertising; and amending RCW 18.27.100.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. Section 10, chapter 77, Laws of 1963 as last amended by section 3, chapter 362, Laws of 1987 and RCW 18.27.100 are each amended to read as follows:
Except as
provided in RCW ((18.27.020)) 18.27.065 for partnerships and
joint ventures, no person who has registered under one name as provided in this
chapter shall engage in the business, or act in the capacity of a contractor
under any other name unless such name also is registered hereunder. All advertising
and all contracts, correspondence, cards, signs, posters, papers, and documents
which show a contractor's name or address shall show the contractor's name or
address as registered hereunder. The alphabetized listing of contractors
appearing in the advertising section of telephone books or other directories
and all advertising, including by airwave transmission, which shows or
announces the contractor's name or address shall show or announce the
contractor's current registration ((number)) status: PROVIDED,
That signs on motor vehicles subject to RCW 46.16.010 and on-premise signs
shall not constitute advertising as provided in this section. All materials
used to directly solicit business from retail customers who are not businesses
shall show the contractor's current registration number. No contractor shall
advertise that he is bonded and insured because of the bond required to be
filed and sufficiency of insurance as provided in this chapter. A contractor
shall not falsify a registration number and use it in connection with any
solicitation or identification as a contractor. All individual contractors and
all partners, associates, agents, salesmen, solicitors, officers, and employees
of contractors shall use their true names and addresses at all times while
engaged in the business or capacity of a contractor or activities related
thereto. Any person who is found to be in violation of this section by the
director at a hearing held in accordance with the administrative procedure act,
chapter ((34.04)) 34.05 RCW, shall be required to pay a penalty
of not more than five thousand dollars as determined by the director. However,
the penalty under this section shall not apply to a violation determined to be
an inadvertent error.