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Contractor's Manual - Licensing Exemption - ✔✔Construction Contracting: any person who,
for compensation is to improve real estate, for others or for resale to others, must be licensed.
Contractor's Manual - Licensing Exemption - ✔✔The following are exempt from state
licensure: 1. Hightway, street, road, bridge, railway contractor. 4. Court appointed officers
acting with the scope of their office. 7. Owner of property when acting as their own contractor.
8. An construction on United State property.
Contractor's Manual - Licensing Exemption - ✔✔11. Registered architects or engineers acting
within the scope of their practice. 14. Person who installs water conditioning units. 15. Person
who installs heating or AC units of less than 3 tons or 36,000 Btu.
Contractor's Manual - Licensing Exemption - ✔✔18. family residence constructed by Habitat
for Humanity. 19. prefabricated portable sheds 250 sq ft or less
Contractor's Manual - Licensing Exemption - ✔✔A contractor shall subcontract all activities
on a project when he does not possess the required licenses - except. 1. clearing and grubbing,
grading , excavation, for a construction project. 2. installation or repair of shingles, wood
shakes, or asphalt roofing materials.
Contractor's Manual - Licensing Exemption - ✔✔Subcontractors - lndependent Contractors
or Employees? Generally, a worker is an independent contractor if the person or entity for
whom the services are performed has the right to control or direct only the result of the work,
and not the means and methods of accomplishing the result.
Contractor's Manual - Licensing Exemption - ✔✔3. structural swimming pool work. 4.
construction of main sanitary sewer collection system, storm collection system. 5. Continuation
,of utility lines from the mains on mobile home parks. 6. solar contractor - the installation of
solar energy equipment.
Contractor's Manual - Financial Responsibility - ✔✔Professional Responsibility - Liability: the
primary qualifying agent is responsible for supervision of all operations of the business and,
unless a financially responsible officer is designated for financial matters of the organization
and for each specific job.
Contractor's Manual - Financial Responsibility - ✔✔Changes in Licensure Information:
business organization must inform the DBPR of any change in information required to be
submitted on the application for qualification within forty-five days following the change.
Contractor's Manual - Financial Responsibility - ✔✔License Number Must Appear on Building
Permits and Advertisements: in addition, must appear in any advertisement and text or artwork
on the contractor's vehicle.
Contractor's Manual - Ground for Disciplinary Action - ✔✔1. Obtaining a licence by fraud 2.
Being convicted or found guilty of a crime which directly relates to the practice of contracting.
3. Violating applicable building codes or city laws. 4. Assisting a person in the unlicensed
practice of contracting.
Contractor's Manual - Ground for Disciplinary Action - ✔✔5. Combining and conspiring with
an unlicensed person to evade the licensing laws. 6. Acting as a contractor other than the name
reflected on the license.
Contractor's Manual - Ground for Disciplinary Action - ✔✔8. Abandoning a construction
project without just cause or proper notification to the owner. 9. Being disciplined by any
county or city for an act of violation of the state licensing law.
Contractor's Manual - Ground for Disciplinary Action - ✔✔7. Committing mismanagement
such as not removing liens from the property, by payment of bond, withing 75 days after he has
gotten paid to remove liens. or the contractor has abandoned a customers' job and the
percentage of completion is less than the percentage of the total contract.
, Contractor's Manual - Ground for Disciplinary Action - ✔✔8. Abandoning a construction
project without just cause or proper notification to the owner. 9. Being disciplined by any
county or city for an act of violation of the state licensing law.
Contractor's Manual - F.S. 455 - ✔✔455.01 Definitions. 1. Board - any board or commission
authorized to exercise regulatory or rule-making functions. 2. Consumer member - person
appointed to serve on a specific board, who is not, a member or practitioner of the profession
regulated by such board.
Contractor's Manual - F.S. 455 - ✔✔3. Department - the department of business and
professional regualation DBPR 4. License - any permit, registration, certificate issued by DBPR.
5. Licensee - person issued the license. 6. Profession - any activity, occupation, regulated by
DBPR.
Contractor's Manual - F.S. 455 - ✔✔455.10. No person shall be disqualified from practicing
an occupation or profession regulated by the state solely because he is not a U.S. citizen.
Contractor's Manual - F.S. 455 - ✔✔455.203. Department; powers & duties. 1. Adopt rules
establishing a procedure for the biennial renewal of licenses; however, the department may
issue up to a 4 year license to selected licensees notwithstanding any other provisions of law to
the contrary.
Contractor's Manual - F.S. 455 - ✔✔2. Appoint the executive director of each board, subject
to the approval of the board.
Contractor's Manual - F.S. 455 - ✔✔3. Submit an annual budget to the Legislature at a time
and in the manner provided by law. 4. Develop a training program for persons newly appointed
to membership on any board. 5. Adopt rules pursuant toss. 120.536(1) and 120.54 to
implement the provisions of this chapter.
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