§ 5.04.380. Construction contractors.  


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    Every person conducting or carrying on a business who is licensed as a contractor by the state of California and who undertakes to, or offers to undertake to, or purports to have the capacity to undertake to, or submits bids to, or does himself or herself or by or through others, construct, alter, repair, add to, subtract from, improve, move, wreck, or demolish any building, highway, road, railroad, excavation or other structure project, development or improvement, or to do any part thereof, including the erection of scaffolding or other structures or works in connection therewith, is defined as a contractor. The term contractor as used in this section also includes subcontractor and specialty contractor. Every contractor shall pay a business tax of sixty dollars ($60.00) per year or fractional part thereof for the first thirty-three thousand three hundred thirty-five dollars ($33,335.00) or less of gross receipts, plus one dollar and eighty cents ($1.80) for each additional one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) of gross receipts or fractional part thereof in excess of thirty-three thousand three hundred thirty-five dollars ($33,335.00) for work engaged in at sites within the city.

(Prior code § 5-1.33)