Ordinance No. 1518 (Word Version)

Published by Municipal Code Corporation

ORDINANCE NO. 1518

AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE CONTRACTORS' ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF GRAND JUNCTION BY ADDING CONTRACTOR CATEGORIES

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GRAND JUNCTION, COLORADO:

That the following sections of Chapter 7 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Grand Junction, Colorado, be amended to read as follows:

Sec. 7-31. CONTRACTOR DEFINED.

A "contractor," within the meaning of this article, is any person, firm, co-partnership, corporation, association, or other organization, or any combination thereof:

(a) Who undertakes with or for another, within the city, to build, construct, alter, repair, add to, move, or wreck any building or structure or any portion thereof, or who undertakes the improvement of any building or structure for which improvement a charge is made, either by a fixed sum, price, fee, percentage, or other combination besides wages, or any combination beside wages. Such definition shall include those normally denominated in the building trades as "sub-contractors," or "special contractors".

Sec. 7-32. CONTRACTORS CLASSIFIED.

For the purposes of this article, contractors shall be divided into the following classifications for definition:

(a) Contractor unlimited. A contractor on an unlimited type or size of structure, as may by ordinance be permitted, shall be known as a "contractor unlimited."

(b) Contractor not to exceed $250,000.00. A contractor on a type or size of structure, as may by ordinance be permitted, on which the total value of all labor and materials used shall not exceed Two Hundred Fifty thousand dollars, shall be known as a "contractor not to exceed $250,000.00."

(c) Contractor not to exceed $100,000.00. A contractor on a type or size of structure, as may by ordinance be permitted on which the total value of all labor and materials used shall not exceed One Hundred thousand dollars, shall be known as a "contractor not to exceed $100,000.00."

(d) Contractor not to exceed $50,000.00. A contractor on a type or size of structure, as may by ordinance be permitted, on which the total value of all labor and materials used shall not exceed Fifty Thousand dollars, shall be known as a "contractor not to exceed $50,000.00."

(e) Contractor not to exceed $25,000.00. A contractor on a type or size of structure, as may by ordinance be permitted, on which the total value of all labor and materials used shall not exceed Twenty-five Thousand dollars, shall be known as a "contractor not to exceed $25,000.00."

(f) Contractor not to exceed $5,000.00. A contractor on a type or size of structure, as may by ordinance be permitted, on which the total value of all labor and materials used shall not exceed Five Thousand dollars, shall be known as a "contractor not to exceed $5,000.00."

(g) Special contractor. A person who contracts for labor or for labor and material involving only one trade or one particular kind of work with the building industry shall be known as a "special contractor." The following categories of special contractor are established based upon the contract amount of the total of labor and material for the performance of the specialty:

(1) Special contractor unlimited.

(2) Special contractor not to exceed $250,000.00

(3) Special contractor not to exceed $100,000.00

(4) Special contractor not to exceed $50,000.00

(5) Special contractor not to exceed $25,000.00

(6) Special contractor not to exceed $5,000.00

(7) Special contractor not to exceed $1,500.00

Sec. 7-39. LICENSE FEES.

For the purpose of providing for the regulation and licensing of contractors and special contractors, such contractors and special contractors are divided into the following classifications and shall pay as an annual license fee the amounts indicated:

(a) Contractor or Special Contractor unlimited shall pay an annual license fee of one hundred dollars.

(b) Contractor or Special Contractor not to exceed $250,000.00 shall pay an annual license fee of eighty-five dollars.

(d) Contractor or Special Contractor not to exceed $50,000.00 shall pay an annual license fee of sixty dollars.

(e) Contractor or Special Contractor not to exceed $25,000.00 shall pay an annual license fee of fifty dollars.

(f) Contractor or Special Contractor not to exceed $5,000.00 shall pay an annual license fee of twenty-five dollars.

(g) Special contractor not to exceed $1,500.00 shall pay an annual license fee of ten dollars.

(h) Wrecker. A wrecking contractor shall pay an annual license fee of fifty dollars.

Sec. 7-47. BOND REQUIRED.

Before any license shall be issued for engaging in business as a contractor or special contractor, the applicant, in the event he is a special contractor not to exceed $1,500.00 and herein defined shall file a good and sufficient surety bond in the amount of one thousand dollars payable to the city, to be approved by the city council, conditioned that he will save and keep harmless the city and all persons therein of and from all damages on account of the failure of such special contractor properly to build, construct, alter, repair, remodel or demolish any size or type of structure within the city in a manner provided by the uniform building code or any amendments thereto which have been, or may be, adopted by the city; all other contractors or special contractors as defined herein shall file such a bond so conditioned in the amount of five thousand dollars.

PASSED and ADOPTED this 7th day of August, 1974.

Lawrence L. Kozisek

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President of the Council

ATTEST:

Neva B. Lockhart

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City Clerk

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance, being Ordinance No. 1518, was introduced, read and ordered published by the City Council of the City of Grand Junction, Colorado, at a regular meeting of said body held on the 17th day of July, 1974, and that the same was published in The Daily Sentinel, a newspaper published and in general circulation in said City, at least ten days before its final passage.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of said City, this 8th day of August, 1974.

Neva B. Lockhart

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City Clerk

Published 7-19-74

Final pub 8-9-74