39-9-102. Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following definitions apply:
     (1) "Contractor" means a person, firm, or corporation that:
     (a) in the pursuit of an independent business, offers to undertake, undertakes, or submits a bid to construct, alter, repair, add to, subtract from, improve, move, wreck, or demolish for another a building, highway, road, railroad, excavation, or other structure, project, development, or improvement attached to real estate, including the installation of carpeting or other floor covering, the erection of scaffolding or other structures or works, or the installation or repair of roofing or siding; or
     (b) in order to do work similar to that described in subsection (1)(a) upon the contractor's property, employs members of more than one trade on a single job or under a single building permit, except as otherwise provided.
     (2) "Department" means the department of labor and industry.
     (3) "General contractor" means a contractor whose business operations require the use of more than two unrelated building trades or crafts that the contractor intends to supervise or perform in whole or in part.
     (4) "Specialty contractor" means a contractor whose operations do not fall within the definition of general contractor.
     (5) "Verification" means the receipt and duplication by a political subdivision of a contractor registration card that is current on its face.

     History: En. Sec. 2, Ch. 500, L. 1995.