[Amended 12-20-2016; 5-16-2017]
Each person duly licensed and engaging in business as a contractor for a fee, within the City of North Tonawanda, New York, shall register annually with the Building Department. Such registration shall run from January 1 to December 31 in each successive year, as provided in § 50 of the General City Law of the State of New York. See Chapter
36, Article
II, for electrical licensing. See Chapter
69, Part
1, for plumbing licensing.
For the purposes of this chapter, any person,
copartnership, corporation or association engaged in the business
of cement, blacktop or concrete contracting, either flat, form or
wall work, or as a masonry contractor, or as a carpenter contractor,
or as a tree trimmer, or as a general contractor, or as a commercial
sign installer, electrical contractor, HVAC contractor, swimming pool
installer, fence installer, and any person engaged in the construction,
alteration or repair of buildings or other structures or pavement
or demolition of buildings is deemed to be a contractor.
The Building Inspector is hereby authorized
to approve or deny applications for a contractor's license. Any application
so approved shall be issued by the Building Inspector upon payment
to the Building Inspector of the fee required by this chapter.
[Amended 12-20-2016]
All applications for said license shall be made
to the Building Department of the City of North Tonawanda. The fee
for said license shall be $100 per calendar year or a fractional part
of such year for which a license hereunder shall be issued, which
fee shall be payable to the City of North Tonawanda.
No person, association, copartnership or corporation
shall be entitled to or receive such license who or which, in case
of a corporation or association any member of which, has been, since
January 1, 1940, or who or which shall hereafter be, convicted of
larceny or knowingly receiving stolen property or violation of this
chapter.
The application shall contain the following
information:
A. If a person, the name, date of birth, social security
number, residence and business address of the applicant.
B. If a partnership, the name, date of birth, social
security number, residence and business address of each partner.
C. If a domestic corporation, the name and business address
of the corporation and the name and residence address of the principal
officer of the corporation; and if a foreign corporation, the date
it was authorized to do business in the state, together with the names
of the particular officers and local agents and their residence and
business addresses as well as the corporation's taxpayer I.D. number.
D. The number of years the applicant has engaged in the
contracting business.
E. The specific type of business or work to be performed
by the applicant.
F. The approximate number of persons to be employed by
the applicant.
G. Whether or not there are any outstanding liens or
judgments against the applicant.
H. Satisfactory evidence that employees of the applicant
are covered by workers' compensation and disability insurance.
I. Satisfactory evidence that the applicant is covered
by general liability, personal injury and property damage insurance.
J. Such other information as the Building Inspector may
require.
No permit shall be issued for the construction
of a building or structure in the City or for the repair or alteration
of the interior or exterior of any building or structure unless a
certificate or other proof is filed showing that the contractor carried
workers' compensation insurance, disability insurance and public liability
insurance with limits of at least $100,000 for each person, $300,000
for each accident or bodily injury liability and $10,000 on property
damage liability.
Any person, firm or corporation violating any
provision of this chapter shall be guilty of a violation and subject
to a fine not exceeding $250 or imprisonment of up to 15 days in jail,
or both. Offenses shall continue to accrue daily until such time as
the contractor is no longer in violation.
This chapter shall become effective immediately
upon publication.