Needles Municipal Code § 12-44 Contractors And Subcontractors

1. General Contractor. For every person engaging in, conducting or carrying on the general contracting business, the license fee shall be one hundred dollars per year, or fraction thereof. After contract awards exceed one hundred thousand dollars in any fiscal year the licensee shall also pay quarterly, one dollar per one thousand dollars of contracts awarded to the contractor during the quarter for work to be performed within the city. For purposes of this section the contractor may exclude contracts for which valid building permits have been issued by the city if sales tax for all materials are credited to the city.
2. Subcontractors. For every person engaging in or carrying on the business of subcontractor, the license fee shall be seven dollars and fifty cents per day, or an annual license fee of thirty dollars per year, or fraction thereof, at the option of the subcontractor. After contract awards exceed thirty thousand dollars in any fiscal year the licensee shall also pay quarterly one dollar per one thousand dollars of contracts awarded to the contractor during the quarter for work to be performed within the city. For purposes of this section the contractor may exclude contracts for which valid building permits have been issued by the city if sales tax for all materials are credited to the city.
3. The city clerk may issue a business license to any applicant enumerated in this section; provided, that such general contractor or subcontractor is in compliance with other provisions of this Code or any other ordinance of the city, and has a state license that is current and in good standing.
4. Definition. For the purpose of this section, a “contractor” is a person who for either a fixed sum, price, fee, percentage, profit or other compensation, other than wages, undertakes or offers to undertake or purports to have the capacity to undertake to construct, alter, repair, add to or improve any building, highway, road, excavation or other structural project, development or improvement, or to do any part thereof; provided that the term “contractor” shall, unless specifically distinguished, include “subcontractor,” but shall not include anyone who merely furnishes material or supplies without fabricating the same into or consuming the same into the work of the contractor, or sole owners of property building thereon, a dwelling house intended for use of occupancy of such owner and his family; provided, that no more than one of such buildings shall be constructed in any one fiscal year. (Ord. 215 N.S.; Ord. 390 N.S.; Ord. 6-AC; Ord. 32-AC; Ord. 77-AC.)

For every person engaged in the business of small operations as defined in the section 7048 of the Business and Professions Code of the state or is engaged in the business of maintenance, the license fee shall be thirty dollars per year, or fraction thereof, plus an additional fee of one dollar per one thousand dollars of gross revenues in excess of ten thousand dollars per year. (Ord. 6-AC; Ord. 32-AC.)