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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 7151
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 7151
(a) “Home improvement” means the repairing, remodeling, altering, converting, or modernizing of, or adding to, residential property, as well as the reconstruction, restoration, or rebuilding of a residential property that is damaged or destroyed by a natural disaster for which a
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 7151.2
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 7151.2
“Home improvement contract” means an agreement, whether oral or written, or contained in one or more documents, between a contractor and an owner or between a contractor and a tenant, regardless of the number of residence or dwelling units contained in the building in which the t
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 7152
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 7152
(a) “Home improvement salesperson” is a person who is registered under this chapter and engaged in the business of soliciting, selling, negotiating, or executing contracts for home improvements, for the sale, installation, or furnishing of home improvement goods or services, or o
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 7153
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 7153
(a) It is a misdemeanor for any person to engage in the occupation of salesperson for one or more home improvement contractors within this state without having, at the time of the sales transaction, a current and valid home improvement salesperson registration issued by the regis
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 7153.1
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 7153.1
(a) The home improvement salesperson shall submit to the registrar an application in writing containing the statement that he or she desires the issuance of a registration under the terms of this article. The application shall be made on a form prescribed by the registrar and sha
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 7153.2
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 7153.2
All home improvement salesperson registrations issued under the provisions of this article shall expire two years from the last day of the month in which the registration was issued, or two years from the date on which the renewed registration last expired.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 7153.3
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 7153.3
(a) To renew a home improvement salesperson registration, which has not expired, the registrant shall before the time at which the registration would otherwise expire, apply for renewal on a form prescribed by the registrar and pay a renewal fee prescribed by this chapter. Renewa
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 7154
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 7154
(a) A home improvement contractor licensed under this chapter shall notify the registrar in writing, on a form prescribed by the registrar, about the employment of a registered home improvement salesperson, pursuant to the terms of this article. This notification requirement shal
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 7155
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 7155
Violation of any provision of this chapter by a home improvement salesperson constitutes cause for disciplinary action. The registrar may suspend or revoke the registration of the home improvement salesperson if he or she is found to be in violation. The disciplinary proceedings
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 7155.5
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 7155.5
Violations of any provisions of this chapter by a home improvement salesperson likewise constitute cause for disciplinary action against the contractor by whom he or she was employed at the time the violation occurred, whether or not the contractor had knowledge of or participate
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 7156
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 7156
It shall be a misdemeanor and a cause for disciplinary action to commit any of the following acts: (a) For any home improvement salesperson to fail to account for or to remit to their employing contractor any payment received in connection with any home improvement transaction or
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 7156.6
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 7156.6
(a) Notwithstanding any other law, the board may implement a system that provides for the electronic transmission of an initial application or renewal application for the registration required by this article and the electronic transmission of the notices required by Section 7154
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 7157
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 7157
(a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), as a part of or in connection with the inducement to enter into any home improvement contract or other contract, which may be performed by a contractor, no person may promise or offer to pay, credit, or allow to any owner, comp
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 7158
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 7158
(a) Any person who shall accept or receive a completion certificate or other evidence that performance of a contract for a work of improvement, including, but not limited to, a home improvement, is complete or satisfactorily concluded, with knowledge that the document is false an
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 7159
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 7159
(a) (1) This section identifies the projects for which a home improvement contract is required, outlines the contract requirements, and lists the items that shall be included in the contract, or may be provided as an attachment. (2) This section does not apply to service and repa
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 7159.1
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 7159.1
(a) In any contract for the sale of home improvement goods or services offered by door-to-door sale that contains or is secured by a lien on real property, the contract shall be accompanied by the following notice in 18-point boldfaced type: “WARNING TO BUYER: IF YOU SIGN THE CON
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 7159.10
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 7159.10
(a) (1) “Service and repair contract” means an agreement between a contractor or salesperson for a contractor, whether a general contractor or a specialty contractor, who is licensed or subject to be licensed pursuant to this chapter with regard to the transaction, and a homeowne
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 7159.11
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 7159.11
A violation of any provision of Section 7159.10 by a licensee, or a person subject to be licensed under this chapter, or by his or her agent or salesperson, is cause for discipline.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 7159.14
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 7159.14
(a) This section applies to a service and repair contract as defined in Section 7159.10. A violation of this section by a licensee or a person subject to be licensed under this chapter, or by their agent or salesperson, is cause for discipline. (1) The contract shall not exceed s
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 7159.2
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 7159.2
(a) No home improvement goods or services contract of a value of five thousand dollars ($5,000) or less shall provide for a security interest in real property, except for a mechanic’s lien or other interest in property that arises by operation of law. Any lien in violation of thi
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 7159.5
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 7159.5
This section applies to all home improvement contracts, as defined in Section 7151.2, between an owner or tenant and a contractor, whether a general contractor or a specialty contractor, that is licensed or subject to be licensed pursuant to this chapter with regard to the transa
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 7159.6
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 7159.6
(a) An extra work or change order is not enforceable against a buyer unless the change order sets forth all of the following: (1) The scope of work encompassed by the order. (2) The amount to be added or subtracted from the contract. (3) The effect the order will make in the prog
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 7159.9
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 7159.9
(a) Section 7159 does not apply to the sale, installation, and servicing of a fire alarm sold in conjunction with an alarm system, as defined in Section 7590.1 of the Alarm Company Act (Chapter 11.6 (commencing with Section 7590)), provided the licensee does all of the following:
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 716
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 716
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a board under this division may deny issuance of a license to an applicant or take disciplinary action against the holder of a California license for acts or omissions committed by the applicant or licensee in the course of professional
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 7160
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 7160
Any person who is induced to contract for a work of improvement, including but not limited to a home improvement, in reliance on false or fraudulent representations or false statements knowingly made, may sue and recover from such contractor or solicitor a penalty of five hundred