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FLORIDA CONTRACTORS MANUAL TestStudy Guide| Q&A’s
Contractor's Manual - Licensing Exemption - ✔✔Construction Contracting: any
person who, for compensation is to improve real estate, for others or for resale to
others, must be licensed.
Contractor's Manual - Licensing Exemption - ✔✔The following are exempt from state
licensure: 1. Hightway, street, road, bridge, railway contractor. 4. Court appointed
officers acting with the scope of their office. 7. Owner of property when acting as their
own contractor. 8. An construction on United State property. 11. Registered architects
or engineers acting within the scope of their practice. 14. Person who install water
conditioning units. 15. Person who installs heating or AC units of less than 3 tons or
36,000 Btu. 18. 1 to 3 family residence constructed by Habitat for Humanity. 19.
prefabricated portable sheds 250 square feet or less.
Contractor's Manual - Licensing Exemption - ✔✔Subcontracting Requirements: A
contractor shall subcontract all activities on a project when he does not possess the
required licenses - except. 1. clearing and grubbing, grading , excavation, for a
construction project. 2. installation or repair of shingles, wood shakes, or asphalt roofing
materials. 3. structural swimming pool work. 4. construction of main sanitary sewer
collection system, storm collection system. 5. Continuation of utility lines from the
mains on mobile home parks. 6. solar contractor - the installation of solar energy
equipment.
Contractor's Manual - Licensing Exemption - ✔✔Subcontractors - lndep_endent
Contractors or Employees? Generally, a worker is an independent contractor if the
person or entity for whom the services are performed has the right to control or direct
only the result of the work, and not the means and methods of accomplishing the result.
Contractor's Manual - Financial Responsibility - ✔✔Professional Responsibility -
Liability: the primary qualifying agent is responsible for supervision of all operations of
, the business and, unless a financially responsible officer is designated for financial
matters of the organization and for each specific job.
Contractor's Manual - Financial Responsibility - ✔✔Changes in Licensure Information:
business organization must inform the DBPR of any change in information required to
be submitted on the application for qualification within forty-five days following the
change.
Contractor's Manual - Financial Responsibility - ✔✔License Number Must Appear on
Building Permits and Advertisements: in addition, must appear in any advertisement
and text or artwork on the contractor's vehicle.
Contractor's Manual - Ground for Disciplinary Action - ✔✔1. Obtaining a licence by
fraud or misrepresentation. 2. Being convicted or found guilty of a crime which directly
relates to the practice of contracting. 3. Violating applicable building codes or city laws.
4. Assisting a person in the unlicensed practice of contracting. 5. Combining and
conspiring with an unlicensed person to evade the licensing laws. 6. Acting as a
contractor other than the name reflected on the license.
Contractor's Manual - Ground for Disciplinary Action - ✔✔7. Committing
mismanagement such as not removing liens from the property, by payment of bond,
withing 75 days after he has gotten paid to remove liens. or the contractor has
abandoned a customers' job and the percentage of completion is less than the
percentage of the total contract. 8. Abandoning a construction project without just
cause or proper notification to the owner. 9. Being disciplined by any county or city for
an act of violation of the state licensing law.
Contractor's Manual - F.S. 455 - ✔✔455.01 Definitions. 1. Board - any board or
commission authorized to exercise regulatory or rule-making functions. 2. Consumer
member - person appointed to serve on a specific board, who is not, a member or
practitioner of the profession regulated by such board. 3. Department - the department
of business and professional regualation DBPR 4. License - any permit, registration,
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