ARTICLE 10. Home Improvement Business

Article 10 added by Stats. 1961, Ch. 1021.

§§ 7150–7170 · 36 sections

§ 7150 (a) “Person” as used in this article is limited to natural persons, notwithstanding the definition of person in Section 7025. (b) “Senior citizen” means an…
§ 7150.1 A home improvement contractor, including a swimming pool contractor, is a contractor as defined and licensed under this chapter who is engaged in the business…
§ 7151 (a) “Home improvement” means the repairing, remodeling, altering, converting, or modernizing of, or adding to, residential property, as well as the…
§ 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…
§ 7152 (a) “Home improvement salesperson” is a person who is registered under this chapter and engaged in the business of soliciting, selling, negotiating, or…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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,…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 7161 It is a misdemeanor for any person to engage in any of the following acts, the commission of which is cause for disciplinary action against any licensee or…
§ 7162 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any representation by a person licensed pursuant to this chapter with respect to a trademark or brand name,…
§ 7163 (a) No contract for home improvement shall be enforceable against the buyer if the obtaining of a loan for all or a portion of the contract price is a…
§ 7164 (a) Notwithstanding Section 7044, every contract and any changes in a contract, between an owner and a contractor, for the construction of a single-family…
§ 7165 The requirements of this section may be substituted for the requirements of paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) of subdivision (a) of Section 7163 if a swimming pool…
§ 7166 The provisions of Article 10 shall not apply to contracts for the construction of swimming pools to be built for the use and enjoyment of other than a…
§ 7167 (a) Any contract, the primary purpose of which is the construction of a swimming pool, that does not substantially comply with paragraph (4) or (5) of…
§ 7168 In any action between a person contracting for construction of a swimming pool and a swimming pool contractor arising out of a contract for swimming pool…
§ 7169 (a) The board, in collaboration with the Public Utilities Commission, shall develop and make available a “solar energy system disclosure document” or documents…
§ 7170 (a) The Contractors State License Board shall receive and review complaints and consumer questions regarding solar energy systems companies and solar…