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Ordinance amending and supplementing the Pittsburgh Code, Title Seven: Business Licensing, Article V: Trade Occupations, Chapter 751: Contractor Registration, by adding language defining "contractor" and "construction" and updating references to both entities across Chapter.
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CHAPTER 751: - GENERAL CONTRACTOR REGISTRATION
? 751.01 - CONTRACTOR REGISTRATION REQUIRED.
No contractor person shall engage in any construction within the city limits of the City of Pittsburgh and/or any activity regulated by Title 10, Building, or Title 13, Stormwater of the Pittsburgh Code, including those activities requiring a permit, without first obtaining a general contractor registration from the License Officer. "Contractor" shall be defined to include general contractors, subcontractors, and independent contractors without regard to whether it is an individual, a proprietorship, a partnership, and/or a corporation. The persons shall include individuals, proprietorships, partnerships and corporations. "Construction" shall be defined as erection, reconstruction, demolition, alteration, modification, custom fabrication, building, assembling, site preparation, and repair work done on any real property or premises, public or private, under contract, without regard to whether the work is paid for with public funds or private funds. The provisions of Chapter 701 are also incorporated herein.
? 751.02 - EXCEPTIONS.
A general contractor registration shall not be required for the following:
a) Contractors Persons who have obtained licenses under Chapters 741 (Mechanical), 743 (Welders), 745 (Stationary Engineers), 747 (Electrical), 754 (Fire Suppression), and 740 (Sign Contractors) for work which requires that license.
b) Owner(s) of single-or two-family dwellings who personally perform work upon the dwelling, provided that the owner(s) occupy or, upon completion of the activity which would require the general contractor registration, shall occupy the dwelling.
c) Governmen...
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