California Business and Professions Code ARTICLE 10 - Home Improvement Business

• Section 7150.
  “Person” as used in this article is limited to natural persons, notwithstanding the definition of person in Section 7025.(Amended by Stats. 1972, Ch. 1138.)
• Section 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...
• Section 7151.
  “Home improvement” means the repairing, remodeling, altering, converting, or modernizing of, or adding to, residential property and shall include, but not be limited to, the...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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 7159.10.a.
  (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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 7161.
  It is a misdemeanor for any person to engage in any of the following acts, the commission of which shall be cause for disciplinary action...
• Section 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, quality,...
• Section 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...
• Section 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 dwelling to...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 7169.
  (a) The board, in collaboration with the Public Utilities Commission, shall develop and make available a “solar energy system disclosure document” or documents that provide a...
• Section 7170.
  (a) The Contractors’ State License Board shall receive and review complaints and consumer questions regarding solar energy systems companies and solar contractors. The board shall also...

Last modified: October 22, 2018