Sections
36 entriesSection 7150Defines “person,” for this article, to mean only a natural person despite the broader definition elsewhere in the chapter. Defines “senior citizen”…Section 7150.1Defines a home improvement contractor, including a swimming pool contractor, as a contractor licensed and defined under the chapter who engages in…Section 7151Defines “home improvement” to include specified repair, remodeling, alteration, additions, installations, and disaster reconstruction involving residential property, and defines related goods or…Section 7151.2Defines a “home improvement contract” as an oral or written agreement between a contractor and an owner or qualifying tenant for statutorily…Section 7152Requires a home improvement salesperson to register with the board, permits employment by one or multiple home improvement contractors, and requires the…Section 7153Prohibits acting as a home-improvement salesperson in California without current valid registration at the sales transaction and makes the conduct a misdemeanor;…Section 7153.1Requires a home-improvement salesperson registration applicant to submit the registrar’s written form with the prescribed fee, and allows refusal on the specified…Section 7153.2Sets every home improvement salesperson registration to expire two years from the last day of the month in which it was issued,…Section 7153.3Requires timely renewal applications and fees to continue home improvement salesperson registration for two years, while allowing delinquent renewal within three years…Section 7154Requires a home-improvement contractor to notify the registrar in writing before a registered salesperson begins work and within 90 days after that…Section 7155Establishes any chapter violation by a home improvement salesperson as grounds for disciplinary action and allows the registrar to suspend or revoke…Section 7155.5Establishes a home-improvement salesperson’s chapter violation as grounds for disciplinary action against the contractor who employed the salesperson when the violation occurred.…Section 7156Establishes a misdemeanor and disciplinary grounds when a home-improvement salesperson fails to account for or remit transaction payments, when a person uses…Section 7156.6Allows the board to implement electronic transmission of initial or renewal home-improvement salesperson registration applications and required employment notices. Allows regulations prescribing…Section 7157Prohibits offering owners compensation for procuring home-improvement business, but permits one gift worth no more than $5 per transaction if not conditioned…Section 7158Prohibits knowingly accepting a false completion certificate for unfinished improvement work and using it to assign payment rights or obtain or grant…Section 7159Requires qualifying home-improvement contracts exceeding $500 to follow detailed written-contract, disclosure, signature, change-order, lien-release, and bond-notice rules, including giving the buyer a…Section 7159.1Requires a door-to-door home-improvement contract secured by or containing a real-property lien to include a separate, signed and dated 18-point bold warning…Section 7159.2Prohibits home-improvement contracts of $5,000 or less from real-property security interests except mechanics liens or interests arising by law, and makes prohibited…Section 7159.5Requires written home-improvement contracts stating amount, capping downpayments at $1,000 or 10%, and capping progress payments at delivered value. Full-performance bonds or…Section 7159.6Requires an enforceable extra-work or change order to state the work scope, amount added or subtracted, and effect on progress payments or…Section 7159.9Exempts qualifying residential fire-alarm sales, installation, and service from the referenced home-improvement-contract provision when the licensee meets specified contract rules and certifies…Section 7159.10Defines a “service and repair contract” as a home-improvement agreement of $750 or less initiated by the buyer, limited to reasonably necessary…Section 7159.11Sets a violation of any requirement in the referenced service-and-repair contract provision by a licensee, a person required to be licensed, or…Section 7159.14Requires service-and-repair contracts entered on or after July 1, 2021 to be written, buyer-initiated, no more than $750, paid only after completion,…Section 7160Allows a person induced to contract for construction or other improvement work by knowingly false or fraudulent representations to sue the contractor…Section 7161Prohibits false or deceptive improvement advertising, substantial contract misrepresentations, contract fraud, knowingly overstated indebtedness, and bait advertising; Federal Trade Commission-compliant ads are…Section 7162Requires a licensed contractor’s representations about the trademark, brand, quality, or size of specified goods or materials for a home-improvement contract to…Section 7163Bars enforcement of financed home-improvement contracts against buyers until a lender agrees, the buyer accepts financing, and applicable rescission expires, and limits…Section 7164Requires owner-contractor agreements for single-family dwellings the owner will retain at least one year to be written, signed, furnished before work, and…Section 7165Allows specified swimming-pool financing requirements to substitute for general financed-home-improvement conditions when a third-party lender commits in writing to financing, discloses loan…Section 7166Exempts from the referenced swimming-pool article contracts for pools intended for use and enjoyment other than by a single-family unit on or…Section 7167Bars a contractor from enforcing a swimming-pool construction contract that fails to substantially comply with the specified home-improvement-contract requirements, making it void…Section 7168Requires a court to award reasonable attorney’s fees to the prevailing party in any action between a person contracting for swimming-pool construction…Section 7169Requires the board and Public Utilities Commission to develop a solar disclosure and, by July 1, 2018, post a version solar companies…Section 7170Requires the Contractors State License Board to receive and review consumer questions and complaints about solar-energy-system companies and solar contractors, including complaints…