Current Status Bill Number:3259 Type of Legislation:General Bill GB Introducing Body:House Introduced Date:19970116 Primary Sponsor:Cooper All Sponsors:Cooper, Stille, Trotter and Kelley Drafted Document Number:council\legis\bills\pt\2771dw.9 7 Residing Body:House Date Tabled:19970318 Current Committee:Labor, Commerce and Industry Committee 26 HLCI Subject:General, mechanical contractor; cost of undertaking person, Construction
Body Date Action Description Com Leg Involved ______ ________ _______________________________________ _______ ____________ House 19970318 Tabled in Committee 26 HLCI House 19970116 Introduced, read first time, 26 HLCI referred to CommitteeView additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.
TO AMEND SECTION 40-11-10, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO DEFINITIONS OF "GENERAL CONTRACTOR" AND "MECHANICAL CONTRACTOR", SO AS TO INCREASE THE THRESHOLD AMOUNTS OF THE COST OF THE UNDERTAKING A PERSON WOULD AGREE TO ACCEPT TO COME WITHIN THE MEANING OF THESE TWO DEFINITIONS.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 40-11-10 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:
"Section 40-11-10. For the purposes of this chapter:
(1) A 'general contractor' shall be is one who for a fixed price, commission, fee, or wage undertakes or offers to undertake the construction or superintending of construction of any building, highway, sewer, grading, improvement, reimprovement, structure, or part thereof of it, when the cost of the undertaking is thirty forty-five thousand dollars or more. Anyone who engages or offers to engage in such this undertaking in this State shall be is deemed considered to have engaged in the business of general contracting in this State.
(2) A 'mechanical contractor' is one who for a fixed price, commission, fee, or wage undertakes or offers to undertake any plumbing, heating, air conditioning, lighting protection work, or electric work when the cost of the undertaking is seventeen thirty thousand five hundred dollars or more. Anyone who engages or offers to engage in such this undertaking in this State is deemed considered to have engaged in the business of mechanical contracting in this State."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.