• Construction projects priced at $500 or more in both labor & materials

•Can’t break down project into $499 pieces

• Cannot charge hourly rate to try and get around law

• Definition of a Contractor (Business & Professions Code §7026.1)

• Any person, consultant to an owner-builder, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, or company, who or which undertakes offers to undertake ,  purports to have the capacity to undertake, or submits a bid to construct any building or home improvement project, or part thereof .