Defining Construction Contractors: Providing for the Licensing and Regulations Thereof: Fixing the Fees for Such Licenses

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ORDINANCE NO. 7 \mot WHEREAS, the Common Council of the city of South Bend, Indiana, pursuant to authority granted by bhapter 209 of the Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana approved March 6th, 1929, deems it necessary in order to conserve the value of property in said city and to protect its citizens from unsafe construction and from loss occasioned by the operation of unskilled, incompetent or unscrupulous building contractors, that building contractors be examined, regulated and licensed by said c1ty; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAID',ED BY THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA: Section 1. It shall hereafter be unlawful for any person, firm, co- partnership, corporation or other association to engage in or act within the limits of the city of South Bend in the business or capacity of a construction contractor as defined in this ordinance unless such person, firm, co- partnership, corporation or association shall have first ob- tained a license therefor or unless exempt therefrom as herein- after provided. Wherever in this ordinance the term "person or per- sons" is used without other limitation, it shall be construed to "Include persons, firms, co- partnerships, corporations, assoc- iations or any combination of any thereof.