Current Status Bill Number:3177 Type of Legislation:General Bill GB Introducing Body:House Introduced Date:19970114 Primary Sponsor:Seithel All Sponsors:Seithel Drafted Document Number:bbm\9045ac.97 Residing Body:Senate Current Committee:Labor, Commerce and Industry Committee 12 SLCI Date of Last Amendment:19970402 Subject:General, mechanical contractor, residential builder, marine construction
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Senate 19970408 Introduced, read first time, 12 SLCI
referred to Committee
House 19970403 Read third time, sent to Senate
House 19970402 Amended, read second time
House 19970325 Request for debate by Representative T. Brown
Seithel
House 19970325 Objection by Representative Kelley
Kirsh
Edge
Miller
Witherspoon
Cotty
Simrill
J. Brown
House 19970319 Committee report: Favorable with 26 HLCI
amendment
House 19970114 Introduced, read first time, 26 HLCI
referred to Committee
House 19970108 Prefiled, referred to Committee 26 HLCI
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AMENDED
April 2, 1997
H. 3177
S. Printed 4/2/97--H.
Read the first time January 14, 1997.
TO AMEND SECTION 40-11-10, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO DEFINITIONS RELATIVE TO LICENSING OF CONTRACTORS, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT GENERAL CONTRACTORS INCLUDE A PERSON WHO UNDERTAKES MARINE CONSTRUCTION FOR A FEE OF FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS OR MORE AND THAT MECHANICAL CONTRACTORS INCLUDE A PERSON WHO UNDERTAKES MARINE CONSTRUCTION FOR ANY FEE AND TO DEFINE MARINE CONSTRUCTION; AND TO AMEND SECTION 40-59-10, AS AMENDED, RELATING TO DEFINITIONS RELATIVE TO LICENSING RESIDENTIAL BUILDERS, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT RESIDENTIAL BUILDERS INCLUDE A PERSON WHO UNDERTAKES MARINE CONSTRUCTION FOR ANY FEE.
Amend Title To Conform
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 by adding an appropriately numbered item to read:
"( ) 'Saltwater Marine Construction' includes all marine construction activities in deep-water installations and on repairs done in harbors, inlets, sounds, bays, and channels in bodies of saltwater as determined by the saltwater-freshwater dividing lines defined in Section 50-17-30; also included is construction and installation in bodies of saltwater of pilings, dredging, pier and slip construction, causeways, docks, and bulkheads."
SECTION 2. Section 40-11-10(1) of the 1976 Code is amended to read:
"(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, when the cost of the undertaking is thirty thousand dollars or more. Anyone who engages or offers to engage in such undertaking in this State shall be is deemed to have engaged in the business of general contracting in this State. Anyone who engages or offers to engage in saltwater marine construction when the cost of such undertaking is ten thousand dollars or more is deemed to have engaged in the business of saltwater marine construction and must have the saltwater marine classification issued by the board upon successful completion of the appropriate examination. Nothing in this chapter prevents a person, or a person's agents, from performing saltwater marine construction on the person's own residence or on other real estate held for personal or rental, as opposed to speculative, purposes."
SECTION 3. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.