California Business and Professions Code

§ 7071.6

BPC § 7071.6 Effective Jan 1, 2022Div. 3 · Ch. 9 · Art. 5

Statute text

(a)The board shall require as a condition precedent to the issuance, reinstatement, reactivation, renewal, or continued maintenance of a license, that the applicant or licensee file or have on file a contractor’s bond in the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000).

(b)Excluding the claims brought by the beneficiaries specified in subdivision (a) of Section 7071.5, the aggregate liability of a surety on claims brought against a bond required by this section shall not exceed the sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500). The bond proceeds in excess of seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500) shall be reserved exclusively for the claims of the beneficiaries specified in subdivision (a) of Section 7071.5. However, nothing in this section shall be construed so as to prevent any beneficiary specified in subdivision (a) of Section 7071.5 from claiming or recovering the full measure of the bond required by this section.

(c)A bond shall not be required of a holder of a license that has been inactivated on the official records of the board during the period the license is inactive.

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Legislative history

Repealed (in Sec. 16) and added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 367, Sec. 17. (SB 607) Effective January 1, 2022. Operative January 1, 2023, by its own provisions.