Section 16-801. LICENSING OF CONTRACTORS AND SALESPERSONS

 

801.1Application for a license to engage in business as a home improvement contractor or salesperson shall be made to the Director on a form prescribed by the Director.

 

801.2Each person applying for a license shall submit to the Director under oath, such information as the Director may require to assist in determining whether the applicant is trustworthy and intends to act as a bona fide home improvement contractor or salesperson.

 

801.3Each application for a salesperson's license shall include a certification by the licensed contractor for whom the applicant purposes to act as salesperson that the applicant will, if licensed, be employed by that contractor.

 

801.4Each applicant for a license as a salesperson (including any contractor, officer, or member of any firm, partnership, joint stock company, corporation, association, or incorporated society when engaging in the activities of a salesperson) shall, at time of initial application, submit three (3) identical full-faced photographs of himself or herself, one inch by one and one-half inches (1 in. x 1 1/2 in.) in size taken not more than three (3) months prior to date of application.

 

801.5If the Director is satisfied that an applicant has met the qualifications set forth in § 801.4, the Director shall issue the license.

 

801.6When the Director issues a salesperson's license, the Director shall register the licensee as a salesperson for the contractor who certified the application.

 

801.7The Director may issue a temporary license as a salesperson, valid for not more than thirty (30) days, to any applicant who presents at the time of making application for a regular salesperson's license, an affidavit on a form prescribed by the Director and sworn to before a notary public, by a contractor located in the Metropolitan Area of the District of Columbia and licensed to engage in the home improvement business in the District, certifying that the applicant will be employed by the contractor as a home improvement salesperson.

 

801.8For the purposes of this section, the "Metropolitan Area of the District of Columbia" means the District of Columbia, Montgomery and Prince Georges Counties in Maryland, and Arlington and Fairfax Counties and the cities of Alexandria and Falls Church in Virginia.

 

801.9Any false statement contained in the affidavit presented under § 801.7 shall be grounds for the suspension of revocation of the license of the contractor.

 

801.10Any false statement contained in the application for license as a salesperson shall be grounds for the denial, suspension or revocation of that license.

 

801.11If any officer, director, partner, or managing employee of any applicant for license as a contractor, or any person exercising control, directly or indirectly, over such applicant, is himself or herself deficient in the qualification of trustworthiness so that he or she would not be entitled to a license under this section if he or she applied for it in his or her own name, the deficiency may be deemed to be the deficiency of the applicant.