A subcontractor abandons a project after pouring a defective foundation and refuses to return calls or correct the defects, leaving the owner to hire someone else at greater cost. Which provision most directly supports CSLB discipline?
Explanation
B&P §7113 makes a licensee's failure in a material respect to complete a construction project for the price stated in the contract a cause for discipline, which is exactly what the owner's higher completion cost evidences. (a) would require evidence that project money went somewhere else, and nothing in the facts says it did. (c) polices the paperwork of the contract, not the performance of it. (d) is a reporting duty about the qualifying individual and has nothing to do with abandoned work.
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