When a corporation applies for a contractor's license, who must appear on the application as the qualifying individual?
Explanation
B&P §7065 requires a corporation to be qualified by a responsible managing officer or responsible managing employee who has the required experience and passes the qualifying examination for the classification sought. (a) substitutes ownership for competence — stock ownership matters to the §7071.9 bond exemption and the §7068.1 multi-firm rule, never to who may qualify. (c) over-reads the officer requirement: an RMO may be president, vice president, secretary or treasurer, and an RME need not be an officer at all. (d) stops at corporate status; being an officer of record satisfies neither the experience requirement nor the examination.
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