A specialty (Class C) contractor takes a prime contract. The license law permits a specialty contractor to take a prime contract when?
Explanation
B&P §7058 defines a specialty contractor by the trade performed, and §7059 lets that contractor take the prime contract for a project within its specialty, with other trades only where they are incidental and supplemental to it. (a) is over-broad: specialty contractors take prime contracts routinely on single-trade projects. (b) is the standard trap — subcontracting the other trades does not convert a single-trade license into a general building license. (c) invents consent as a cure; scope of license is not something an owner can waive.
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