A contractor breaks a $3,000 job into four separate $750 invoices to stay under the license threshold. Is that permitted?

解析

B&P §7048(a) measures the exemption by the aggregate contract price for labor, materials, and all other items on one undertaking or project, and §7048(b) removes the exemption where the work is part of a larger operation or where the operation is divided into contracts of less than $1,000 to evade the chapter. The job is a $3,000 project and needs a license. (a) reads the paperwork rather than the project. (b) makes the customer's agreement decisive, which no exemption does. (d) states a real condition of §7048(a) — the work must require no building permit — but applies it to phases instead of to the whole project, and no permit test rescues a job split for evasion.