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in transit, or for short periods of time before transportation
<br />commences or after it ceases.
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<br /> "Contractor" shall mean any person who is licensed as a
<br />contractor by the State of California and who undertakes to or
<br />offers to undertake to or purports to have the capacity to
<br />undertake to or submits a bid to, or does himself or by others,
<br />construct, alter, repair, add to, subtract from, improve, move,
<br />wreck or demolish any building, highway, road, railroad,
<br />excavation or other structure, project, development or
<br />improvement, or to do any part thereof, including the erection of
<br />scaffolding or other structures or works in connection therewith.
<br />The term contractor as used in this chapter includes, general
<br />engineering contractor, general building contractor, specialty
<br />contractor and subcontractor except as otherwise specified
<br />herein.
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<br /> "Cost Of Doing Business" shall mean that amount which is
<br />equivalent to the volume of business performed, where the
<br />business of any local office, facility, agent, broker, or
<br />employee is that of performing administrative or management
<br />related services in connection with sales or services performed
<br />or rendered elsewhere. Said amount shall be computed by
<br />determining the total cost of maintaining said local office,
<br />facility, agent, broker or employee. Said total cost of
<br />maintaining said local office, facility, agent, broker or
<br />employee shall include, but is not limited to the wages,
<br />salaries, commissions, bonuses, rent, and/or depreciation,
<br />telephone, postage, utilities, Janitorial and other expenses
<br />allocated for maintenance of said office, facility, agent, broker
<br />or employee.
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<br /> "Disabled Veteran" shall mean any honorably discharged member
<br />of the Armed Forces of the United States, who is physically
<br />unable to obtain his livelihood by means of manual labor and who
<br />is a qualified voter of the state.
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<br /> "Employee" shall mean all individuals who are engaged in the
<br />operatiom or conduct of any business, and whose consideration for
<br />services rendered is in the form of a regular salary or wage.
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<br /> "Engaged In Business" shall mean the transacting and carrying
<br />on, managing or operating of a business whether done as owner, or
<br />by means of an officer, agent, manager, employee, or lessee.
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<br /> "Fixed Place Of Business" shall mean the premises primarily
<br />occupied for the particular purpose of conducting the business
<br />thereat, and regularly kept open for that purpose with a
<br />competent person in attendance for the purpose of attending to
<br />such business, except that an auto-car wash, auto-laundromat, or
<br />similar self-service business shall be considered a "fixed place
<br />of business" whether or not any one is in attendance and a
<br />warehouse shall be considered a "fixed place of business" whether
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