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ACTING CITY I\4ANAGER <br />Gerardo Mouet <br />C Y ATTORNEY <br />Sonia R. Carvalho <br />CLERK OF THE COUNCIL <br />l\4aria D. Huizar <br />CITY OF SANTA ANA <br />PLANNING & BUILDING AGENCY <br />20 Civic Center Plaza <br />P.Hox 1988 . Santa Ana, California 92702 <br />www.santa-ana.orglpba <br />NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER <br />Dear Property Owner: <br />An application for a building permit has been submitted in your name listing yourself as the builder of the property <br />improvements specified at 1 /I.41T) p |arE PJvd <br />W, <br />We are providing you with an Owner-Builder Acknowledqment and lnformation Verification Form to make you aware of <br />your responsibilities and possible risk you may incur by having this permit issued in your names as the Owner-Builder <br />We will not issue a building permit until you have read, initialed your understanding of each provision, signed, and returned <br />this form to us at our official address indicated. An agent of the owner cannot execute this notice unless you, the property <br />owner, obtain the prior approval of the permitting authority. <br />OWNER'S ACKN WLED MENT AND VERIFICATION OF INFORMATON <br />DIRECTIONS: Read and initial each statement below to signify you understand or verify this information. <br />l'l/> 't I understand a frequent practice of unlicensed persons is to have the property owner obtain an "Owner-Builder" <br />btilding permit that erroneously implies that the property owner is providing his or her own labor and material personally. l, <br />as an Owner-Builder, may be held liable and subject to serious financial risk for any injuries sustalned by an unlicensed <br />person and his or her employees while working on my property. My homeowner's insurance may not provide coverage for <br />those injuries. I am willfully acting as an Owner-Builder and am aware of the limits of my insurance coverage for injuries to <br />workers on my property. <br />2. I understand building permits are not required to be signed by property owners unless they are responsible for <br />nstruction and are not hiring a licensed Contractor to assume this responsibility. <br />W ,. , understand as an "Owner-Builder" I am the responsible party of record on the permit. I understand that I may <br />protect myself from potential financial risk by hiring a licensed Coniract,or and having the permit filed an his or her name <br />instead of my own. <br />4. I understand Contractors are required by law to be licensed and bonded in California and to list their license <br />um bers on permits and contracts <br />5. I understand if I employ or otherwise engage any persons, other than California licensed Contractors, and the <br />total value of my construction is at least five hundred dollars ($500), including labor and materials, I may be considered an <br />"employer" under state and federal law. <br />iXAU' 6. I understand if lam considered an "employer" under state and Federal law, I m ust register with the state and <br />federal government, withhold payroll taxes, provide workers' com pensation disability insurance] and contribute to <br />unemployment compensatlon of each "employee.' I also understand my failure to abide by these laws may subject me to <br />ser s financial risk <br />7. I understand under California Contractors' State License Law, an Owner-Builder who builds single-family <br />residential slructures cannot legally build them with the intent to offer them for sale, unless a//work is performed by <br />SANTA ANA CITY COUNCIL <br />moLr do@sa.ta'a.a.oro <br />Mayor Pro Tem Ward 2 <br />mimartinez@sanla-ana o.a vsade.lo@santa-anaoro isolonorosantaana.oro dbenavrdes@santaina.oro ivilleoas@sant6-ana.o.o snnaero@sanla-ana oro <br />I\,4AYOR <br />N,4iguelA. Pulido <br />I\,IAYOR PRO TEI\,I <br />Michele Martinez <br />COUNCILMEI\,4BERS <br />P. David Benavides <br />Vicente Sarmiento <br />Jose Solorio <br />SalTinajero <br />Juan Villegas