SECTION 770
Definitions
General Business (GBS) CHAPTER 20, ARTICLE 36-A
§ 770. Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms,
unless the context requires otherwise, shall have the following
meanings:
1. "Person" means a natural person.
2. "Owner" means any homeowner, co-operative shareholder owner, or
residential tenant, or any person who purchases a custom home as defined
in this section.
3. "Home improvement" means the repairing, remodeling, altering,
converting, or modernizing of, or adding to, residential property and
shall include, but not be limited to, the construction, erection,
replacement, or improvement of driveways, swimming pools, siding,
insulation, roofing, windows, terraces, patios, landscaping, fences,
porches, garages, solar energy systems, flooring, basements, and other
improvements of the residential property and all structures or land
adjacent to it. "Home improvement" shall also mean the construction of a
custom home, the installation of home improvement goods or the
furnishing of home improvement services. "Home improvement" shall not
include:
(a) the sale or construction of a new home, other than a custom home
as defined in this section;
(b) the sale of goods by a seller who neither arranges to perform nor
performs, directly or indirectly, any work or labor in connection with
the installation or application of the goods;
(c) the sale or installation of appliances, such as stoves,
refrigerators, freezers, room air conditioners, dishwashers, clothes
washers or dryers, which are designed to be removable from the premises
without material alteration thereof;
(d) the sale or installation of decorative goods or services, such as
draperies and carpets; or