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CACI No. 4560

Recovery of Payments to Unlicensed Contractor—Essential

activein force · 2025-01-01 – presentcompiled-edition

Factual Elements (Bus. & Prof. Code, § 7031(b))

[Name of plaintiff] claims that [name of defendant] did not have a valid

contractor’s license during all times when [name of defendant] was

[performing services/supervising construction] for [name of plaintiff]. To

establish this claim and recover all compensation paid for these services,

[name of plaintiff] must prove all of the following:

1. That [name of plaintiff] [[engaged/hired]/ [or] contracted with]

[name of defendant] to perform services for [name of plaintiff];

2. That a valid contractor’s license was required to perform these

services; and

3. That [name of plaintiff] paid [name of defendant] for services that

[name of defendant] performed.

[[Name of plaintiff] is not entitled to recover all compensation paid if

[name of defendant] proves that at all times while

[performing/supervising] these services, [he/she/ nonbinary pronoun/it] had

a valid contractor’s license as required by law.]

New June 2016; Revised November 2020, May 2021

Provenance

Source
courts.ca.gov
Retrieved
2026-08-20
Edition
caci-2025
Content hash
2549f533640377b7cdfac5d7d910356bdb4c6ac50acdbd3b0ad631a4a0c729ba
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