CA · jury_instructions
CACI No. 4560
Recovery of Payments to Unlicensed Contractor—Essential
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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