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Opinion No. 42-4006

Collection Attorney General Opinions and Advisory Letters
Date 01/29/1942
File Number 1942 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 42-4006

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Opinion No. 42-4006

January 29, 1942

BY: EDWARD P. CHASE, Attorney General

TO: Mr. S. L. Kirk, Chairman Contractors' Licensing Board Santa Fe, New Mexico

{*154} In your letter dated January 28, 1942, you request an opinion from this office relative to the necessity of obtaining a contractor's license before a bid may be submitted by a contractor.

Chapter 197, Sections 1 and 3, Laws of 1939, require that a contractor secure a license from the State Board before he offers to act as a contractor or purports to have the capacity of a contractor. Under that language, it is a violation of the law to submit a bid to perform certain work coming within purview of this law without first obtaining a contractor's license.

This conclusion is in accord with Opinion No. 3637, a copy of which I am enclosing herewith for your information.

By C. C. McCULLOH,

Asst. Atty. General

 You are being directed to the most recent version of the statute which may not be the version considered at the time of the judgment.