Sec. 1. 32 MRSA c. 129 is enacted to read:

CHAPTER 129

CONTRACTOR REGISTRATION

§14551.__Definitions

As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise indicates, the following terms have the following meanings.

1.__Commissioner.__"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Professional and Financial Regulation.

2.__Construction contract.__"Construction contract" means an agreement, whether written or oral, to perform work on real property.

3.__Contractor.__"Contractor" means a person or entity that enters into a construction contract.

4.__Department.__"Department" means the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation.

5.__Real property.__"Real property" means real estate, including lands, leaseholds, tenements and hereditaments and improvements placed on real estate.

6.__Work.__"Work" means to build, alter, repair or demolish any improvement on, connected with or beneath the surface of any real property and includes nonstructural work such as plumbing, heating and electrical work, laying carpeting and other nonstructural work; or to excavate, clear, grade, fill or landscape any real property; or to construct driveways, private roadways, highways and bridges, drilled wells, septic systems, sewage systems or utilities; or to perform labor upon real property.__"Work" also includes any design or other professional or skilled service by a person such as, but not limited to, an architect, engineer, land surveyor, landscape architect or construction engineer.

§14552.__Establishment of register

The commissioner shall establish and maintain within the department a register of all contractors doing business in the State.__The register is a matter of public record available for public view in the offices of the department or on request at a