(a) In the interest of the public health, safety, welfare, and consumer protection, and to regulate the home building and private residence construction industry, the purpose of this chapter and the intent of the Legislature in passing it is:
(1) To provide for the licensure of persons who engage in home building, private residence construction, and home improvement industries, including remodeling.
(2) To establish an Alabama Residential Building Code.
(3) To provide guidance, assistance, promotion, and support for code inspections of residential construction.
(4) To support education within the construction trades and construction inspections in the State of Alabama.
(b) The Legislature recognizes that the home building and home improvement construction industries are significant industries and that significant harm to the public may result from the provision of inadequate, unsafe, or inferior building services by unqualified, incompetent, or dishonest home builders and remodelers. The Legislature finds it necessary to regulate the residential home building and home improvement industries.
(Acts 1992, No. 92-608, p. 1282, §1; Act 2018-143, §1; Act 2019-482, §1; Act 2024-443, §2.)
Notes of Decisions
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1 in the last 5 years), 1996–2024 · leading case:
Fausnight v. Perkins, 994 So. 2d 912 (Ala. 2008).
Fausnight v. Perkins, 994 So. 2d 912 (Ala. 2008).
· cites it 3× “2006) (quoting Ala.Code § 34-14A-1). The court also notes that `harsh results sometimes flow from the construction of a penal statute.”
Swann v. Regions Bank, 17 So. 3d 1180 (Ala. Civ. App. 2008).
· cites it 3× “Ala.Code 1975, § 34-14A-1 et seq. This alleged duty to disclose presumably is asserted in support of Janice’s fraudulent-suppression claim, asserted in her third amended complaint.”
Sanchez v. McKinney, 87 So. 3d 502 (Ala. 2011).
“See § 34-14A-1 et seq., Aa.Code 1975. According to their petition, on January 15, 2005, the McKinneys entered into an oral contract with Sanchez relating to the purchase by Sanchez of a parcel of real property located in Elmore County.”
Hollinger v. Wells, 3 So. 3d 216 (Ala. Civ. App. 2008).
· cites it 3× “That amendment alleges that because Wells did not have a valid license as a homebuilder pursuant to Ala.Code 1975, § 34-14A-1 et seq. (“the home builder licensure statute”), he lacked standing to enforce the parties’ contract.”
Milloy v. H.H. Woods & Woods & Sons Constr., 23 So. 3d 48 (Ala. Civ. App. 2009).
· cites it 3× “illoy in 2004, § 34-14A-14, AUuCode 1975, provided, in pertinent part: “A residential home builder, who does not have the license required, may not bring or maintain any action to enforce the provisions of any contract for residential home building which he or she entered into…”
Gary Powers Dev., Inc. v. State Home Builders Licensure Bd., 852 So. 2d 778 (Ala. Civ. App. 2002).
· cites it 2× “However, the Board, like other regulatory boards, has as its purpose “to provide for the licensure of those persons who engage in home building and private dwelling construction” because “[hjome builders may pose significant harm to the public when unqualified, incompetent, or…”
Williams v. Hill, 17 So. 3d 229 (Ala. Civ. App. 2009).
· cites it 3× “Williams and WGH further argue that the trial court erred in concluding that, based on WGH’s violation of the Alabama Home Builders’ Licensure Act, Ala. Code 1975, § 34-14A-1 et seq, WGH could not recover the $20,000 it had expended in improving the real estate at 1551 Forest…”
Barrett v. Roman, 181 So. 3d 364 (Ala. Civ. App. 2015).
“” § 34-14A-1, Ala.Code 1975. See also Hooks v.”
Malone v. Parker, 953 F. Supp. 1512 (M.D. Ala. 1996).
“On January 3, 1995, Malone filed an application with the Alabama Home Builders Li-censure Board (“Board”), a state agency created pursuant to § 34-14A-1 of the Alabama Code (1996), to renew his home builder’s license.”
Hutchenson v. Daniel, 53 So. 3d 909 (Ala. Civ. App. 2009).
“The purpose of the chapter is described in § 34-14A-1, which provides: “In the interest of the public health, safety, welfare, and consumer protection and to regulate the home building and private dwelling construction industry, the purpose of this chapter, and the intent of the…”
Ridnour v. Brownlow Homebuilders, Inc., 100 So. 3d 554 (Ala. Civ. App. 2012).
· cites it 3× “Acts 1992, codified as amended at Ala.Code 1975, § 34-14A-1 et seq., created the Home Builders Licensure Board (“the Board”).”
State Home Builders Licensure Bd. v. Teel, 887 So. 2d 900 (Ala. Civ. App. 2003).
· cites it 2× “2 At the time the Teels and Match Builders entered into the residential construction contract and during the period of time the residential construction was being performed, Match Builders was a licensee of the Board under the provisions of the home builders’ licensure law, §…”
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