Opinion No. (2001)

Dear Senate Helton,

¶ 0 This office has received your request for an official Attorney General Opinion in which you ask, in effect, the following question:

Is an individual owner, who contracts for new construction of asingle family residential dwelling on property he owns where heintends to reside in such dwelling upon completion, liable forworkers' compensation due to the employees of persons with whomhe contracts to construct the new single family residentialdwelling?

In answering your question, it is assumed that the persons with whom the owner contracts are independent contractors,1 and not…