Who the rules cover, and who is exempt

Almost everyone who asks whether these rules apply to them is really asking whether an exemption covers what they are about to do. The exemptions are real, there are eleven of them, and every one is narrower than it first looks.

In this chapter

Which activities put a firm inside these rules, and the single line that puts the general public outside them
That being exempt from the license is not the same as being exempt from the standard
What a city or county may still require of a registered firm, and what it may not