
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, March 16, 1991                   TAG: 9103160298
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A-5   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: By Associated Press
DATELINE: RICHMOND                                LENGTH: Short

WILDER ASKED TO RESTORE CONTRATOR-DISCLOSURE LAWS

The Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, a consumer-interest group, on Friday asked Gov. Douglas Wilder to restore regulations that require building and home-improvement contractors to provide certain information to their customers.

The regulations require Virginia's 45,000 licensed building and home-improvement contractors to provide customers with a one-page sheet telling, among other things: what state licenses require of contractors; what state agencies can do for consumers with problems and complaints; how certain contracts can be canceled; and how to gain access to a state fund set up for victims of unscrupulous contractors.

The regulations took effectJan. 1, but legislation passed in the General Assembly repeals them after July 1.

In a news conference Friday at the State Capitol, the Virginia Citizens Consumer Council asked the governor to veto the bill.

"We just saw this as a blatant form of special-interest interference in good public regulation," said Jean Ann Fox, president of the Virginia Citizens Consumer Council.

by CNB