CLCA Updates Legal Contracts

CLCA offers 13 different landscape construction and maintenance contracts and legal forms. Our forms are reviewed by a construction law attorney, and include terms and conditions specific to the landscape industry. Unlike many landscape forms available from national organizations, ours comply with California’s unique laws.

The forms below are easy-to-use “fill-in-the-blank” PDFs.

CLCA no longer offers printed versions of these legal forms and contracts.


Force Majeure Clauses Added

CLCA has added force majeure clauses to four of our most popular legal contracts.

Force majeure is a common clause in contracts that essentially frees both parties from liability or obligation in the case of “any act of God or … unavailability of supplies, epidemic, pandemic or other public health situation or resulting government action which restrains the ability of Contractor to commence, continue or complete performance of the Agreement.”


Form 101: Residential Landscape Home Improvement Contract
Home improvement contract for landscape work. Includes force majeure clause. Includes “Five-Day Right to Cancel” form for contracting parties 65 years or older and “Three-Day Right to Cancel” form for contracting parties less than 65 years of age.
Reviewed and updated December, 2023.

Form 101A: Pandemic Addendum to Residential Landscape Home Improvement Contract
Addresses additional costs, project delays and project termination.
Reviewed and updated December, 2023.

Form 102: Commercial Landscape Construction Contract
Contract for furnishing labor, materials, and equipment for commercial landscape installation jobs except new residential construction. Includes force majeure clause.
Reviewed December, 2023.

Form 104: Landscape Maintenance Contract
For residential or commercial landscape maintenance. Includes force majeure clause.
Reviewed December, 2023.

Form 105: Subcontract Agreement
Contract to furnish material, labor, supervision, tools, appliances, permits and certificates necessary to construct and complete a project. Intended for use by the prime contractor or higher-tier subcontractor. Includes force majeure clause.
Reviewed December, 2023.

Form 106: Notice Of Cancellation
For buyer’s use when canceling a seller’s transaction within three business days. Both copies must be attached to contract and given to homeowner.
Reviewed December, 2023.

Form 111: Conditional Waiver & Release On Final Payment
Releases any mechanics’ lien, stop notice, or bond right upon final payment, except for specified disputed claims.
Reviewed December, 2023.

Form 112: Conditional Waiver & Release On Progress Payment
Releases any mechanics’ lien, stop notice or bond right upon progress payment according specified extent.
Reviewed December, 2023.

Form 113: Unconditional Waiver & Release On Final Payment
Releases any right to a mechanics’ lien, stop notice or bond right upon final payment.
Reviewed December, 2023.

Form 114: Unconditional Waiver & Release On Progress Payment
Releases any right to mechanics’ lien, stop notice or bond right upon progress payment.
Reviewed and updated February, 2022.

Form 115: Change Order
For changes to a construction contract.
Reviewed December, 2023.

Form 118: California Preliminary Notice (Private Works of Improvement)
Notifies an owner, lender or contractor that you have furnished or will furnish labor, services, equipment or material on a private work of improvement.
Reviewed December, 2023.

Form 119: California Preliminary Notice (Public Works of Improvement)
Notifies an owner, lender, or contractor that you have furnished or will furnish labor, services, equipment, or material on a public work of improvement.
Reviewed December, 2023.

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F.A.Q.

Q. We’d like to make changes to the contract …
A. CLCA does not provide the contract as a Microsoft Word file. CLCA staff believes that alterations to its legal contract outside of the “fill in the blank” sections runs the risk of invalidating the entire contract.
CLCA’s legal contracts are created by construction law attorney Bill Porter, the voice of CLCA’s Attorney on Retainer member benefit.
He notes that “the provisions of the Home Improvement Contract are largely dictated by the California Business and Professions Code. We do not recommend significant changes to this document because so much of it is required by law and members could get in trouble with the CSLB if we change many of the provision and a customer makes a complaint regarding a member to the CSLB — even if totally unrelated to the form of the contract.”

Recommended course of action:

Keep you and your clients legally safe! Utilize CLCA’s no-cost Attorney On Retainer member benefit to ensure that desired alterations do not invalidate the contract.