Contractors State License Board Temporarily Suspends Gotech : Building: The firm missed a deadline to get a qualified contractor. Company officials offered no comment.

State officials have temporarily suspended the license of an Orange County custom home building company after it missed a deadline to obtain a qualified contractor to serve as its legally responsible license holder.

The suspension of Gotech Builders Inc.’s license by the Contractors State License Board could last several weeks while the application submitted this week by the company is processed. It bars Orange-based Gotech from doing any construction work and from advertising, soliciting or signing contractors with new clients.

Officials at Gotech, which does a large volume of business in Los Angeles, Riverside and San Diego counties, did not respond Thursday to a request for comment. The company’s long history of consumer complaints, lawsuits and judgments was detailed by The Times in a Sept. 19 article.

In addition to the suspension, Gotech’s license is threatened by a pending misrepresentation accusation filed against company President Jeffrey Weiner by the state Attorney General’s Office.

The accusation alleges that Weiner--who removed his name from Gotech’s license several years ago--falsely stated on an earlier contractor’s license application that there were no outstanding suits or judgments against his company.

Weiner has said that the large number of complaints against his company is normal for a high-volume builder. He also said the state’s accusation resulted from a misunderstanding and that he had not attempted to deliberately mislead authorities.

The Times articles helped spur hearings on the board by the Assembly’s consumer protection committee. In a report issued last week, the committee staff said the license board had abandoned its legally mandated role as a consumer watchdog agency.

The license board said last week it is abandoning its policy of ignoring complaints against contractors who used private arbitration to settle disputes with their customers and would provide more information about complaints against contractors to consumers.