I have filed a formal complaint with the state licensing and regulatory authority.

Just realize it is far from passive and the regulatory landscape in many metropolitan areas is shaky.

Regulatory IssuesIn deciding which jurisdiction to incorporate the fund vehicle in it is crucial that regulatory issues are considered.

What happened to regulatory oversight and orderly markets?

Their email came from a hotmail account, with an addy indicating some sort of legal regulatory implication "lawsreg7".Does anyone have an idea what they want or the tactic behind this?

People who have an eye on the regulatory system and who know how to navigate can LEGALLY grow a hundred plants in their own homes.

Exclusions are Acts of God, insured perils, weather days need to be assessed to the season, lag time of suppliers or materials delayed or not delivered, delays caused by inspectors or regulatory matters beyond the control of the contractor, defective materials and/or equipment installed in the project, normal amounts of waste and other matters depending on the project.About all you can hold a contractor's feet to the fire on, is failure to continue work when work can be accomplished, their mistakes that exceed some agreed cut off (you will have mistakes and waste) worker's conduct or failure to show, work not to workman like standards or torts, such as walking off the job.

Those fines are not for minor infractions, they were probably in violation of key parts of regulatory requirements and repeated several times along with other minor infractions.

Best path there will depend on what you have present.The regulatory body let me do the structural engineering on the house I'm referencing, by the way. 

And politicians, keen to divert attention away from themselves as the true culprits of the crisis through years of regulatory neglect, have been quick at picking up the baton.