Assigning License

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Pat75

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Electrician
Hi guys. I recently retired, master electrician, and I've had a couple people ask me if I'd be interested in assigning my license to their service company. I'm a little nervous about liability.
Has anyone done this? What's the legality of it (Maryland) ? If it's done, how does compensation work.
A few extra dollars would be nice.....but ....
 
infinity said:
What would your roll be as the license holder?
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That's a great question. I want it to be providing a means for him to pull permits. But, in reality, my concern is if my license is attached to their company, I become responsible for the outcome of all electrical work they do....
 
With life time liability and most likely you would not be able up to check on every job they used your license for I would never do it. Would rather flip hamburgers for minimum wage in retirement then walk a slippery tight rope. Like I stated in earlier.post several times while at the supply house had so called contractors ask me to pull permits for them. Would pay me cash. Told them even if they paid me my weight in gold would never pull a permit.
 
I don't know how it works in Maryland but in many states you would have to be actively associated with the company as an employee or available to supervise daily operations. IOWs in the office.
 
Pat75 said:
That's a great question. I want it to be providing a means for him to pull permits. But, in reality, my concern is if my license is attached to their company, I become responsible for the outcome of all electrical work they do....
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Even if your arrangement is legal you would still assume the liability as the license holder.
 
From seeing the work done by these "service companies " I would never sign anything for them.
 
Sure its different in every state but when things go wrong lawyers will go after everyone involved. Even if you had a signed agreement with help of a law firm and the person using you license work causes major damage and they are bankrupt you most likely will be going to court to attempt for you to.pay. You would have to check & getting something in writing from you insurance company that you are covered for such agreeing to have others use your license. . My insurance agent told me to never use my personal car for company business. He had a customer that was getting paid so much per mile he drove. He caused an accident while speeding and unfortunately killed the person in the other car. His insurance company refused to pay and told him to have his company cover it which they refused.
 
This is like someone who doesn’t qualify for a drivers license using someone else’s driver’s license to drive. And when they get in an accident they’re going to hand the police officer that other person’s driver’s license who will then be liable.

You will always have liability for everything done under your electrical license. And if you try to say that you weren’t part of this, that’s going to make you look worse since you are supposed to be part of it. That’s the entire point of a company having a license.

All of these companies don’t have a license for a reason, because they are not qualified. There’s always some type of excuse, but it’s never a good one. They shouldn’t be running a service company if they don’t have a license and have to pay someone else to use their license.

I had a friend do this for one of the many solar companies, he thought it would be a great way to bring in passive income. That solar company is long gone but he’s still here taking the hits to the chin.
 
In WA you would be required to be a full time supervisory employee. Here it’s administrator, and there are known cases of the admin dying and the company does not replace him/her.
 
In MA the Master Electrician has to be an officer of the corporation you are tied to it by that. If the master dies the state allows the company to continue operating with licensed journeymen for a short time (90 days??) to give them time to find someone else.
 
roger said:
I don't know how it works in Maryland but in many states you would have to be actively associated with the company as an employee or available to supervise daily operations. IOWs in the office.
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We have the same rules here in Massachusetts


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