Incorporating masters license

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Massachusetts just created a new Electrical Business License...called the A-1 Business License (now there a 3 licenses in Mass)

The A-1 gets issued/attached to an Electrical Business properly registered with the Secretary of the Commonwealth as a Corporation or LLC...The Master Electrician (Gushud for example) must be an officer of the Corporation or an Owner/Manager of the LLC. (Gushud) Masters License goes on record at the BSEE as the Licensee of Record (LOR) for the electrical business. Now in MASS, a master electrician can be the LOR for multiple Electrical Businesses. The BSEE professes the Mr. LOR must "oversee" daily operations of said businesses.

Now...if the LOR (Mr. Gushud) wants to leave the Electrical Business...the A-1 license stays with the business...with the requirement (see CMR 237 16.00) the Electrical Business will get a new Master Electrician to be the LOR within 60-days.

This new license (A-1) should give (Mr. Gushud) another level of liability protection (if he truly oversees the operation) in that the A-1 license will be subject to discipline by the BSEE on a complaint in most cases. Also lawsuits will probable go after the Electrical Business.

Solar and these Plumbing businesses are 2 examples with needs for a Master Electrician to run a business in Mass...and the Master is frequently leaving that business. I would guess this turnover is related to the business doing things out of the control of the LOR and he/she says seeyalata.

Be careful Gushud. Don't let a sloppy business use your hard earned license recklessly and without fair compensation.

 

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I have done it and it didn't work out for me. In Mass. the company makes you an officer in the corporation. Most guys get 7-10K/year plus salary.

It seems to me if your an officer of the corp you are protected somewhat. if a job goes bad and a building burns the corp gets sued. Unless you instructed someone to put a 100 am breaker on some #14/2 your ok. In Ma, a master is not responsible for a journeyman"s work unless he told the journeyman to do something wrong

Seems that just helps make a judge's decision easier. But if master and/or at least the corporation or whatever entity is the "employer" isn't first in line for liability, then it seems you would be seeing large number of the Jmen carrying liability insurance policies. Isn't that part of reason why some are Jmen for years and never move up to being a master or contractor? They are good at what they do but don't want to move on to the next level of potential headaches? Employees in general are not responsible for liability when performing their jobs, unless there is gross negligence or willful intent, but even then I'd think that becomes liability of the employer on the civil lawsuits side of things, the gross negligence thing makes it possibly go to criminal court and probably results in license revocation, fines, even prison time but probably no restitution to the client whose building burned down - that is more for the civil courts to sort out.