I'd like to find out if anyone out there is pulling permits for other companies and how you go about it. How much you charge etc. for the use of your license.
Posted by Gene Golden (Member # 3934) on :
Richard, I'd rather pull my own teeth than to pull permits in our Borough. Come to Gettysburg! Do you also include the butt-kissing, Photoshopping, and redraws as part of your services?
You mentioned a license. Is that for electrical, or are you required to have another type of license in Florida to make/install signs?
Posted by Erik Gastelum (Member # 5341) on :
Richard,
Here in California and I'm sure in other states. If you go around pulling permits for other people using your license not only are you going to be held liable to what ever happens with that sign. But you will be heavily fined and get your License taken away.
But that's something you should already know when you took your contractors Lic Exam. If I let someone use my license and they burn the building down from a unproper installation it's my ass, and it's not big enough.
[ May 05, 2005, 11:27 AM: Message edited by: Erik Gastelum ]
Posted by Tim Whitcher (Member # 685) on :
In our neck of the woods, it's the installer that's liable for pulling permits, so if we're handling the install, we always pull the permit. In the town next to us, it's a $500.00 fine for every day a sign is in place without a permit! Also, every 20 miles in any direction from my shop puts me in a different municipality, thus different sign ordinances; then there's a different ordinance (State) if a sign is along a state road. It cracks me up when the customer says, "What, you don't know what the ordinance is (for their particular State, County, Township, Village, City, Zone, District)? You should know that, you're in the business." At least plumbers get a book that covers state and federal requirements. Geez!
Posted by Tim Whitcher (Member # 685) on :
Oh, I charge my shop rate for my time to research and pull permits.
