Legal Question in Business Law in California

Re: my contractors license

You can not. You can be the licensing officer of a corporation or partnership. But, you and your license will be on the hook for any work done.

Re: my contractors license

No, you cannot allow anyone to use your license.

Re: my contractors license

No, you cannot sub-lease your license.

There may be a way to have people work for you, if you were to set up a corporation. This is more complicated and something we would have to discuss. Do not try this on your own.

Please contact me if you want to discuss this further.

Re: my contractors license

An individual contractor cannot allow anyone else to perform his duties through sale, lease or assignment of the license. However, you probably qualify to obtain a corporate conttractor's license without re-examination, and for a fee of $500. You could form a corporation to carry out contracts using employees under this license. You would have to be an officer of the corporation and you would have to supervise and direct the employees' activity. Whether you would be able to discharge the minimum expected supervisory duties, given your disability, is a question of fact that would have to be researched by an attorney representing you personally.

Changing your business from a sole proprietorship to a corporation would require formation of the corporation and certain other formalities including getting a new taxpayer ID number and other steps; an attorney might charge upwards of $1,500 plus state corporate and license fees for a turn-key incorporation and business start-up.

Again, whether this would work depends upon your ability to provide adequate supervision to employees performing the work.