Licensing, insurance and permits
Electrical contractor · Your Town, Troy and more
Each license Your Business Here holds and the office that issued it, the insurance carried on every job, and who pulls the permit for yours.
Licenses
Sample licenses for the showroom. On your site each one is yours, checked on the issuing office's lookup before launch.
Master Electrician
- License number
- ME-2041 (sample)
- Issued by
- Your Town Board of Electrical Examiners
- Where it applies
- Your Town
- Held by
- Your Name
- Expires
- (sample)
Sample. On your site this links to the issuing office's own lookup.
Electrical Contractor
- License number
- EC 17-0386 (sample)
- Issued by
- Your County Office of Consumer Protection
- Where it applies
- Your County
- Expires
- (sample)
Sample. On your site this links to the issuing office's own lookup.
Insurance
- Carrier
- Your Insurance Carrier (sample)
- General liability
- $1,000,000 per occurrence, $2,000,000 aggregate (sample)
- Workers' compensation
- Covers the electrician and the apprentice on every job (sample)
A copy of the insurance certificate is sent to you when you ask for it, before any work starts.
Who pulls the permit
We pull the electrical permit for every job that needs one, in our name, and the permit fee is its own line on the written estimate. The building department of the town where the work is decides whether a job needs a permit, and we ask it before we quote. We book the inspection and meet the inspector at the house.
Permit offices in the towns we work
- Your Town
- Your Town building department
- Troy
- City of Troy building department
- Cohoes
- City of Cohoes building department
- Watervliet
- City of Watervliet building department
- Albany
- City of Albany building department
Sample offices for the showroom. On your site each one links to the town's own permit page.
What a permit protects you from
A permit puts the electrical work on record with the town, and an electrical inspector (the town's own, or an inspection agency the town approves) looks at it before the job is signed off. Work done without a permit the town required can hold up the sale of a house or an insurance claim later, so the question is settled before the job starts.
Questions about licenses and permits
Who decides whether my job needs a permit?
The building department of the town or city where the work is. The rules differ from town to town, so we ask that office before we quote, and when it wants a permit the fee is a line on the estimate.
How do I check a license number?
Call the office named beside the license and give it the number. That office's own record is the one to trust.
Can I see the insurance certificate?
Yes. Ask for it on the phone or with the form on this page and a copy is sent before any work starts.
Who meets the inspector?
We do. We book the inspection the town requires and meet the inspector at the house. If the inspector asks for a change, we make it and book the next visit.
Tell us what you need and where.
Leave the best number to reach you, or call (555) 555-0100.
- Free estimates (sample)
- Licensed master electrician, insured (sample)
- 5.0 on Google from 64 reviews (sample)
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