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QUESTION:  LICENSING - ACTING AS QUALIFIER 
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Ken
    On The Alarm Exchange and saw the ads for companies seeking qualified managers. I was approached by Toll Brothers when they first entered into California and was told by the licensing bureau a qualified manager can only be a qualified manager for one company at a time and you would lose your license if your moonlighted. Can you confirm this? Does it vary from state to state?
anon
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ANSWER
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    Here's the one thing all license qualifiers need to have - an agreement with their company.  Other than that, rules are different in every jurisdiction, just as the qualifications change from state to state.  A qualifier needs to do more than "lend" the license.  There are duties and responsibilities that a qualifier is required and expected to assume and perform.  Some of delegable, some not.  The duties can run the gamit of supervising the alarm division to being responsible for the company finances. 
    Companies looking for a qualifier should understand that the qualifier is more than a figurehead; that the qualifier has a vested interest in preserving the license and should not want the company to engage in any activities that depardise the license.  The company also needs to be mindful that a qualifier who is not doing his job may depardise the company's ability to engage in licensed activities in the jurisdiction.  In other words, the licensing agency may find that the license qualifier - company relationship is a sham and then bar the company from trying to qualify with another license qualifier.  So the better practice is to engage a qualifier who knows the responsibilities and performs them, whether the company owners approve or not.  If a company doesn't allow the qualifier to perform his license duties the qualifier should withdraw the license immediately.  
    The listings on The Alarm Exchange are intended for license qualifiers who intend to do more than lend the license, and for companies who understand that license compliance is not a game.  Just as you wouldn't bring in a driver with a license to drive and then insist that he sit in the back while someone else drove, don't expect the license holder to sit home and collect his check and do nothing.  That will likely catch up with the license holder and the company, and not in a good way.
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DASH CAMS
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Ken
    Do you see any liability issues resulting from the installation of dash cams in company-owned vehicles?  
Harvey Riddle
Raleigh NC
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RESPONSE
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    No special liability that is unique to the alarm industry.  The dash cams can be a distraction and they can confirm or disprove liability for accidents and traffic infractions.  Companies have a right to install them
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SERVICE WITHOUT CONTRACT
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Ken,
   We have a large account with several service contracts. We are the sub doing the service. We got paid in full for the year from the contractor we are subbing from but the prime refuses to sign the service contracts and wants the contractor (who paid us) to sign them. I say in the event of a problem with the prime the contracts would be useless because they didn't sign them and our agreement should be with the prime and not with the contractor. What's your opinion ( I think I already know the answer to that) and what should we do now that we were already paid? Thanks
S.S.
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RESPONSE
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    Your Service Contract or the Prime or your Contractor has to have a Service Contract with the subscriber that protects it and you.
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