21 NCAC 18B .0402          LICENSE NAME REQUIREMENTS

(a)  Issuance of License.  The name in which a license is issued must be distinguishable upon the records of the Board from the name in which a license has already been issued.  If the name requested, after deleting all spaces, punctuation marks, articles, prepositions, conjunctions and, whether abbreviated or not, "corporation," "incorporated," "company," or "limited," is not identical to the name in which a license has already been issued, it shall be distinguishable.  The substitution of a numeral for a word that represents the same numeral shall not make the name distinguishable.

(b)  Name In Which Business Must Be Conducted.  All electrical contracting business, including all business advertising and the submission of all documents and papers, conducted in the state of North Carolina by a licensee of the Board shall be conducted in the exact name in which the electrical contracting license is issued.

(c)  Notification of Address, Telephone Change and email address.  All licensees shall notify the Board in writing within 30 days of any change in location, mailing address, telephone number or email address.

History Note:        Authority G.S. 87-42;

Eff. October 1, 1988;

Amended Eff. July 1, 2011; March 1, 1999; February 1, 1996;

Pursuant to G.S. 150B-21.3A, rule is necessary without substantive public interest Eff. February 2, 2016.