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AIN convention / How license holders work for more than one company
January 17, 2026
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AIN Convention
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I look forward to seeing the AIN Members at the AIN Buying Group annual Live and Learn Convention starting January 21, 2026 in the Bahamas. If you have time in your Passport meetings please add Kirschenbaum & Kirschenbaum to your schedule. If more convenient contact Stacy Spector, Esq at 516 747 6700 x 304 for other available times to meet. I'm sure it's going to be a first rate great convention.
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How license holders work for more than one company
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Ken
C10 Qualifier act as a Responsible Managing Employee which according to California CSLB 7068-7068.2 requires a bond and attestation by applicant that they will work 32 hours week or 80% of open business hours for that entity if they also own their business for which they are the C10 qualifier?
anon
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Response
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The requirements for qualifying for an alarm license in any jurisdiction, including California, is found in the licensing statutes and accompanying regulations. Many, like California, require that the license holder be an employee who works full time, sometimes described as at least 32 hours a week.
When we introduce a prospective license holder to an alarm company that needs a responsible employee to hold the license, we insist that they enter into a Qualifier Agreement. K&K has standardized this form, though it is different for every jurisdiction for the simple reason that the license laws are different in each jurisdiction. Terms of the deal, such as compensation, non-license duties, if any, length of term, termination and expiration, are all discussed, negotiated and reduced to writing in the Qualifier Agreement. The company usually buys the Qualifier Agreement.
The Qualifier Agreement is for the protection of the Qualifier and the Company. It specifies the required duties of each. You won't find these provisions in an Employment Agreement which you should be using with all your other employees.
So how can a License Holder qualify and hold the license for more than one company? Some states do have a limit of one company, others permitting up to three or five and others without any formal number. However when applying for a license the licensing board may inquire how multiple employers can be served; after all, there are just so many hours in a week.
The answer is that each license undertaking comes with unique circumstances. Some companies will have no employees in a state, no sales people or technicians, so that the license holder has very little do actually do. An example would be a company that is located out of the state, sells over the Internet or phone, ships DIY equipment to the customer or equipment to be installed by others contracted by the customer, and the company subcontracts the monitoring to a licensed monitoring center. [yes, the company does need to be licensed on its own in that situations in many jurisdictions] In this situation the Qualifier has little if anything to do and could literally work for many companies with similar business models. There is a continuum of circumstances, ranging for perhaps some activity with employees in the state to a company with many employees, so the time a Qualifier would have to spend would be quite different.
Each situation must be analyzed and considered to determine which license might be needed and which Qualifier is best suited to perform within the Company's requirements. You can rely on K&K alarm license division to assist in all respects.
The answer to the question of multiple licenses held by one Qualifier is that sometimes it can't be done; the Qualifier must devote all work time to one employer because that's the nature of the undertaking, required by the Company or required by the licensing board. License qualifiers generally have a good idea of what the licensing board will tolerate and the time that would be needed to perform the license duties, and there should be a strong correlation between the two. It's something the licensing team at K&K considers when involved in establishing the relationship between the company needing the license and the person who will hold that license.
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Ken Kirschenbaum,Esq
Kirschenbaum & Kirschenbaum PC
Attorneys at Law
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