Sample contracts

[lclandscapes]

When you register your company name, you are registering it with the State. You should have gotten a letter from your Governor stating that your company name is registered with state. I give a copy of this to every customer along with gen. liability and workers comp.

[Mo Green]

I'll check my records. I don't remember getting anything like that.

[steve-o]

So what you are saying is that if I do business in Henrico, and make more than $1000 a year there, I need to be licensed and have my name registered there also? I'm going to do some research on this and see what's up.

let me know what you find out. i do some work in powhatan that fits that criteria. i would check myself but i am gone pretty much from 6am to about 8pm most days. mowing will be a sat. and sun. deal this year and probably till i retire.

steve

[Mo Green]

I checked the state site and this is what it says in a nutshell......If you are anything other than a Sole Proprietership, you have to register your name with the State Corporation Comission. Otherwise you must register your ficticious name in every city or county that you do business in.

I checked the name registration page and found 7 or 8 companies named the same as mine, but with some minor differences.

[RRS]

'm in chesterfield too and i could be wrong but i could have sworn they told me that if i had any contracts that totaled $1000 in a year then you had to be licensed in that county.

That is true, but you guys are talking about two different things. If you do more than $1000 worth of work in Richmond, Chesterfield, Hanover, Goochland, Henrico, etc you must have a business license in each of the jurisdictions because the business license is how you pay your taxes to the individual city or county.

Unless you trademark your name there is nothing that says that another company can't have the same name in a different jurisdiction. For example, I have my business name registered with the clerk's office in Richmond, but since I don't have it registered in Henrico anyone of you guys could register the name RRS in Henrico County.

[lclandscapes]

I checked the state site and this is what it says in a nutshell......If you are anything other than a Sole Proprietership, you have to register your name with the State Corporation Comission. Otherwise you must register your ficticious name in every city or county that you do business in.

I checked the name registration page and found 7 or 8 companies named the same as mine, but with some minor differences.

Whoever registers with State first, wins the name. If you are registered with the state, you can have your attorney send these guys a letter stating that they are working under your company name which is HIGHLY ILLEGAL.