Can you sell a HVAC company to a person who doesn’t have an HVAC license?
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Can you sell a HVAC company to a person who doesn’t have an HVAC license?
I sold my company to a guy who has been in the industry for 20 years but no license. HVAC. He has been using mine for almost a year. Can he say that is a breach of contract because he needed a liscense befor I sold to him? Secretary of state says you cannot work off of someone else’s license which I didn’t know and now I am sending a letter to cancel my license. We thought that he could use my license as long as I was an employee.
Asked on February 24, 2018 under Business Law, Georgia
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 6 years ago | Contributor
As a general matter, another party cannot use their own failure such as a failure to research the legal requirements to run this business, or his failure to obtain a license, as grounds to cancel or terminate a contract; only the other party's acts or omissions would allow that not his own. That said IF there is a written contract which states that you will maintain your license and allow him to use it, if in that case you cancel your license or otherwise deny him use, that would be a breach by you, and enable him to terminate the agreement. And if the contract specifically said he could use your license but doing so is illegal, then this was a contract to violate the law and contracts to do something illegal are void. The issue then is whether the contract says he could use your license, in which case it would be void or could be terminated; or if the contract was silent about the issue of the license, in which case the consequences of his failure to have his own license are on him and the contract is valid.
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