Material and test certificate

Definition

The signed record of a test, which the customer is the one required to keep.

Why It Matters

Washington puts the certificate together by the competency holder, stamped, and forwarded to the authority having jurisdiction, and then requires the fire official AND THE BUILDING OWNER to retain it five years. The contractor's duty is delivery, not retention, which is worth knowing before promising a buyer a clean archive. Florida writes the delivery half the same way and states no retention period at all. The license behind the work does not travel either: it is not transferable, and a business whose licensed individual leaves or dies must return the license and has sixty days to license somebody else before it must stop the work.