Answers: Yes, and the clock starts ticking from the time the contract expires. So, if the noncompete is for five years, and you work for five years with an expired contract, next leave, you're clear.
Usually nearby is a time limit, for when the likelihood can be renewed - if it's not renewed in time, it expires.
In my state, a noncompete clause is for two years. The company usually will not try to inforce it, unless you are out within trying to, or actually replacing, abundantly of their business.
My experience is, when I canceled my agents contract with a precise company, some of my policy holders still wanted me to be their energy agent, and requested that I write their insurance. I sent in replacement forms, along near applications for life insurance. (I would not own replaced the policies if I could not have made improvements to their coverage, for something like the same amount of premium). It is not flawless to just step out and wholesale replace policies just for the commission.
Anyway, I received a beckon from the previous company's attorney, and he told me to stop doing what I was doing, that they be going to bring charges if I didn't.
I took a copy of the contract to a local attorney. He read the noncompete clause, and told me to keep doing what I be doing, and we will deal near it if and when the company persued it.
That's the last item I ever heard from that company.
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