13.1-546 - How corporation may render professional services; nonprofessional employees and officers; organizers and shareholders need not be employees, etc. - Virginia Statutes

§ 13.1-546. How corporation may render professional services; nonprofessionalemployees and officers; organizers and shareholders need not be employees,etc.

No corporation organized and incorporated under this chapter may renderprofessional services except through its officers, employees, independentcontractors, and agents who are duly licensed or otherwise legally authorizedto render such professional services, and only shareholders, officers,employees, independent contractors, and agents licensed or otherwise legallyqualified by this Commonwealth may perform the professional service inVirginia; provided, however, this provision shall not be interpreted topreclude clerks, secretaries, bookkeepers, technicians and other assistantswho are not usually and ordinarily considered by custom and practice to berendering professional service to the public for which a license or otherlegal authorization is required from acting as employees of a professionalcorporation and performing their usual duties or from acting as officers of aprofessional corporation; and provided further that nothing contained in thischapter shall be interpreted to require that the right of an individual to bea shareholder of a corporation organized under this chapter, or to organizesuch a corporation, is dependent upon the present or future existence of anemployment relationship between him and such corporation, or his present orfuture active participation in any capacity in the production of the incomeof such corporation or in the performance of the services rendered by suchcorporations.

(1970, c. 77; 1994, c. 349; 2003, c. 786.)