(a) A domestic or foreign corporation may render professional services in this state only through individuals licensed or otherwise authorized in this state to render the services.

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 48-101-607

  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Employee: includes an officer but not a director. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201
  • Foreign professional corporation: means a corporation or association for profit incorporated for the purpose of rendering professional services under a law other than the law of this state. See Tennessee Code 48-101-603
  • Individual: includes the estate of an incompetent or deceased individual. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201
  • Licensing authority: means the officer, board, agency, court or other authority in this state empowered to license or otherwise authorize the rendition of a professional service. See Tennessee Code 48-101-603
  • Person: includes individual and entity. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
  • Professional corporation: means a corporation for profit, other than a foreign professional corporation, subject to this part. See Tennessee Code 48-101-603
  • Shareholder: means the person in whose name shares are registered in the records of a corporation or the beneficial owner of shares to the extent of the rights granted by a nominee certificate on file with a corporation. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(b) Subsection (a) does not:

(1) Require an individual employed by a professional corporation to be licensed to perform services for the corporation if a license is not otherwise required;
(2) Prohibit a licensed individual from rendering professional services in such person‘s individual capacity although such person is a shareholder, director, officer, employee or agent of a domestic or foreign professional corporation; or
(3) Prohibit an individual licensed in another state from rendering professional services for a domestic or foreign professional corporation in this state if not prohibited by the licensing authority.
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