Terms Used In Alabama Code 10A-4-2.01

  • 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.

Domestic professional corporations may be organized under this chapter only for the purpose of rendering professional services and services ancillary thereto within a single profession, except that the same professional corporation or nonprofit professional corporation may render medical, dental, and other health related services; provided that in the case of a professional corporation, at least one shareholder of the professional corporation is duly licensed to provide each professional service for which the professional corporation is organized, or, in the case of a nonprofit professional corporation, all of the professional services rendered by the corporation are rendered by persons duly licensed to render the professional service.