For words used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions contained in the Iowa business corporation Act, chapter 490, apply, and:
 1. “Employees” or “agents” does not include clerks, stenographers, secretaries, bookkeepers, technicians, or other persons who are not usually and ordinarily considered by custom and practice to be practicing a profession, nor any other person who performs all that person’s duties for the professional corporation under the direct supervision and control of one or more officers, employees, or agents of the professional corporation who are duly licensed in this state to practice a profession which the corporation is authorized to practice in this state. This chapter shall not be construed to require any such persons to be licensed to practice a profession if they are not required to be licensed under any other law of this state.

Terms Used In Iowa Code 496C.2

  • 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.
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • person: means individual, corporation, limited liability company, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, or any other legal entity. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • property: includes personal and real property. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" may include the said district and territories. See Iowa Code 4.1
 2. “Foreign professional corporation” means a corporation organized under laws other than the laws of this state for a purpose for which a professional corporation may be organized under this chapter.
 3. “Licensed” includes registered, certified, admitted to practice, or otherwise legally authorized under the laws of this state.
 4. “Profession” means the following professions:

 a. Certified public accountancy.
 b. Architecture.
 c. Chiropractic.
 d. Dentistry.
 e. Physical therapy.
 f. Practice as a physician assistant.
 g. Psychology.
 h. Marital and family therapy or mental health counseling, provided that the marital and family therapist or mental health counselor is licensed under chapters 147 and 154D.
 i. Social work, provided that the social worker is licensed pursuant to chapter 147 and section 154C.3, subsection 1, paragraph “c”.
 j. Professional engineering.
 k. Land surveying.
 l. Landscape architecture.
 m. Law.
 n. Medicine and surgery.
 o. Optometry.
 p. Osteopathic medicine and surgery.
 q. Accounting practitioner.
 r. Podiatry.
 s. Real estate brokerage.
 t. Speech pathology.
 u. Audiology.
 v. Veterinary medicine.
 w. Pharmacy.
 x. The practice of nursing.
 5. “Professional corporation” means a corporation subject to this chapter, except a foreign professional corporation.
 6. “Regulating board” means any board, commission, court, or governmental authority which, under the laws of this state, is charged with the licensing, registration, certification, admission to practice, or other legal authorization of the practitioners of any profession.
 7. “Voluntary transfer” includes any sale, voluntary assignment, gift, pledge, or encumbrance; any voluntary change of legal or equitable ownership or beneficial interest; or any voluntary change of persons having voting rights with respect to any shares, except as proxies; but does not include any transfer of an individual’s shares or other property to a guardian or conservator appointed for such individual or the individual’s property.
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