Terms Used In Missouri Laws 356.191

  • 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.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020

Nothing in sections 356.011 to 356.261 shall restrict or limit in any manner the authority and duty of any licensing authority for the licensing of individual persons rendering any professional service or the practice of the profession that is within the jurisdiction of the licensing authority, notwithstanding that the person is an officer, director, shareholder or employee of a professional corporation or a foreign professional corporation and rendering any professional service or engaging in the practice of the profession through such corporation. Each licensing authority may adopt and enforce, pursuant to applicable law, any additional rules and regulations governing the practice of each profession as it deems to be necessary to enforce and comply with the provisions of sections 356.011 to 356.261 and the law applicable to each profession.