North Dakota Code 10-31-09 – Professional relationship preserved – Liability of owners – Professional regulation
1. This chapter does not modify any law applicable to the relationship between a person furnishing professional service and a person receiving professional service, including liability arising out of the professional service, and including the confidential relationship between the person rendering the professional service and the person receiving the professional service, if any, and all confidential relationships previously enjoyed under the laws of this state or hereinafter enacted must remain inviolate.
Terms Used In North Dakota Code 10-31-09
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Individual: means a human being. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- Organization: includes a foreign or domestic association, business trust, corporation, enterprise, estate, joint venture, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, limited partnership, partnership, trust, or any legal or commercial entity. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- Person: means an individual, organization, government, political subdivision, or government agency or instrumentality. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
2. Subject to subsection 1, nothing contained in this section renders an executive, owner, or employee of a professional organization personally liable in tort for any act in which that individual has not personally participated or in contract for any contract which that individual executes on behalf of a professional organization within the limits of that individual’s authority.
3. Nothing in this chapter restricts or limits in any manner the authority and duty of the regulating boards for the licensing of an individual rendering professional services.
4. No professional organization may do any act that is prohibited to be done by any individual licensed to practice the profession which the professional organization is created to render.