(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.
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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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