N.Y. Limited Liability Company Law 1204 – Rendering of professional service
§ 1204. Rendering of professional service. (a) No professional service limited liability company may render a professional service except through individuals authorized by law to render such professional service, as individuals, provided, that nothing in this chapter shall authorize a professional service limited liability company to render a professional service in this state except through individuals authorized by law to render such professional service as individuals in this state.
Terms Used In N.Y. Limited Liability Company Law 1204
- Profession: includes any practice as an attorney and counselor-at-law, or as a licensed physician, and those professions designated in title eight of the education law. See N.Y. Limited Liability Company Law 1201
- Professional: means an individual duly authorized to practice a profession, a professional service corporation, a professional service limited liability company, a foreign professional service limited liability company, a registered limited liability partnership, a foreign limited liability partnership, a foreign professional service corporation or a professional partnership. See N.Y. Limited Liability Company Law 1201
- Professional service: means any type of service to the public that may be lawfully rendered by a member of a profession within the purview of his or her profession. See N.Y. Limited Liability Company Law 1201
- Professional service limited liability company: means a limited liability company organized under this article. See N.Y. Limited Liability Company Law 1201
- Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
(b) Each final plan and report made or issued by a professional service limited liability company practicing professional engineering, architecture, landscape architecture or land surveying shall bear the name and seal of one or more professional engineers, architects, landscape architects or land surveyors, respectively, who are in responsible charge of such plan or report.
(c) Each report, diagnosis, prognosis and prescription made or issued by a professional service limited liability company practicing medicine, dentistry, podiatry, optometry, ophthalmic dispensing, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, nursing, psychology, physical therapy or chiropractic shall bear the signature of one or more physicians, dentists, podiatrists, optometrists, ophthalmic dispensers, veterinarians, pharmacists, nurses, licensed psychologists, physical therapists or chiropractors, respectively, who are in responsible charge of such report, diagnosis, prognosis or prescription.
(d) Each record, transcript, report and hearing report prepared by a professional service limited liability company practicing certified shorthand reporting shall bear the signature of one or more certified shorthand reporters who are in responsible charge of such record, transcript, report or hearing report.
(e) Each professional service limited liability company practicing public accounting or certified public accounting shall maintain records indicating the identity of each public accountant or certified public accountant, respectively, who was responsible for each report or statement that is issued, prepared or examined by such limited liability company.
(f) Each opinion prepared by a professional service limited liability company practicing law shall bear the signature of one or more attorneys and counselors-at-law who are in responsible charge of such opinion.
(g) In addition to the requirements pursuant to subdivisions (b) through (f) of this section, each document prepared by a professional service limited liability company that under the rules, regulations, laws or customs of the applicable profession is required to bear the signature of an individual in responsible charge of such document, shall be signed by one or more such individuals.