Georgia Code, Title 14, Chapter 10 - Professional Associations

• § 14-10-1 - Short Title
  This chapter may be cited as "The Georgia Professional Association Act."
• § 14-10-2 - Definitions
  As used in this chapter, the term: (1) "Professional association" means an unincorporated association, as distinguished from a partnership, organized under this chapter for...
• § 14-10-3 - Persons Entitled to Form Association; Purpose; Limitation to One Type of Professional Service
  Any two or more persons duly licensed to practice a profession under the laws of this state may form a professional association, as distinguished...
• § 14-10-4 - Formation
  (a) Articles of association. (1) Filing; contents. To form a professional association, such persons shall execute and file articles of association in the office...
• § 14-10-5 - Business Other Than Rendering Professional Service Prohibited; Investments and Ownership of Property
  A professional association may be organized only for the purpose of rendering one specific kind of professional service and shall not engage in any...
• § 14-10-6 - Professional Services to Be Rendered Only by Licensed Officers, Employees, and Agents; "Employee" Defined
  A professional association may render professional service only through officers, employees, and agents who are themselves duly licensed or otherwise legally authorized to render...
• § 14-10-7 - Relationship Between Person Rendering and Person Receiving Professional Service; Liability of Members for Debts of or Claims Against Association
  (a) This chapter does not modify any law applicable to the relationship between a person furnishing and a person receiving professional service, including liability...
• § 14-10-8 - Management
  (a) Board of governors; officers. A professional association organized pursuant to this chapter shall be governed by a board of governors elected by the...
• § 14-10-9 - Continuity of Existence Independent of Status or Acts of Members
  Unless the articles of association expressly provide otherwise, a professional association shall continue as a separate entity independent of its members or shareholders, for...
• § 14-10-10 - Ownership
  (a) Stock-type and nonstock associations. A professional association organized pursuant to this chapter may issue stock or certificates evidencing ownership of an interest in...
• § 14-10-11 - Severance of Connection With Association Required Upon Legal Disqualification of Member to Render Professional Service; Effect of Failure to Comply
  If any member, shareholder, agent, or employee of a professional association becomes legally disqualified to render a professional service within this state or accepts...
• § 14-10-12 - Valuation of Membership or Shares of Deceased, Retired, Expelled, or Disqualified Member or Shareholder
  If the articles of association or bylaws of a professional association fail to fix a price at which a professional association or its members...
• § 14-10-13 - Annual Report; Fee; Penalty for Failure to Furnish Report
  Reserved. Repealed by Ga. L. 1989, p. 1027, § 37, effective July 1, 1989.
• § 14-10-14 - Limitation on Sale or Transfer of Membership or Shares
  A member or shareholder of a professional association may sell or transfer his membership or shares in such professional association only to another individual...
• § 14-10-15 - Distribution of Assets Following Dissolution
  In the event of dissolution of a stock-type professional association, the board of governors, as trustees of the property of such professional association, shall...
• § 14-10-16 - Powers Generally; Assets Not Liable to Attachment for Debts of Members or Shareholders
  A professional association organized pursuant to this chapter may contract in its own name, take, hold, and sell real and personal property in its...
• § 14-10-17 - Actions by or Against Associations
  Code Sections 9-2-24 and 9-2-25 are incorporated by reference and shall govern professional associations organized pursuant to this chapter in all respects as contained
• § 14-10-18 - Applicability of Corporation Laws; Inapplicability of Partnership Laws
  A professional association organized pursuant to this chapter shall be governed generally by all laws governing or applying to corporations, where applicable, and not...

Last modified: October 14, 2016