Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 18 Businesses And Professions - Chapter 18.100 Professional Service Corporations

• 18.100.010 Legislative intent
  It is the legislative intent to provide for the incorporation of an individual or group of individuals to render the same professional service to the ...
• 18.100.020 Short title
  This chapter may be cited as "the professional service corporation act".[1969 c 122 § 2.] ...
• 18.100.030 Definitions
  As used in this chapter the following words shall have the meaning indicated: (1) The term "professional service" means any type of personal service to ...
• 18.100.035 Fees for services by secretary of state
  See RCW 43.07.120. ...
• 18.100.040 Application of chapter to previously organized corporations
  This chapter shall not apply to any individuals or groups of individuals within this state who prior to the passage of this chapter were permitted ...
• 18.100.050 Organization of professional service corporations authorized generally -- Architects, engineers, and health care professionals -- Nonprofit corporations
  (1) An individual or group of individuals duly licensed or otherwise legally authorized to render the same professional services within this state may organize and ...
• 18.100.060 Rendering of services by authorized individuals
  (1) No corporation organized under this chapter may render professional services except through individuals who are duly licensed or otherwise legally authorized to render such ...
• 18.100.065 Authority of directors, officers to render same services as corporation
  Except as otherwise provided in RCW 18.100.118, all directors of a corporation organized under this chapter and all officers other than the secretary and the ...
• 18.100.070 Professional relationships and liabilities preserved
  Nothing contained in this chapter shall be interpreted to abolish, repeal, modify, restrict or limit the law now in effect in this state applicable to ...
• 18.100.080 Engaging in other business prohibited -- Investments
  No professional service corporation organized under this chapter shall engage in any business other than the rendering of the professional services for which it was ...
• 18.100.090 Stock issuance
  Except as otherwise provided in RCW 18.100.118, no professional corporation organized under the provisions of this chapter may issue any of its capital stock to ...
• 18.100.095 Validity of share voting agreements
  Except for qualified trusts, a proxy, voting trust, or other voting agreement with respect to shares of a professional corporation shall not be valid unless ...
• 18.100.100 Legal qualification of officer, shareholder or employee to render professional service, effect
  Unless a director, officer, shareholder, agent or employee of a corporation organized under this chapter who has been rendering professional service to the public is ...
• 18.100.110 Sale or transfer of shares
  No shareholder of a corporation organized as a professional corporation may sell or transfer his or her shares in such corporation except to the trustee ...
• 18.100.114 Merger or consolidation
  A corporation organized under this chapter may merge or consolidate with another corporation, domestic or foreign, organized to render the same specific professional services, only ...
• 18.100.116 Death of shareholder, transfer to ineligible person--Treatment of shares
  (1) If: (a)(i) A shareholder of a professional corporation dies; (ii) A shareholder of a professional corporation becomes an ineligible person; (iii) Shares of a ...
• 18.100.118 Eligibility of certain representatives and transferees to serve as directors, officers, or shareholders
  If all of the outstanding shares of a professional corporation are held by an administrator, executor, guardian, conservator, or receiver of the estate of a ...
• 18.100.120 Name -- Listing of shareholders
  Corporations organized pursuant to this chapter shall render professional service and exercise its authorized powers under a name permitted by law and the professional ethics ...
• 18.100.130 Application of Business Corporation Act and Nonprofit Corporation Act
  (1) For a professional service corporation organized for pecuniary profit under this chapter, the provisions of Title 23B RCW shall be applicable except to the ...
• 18.100.132 Nonprofit professional service corporations formed under prior law
  A nonprofit professional service corporation formed pursuant to *chapter 431, Laws of 1985, may amend its articles of incorporation at any time before July 31, ...
• 18.100.133 Business corporations, election of this chapter
  A business corporation formed under the provisions of Title 23B RCW may amend its articles of incorporation to change its stated purpose to the rendering ...
• 18.100.134 Professional services -- Deletion from stated purposes of corporation
  A professional corporation may amend its articles of incorporation to delete from its stated purposes the rendering of professional services and to conform to the ...
• 18.100.140 Improper conduct not authorized
  Nothing in this chapter shall authorize a director, officer, shareholder, agent or employee of a corporation organized under this chapter, or a corporation itself organized ...
• 18.100.145 Doctor of osteopathic medicine and surgery -- Discrimination prohibited
  A professional service corporation that provides health care services to the general public may not discriminate against a qualified doctor of osteopathic medicine and surgery ...
• 18.100.150 Indemnification of agents of any corporation authorized
  See RCW 23B.17.030. ...
• 18.100.160 Foreign professional corporation
  A foreign professional corporation may render professional services in this state so long as it complies with chapter 23B.15 RCW and each individual rendering professional ...

Last modified: April 7, 2009