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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>71407</law_id><section_number>13.1-1105</section_number><catch_line>Certificate of authority for foreign professional limited liability company</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>13.1-1106</reference><reference>13.1-545.1</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="13.1">Corporations</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="13">Virginia Professional Limited Liability Company Act</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a foreign professional limited liability company, organized under the <span class="dictionary">laws</span> of a <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> other than the Commonwealth of Virginia to perform a professional service of the type defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/13.1-1102/">13.1-1102</a>, may apply for and obtain a certificate of authority to render those professional services in Virginia on the following terms and conditions: <a id="paragraph-257445" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-1105/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> Only members, managers, employees, and agents licensed or otherwise legally qualified by this Commonwealth may perform the professional service in Virginia. <a id="paragraph-257446" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-1105/#A1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> The professional limited liability company must meet every requirement of this chapter except for the requirement that all of its members and managers be licensed to perform the professional service in this Commonwealth. <a id="paragraph-257447" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-1105/#A2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A3" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> The powers of any foreign professional limited liability company admitted under this section shall not exceed the powers permitted to domestic professional limited liability companies under this chapter. <a id="paragraph-257448" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-1105/#A3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> In <span class="dictionary">order</span> to qualify, a foreign professional limited liability company shall make application to the Commission as provided in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Application for certificate of registration" href="/13.1-1052/">13.1-1052</a> and shall make the application for and secure any certificate of authority, registration or registration certificate may be required by &#xA7;&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Qualifications of members and managers; special provisions for limited liability companies rendering service of architects, professional engineers, land surveyors and landscape architects, and using the title of certified interior designers" href="/13.1-1111/">13.1-1111</a>, <a class="law" title="Special provision for limited liability company engaged in practice of accounting" href="/13.1-1112/">13.1-1112</a> or &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Registration certificate required for limited liability company engaged in practice of law" href="/13.1-1113/">13.1-1113</a> and, in addition, shall be required to set forth the name and address of each member, manager, employee, and agent of the limited liability company who will be providing the professional service in this Commonwealth and whether those members, managers, employees, and agents are licensed, or otherwise legally qualified, to perform the professional service in Virginia. <a id="paragraph-257449" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-1105/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1992, c. 574; 1996, c. 265.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
