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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>58412</law_id><section_number>13.1-544.1</section_number><catch_line>Use of initials &amp;#8220;P.C.&amp;#8221; or &amp;#8220;PC&amp;#8221; in corporate name</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>13.1-1012</reference><reference>13.1-1214</reference><reference>13.1-630</reference><reference>13.1-829</reference><reference>50-73.2</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="7">Professional Corporations</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Any professional corporation as defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/13.1-543/">13.1-543</a> may, but is not required to, use the initials &#x201C;P.C.&#x201D; or &#x201C;PC,&#x201D; or the phrase &#x201C;professional corporation&#x201D; or &#x201C;a professional corporation,&#x201D; at the end of its corporate name. Such initials or phrase may be used in the place of any word or abbreviation required by subsection A of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Corporate name" href="/13.1-630/">13.1-630</a>.</p></section></text><history>1972, c. 577; 1973, c. 136; 1981, c. 58; 2002, c. 77; 2003, cc. 592, 678.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
