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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>85485</law_id><section_number>13.1-544.2</section_number><catch_line>Certificate of authority for foreign professional corporations</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><reference>13.1-550</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 id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a foreign professional corporation, 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 subsection A of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/13.1-543/">13.1-543</a>, may apply for and obtain a certificate of authority to render such professional services in Virginia on the following terms and conditions: <a id="paragraph-306239" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-544.2/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> Only stockholders and employees licensed or otherwise legally qualified by this Commonwealth may perform the professional service in Virginia. <a id="paragraph-306240" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-544.2/#A1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> The professional corporation must meet every requirement of this chapter except the requirement that its stockholders be licensed to perform the professional service in this Commonwealth. <a id="paragraph-306241" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-544.2/#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 corporation admitted under this section shall not exceed the powers permitted to domestic professional corporations under this chapter. <a id="paragraph-306242" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-544.2/#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 corporation shall make application to the Commission as provided in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Application for certificate of authority" href="/13.1-759/">13.1-759</a> and shall make such application for and secure a certificate of authority as may be required by &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Qualifications of shareholders; special provisions for corporations rendering services of architects, professional engineers, landscape architects and land surveyors, and using the title of certified interior designers" href="/13.1-549/">13.1-549</a>; and, in addition, shall be required to set forth the name and address of each stockholder of the corporation who will be providing the professional service in this Commonwealth and whether such stockholder is licensed, or otherwise legally qualified, to perform the professional service in Virginia. <a id="paragraph-306243" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-544.2/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1978, c. 674; 2002, c. 77; 2003, c. 678.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
