Assembly Bill A1052

Signed By Governor
2013-2014 Legislative Session

Relates to design professional service corporations

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2013-A1052 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2898
Law Section:
Business Corporation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§1501 & 1503, BC L

2013-A1052 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to design professional service corporations; authorizes certain existing professional service corporations to become a design professional service corporation where such corporation meets requirements and amends its certificate of incorporation.

2013-A1052 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  1052

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 9, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. LUPARDO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Higher Education

AN ACT to amend the business corporation  law,  in  relation  to  design
  professional service corporations

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Section 1501 of the business corporation law, as amended by
chapter 550 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
[S 1501. Definitions.
  As used in this article, unless the context  otherwise  requires,  the
term:  (a)  "licensing authority" means the regents of the university of
the state of New York or the state education department, as the case may
be, in the case of all professions licensed under  title  eight  of  the
education  law,  and  the  appropriate appellate division of the supreme
court in the case of the profession of law.
  (b) "Profession" includes any practice as an attorney  and  counselor-
at-law,  or as a licensed physician, and those occupations designated in
title eight of the education law.
  (c) "Professional service" means any type of  service  to  the  public
which  may  be  lawfully rendered by a member of a profession within the
purview of his profession.
  (d) "Professional service corporation" means a  corporation  organized
under this article.
  (e) "Design  professional  service  corporation"  means  a corporation
organized under this article practicing professional engineering, archi-
tecture, landscape architecture, or land surveying,  or  practicing  any
combination  of  such  professions,  first organized on or after January
first, two thousand twelve. The provisions of this article applicable to
professional service corporations shall  apply  to  design  professional
service  corporations  except to the extent that any provision is either

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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