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SECTION 1512
Corporate name
Business Corporation (BSC) CHAPTER 4, ARTICLE 15
§ 1512. Corporate name.

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the name of a
professional service corporation, including a design professional
service corporation, may contain any word which, at the time of
incorporation, could be used in the name of a partnership practicing a
profession which the corporation is authorized to practice, and may not
contain any word which could not be used by such a partnership.
Provided, however, the name of a professional service corporation may
not contain the name of a deceased person unless

(1) such person's name was part of the corporate name at the time of
such person's death; or

(2) such person's name was part of the name of an existing partnership
and at least two-thirds of such partnership's partners become
shareholders of the corporation.

(b) The name of a professional service corporation shall end with the
words "Professional Corporation" or the abbreviation "P.C." The name of
a design professional service corporation shall end with the words
"design professional corporation" or the abbreviation "D.P.C." The
provisions of subparagraph one of paragraph (a) of section 301 of this
chapter shall not apply to a professional service corporation.