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Fla. Stat. § 621.06 (2025)
Rendition of professional services, limitations.
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621.06 Rendition of professional services, limitations.—No corporation or limited liability company organized under this act may render professional services except through its members, officers, employees, and agents who are duly licensed or otherwise legally authorized to render such professional services; provided, however, this provision shall not be interpreted to include in the term “employee,” as used herein, clerks, secretaries, bookkeepers, technicians, and other assistants who are not usually and ordinarily considered by custom and practice to be rendering professional services to the public for which a license or other legal authorization is required; and provided further, that nothing contained in this act shall be interpreted to require that the right of an individual to be a shareholder of a corporation or a member of a limited liability company organized under this act, or to organize such a corporation or limited liability company, is dependent upon the present or future existence of an employment relationship between him or her and such corporation or limited liability company, or his or her present or future active participation in any capacity in the production of the income of such corporation or limited liability company or in the performance of the services rendered by such corporation or limited liability company.
History.—s. 6, ch. 61-64; s. 1, ch. 67-590; s. 7, ch. 93-110; s. 80, ch. 93-284; s. 170, ch. 97-102; s. 18, ch. 2008-187.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3
cases, 1963–1995 · leading case: Corlett, Killian, Hardeman v. Merritt, 478 So. 2d 828 (Fla. 3d DCA 1985).
Corlett, Killian, Hardeman v. Merritt, 478 So. 2d 828 (Fla. 3d DCA 1985). “First, I think a professional service corporation which renders legal services is under a legal obligation to purchase the stock of its resigning attorney-stockholders, else it is in violation of Section 621.06, Florida Statutes (1983), of the Professional Service Corporation…”
Parker v. Panama City, 151 So. 2d 469 (Fla. 1st DCA 1963). “ch professional services within this state, and it is provided that the term "employee" as used in the statute does not include "clerks, secretaries, bookkeepers, technicians and other assistants who are not usually and ordinarily considered by custom and practice to be…”
In Re Six, 190 B.R. 958 (Bankr. M.D. Fla. 1995). “621 which specifically regulates professional service corporations, thus, § 621.06 requires that only duly licenses or otherwise legally authorized persons may render professional services.”
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