N.Y. Laws » CHAPTER Business Corporation / ARTICLE Professional Service Corporations
New York Consolidated Laws

N.Y. Business Corporation Law § 1512 (2026)

Corporate name

✓ text as retrieved May 2026 (this copy records no edition or section history)
Find cases: SyfertCases citing this section NY-LEGnysenate.gov Justiaon Justia CornellLII Search CasesGoogle Scholar 
§ 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.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1 case, 2004–2004 · leading case: 150 Broadway N.Y. Assocs., L.P. v. Bodner, 14 A.D.3d 1 (N.Y. App. Div. 1st Dep't 2004).
Sort: Relevance Newest Treatment
150 Broadway N.Y. Assocs., L.P. v. Bodner, 14 A.D.3d 1 (N.Y. App. Div. 1st Dep't 2004). “The motion court, in denying the motion to dismiss, relied in part on Business Corporation Law § 1512 (b), which provides that the “corporate name [of a professional service corporation] shall end with the words ‘Professional Corporation’ or the abbreviation ‘PC.”
Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.