Limited Occupations Qualified For Virginia Articles Of Incorporation
The Title 13.1 of the Code of Virginia gives the rules for registering the articles of incorporation in Virginia. To properly register the articles of incorporation of a professional stock corporation in Virginia, the organizers of the corporation are required to state the professional name of the Virginia professional stock corporation, as well as the professional services that the new professional stock corporation aims to provide upon being set up. The name of the new company has to use the words incorporated, corporation, company or limited; or any of the following abbreviations: inc., corp., co., or ltd. at the end of the corporate name. Otherwise, the end of the corporate name should use the initials P.C. or PC, or else either one of the phrases a professional corporation or professional corporation. The organizers also have to list how many shares in the new professional stock corporation they intend to offer.
There are a limited variety of professional services that articles of incorporation Virginia law permits professional stock corporations to participate in. A new company may choose between the following occupations: clinical nurse specialists, speech pathologists or audiologists, insurance consultants, attorneys-at-law, certified public accountants, public accountants, certified landscape architects, certified interior designers, land surveyors, professional engineers, architects, dentists, surgeons, veterinarians, members of the behavioral science professions, nurse practitioners, practitioners of the healing arts, optometrists, and pharmacists.
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A registered agent is required by articles of incorporation law to be currently residing in the state of Virginia as well as be either an initial director of the professional stock corporation under question, or a member of the Virginia State Bar. If the registered agent is neither of these, the registered agent should be either a registered limited liability partnership, limited liability company, or a domestic or foreign nonstock or stock corporation (all of which have permission to conduct business in Virginia.) The professional stock corporation must maintain an initial registered office address where the initial registered agent is known to hold business operations during regular business hours, as stated in articles of incorporation in Virginia.
When registering the Virginia articles of incorporation, the organizers have to state the names of the new initial directors of the professional stock corporation, as well as the names of the incorporators of the company. The incorporators should have permission to offer the designated professional services of the company, with at least one of them carrying a Virginia business license. In Virginia, the complete articles of incorporation should be either typewritten or printed in the English language on white opaque paper sheets measuring 8 \'bd x 11. Only one side of the paper must be used. No logos or watermarks should be emblazoned on the articles of incorporation. The form should not carry any sort of attachments. For convenience, a form can be downloaded from the website: www.scc.virginia.gov/division/clk/fee_bus.htm.
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