NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

CHAPTER 196

SENATE BILL 189

AN ACT TO ALLOW LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS TO INCORPORATE UNDER THE PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION ACT OF 1969.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  G.S. 55B-2(6) is hereby amended by changing the period at the end thereof to a semicolon and by adding the following: "chapter 89A, 'Landscape Architects.'"

Sec. 2.  G.S. 55B-14 is hereby amended by inserting in line seven after "architectural," the words "landscape architectural,"; by deleting in line eight after "83" the word "and" and inserting in lieu thereof, "; by inserting after "89" the words "and 89A" so that G.S. 55B-14 shall read as follows:

"§ 55B-14.  Types of professional services. — A professional corporation shall render only one specific type professional service, and such services as may be ancillary thereto, and shall not engage in any other business or profession; provided, however, such corporation may own real and personal property necessary or appropriate for rendering the type of professional services it was organized to render and it may invest in real estate, mortgages, stocks, bonds, and any other type of investments; provided further, that in the case of architectural, landscape architectural, engineering or land surveying services, as defined in chapters 83, and 89A respectively, one corporation may be authorized to provide such of these services where such corporation, and at least one corporate officer who is a stockholder thereof, is duly licensed by the licensing board of each such profession."

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 15th day of April, 1971.