19 Pa. Code § 17.9 - Professional names
(a) Sections
8.4(1) and 8.6(1) of The C.P.A. Law (63 P. S. §§
9.8d(1) and
9.8f(1)) provide that the
name of an association may not include the terms "certified public accountant,"
"public accountant" or an abbreviation thereof and that impersonal or
fictitious names, as well as names which indicate a specialty, are
prohibited.
(b) In section
1303(c)(2)(iv) of the BCL (relating to corporate name) and in section
5303(c)(2)(v) of the NPCL (relating to corporate name) it is provided that a
corporate name may not contain the words "architect" or "architecture" or
another word implying a form of the practice of architecture as defined in the
Architects Licensure Law (63 P. S. §§
34.1-34.22), unless at least one of the
incorporators of a proposed corporation or one of the directors of the existing
corporation has been properly registered with the Architects Licensure Board in
the practice of architecture and a certificate from the Board to that effect is
submitted to the Department. See
54 Pa.C.S. §
311(f)(5) (relating to
registration), which restricts the use of the terms in fictitious name
registrations.
(c) The State Board
of Dentistry restricts the corporate and fictitious names which may be used by
a dental facility. See 49 Pa. Code §
33.22 (relating to name of dental
facility).
(d) In section
1303(c)(2)(iii) of the BCL, section 5303(c)(2)(iii) of the NPCL and
54 Pa.C.S. §
311(f)(2) it is provided
that a name may not contain the words "engineer" or "engineering" or "surveyor"
or "surveying" or another word implying a form of the practice of engineering
or surveying as defined in the Professional Engineers Registration Law
(63
P. S. §§
148-158), unless at least
one of the incorporators of a proposed corporation or one of the directors of
the existing corporation or one of the parties to the registration has been
properly registered with the State Registration Board for Professional
Engineers in the practice of engineering or surveying and a certificate from
the Board to that effect there is submitted to the Department.
(e) Section 8 of the Pharmacy Act
(63
P. S. §
390-8(8))
prohibits the use by a corporation of the names "pharmacist," "druggist" or
"apothecary" unless licensed as a pharmacist in this Commonwealth, or the
conduct or transaction of business under a name which contains as part thereof
any of the words "drug store," "pharmacy," "drugs," "medicine store,"
"medicines," "drug shop," "apothecary," "pharmaceutical," "homeopathic,"
"homeopathy" or a term having a similar meaning unless issued a permit by the
State Board of Pharmacy.
(f)
Section 8 of the Funeral Director Law (63 P. S. §
479.8(d)) provides that the
name of the professional corporation rendering the funeral services shall
contain the name or the last name of one or more of the shareholders or the
name of a predecessor funeral establishment. A professional corporation may not
render funeral services unless at least one of the incorporators of the
proposed corporation or one or more licensed funeral directors have been
properly licensed by the State Board of Funeral Directors and a certificate
from the Board to that effect is submitted to the Department.
Notes
This section cited in 19 Pa. Code § 13.14 (relating to governmental approvals); 19 Pa. Code § 17.3 (relating to use of a confusingly similar name); 19 Pa. Code § 17.41 (relating to foreign association names); 19 Pa. Code § 17.204 (relating to general restrictions on name availability); and 19 Pa. Code § 33.3 (relating to name).
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