Section 1530. Filing requirements  


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  • (a) A foreign professional service corporation may apply for authority
      to  do  business in this state. An application entitled "Application for
      Authority of .......... (name  of  corporation)  under  Section  fifteen
      hundred  thirty  of  the  Business Corporation Law," shall be signed and
      delivered to the department of state. It shall set forth:
        (1) The name of the foreign professional service corporation.  If  the
      name  does  not  end  with  the  words "Professional Corporation" or the
      abbreviation "P.C.", it shall in addition to the foregoing set forth the
      name to be used in this  state,  ending  with  the  words  "Professional
      Corporation" or the abbreviation "P.C."
        (2) The jurisdiction and date of its incorporation.
        (3)  A  statement  of the profession or professions to be practiced in
      this state  and  a  statement  that  the  foreign  professional  service
      corporation  is authorized to practice such profession or professions in
      the jurisdiction of its incorporation.
        (4) The name, address and license number of  each  person  within  the
      foreign professional service corporation who is licensed to practice the
      profession or professions in this state.
        (5)  The city, incorporated village or town and the county within this
      state in which its office is to be located.
        (6) A designation of the secretary of state as  its  agent  upon  whom
      process  against  it may be served and the post office address within or
      without this state to which the secretary of state shall mail a copy  of
      any process against it served upon him.
        (7)  If  it is to have a registered agent, his name and address within
      this state and a statement that the registered agent is to be its  agent
      upon whom process against it may be served.
        (8)  A statement that the foreign professional service corporation has
      not since its incorporation or  since  the  date  its  authority  to  do
      business  in this state was last surrendered, engaged in any activity in
      this state, or in lieu thereof, the consent of the state tax  commission
      to  the  filing  of  the  application,  which  consent shall be attached
      thereto.
        (b) Attached to the application for authority shall be:
        (1) A certificate by an authorized officer of the jurisdiction of  its
      incorporation  that  the  foreign professional service corporation is an
      existing corporation.
        (2) A certificate or certificates issued by  the  licensing  authority
      that  each  individual  within the corporation intending to practice the
      profession or professions in this state is  licensed  to  practice  said
      profession  or  professions  in  this  state.  In  order  to obtain said
      certificate or certificates, a copy of the certificate of  incorporation
      shall be furnished to the licensing authority.
        (3) A certificate or certificates issued by the licensing authority in
      the  case of a foreign professional service corporation providing health
      services that each shareholder, officer  and  director  of  the  foreign
      professional service corporation is licensed to practice said profession
      in this state.
        (c)  The  fee  for  filing  the application for authority shall be two
      hundred dollars, payable to the department of state, and the fee  for  a
      certificate  of authority issued by the state education department shall
      be fifty dollars.