Chapter 58
Professional Corporations

Sections

Application to persons licensed to render professional services

Application to joint and several liability of shareholders of corporation organized under ORS chapter 60 for purpose of rendering professional services

Application of general corporation law and merger and conversion provisions

When appearance by attorney not required

Purposes for which professional corporation may be organized

Who may incorporate

When restatement of articles of incorporation required

Term of office for directors

Requirements to transact business in this state

Application for authority to transact business

Amended application for authority to transact business

Rights and duties of foreign professional corporation and shareholders

Method by which professional corporation to render services

Fees collected by corporation

Liabilities of employees, shareholders and the corporation

Revision of limitations on liability in ORS 58.185 to reflect inflation or deflation

Limits on merger

Corporation prohibited from doing acts prohibited to professional licensee

Redemption of shares

Application to professional licensing agencies

Filing of documents with professional licensing agency

Registration and renewal with professional licensing agency

Suspension, revocation or refusal of certificate of registration

Oregon State Bar as regulating board for attorneys

Authority of regulatory board to establish rules affecting professional corporation

Application of chapter to practice of dentistry

Requirements for professional corporations organized to practice medicine

Requirements for professional corporations organized to render professional health care services

Transferee of shares

Powers of professional corporation organized to practice medicine

Issuance, sale, transfer and redemption of shares

Disqualification of physician

Disposition of shares of deceased shareholder

Price for purchase or redemption of shares of disqualified or deceased shareholder

Filing requirements

Filing, service, copying and certification fees

Effective time and date of document

Correcting filed document

Filing duty of Secretary of State

Penalty for signing false document

Appeal from Secretary of State’s refusal to file document

Evidentiary effect of copy of filed document

Certificate of existence or authorization

Up to date

Current through early 2024

Chap. 58’s source at oregon.gov

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Location: https://oregon.public.law/statutes/ors_chapter_58

Original Source: Chapter 58 — Professional Corporations, https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors058.html (last accessed Jun. 16, 2023).