13.1-1107 - How limited liability company may render professional services; nonprofessional employees and agents; members and managers need not be employees, etc.
§ 13.1-1107. How limited liability company may render professional services;nonprofessional employees and agents; members and managers need not beemployees, etc.
No limited liability company organized under this chapter may renderprofessional services except through its members, managers, employees,independent contractors, and agents who are duly licensed or otherwiselegally authorized to render those professional services, and only members,managers, employees, independent contractors, and agents licensed orotherwise legally qualified by this Commonwealth may perform the professionalservice in Virginia. However, this provision shall not be interpreted topreclude clerks, secretaries, bookkeepers, technicians and other assistantswho are not usually and ordinarily considered by custom and practice to berendering professional service to the public for which a license or otherlegal authorization is required from acting as employees, managers and agentsof a professional limited liability company and performing their usual dutiesor from acting as employees, independent contractors, managers or agents of aprofessional limited liability company. Nothing contained in this chaptershall be interpreted to require that the right of an individual to be amember or manager of a limited liability company organized under thischapter, or to organize that limited liability company, is dependent upon thepresent or future existence of an employment relationship between thatindividual and that limited liability company, or that individual's presentor future active participation in any capacity in the production of theincome of that limited liability company or in the performance of theservices rendered by that limited liability company.
(1992, c. 574; 1994, c. 349; 2003, c. 786.)