The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XXXVI
BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS

Chapter 621
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE CORPORATIONS AND LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANIES

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F.S. 621.06

621.06 Rendition of professional services, limitations.—No corporation or limited liability company organized under this act may render professional services except through its members, officers, employees, and agents who are duly licensed or otherwise legally authorized to render such professional services; provided, however, this provision shall not be interpreted to include in the term “employee,” as used herein, clerks, secretaries, bookkeepers, technicians, and other assistants who are not usually and ordinarily considered by custom and practice to be rendering professional services to the public for which a license or other legal authorization is required; and provided further, that nothing contained in this act shall be interpreted to require that the right of an individual to be a shareholder of a corporation or a member of a limited liability company organized under this act, or to organize such a corporation or limited liability company, is dependent upon the present or future existence of an employment relationship between him or her and such corporation or limited liability company, or his or her present or future active participation in any capacity in the production of the income of such corporation or limited liability company or in the performance of the services rendered by such corporation or limited liability company.

History.—s. 6, ch. 61-64; s. 1, ch. 67-590; s. 7, ch. 93-110; s. 80, ch. 93-284; s. 170, ch. 97-102; s. 18, ch. 2008-187.

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Amendments to 621.06

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 621.06

Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 621.06.

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

In R. SIX,, 190 B.R. 958 (Bankr. M.D. Fla. 1995)

. . . dealt with by Fla.Stat. 621 which specifically regulates professional service corporations, thus, § 621.06 . . .

CORLETT, KILLIAN, HARDEMAN, McINTOSH AND LEVI, P. A. f k a P. A. v. C. MERRITT, D. B. III,, 478 So. 2d 828 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1985)

. . . obligation to purchase the stock of its resigning attorney-stockholders, else it is in violation of Section 621.06 . . . Thus, Section 621.06 requires that only duly licensed or otherwise legally authorized persons render . . . practice of law except through its officers, agents and employees is, of course, answered by Section 621.06 . . . A plausible explanation for the addition in 1967 of Section 621.06, see Ch. 67-590, § 1, Laws of Fla. . . .

F. MILLER, Jr. v. J. WILLIAMS A. d b a a, 300 So. 2d 752 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1974)

. . . See Sec. 621.06 and Sec. 621.07, Florida Statutes. . . .

W. M. PARKER, v. PANAMA CITY E. J. E. T. a, 151 So. 2d 469 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1963)

. . . . § 621.06, F.S.A.). . . .