Pennsylvania Code › Title 19 - CORPORATIONS AND BUSINESS ASSOCIATIONS › Part I - Department of State › Subpart B - Bureau of Corporations and Charitable Organizations › Article I - General Provisions › Chapter 17 - NAMES › Subchapter A - NAMES GENERALLY › GENERAL › Section 17.9 - Professional names

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
(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.
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).