(a) The corporate name of a professional corporation shall contain the last name of one or more of its shareholders, unless the regulations of a particular regulating board or the ethics of a profession permit the use of a corporate name which does not include the surname of any present or former shareholder. The corporate name shall be ended by the word “Corporation,” “Incorporated,” or “Limited,” or by the abbreviation “Corp.,” “Inc.,” or “Ltd.,” or by the words, “a professional corporation,” or by the abbreviation “P.C.”
(b) The corporate name of a professional corporation must be distinguishable on the records of the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development from the name of any other organized entity and from a reserved or registered name. The Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development may adopt regulations to implement this subsection. In this subsection, “organized entity” and “reserved or registered name” have the meanings given in AS 10.35.040.
Structure Alaska Statutes
Title 10. Corporations and Associations
Chapter 45. Professional Corporation Act
Sec. 10.45.010. Incorporation.
Sec. 10.45.020. Rendering professional service and charging fees.
Sec. 10.45.030. Who may render professional service.
Sec. 10.45.040. Prohibition against engaging in business; property and investments.
Sec. 10.45.050. Issuance of shares.
Sec. 10.45.060. Qualifications of director, officer, or shareholder.
Sec. 10.45.070. Management by directors; authority of officers and shareholders.
Sec. 10.45.080. Transfer of shares.
Sec. 10.45.090. Voting by proxy.
Sec. 10.45.100. Voting trust prohibited.
Sec. 10.45.110. Holding stock, merging or consolidating with another professional corporation.
Sec. 10.45.120. Corporate name.
Sec. 10.45.130. Change or alteration of corporate name.
Sec. 10.45.133. Continuity of life.
Sec. 10.45.136. No shareholder power to dissolve.
Sec. 10.45.140. Professional relationship and liabilities.
Sec. 10.45.180. Authority and duty of regulatory boards not limited.
Sec. 10.45.190. Professional acts limited.
Sec. 10.45.200. Legal disqualification of corporate personnel.
Sec. 10.45.210. Disposal of shares of legally disqualified shareholder.
Sec. 10.45.220. Shares of deceased shareholder.
Sec. 10.45.230. Determination of value of shares.
Sec. 10.45.240. Applicability of Alaska Corporations Code and Alaska Entity Transactions Act.