Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 18.100 - Professional Service Corporations.
18.100.140 - Improper conduct not authorized.

RCW 18.100.140
Improper conduct not authorized.

Nothing in this chapter shall authorize a director, officer, shareholder, agent, or employee of a corporation organized under this chapter, or a corporation itself organized under this chapter, to do or perform any act which would be illegal, unethical, or unauthorized conduct under the provisions of the following acts: (1) Physicians and surgeons, chapter 18.71 RCW; (2) anti-rebating act, chapter 19.68 RCW; (3) state bar act, chapter 2.48 RCW; (4) professional accounting act, chapter 18.04 RCW; (5) professional architects act, chapter 18.08 RCW; (6) professional auctioneers act, chapter 18.11 RCW; (7) cosmetologists, barbers, and manicurists, chapter 18.16 RCW; (8) assisted living facilities act, chapter 18.20 RCW; (9) podiatric medicine and surgery, chapter 18.22 RCW; (10) chiropractic act, chapter 18.25 RCW; (11) registration of contractors, chapter 18.27 RCW; (12) debt adjusting act, chapter 18.28 RCW; (13) dental hygienist act, chapter 18.29 RCW; (14) dentistry, chapter 18.32 RCW; (15) dispensing opticians, chapter 18.34 RCW; (16) naturopathic physicians, chapter 18.36A RCW; (17) embalmers and funeral directors, chapter 18.39 RCW; (18) engineers and land surveyors, chapter 18.43 RCW; (19) escrow agents registration act, chapter 18.44 RCW; (20) birthing centers, chapter 18.46 RCW; (21) midwifery, chapter 18.50 RCW; (22) nursing homes, chapter 18.51 RCW; (23) optometry, chapter 18.53 RCW; (24) osteopathic physicians and surgeons, chapter 18.57 RCW; (25) pharmacists, chapter 18.64 RCW; (26) physical therapy, chapter 18.74 RCW; (27) registered nurses, advanced registered nurse practitioners, and practical nurses, chapter 18.79 RCW; (28) psychologists, chapter 18.83 RCW; (29) real estate brokers and salespersons, chapter 18.85 RCW; (30) veterinarians, chapter 18.92 RCW.

[ 2012 c 10 § 38; 2011 c 336 § 503; 1994 sp.s. c 9 § 717; 1987 c 447 § 16; 1982 c 35 § 170; 1969 c 122 § 14.]
NOTES:

Application—2012 c 10: See note following RCW 18.20.010.


Severability—Headings and captions not law—Effective date—1994 sp.s. c 9: See RCW 18.79.900 through 18.79.902.


Intent—Severability—Effective dates—Application—1982 c 35: See notes following RCW 43.07.160.

Structure Revised Code of Washington

Revised Code of Washington

Title 18 - Businesses and Professions

Chapter 18.100 - Professional Service Corporations.

18.100.010 - Legislative intent.

18.100.020 - Short title.

18.100.030 - Definitions.

18.100.040 - Application of chapter to previously organized corporations.

18.100.050 - Organization of professional service corporations authorized generally—Architects, engineers, and health care professionals—Nonprofit corporations.

18.100.060 - Rendering of services by authorized individuals.

18.100.065 - Authority of directors, officers to render same services as corporation.

18.100.070 - Professional relationships and liabilities preserved.

18.100.080 - Engaging in other business prohibited—Investments.

18.100.090 - Stock issuance.

18.100.095 - Validity of share voting agreements.

18.100.100 - Legal qualification of officer, shareholder or employee to render professional service, effect.

18.100.110 - Sale or transfer of shares.

18.100.114 - Merger or consolidation.

18.100.116 - Death of shareholder, transfer to ineligible person—Treatment of shares.

18.100.118 - Eligibility of certain representatives and transferees to serve as directors, officers, or shareholders.

18.100.120 - Name—Listing of shareholders.

18.100.130 - Application of Business Corporation Act and Nonprofit Corporation Act.

18.100.132 - Nonprofit professional service corporations formed under prior law.

18.100.133 - Business corporations, election of this chapter.

18.100.134 - Professional services—Deletion from stated purposes of corporation.

18.100.140 - Improper conduct not authorized.

18.100.145 - Doctor of osteopathic medicine and surgery—Discrimination prohibited.

18.100.160 - Foreign professional corporation.