17-2709.   Same; incorporators; articles of incorporation; regulatingboards to issue certificates, fees; application and recording fee.(a) One or more natural persons, each of whom is licensed to render thesame type of professional service within this state, may incorporate aprofessional corporation to practice that same type of professional serviceby filing articles of incorporation with the secretary of state. Thearticles of incorporation shall set forth as its purpose the type ofprofessional service to be practiced through the professional corporationand shall otherwise meet the requirements of the general corporation codeof the state of Kansas. A certificate by the regulating board of theprofession involved that each of the incorporators is duly licensed topractice that profession, and that the proposed corporate name has beenapproved, shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state prior toissuance of the certificate of incorporation. When two or more types ofprofessions are to be rendered by such corporation, as shown in the articlesof incorporation, a certificate of each regulatory board shall be required. Whenever an amendment is filed to change the name or purposes of any professionalcorporation, a certificate of each regulatory board involved shall be required.

      (b)   Each regulating board is authorized and directed to issue thecertificate required herein. Each regulating board may charge and collect a fee notto exceed two dollars ($2) for each person so certified.

      (c)   At the time of filing its articles of incorporation, everyprofessional corporation shall pay the fees required by subsection (a) ofK.S.A. 17-7502.

      History:   L. 1965, ch. 157, § 4; L. 1972, ch. 54, § 18; L. 1976,ch. 99, § 2; July 1.