14A:17-7. Rendering of professional service limited to licensed personnel; charges authorized

7. Rendering of professional service limited to licensed personnel; charges authorized.

No professional corporation or foreign professional legal corporation may render professional services in this State except through its officers, employees and agents who are duly licensed or otherwise legally authorized to render such professional services within this State; provided, however, that this provision shall not be interpreted to include in the term "employee" as used herein clerks, secretaries, administrators, bookkeepers, technicians and other assistants who are not usually and ordinarily considered by law, custom and practice to be rendering professional service to the public for which a license or other legal authorization is required in connection with the profession to be practiced, nor does the term "employee" include any other person who performs all his employment under the direct supervision and control of an officer, agent or employee who is himself rendering professional service to the public on behalf of the professional corporation; provided, that no person shall, under the guise of employment, practice a profession unless duly licensed to practice that profession under the laws of this State. Notwithstanding any other or contrary provisions of the laws of the State, a professional corporation or foreign professional legal corporation may charge for its services, may collect such charges, and may compensate its officers, employees and agents, including those persons excluded from the term "employee" as used herein.

L.1969,c.232,s.7; amended 1991,c.105,s.2; 1995,c.375,s.3.