Alabama § 10A-4-3.01 Issuance and Transfer of Stock

Alabama Statutes

§ 10A-4-3.01 — Issuance and Transfer of Stock

Alabama § 10A-4-3.01

Title 10AAlabama Business and Nonprofit Entities Code

Ch. 4Professional Corporations

Art. 3Shareholders; Directors and Officers; Professional Liability

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Ala. Code § 10A-4-3.01 (2026).

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(a)A domestic professional corporation may issue stock, fractions of a share of stock, and rights or options to purchase stock only to qualified persons.

(b)Where deemed necessary by the licensing authority for any profession in order to prevent violations of the ethical standards of the profession, the licensing authority may, within its rulemaking power, by rule further restrict, condition, or abridge the authority of domestic professional corporations to issue stock, but no rule shall, of itself, have the effect of causing a stockholder of a professional corporation at the time the rule becomes effective to become a disqualified person unless and to the extent specified by the licensing authority.

(c)A stockholder of a domestic professional corporation may transfer or pledge stock, f

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(a) A domestic professional corporation may issue stock, fractions of a share of stock, and rights or options to purchase stock only to qualified persons.
(b) Where deemed necessary by the licensing authority for any profession in order to prevent violations of the ethical standards of the profession, the licensing authority may, within its rulemaking power, by rule further restrict, condition, or abridge the authority of domestic professional corporations to issue stock, but no rule shall, of itself, have the effect of causing a stockholder of a professional corporation at the time the rule becomes effective to become a disqualified person unless and to the extent specified by the licensing authority.
(c) A stockholder of a domestic professional corporation may transfer or pledge stock, fractions of a share of stock, and rights or options to purchase stock of the professional corporation only to qualified persons.
(d) Any issuance or transfer of stock in violation of this section shall be void, however, nothing contained herein shall prohibit the transfer of stock of a domestic professional corporation by operation of law or court decree.
(e) Nothing in this section shall require domestic nonprofit professional corporations to issue stock. Domestic nonprofit professional corporations may have members and all members must be qualified persons. A licensing authority may, within its rulemaking power, by rule further restrict, condition, or abridge membership in domestic nonprofit corporations, but no rule shall, of itself, have the effect of causing a member of a domestic nonprofit professional corporation at the time the rule becomes effective to become a disqualified person unless and to the extent specified by the licensing authority.