Restrictions on Use of Terms in Corporate, Partnership, Association, or Business Names

  1. Law
  2. Georgia Code
  3. Professions and Businesses
  4. Professional Counselors, Social Workers, and Marriage and Family Therapists
  5. Restrictions on Use of Terms in Corporate, Partnership, Association, or Business Names

Checkout our iOS App for a better way to browser and research.

  1. No corporation, partnership, association, or other business entity may use in its corporate, partnership, association, or business name any term or title restricted under subsection (a) of Code Section 43-10A-7 or the term "professional counseling," "social work," or "marriage and family therapy," or any words, letters, titles, or figures indicating or implying that such entity or any of its employees, officers, or agents are practicing a specialty regulated under this chapter, unless each person practicing a specialty in that entity, except those persons exempt under paragraph (1), (4), (5), (6), (11), (13), or (14) of subsection (b) of Code Section 43-10A-7, is licensed under this chapter.
  2. Any corporation, partnership, association, or other business entity which violates subsection (a) of this Code section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than $500.00 nor more than $1,000.00 for each offense.

(Code 1981, §43-7A-21, enacted by Ga. L. 1984, p. 1406, § 1; Ga. L. 1990, p. 1484, § 6; Ga. L. 1993, p. 330, § 7.)


Download our app to see the most-to-date content.