What limits does New York place on a med spa's business structure?
Ownership · part of The Practice Perimeter
Short answer
The cited rules settle only the professional service corporation route — a PC may be formed only by individuals licensed to render that same service, and every original shareholder, director and officer must be certified as licensed to practice it.
A professional service corporation may be organized only by one or more individuals duly authorized to render the same professional service, and for the purpose of rendering that same service. Its certificate of incorporation must name the original shareholders, directors and officers and carry certificates from the licensing authority that each of them is authorized to practice the profession.
N.Y. Bus. Corp. Law §1503 · verified Aug 17, 2026 · regulatory monitoring, not legal advice
Related New York rules
Only a person licensed or otherwise authorized under the Education Law’s medicine article may practice medicine or use the title “physician.”
N.Y. Educ. Law §6522 · verified Aug 17, 2026
Anyone not authorized to practice who practices, offers to practice, or holds themselves out as able to practice a profession requiring a license — or who AIDS OR ABETS an unlicensed person to practice — is guilty of a class E felony. This first paragraph carries no numeric threshold: aiding one unlicensed person is enough, and it is the provision that reaches a lay-owned business directing clinical work.
N.Y. Educ. Law §6512 (first paragraph) · verified Sep 1, 2026
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