Iowa Code Title XII. Business Entities [Chs. 486-504C] § 489.1101. Definitions

1. “Employee” or “agent” does not include a clerk, stenographer, secretary, bookkeeper, technician, or other person who is not usually and ordinarily considered by custom and practice to be practicing a profession nor any other person who performs all that person's duties for the professional limited liability company under the direct supervision and control of one or more managers, employees, or agents of the professional limited liability company who are duly licensed in this state to practice a profession which the limited liability company is authorized to practice in this state. This subchapter does not require any such persons to be licensed to practice a profession if they are not required to be licensed under any other law of this state.

2. “Foreign professional limited liability company” means a limited liability company organized under laws other than the laws of this state for a purpose for which a professional limited liability company may be organized under this subchapter.

3. “Licensed” includes registered, certified, admitted to practice, or otherwise legally authorized under the laws of this state.

4. “Profession” means the following professions:

5. “Professional limited liability company” means a limited liability company subject to this subchapter, except a foreign professional limited liability company.

6. “Regulating board” means any board, commission, court, or governmental authority which, under the laws of this state, is charged with the licensing, registration, certification, admission to practice, or other legal authorization of the practitioners of any profession.