North Dakota Century Code Title 10. Corporations § 10-31-04. Purpose for which created--Minority ownership

1. A professional organization may be created pursuant to this chapter only for the purpose of rendering one specific type of professional service and services ancillary thereto or for the purpose of rendering two or more kinds of professional services that are specifically authorized to be practiced in combination under the licensing laws of each of the professional services to be practiced by a licensed individual or partnership of licensed individuals and ancillary services. This subsection does not preclude an organization created pursuant to this chapter from rendering more than one specific type of professional service if the services rendered are set forth in chapters 43-03 and 43-19.1 or if the services rendered are set forth in chapters 43-26.1 and 43-40.

2. A professional organization may not engage in any business other than rendering the professional service for which it was created to render and services ancillary to that professional service. However, a professional organization may own real and personal property necessary or appropriate for rendering the type of professional services it was created to render and may invest its funds in real estate mortgages, stocks, bonds, membership interests, and any other type of investment.

3. If expressly authorized under this subsection, a professional organization may have a minority ownership by one or more minority owners. A professional organization created under this chapter for the purpose of providing professional services as set forth in chapter 43-03 is expressly authorized to have minority owners.