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urn: urn:us-la:rs:12:1180
citation: "R.S. 12:1180"
status: active
breadcrumb: "Title 12 › Chapter 20"
acts_citations:
  - { year: 1983, number: 465, section: 1, effective_date: 1983-07-06, role: enactment }
---

# Compliance by existing corporation

If upon the effective date of this Chapter a previously existing engineering corporation or professional architectural corporation desires to operate as an architectural-engineering corporation, it may do so by compliance with the provisions of this Chapter and shall be entitled but not required to form a separate corporation for that purpose.