New legislation makes it easier for some employee-owned professional engineering, architecture, landscape architecture, and land surveying corporations to work on design projects in New York—but design businesses based outside New York are unlikely to benefit.
New York State has strict restrictions on the types of corporate and other legal entities that are allowed to practice professional engineering, architecture, landscape architecture, and land surveying (the so-called “design professions”) in New York. With the exception of a few so-called “grandfathered” corporations,1 until recently only entities with 100 percent ownership and management by design professionals, i.e., licensed to perform the design professions, were permitted to offer and provide professional design services in New York.2
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