No organization created under this chapter may render professional services except through its executives, employees, and agents who are licensed to render professional services in this state. In this section, the term "employee" does not include a clerk, secretary, bookkeeper, nurse, technician, or assistant, who is not usually and ordinarily considered by custom and practice to be rendering professional services to the public for which a license or other legal authorization is required in connection with the profession practiced by a particular professional organization.
10-31-09. Professional relationship preserved - Liability of owners - Professional regulation. 1. This chapter does not modify any law applicable to the relationship between a person furnishing professional service and a person receiving professional service, including liability arising out of the professional service, and including the confidential relationship between the person rendering the professional service and the person receiving the professional service, if any, and all confidential relationships previously enjoyed under the laws of this state or hereinafter enacted must remain inviolate. 2. Subject to subsection 1, nothing contained in this section renders an executive, owner, or employee of a professional organization personally liable in tort for any act in which that individual has not personally participated or in contract for any contract which that individual executes on behalf of a professional organization within the limits of that individual's authority. 3. Nothing in this chapter restricts or limits in any manner the authority and duty of the regulating boards for the licensing of an individual rendering professional services. 4. No professional organization may do any act that is prohibited to be done by any individual licensed to practice the profession which the professional organization is created to render.