Procedure to Create a Professional Business Entity

• Download and complete the appropriate business entity creation document from the Forms link on the Business Registration Division website.
• Download and complete the appropriate application from the Board’s Main webpage.
• Submit the application, a copy of the Articles of Incorporation or Organization (creation document from the Business Registration Division website) and payment in the amount of $55.00 to the NCBLG.
• The NCBLG will examine these documents and if sufficient, will provide a Certification of Application for your use in filing with the Secretary of State’s Office.
• Submit the original creation document along with the original Board’s certification to the Business Registration Division of the Secretary of State’s Office for filing with either $125 for a domestic entity (North Carolina) or $250 for a foreign entity receiving a Certificate of Authority.
• Return a copy of the Articles of Incorporation/Organization from the Secretary of State’s Office to the NCBLG. The NCBLG will then issue a Certificate of Registration.
• You must complete all steps above in order to receive your license number from the Board.

Pursuant to N.C.G.S. §55B-10, “No professional corporation shall open, operate, or maintain an establishment for any of the purposes set forth in this Chapter without first having obtained a Certificate of Registration from the licensing board or boards.”

North Carolina Administrative Code

Secretary of State

• 18 NCAC 04 .0318 - Authorization of Foreign Professional Corporations
• 18 NCAC 04 .0502 - Words Prohibited in Addition to Statutory Prohibitions
• 18 NCAC 04 .0503 - Deceptively Similar and Distinguishable Names
• 18 NCAC 04 .0504 - Filing Fictitious or Assumed Name for Foreign Entity

NC Board for Licensing of Geologists

• 21 NCAC 21 .1001 - PRACTICE OF GEOLOGY BY CORPORATIONS AND LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANIES
• 21 NCAC 21 .1002 - FOREIGN CORPORATIONS AND LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANIES