Section 27Sec./Art. 27

Practice not allowed for firms and corporations. – The practice of interior design is a professional service, admission to which shall be determined upon the basis of an individual's personal qualifications.

Hence, no firm, company, partnership, association or corporation may be registered or licensed as such for the practice of interior design: Provided, however, That persons properly registered and licensed as interior designers may among themselves or with a person or persons properly registered and licensed as building architects, town planners, landscape architects, civil engineers and any other allied design professionals, may form and obtain registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission of a firm, partnership or association using the term "Interior Designers," "Interior Designers and Planners" or "Architect and Interior Designer" but nobody shall be a member, partner or associate unless he is a duly registered and licensed design professional and the members who are interior designers shall only render work and services proper for an interior designer as defined in this Act.