325.410 Evidence of unlawful holding out as licensed to practice. The display or uttering by a person of a card, sign, advertisement, or other printed, engraved, or written instrument or device, bearing a person's name in conjunction with the words 'certified public accountant' or any abbreviation thereof, or 'public accountant' shall be prima facie evidence in any action brought under KRS 325.400 or 325.990 that the person whose name is so displayed, caused or procured the display or uttering of such card, sign, advertisement, or other printed, engraved, or written instrument or device, and that such person is holding himself or itself out to be a certified public accountant licensed to practice under KRS 325.330. In any such action evidence of the commission of a single act prohibited by this chapter shall be sufficient to justify an injunction or a conviction without evidence of a general course of conduct. Effective: July 14, 2000 History: Amended 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 14, effective July 14, 2000. -- Amended 1984 Ky. Acts ch. 117, sec. 18, effective July 13, 1984. -- Created 1946 Ky. Acts ch. 210, sec. 17.
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