§ 1621. Registration of business name by persons, partnerships, and associations (a) A person doing business in this State under any name other than his or her own, and every copartnership or association of individuals, except corporations and limited liability companies, doing business in this State, resident or nonresident, shall cause to be recorded with […]
§ 1621a. Reserved name (a) The exclusive right to the use of a business name may be reserved by any person, copartnership, or association intending to register its name under this section. (b) The reservation shall be made by filing with the Secretary of State an application to reserve a specified business name, executed by […]
§ 1622. Registration by legal representative of decedent If a person who was required by the provisions of section 1621 of this title to register with the Secretary of State failed so to do and dies, the legal representative of such deceased person may register under such section in the name of the estate of […]
§ 1623. Registration by business organizations (a) A business organization doing business in this State under any name other than that of the business organization shall be subject to all the provisions of this chapter; and shall file returns sworn to by some officer or director of the corporation or mutual benefit enterprise, or by […]
§ 1624. Forms The Secretary of State shall formulate forms for the returns and shall, on request, furnish such forms by mail or otherwise to persons, copartnerships, associations, or corporations subject to the provisions of this chapter. (Amended 1961, No. 217, § 1, eff. July 13, 1961.)
§ 1625. Fees (a) A person, copartnership, association, limited liability company, or corporation required by the provisions of this chapter to file a return, shall, at the time of filing as provided, pay a registration fee of $50.00 to the Secretary of State. (b) A person, copartnership, association, limited liability company, or corporation required by […]
§ 1626. Failure to register; enforcing compliance (a) A person who is not registered with the Secretary of State as required under this chapter and any successor to the person or assignee of a cause of action arising out of the business of the person may not maintain an action or proceeding or raise a […]
§ 1627. Service of process Service of such complaint and process thereunder may be made by delivering within this State a true and attested copy thereof to any person so doing business or any servant or agent of such person, copartnership, association, limited liability company, or corporation, or in any manner otherwise provided by law. […]
§ 1628. Certificate of cessation of business or change of business status (a) When a person, copartnership, association, limited liability company, or corporation subject to the provisions of this chapter shall cease to do business in this State, a certificate setting forth such fact and the date whereon it so ceased shall be filed with […]
§ 1629. Penalties Failure to file such certificate at the time so required by section 1628 of this title shall work a forfeiture of $10.00 to be recovered by the Secretary of State in a civil action on this statute, in his or her name, against any surviving partner, any member of such association, any […]
§ 1630. Process agent Each nonresident doing business in this State in his or her individual capacity, or as copartner or member of a copartnership or association required by sections 1621 and 1623 of this title to file the returns therein specified, or under any name other than his or her own, except as otherwise […]
§ 1631. Vacancy When an appointee dies or removes from the State, another person residing in such town and having therein an office or place of business, within 10 days from the date of such death or removal, shall be appointed in the manner hereinbefore specified, upon whom service of process may be made as […]
§ 1632. Exceptions The provisions of sections 1630 and 1631 of this title shall not apply to foreign investment companies, foreign building and loan associations, or foreign creamery companies.
§ 1633. Secretary of State as process agent A foreign insurance, express, shipping car, telegraph, or telephone company, or a foreign company under any other name engaged in like business, shall not do business in this State as an unincorporated association or partnership, until it has filed with the Secretary of State a written stipulation […]
§ 1634. Effect of failure and neglect A person, copartnership, limited liability company, or corporation subject to this chapter shall not institute any proceedings in this State for the enforcement of any right or obligation unless it shall, prior to the issuance of the original return or complaint therein, have filed the returns and paid […]
§ 1635. Reregistration (a) One or more persons doing business under a registered business name shall reregister the name every five years by filing a reregistration return with the Secretary of State with a fee of $40.00 within 60 days following the date five years after the date of the original registration or of the […]
§ 1636. Termination of business name; hearing (a) If the Secretary of State declines to register a business name in accordance with the provisions of subsection 1621(c) of this title, the applicant may request that the Secretary determine whether the person to whom the business name is registered is doing business or taking steps to […]
§ 1637. Authority to terminate and amend registration (a) The Secretary of State shall have the authority to: (1) terminate the registration of a person who, pursuant to a final court order or an assurance of discontinuance, is not authorized to conduct business in this State; and (2) amend his or her records to reflect […]
