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17-7933. Name requirements for foreign covered entities. The secretary of state shall not issue a registration to a foreign covered entity unless the name of such covered entity is such as to distinguish it upon the records of the office of the secretary of state from the names of limited liability companies, corporations, limited partnerships or limited liability partnerships organized under the laws of this state or reserved or registered as a foreign limited liability company, foreign corporation, foreign limited partnership or foreign limited liability partnership under the laws of this state, except that a foreign covered entity may register under a name which is not such as to distinguish it upon the records of the office of the secretary of state from the name of other limited liability companies, corporations, limited partnerships or limited liability partnerships organized under the laws of this state or reserved or registered as a foreign limited liability company, foreign corporation, foreign limited partnership or foreign limited liability partnership under the laws of this state if:

(a) Written consent is obtained from the other domestic or foreign limited liability company, corporation, limited partnership or foreign limited liability partnership and filed with the secretary of state; or

(b) the foreign covered entity indicates, as a means of identification and in its advertising within this state, the state in which the foreign covered entity was formed, and the application sets forth this condition.

(c) This section shall take effect on and after January 1, 2015.

History: L. 2014, ch. 121, § 33; July 1.



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