2007 Minnesota Code
Chapters 300 - 319B Corporations
Chapter 308A Cooperatives
Section 308A.121 COOPERATIVE NAME.
308A.121 COOPERATIVE NAME.
Subdivision 1. Name. The name of a cooperative must distinguish the cooperative upon the
records in the Office of the Secretary of State from the name of a domestic corporation, whether
profit or nonprofit, or a limited partnership, or a foreign corporation or a limited partnership
authorized or registered to do business in this state, whether profit or nonprofit, a limited liability
company, whether domestic or foreign, a limited liability partnership, whether domestic or
foreign, or a name the right to which is, at the time of incorporation, reserved or provided for in
sections
302A.117,
317A.117,
321.0109,
322B.125, or
333.001 to
333.54.
Subd. 2. Name reserved. The cooperative name shall be reserved for the cooperative during
its corporate existence.
Subd. 3. Contest of registration of name. A person doing business in this state may contest
the subsequent registration of a name with the Office of the Secretary of State as provided
in section
5.22.
History: 1989 c 144 art 1 s 8; 1989 c 292 s 8,9; 1992 c 517 art 1 s 18; 1995 c 128 art 2 s
2; 2004 c 199 art 13 s 111
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