US Laws, Codes, Statutes & Cases

 
  § 302. Corporate name; exceptions.
    (a) Any reference to a corporation in this section except as otherwise
  provided herein shall include both domestic and foreign corporations.
    (b) The provisions of section 301 (Corporate name; general):
    (1)  Shall  not  require any corporation, existing or authorized under
  any statute on the effective date of this chapter, to add to, modify  or
  otherwise change its corporate name.
    (2)  Shall not prevent a corporation with which another corporation is
  merged, or which is formed by the consolidation of  one  or  more  other
  corporations from having the same name as any of such corporations if at
  the  time  such  other  corporation was authorized or existing under any
  statute of this state.
    (3) Shall not prevent a  foreign  corporation  from  being  authorized
  under  a  name which is similar to the name of a corporation of any type
  or kind existing or authorized under any statute, if the  department  of
  state  finds,  upon proof by affidavit or otherwise as it may determine,
  that  a  difference  between  such  names  exists  in   the   terms   or
  abbreviations  indicating  corporate  character  or  otherwise, that the
  applicant has conducted activities as a corporation under its said  name
  for not less than ten consecutive years immediately prior to the date of
  its  application,  that the activities to be conducted in this state are
  not the same or similar to the business or activities conducted  by  the
  corporation  with  whose name it may conflict and that the public is not
  likely to be confused or deceived, and if the applicant shall  agree  in
  its  application  for  authority to use with its corporate name, in this
  state, to be placed immediately under or following such name, the  words
  "a ..... (name of jurisdiction of incorporation) corporation".