2013 California Code
Business and Professions Code - BPC
DIVISION 7. GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS
PART 3. REPRESENTATIONS TO THE PUBLIC
CHAPTER 5. Fictitious Business Names
17910.5
(a) No person shall adopt any fictitious business name which includes Corporation, Corp., Incorporated, or Inc. unless that person is a corporation organized pursuant to the laws of this state or some other jurisdiction.
(b) No person shall adopt any fictitious business name that includes Limited Liability Company or LLC or LC unless that person is a limited liability company organized pursuant to the laws of this state or some other jurisdiction. A person is not prohibited from using the complete words Limited or Company or their abbreviations in the person s business name as long as that use does not imply that the person is a limited liability company.
(c) A county clerk shall not accept a fictitious business name statement which would be in violation of this section.
(Amended by Stats. 2001, Ch. 728, Sec. 64. Effective January 1, 2002.)
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