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2025 California Code
Elections Code - ELEC
DIVISION 20 - ELECTION CAMPAIGNS
CHAPTER 2 - Political Corporations
ARTICLE 1 - Incorporation
Section 20100.
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CA Elec Code § 20100 (2025)
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20100. If the name of a corporation includes all or part of the name of any person, together with either (a) all or part of the title of any elective office, (b) the date (by year or otherwise) of the election for any office, or (c) any other words or figures indicating the candidacy or nomination of that person for elective office, the Secretary of State shall not accept its articles of incorporation for filing unless there is first filed with him or her a statement signed and acknowledged by that person consenting to the use of his or her name.
(Enacted by Stats. 1994, Ch. 920, Sec. 2.)
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