2012 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 34 - Limited Partnerships, Partnerships, Professional Associations, Limited Liability Companies and Statutory Trusts
Chapter 613 - Limited Liability Companies
Section 34-103 - Reservation of name.

(a) The exclusive right to use a name may be reserved by: (1) Any person intending to organize a limited liability company and to adopt that name; (2) any limited liability company or any foreign limited liability company registered in this state that intends to adopt that name; (3) any foreign limited liability company intending to register in this state and to adopt that name; or (4) any person intending to organize a foreign limited liability company and to have it registered in this state and to adopt that name.

(b) The reservation shall be made by filing with the Secretary of the State an application together with the applicable fee, executed by the applicant, to reserve a specified name. If the Secretary of the State finds that the name is available for use by a domestic or foreign limited liability company, he shall reserve the name for the exclusive use of the applicant for a period of one hundred twenty days counting the date of such filing as the first of the one hundred twenty days.

(c) The holder of a reserved limited liability company name may renew the reservation for successive periods of one hundred twenty days each from the date of such renewal.

(d) The right to the exclusive use of a reserved name may be transferred to another person by filing with the Secretary of the State a notice of the transfer, executed by the applicant for whom the name was reserved and specifying the name to be transferred and the name and address of the transferee. The transfer shall not extend the term during which the name is reserved.

(e) Any person for whom a specified limited liability company name has been reserved pursuant to subsection (b) of this section may, during the period for which such name is reserved, terminate such reservation by filing in the office of the Secretary of the State an application for cancellation of reservation of limited liability company name, together with the applicable fee.

(P.A. 93-267, S. 4; P.A. 94-123, S. 6; P.A. 96-77, S. 14.)

History: P.A. 94-123 added Subsec. (e) authorizing the cancellation of the reservation of a limited liability company name and specifying the procedure therefor; P.A. 96-77 amended Subsec. (b) to make a technical grammatical change.