2009 Iowa Code
Title 12 - Business Entities
Subtitle 2 - Business and Professional Corporations and Companies
CHAPTER 490 - BUSINESS CORPORATIONS
490.402 - RESERVED NAME.

        490.402  RESERVED NAME.
         1.  A person may reserve the exclusive use of a corporate name,
      including a fictitious name for a foreign corporation whose corporate
      name is not available, by delivering an application to the secretary
      of state for filing.  The application must set forth the name and
      address of the applicant and the name proposed to be reserved.  If
      the secretary of state finds that the corporate name applied for is
      available, the secretary of state shall reserve the name for the
      applicant's exclusive use for a nonrenewable one hundred twenty day
      period.
         2.  The owner of a reserved corporate name may transfer the
      reservation to another person by delivering to the secretary of state
      a signed notice of the transfer that states the name and address of
      the transferee.  

         89 Acts, ch 288, §30
         Referred to in § 488.108, 490.401, 490.1506, 490A.401, 504.401,
      504.403, 504.1506