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

        490.403  REGISTERED NAME.
         1.  A foreign corporation may register its corporate name, or its
      corporate name with any addition required by section 490.1506, if the
      name is distinguishable upon the records of the secretary of state
      from the corporate names that are not available under section
      490.401, subsection 2, paragraph "b".
         2.  A foreign corporation registers its corporate name, or its
      corporate name with any addition required by section 490.1506, by
      delivering to the secretary of state for filing an application:
         a.  Setting forth its corporate name, or its corporate name
      with any addition required by section 490.1506, the state or country
      and date of its incorporation, and a brief description of the nature
      of the business in which it is engaged.
         b.  Accompanied by a certificate of existence, or a document
      of similar import, from the state or country of incorporation.
         3.  The name is registered for the applicant's exclusive use upon
      the effective date of the application.
         4.  A foreign corporation whose registration is effective may
      renew it for successive years by delivering to the secretary of state
      for filing a renewal application which complies with the requirements
      of subsection 2 between October 1 and December 31 of the preceding
      year.  The renewal application renews the registration for the
      following calendar year.
         5.  A foreign corporation whose registration is effective may
      thereafter qualify as a foreign corporation under that name or
      consent in writing to the use of that name by a corporation
      thereafter incorporated under this chapter or by another foreign
      corporation thereafter authorized to transact business in this state.
      The first registration terminates when the domestic corporation is
      incorporated with that name or the foreign corporation qualifies or
      consents to the qualification of another foreign corporation under
      the registered name.  

         89 Acts, ch 288, §31
         Referred to in § 488.108, 490.401, 490.1506, 490A.401, 504.401,
      504.403, 504.1506