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2012 Revised Code of Washington
Title 23B - WASHINGTON BUSINESS CORPORATION ACT
23B.04 Name.
23B.04.020 Reserved name.


WA Rev Code § 23B.04.020 (2012) What's This?

RCW 23B.04.020 Reserved name.

(1) A person may reserve the exclusive use of a corporate name, including a fictitious name adopted pursuant to RCW 23B.15.060 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 eighty-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.

[1989 c 165 § 38.]


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