Source: http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3066%20intr.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=3066
Timestamp: 2018-02-21 07:49:41
Document Index: 74909356

Matched Legal Cases: ['§47', '§47', '§47', '§31', '§31', '§47', '§47', '§47', '§31', '§31']

A BILL to amend and reenact §47-8-3 and §47-8-4 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended; to amend and reenact §47-9-2 of said code; to amend and reenact §31B-1-105 of said code; and to amend and reenact §31B-10-1005 of said code, all relating to trade names; clarifying the type of certificates for which county clerks must maintain indices; and providing that registered trade names must be distinguishable from the names or trade names of other business entities on record with the Secretary of State.
That §47-8-3 and §47-8-4 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted; that §47-9-2 of said code be amended and reenacted; that §31B-1-105 of said code be amended and reenacted; and that §31B-10-1005 of said code be amended and reenacted, all to read as follows:
The clerks of county commissions of this state shall keep an alphabetical index of all persons filing certificates provided for in section two of this article.
(a) No business entity organized as a corporation, limited partnership, limited liability partnership, limited liability company, business trust or voluntary association required to register with the Secretary of State in order to conduct business within the state may conduct or transact any business in this state under any assumed trade name, or under any designation, name or style, corporate or otherwise, other than the name established by the original certificate establishing the business entity or by an amendment thereto, unless the business entity files in the office of the Secretary of State an application for registration of trade name. The application shall set forth:
(2) The trade name under which the business of such business entity is, or is to be, conducted or transacted upon approval of the application, which name must be distinguishable from the name or trade name of any other corporation, limited partnership, limited liability partnership, limited liability company, business trust or voluntary association, on record with the Secretary of State and from any name reserved name or registered name for any of those business entities on record with the Secretary of State;
(f) The amendments to this section enacted in the regular session of 2011 shall be effective as to all applications received on or after the effective date of the amendments.
(1) Shall contain the words “limited partnership,” or the abbreviation “Ltd. Partnership,” “LP” or “L.P.”;
(3) May not be the same as, and must be distinguishable from, the name or trade name of any corporation, limited partnership, limited liability partnership, or limited liability company organized under the laws of this state or licensed or registered as a foreign corporation, limited partnership, limited liability partnership, or limited liability company in this state; and
(4) May not include the words “engineer”, ”engineers”, “engineering” or any combination of those words unless the purpose of the corporation is to practice professional engineering as defined in article thirteen, chapter thirty of this code, as amended, and one or more of the incorporators is a registered professional engineer as defined therein.
(b) The amendments to this section enacted in the regular session of 2011 shall be effective as to all applications received on or after the effective date of the amendments.
(a) The name of a limited liability company must contain “limited liability company” or “limited company” or the abbreviation “L.L.C.”, “LLC”, “L.C.” or “LC”. “Limited” may be abbreviated as “Ltd.” and “company” may be abbreviated as “Co.”.
(2) A name reserved or registered under sections 1-106 or 1-107 of this article or under sections twelve or thirteen of article one, chapter thirty-one of this code;
(3) A fictitious name approved under section 10-1005 for a foreign company authorized to transact business in this state because its real name is unavailable; or
(4) The name of any other entity whose name is carried on the records of the Secretary of State.
(e) The amendments to this section enacted in the regular session of 2011 shall be effective as to all applications received on or after the effective date of the amendments.
(3) The fictitious name of another foreign limited liability company authorized to transact business in this state; or
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to amend the code provisions relating to trade names so as to prevent a business from adopting a trade name already in use.