CT Gen Stat § 34-506 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 34 - Limited Partnerships, Partnerships, Professional Associations, Limited Liability Companies and Statutory Trusts|Chapter 615 - Statutory Trusts|Section 34-506 - Name of statutory trust. Reservation of name.

 (a) The name of each statutory trust as set forth in its certificate of trust shall be such as to distinguish it upon the records of the office of the Secretary of the State from: (1) The name of any corporation, limited partnership, limited liability company, limited liability partnership or statutory trust existing under the laws of this state; (2) the name of any foreign corporation, limited partnership, limited liability company, limited liability partnership or statutory trust authorized to transact business in this state; or (3) any name reserved under subsection (d) of this section or under section 33-656, 33-657, 34-13, 34-13a, 34-243l, 34-406 or 34-407.(b) The name of each statutory trust as set forth in its certificate of trust may contain the name of a beneficial owner, a trustee or any other person.(c) The name of each statutory trust as set forth in its certificate of trust shall contain one or more of the following words or abbreviations: “Statutory Trust”, “Limited Liability Trust”, “Limited”, “LLT”, “L.L.T.”, or “Ltd.”.(d) The exclusive right to the use of a name may be reserved by: (1) Any person intending to organize a statutory trust and to adopt that name; (2) any statutory trust intending to register in this state and to adopt that name; (3) any foreign statutory trust intending to register in this state and to adopt that name; or (4) any person intending to organize a foreign statutory trust and to have it register in this state and to adopt that name.(e) The reservation shall be made by filing with the Secretary of the State an application, executed by the applicant, together with the applicable fee. If the office of the Secretary of the State finds that the name is available for use by a domestic or foreign statutory trust, it 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 day of the one hundred twenty days. The holder of a reserved statutory trust name may renew the reservation for successive periods of one hundred twenty days each from the date of such renewal. The right to the exclusive use of a reserved name may be transferred to any other person by filing with the office of the Secretary of the State a notice of the transfer, executed by the applicant for whom the name was reserved, 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. Any person for whom a specified statutory trust name has been reserved, or a transferee of such person, may, during the period for which such name is reserved, terminate such reservation by filing with the office of the Secretary of the State an application for cancellation of reservation of statutory trust name, executed by the applicant, together with the applicable fee.(f) A fee as set forth in subdivision (1) of subsection (a) of section 34-509 shall be paid at the time of the initial reservation of any name, at the time of the renewal of any such reservation and at the time of the filing of a notice of the transfer or cancellation of any such reservation.(P.A. 96-271, S. 234, 254; P.A. 98-137, S. 20, 62; 98-219, S. 33, 34; P.A. 00-196, S. 21; P.A. 16-97, S. 106.)History: P.A. 96-271 effective October 1, 1997; P.A. 98-137 amended Subsec. (c) to delete “ST” and “S.T.” as authorized designations, effective July 1, 1998; P.A. 98-219 revised effective date of P.A. 98-137, but without affecting this section; P.A. 00-196 added “or abbreviations” in Subsec. (c); P.A. 16-97 amended Subsec. (a) by substituting reference to Sec. 34-243l for references to Secs. 34-102 and 34-103, effective July 1, 2017.