North Carolina Administrative Code › Title 18 - SECRETARY OF STATE › Chapter 04 - CORPORATIONS DIVISION › Section .0500 - CORPORATE NAME › Section 04 .0502 - WORDS PROHIBITED IN ADDITION TO STATUTORY PROHIBITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 2, July 15, 2024
(a) The words "engineer" or "engineering" or
				their derivatives shall not be included in the corporate name for a corporation
				unless it is organized pursuant to G.S. Chapter 55B or, if it is a foreign
				corporation, unless it complies with
				G.S.
				55B-16, provided that the words specified
				shall not be prohibited in any case where such words are modified by another
				word or words in such manner as to indicate activity other than the practice of
				engineering as defined in
				G.S.
				89C-3(b).
(b) The words "surveyor", "survey",
				"surveying", or their derivatives shall not be included in the corporate name
				for a corporation unless it is organized pursuant to G.S. 55B or, if it is a
				foreign corporation, unless it complies with
				G.S.
				55B-16, provided that the words specified
				shall not be prohibited in any case where such words are modified by another
				word or words in such manner as to indicate activity other than the practice of
				land surveying by registered land surveyors as defined in
				G.S.
				89C-3(7).
(c) The words "architecture",
				"architectural", "architect", or their derivatives shall not be included in the
				corporate name for a corporation unless it is organized pursuant to G.S. 55B
				or, if it is a foreign corporation, unless it complies with
				G.S.
				55B-16, provided that the words specified
				shall not be prohibited in any case where such words are modified by another
				word or words in such manner as to indicate activity other than the practice of
				architecture as defined in
				G.S.
				83A-1(7) or landscape
				architecture as defined in
				G.S.
				89A-1(c).
(d) The word "co-op" shall not be included in
				a corporate name in which the use of the word "cooperative" is prohibited by
				G.S.
				54-139.
(e) When a document is submitted conferring a
				corporate name containing the word "wholesale," unless the purpose clause of
				the document indicates clearly that the corporation shall not engage in retail
				sales, the Corporations Attorney shall not file the articles unless he finds,
				pursuant to written assurance by the principals or their attorney, that the
				corporation shall comply with
				G.S.
				75-29.
(f) The corporate name for a business
				corporation shall not contain the word "realtor."
(g) The corporate name for a business
				corporation shall not contain the word "insurance" followed directly by a
				corporate ending or the word "insurance" followed directly by a geographical
				designation and a corporate ending.
Authority
				  G.S.
				  54-139;
				  55B-3;
				  55B-5;
				  55B-16;
				  55D-5;
				  55D-20;
				  55D-21;
				  57D-2-02;
				  57D-2-21;
				  57D-7-03;
				  59-103;
Eff. February
				  1, 1976;
ARRC Objection Lodged June 21, 1990;
Temporary
				  Amendment Eff. July 1, 1990 For a Period of 180 Days to Expire on December 27,
				  1990;
ARRC Objection Removed August 20, 1990;
Amended
				  Eff. March 1, 1996; February 1, 1991; December 10, 1980;
Pursuant
				  to G.S.
				  150B-21.3A, rule is necessary without
				  substantive public interest Eff. December 20,
				  2015.