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Tex. Business Organizations Code § 5.054: NAME OF CORPORATION, FOREIGN CORPORATION, PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION, OR FOREIGN PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION.
Where this section sits in the code
- BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS CODE
- TITLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- CHAPTER 5. NAMES OF ENTITIES; REGISTERED AGENTS AND REGISTERED OFFICES
- SUBCHAPTER B. GENERAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO NAMES OF ENTITIES
(a) The name of a corporation or foreign corporation must contain:
(1) the word "company," "corporation," "incorporated," or "limited"; or
(2) an abbreviation of one of those words.
(b) Subsection (a) does not apply to a nonprofit corporation or foreign nonprofit corporation.
(c) Instead of a word or abbreviation required by Subsection (a), the name of a professional corporation or foreign professional corporation may contain the phrase "professional corporation" or an abbreviation of the phrase.
Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 182, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 2006.
Amended by:
Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 688 (H.B. 1737), Sec. 20, eff. September 1, 2007.
Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 688 (H.B. 1737), Sec. 21, eff. September 1, 2007.
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