{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-75-93-25","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 75-93-25","heading":"Limitations on adoption of certain fictitious business names.","body":"(1) The Secretary of State shall refuse registration of a fictitious business name, which, in the Secretary of State’s sole discretion, is potentially misleading, or which includes any of the following terms:\n(a) “Corporation,” “Corp.,” “Incorporated,” or “Inc.,” unless the applicant is a corporation organized or qualified to do business pursuant to the laws of this state;\n(b) “Limited Liability Company,” “Limited Company” or the abbreviation “L.L.C.,” “L.C.,” “LLC,” or “LC,” unless the applicant is a limited liability company organized or registered to do business pursuant to the laws of this state;\n(c) “Business Trust” or the abbreviation “B.T.” or “BT,” unless the applicant is a business trust organized or registered to do business pursuant to the laws of this state;\n(d) “Professional Corporation” or the abbreviation “Prof. Corp.,” “P.C.,” or “PC” or the word “Chartered” or the abbreviation “Chtd.,” unless the applicant is a professional corporation organized to do business pursuant to the laws of this state;\n(e) “Professional Association,” “Professional Organization,” or the abbreviation “Prof. Ass’n” or “Prof. Org.,” unless the applicant is a professional association organized to do business pursuant to the laws of this state;\n(f) “Limited” or the abbreviation “Ltd.,” unless the applicant is a corporation, limited liability company, registered limited liability partnership, limited partnership, or professional corporation organized, qualified, or registered to do business pursuant to the laws of this state;\n(g) Words not permitted to be used in any business name without governmental consent, unless the applicant provides to the Secretary of State written evidence of such consent.\n(2) Notwithstanding the other provisions of this section, the Secretary of State may allow registration of a fictitious business name which contains a prohibited term if, in the Secretary of State’s sole discretion, the term is not misleading.","path":["Title 75. Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments","Chapter 93. Fictitious Business Name Registration Act"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ms.code.ann.2018/release78.2020.07.08/gov.ms.code.title.75.odt","current_through":"2020-07-08","vintage":"Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-10-27T05:54:13Z","sha256":"39138f145f8f9dcc2f06464d4216fc883084fa143953dbaa8582c80013b315dd","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-75-93-23","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-75-93-27","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-ms","title":"Mississippi Release 78 supplement","text":"Mississippi electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain dedication. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 78 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.ms.code.ann.2018"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}