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Statutes > Alabama > Title10 > Chapter3A > 10-3A-172Section 10-3A-172
Corporate name of foreign corporation.
REPEALED IN THE 2009 REGULAR SESSION BY ACT 2009-513, EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2011. THIS IS NOT IN THE CURRENT CODE SUPPLEMENT.
The corporate name of a foreign corporation:
(1) Shall not contain any word or phrase which indicates or implies that it is organized for any purpose other than one or more of the purposes contained in its articles of incorporation.
(2) Shall not be the same as, or deceptively similar to, the name of any corporation, whether for profit or not for profit, existing under the laws of Alabama, or any foreign corporation, whether for profit or not for profit, authorized to transact business or conduct affairs in Alabama, or a corporate name reserved or registered as permitted by the laws of Alabama.
(3) Shall be transliterated into letters of the English alphabet, if it is not in English.
(Acts 1984, No. 84-290, p. 502, §68.)