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PUBLIC LAW 3 8 9 - J U N E 8, 1954 CORPORATE NAME

SEC. 8. The corporate name— (a) shall contain the word "corporation", "company", "incorporated", or "limited", or shall contain an abbreviation of one of such words; (b) 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; (c) shall not be the same as, or deceptively similar to, the name of any domestic corporation, or that of any corporation organized under any Act of Congress authorizing the formation of corporations under the laws of the District of Columbia, or that of any corporation created pursuant to any special Act of Congress to transact business in the District of Columbia, or that of any foreign corporation authorized to transact business in the District of Columbia, or a name the exclusive right to which is at the time reserved in the manner provided in this Act; (d) shall not indicate, nor shall any statement be made, that the corporation is organized under an Act of Congress. RESERVED NAME

SEC. 9. (a) The exclusive right to the use of a corporate name may be reserved by— (1) any person intending to organize a corporation under this Act or any other Act for the organization of a corporation under the laws of the District of Columbia; (2) any corporation organized under this Act proposing to change its name; (3) any corporation organized under any law other than this Act proposing to reincorporate under this Act; (4) any foreign corporation intending to make application for a certificate of authority to transact business in the District of Columbia; (5) any foreign corporation authorized to transact business in the District of Columbia and intending to change its name; (6) any person intending to organize a foreign corporation and intiending to have such corporation make application for a certificate of authority to transact business in the District of Columbia. (b) The reservation shall be made by filing with the Commissioners an application to reserve a specified corporate name, executed by the applicant. I f the Commissioners find that the name is available for corporate use, they shall reserve the same for the exclusive use of the applicant for a period of sixty days. (c) The right to the exclusive use of a specified corporate name so reserved may be transferred to any other person or corporation by filing with the Commissioners a notice of such transfer, executed by the applicant for whom the name was reserved, and specifying the name and address of the transferee. R E G I S T E R E D OFFICE AND REGISTERED AGENT

SEC. 10. Each corporation shall have and continuously maintain in the District of Columbia— (a) a registered office which may be, but need not be, the same as its place of business; (b) a registered agent, which a^ent may be either an individual resident in the District of Columbia whose business office is identi-

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