California Code of Regulations
Title 2 - Administration
Division 7 - Secretary of State
Chapter 8.5 - Business Entity Names
- Section 21000 - Rules of General Application
- Section 21001 - Definitions
- Section 21001.1 - Corporate Names
- Section 21001.2 - Limited Liability Company Names
- Section 21001.3 - Limited Partnership Names
- Section 21002 - Punctuation and Symbols
- Section 21003 - Names that Are Likely to Mislead the Public
- Section 21004 - Distinguishable in the Records of the Secretary of State
- Section 21004.5 - Additional Guidelines Regarding Deceptively Similar and Substantially the Same as. [Repealed]
- Section 21005 - Name Reservations, Verbal Opinions and Court Judgments
- Section 21005.5 - Distinguishable in the Records of the Secretary of State. [Renumbered]
- Section 21006 - Matters Not Considered when Comparing Business Entity Names
- Section 21007 - Additional Guidelines. [Renumbered]
- Section 21008 - Matters Not Considered when Comparing Business Entity Names. [Renumbered]
- Section 21009 - Limited Partnerships Governed by the Uniform Limited Partnership Act of 2008. [Renumbered]
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