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Code · Iowa · Chapter 490 — Business Corporations

490.1506 Noncomplying name of foreign corporation.

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1. A foreign corporation whose name does not comply with section 490.401 shall not register to do business in this state until it adopts, for the purpose of doing business in this state, an alternate name that complies with section 490.401 by filing a foreign registration statement under section 490.1503, or if applicable, a transfer of registration statement under section 490.1510, setting forth that alternate name. After registering to do business in this state with an alternate name, a foreign corporation shall do business in this state under any of the following:
a. The alternate name.
b. The foreign corporation’s name, with the addition of its jurisdiction of formation.
2. If a registered foreign corporation changes its name after registration to a name that does not comply with section 490.401, it shall not do business in this state until it complies with subsection 1 by amending its registration statement to adopt an alternate name that complies with section 490.401.
89 Acts, ch 288, §166; 96 Acts, ch 1170, §15; 2006 Acts, ch 1089, §13; 2021 Acts, ch 165, §192, 230
Referred to in §490.1503, 490.1510, 490.1621
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