(1) An application to amend a registration of an assumed business name shall be delivered to the Office of the Secretary of State for filing within 60 days after any of the following occurs:
(a) There is a change in the identity, names or addresses of the persons carrying on, conducting or transacting the business for which the assumed business name is registered;
(b) There is a change in the identity, name or address of the person authorized to represent the registrant or registrants;
(c) The registrant commences to carry on, to conduct or to transact business under the assumed business name in a county or counties different from those that the registrant stated in the application where the registrant intended to carry on, to conduct or to transact business under the assumed business name; or
(d) The address of the principal place of business is changed.
(2) Except as provided in this subsection, the application required by subsection (1) of this section shall be signed by the registrant, if the registrant is an individual, by the officer of a foreign or domestic corporation who is authorized to sign, if the registrant is a foreign or domestic corporation, by a general partner of a foreign or domestic limited partnership, if the registrant is a foreign or domestic limited partnership, by a manager of a foreign or domestic limited liability company, or by a member of a foreign or domestic member-managed limited liability company, if the registrant is a foreign or domestic limited liability company, or by a trustee of a foreign or domestic business trust, if the registrant is a foreign or domestic business trust. The application required by subsection (1) of this section may be signed by the authorized representative instead of the registrant or registrants in any of the following cases:
(a) The address of a person under subsection (1)(a) or (b) of this section is changed.
(b) Any county is added or deleted under subsection (1)(c) of this section.
(c) The address of the principal place of business under subsection (1)(d) of this section is changed.
(3) Whenever any person having an interest in a business with a registered assumed business name withdraws from the business or dies, the person who is withdrawing, or in case of the person’s death or incapacity, the legal representative of such person or the authorized representative, shall submit to the Office of the Secretary of State a statement of such withdrawal, incapacity or death.
(4) The amendment of the registration of an assumed business name supersedes the original registration of the assumed business name on all matters amended but does not renew the registration as required under ORS 648.017.
(5) The Secretary of State may designate by rule who shall be the authorized representative if the authorized representative withdraws and no new authorized representative is appointed within the time period prescribed in this section. [1963 c.551 §6; 1969 c.154 §3; 1981 c.633 §76; 1985 c.728 §99; 1987 c.94 §162; 1995 c.454 §6]
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