Illinois Compiled Statutes 805 ILCS 5 Business Corporation Act of 1983. Section 4.20

    (805 ILCS 5/4.20) (from Ch. 32, par. 4.20)

    Sec. 4.20. Change and cancellation of assumed corporate name.

    (a) Any domestic or foreign corporation may, pursuant to resolution by its board of directors, change or cancel any or all of its assumed corporate names by executing and filing, in accordance with Section 1.10 of this Act, an application setting forth:

        (1) The true corporate name.

        (2) The state or country under the laws of which it

    is organized.

        (3) That it intends to cease transacting business

    under an assumed corporate name by changing or cancelling it.

        (4) The assumed corporate name to be changed from or

    cancelled.

        (5) If the assumed corporate name is to be changed,

    the assumed corporate name that the corporation proposes to use.

    (b) Upon the filing of an application to change an assumed corporate name, the corporation shall have the right to use the assumed corporate name for the balance of the period authorized by subsection (d) of Section 4.15.

    (c) The right to use an assumed corporate name shall be cancelled by the Secretary of State:

        (1) If the corporation fails to renew an assumed

    corporate name.

        (2) If the corporation has filed an application to

    change or cancel an assumed corporate name.

        (3) If a domestic corporation has been dissolved.

        (4) If a foreign corporation has had its authority to

    do business in this State revoked.

(Source: P.A. 96-66, eff. 1-1-10.)

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