Texas Business Organizations Code Title 1, Chapter 5 - Names Of Entities; Registered Agents And Registered Offices

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

SUBCHAPTER B GENERAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO NAMES OF ENTITIES

• Texas Section 5.001 - Effect On Rights Under Other Law
  (a) The filing of a certificate of formation by a filing entity under this code, an application for registration by a foreign filing entity under...
• Texas Section 5.051 - Assumed Name
  A domestic entity or a foreign entity having authority to transact business in this state may transact business under an assumed name by filing an...
• Texas Section 5.052 - Unauthorized Purpose In Name Prohibited
  A filing entity or a foreign filing entity may not have a name that contains any word or phrase that indicates or implies that the...
• Texas Section 5.053 - Identical And Deceptively Similar Names Prohibited
  (a) A filing entity may not have a name, and a foreign filing entity may not register to transact business in this state under a...
• Texas Section 5.054 - Name Of Corporation, Foreign Corporation, Professional Corporation, Or Foreign Professional Corporation
  (a) The name of a corporation or foreign corporation must contain: (1) the word "company," "corporation," "incorporated," or "limited"; or (2) an abbreviation of one...
• Texas Section 5.055 - Name Of Limited Partnership Or Foreign Limited Partnership
  (a) The name of a limited partnership or foreign limited partnership must contain: (1) the word "limited"; (2) the phrase "limited partnership"; or (3) an...
• Texas Section 5.056 - Name Of Limited Liability Company Or Foreign Limited Liability Company
  (a) The name of a limited liability company or a foreign limited liability company doing business in this state must contain: (1) the phrase "limited...
• Texas Section 5.057 - Name Of Cooperative Association Or Foreign Cooperative Association
  (a) The name of a cooperative association or foreign cooperative association must contain: (1) the word "cooperative"; or (2) an abbreviation of that word. (b)...
• Texas Section 5.058 - Name Of Professional Association Or Foreign Professional Association
  The name of a professional association or foreign professional association must contain: (1) the word "associated," "associates," or "association"; (2) the phrase "professional association"; or...
• Texas Section 5.059 - Name Of Professional Limited Liability Company Or Foreign Professional Limited Liability Company
  (a) The name of a professional limited liability company or foreign professional limited liability company must contain: (1) the phrase "professional limited liability company"; or...
• Texas Section 5.060 - Name Of Professional Entity Or Foreign Professional Entity; Conflicts With Other Law Or Ethical Rule
  The name of a professional entity or foreign professional entity must not be contrary to a statute or regulation of this state that governs a...
• Texas Section 5.061 - Name Containing "Lotto" Or "Lottery" Prohibited
  A filing entity or a foreign filing entity may not have a name that contains the word "lotto" or "lottery." Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch....
• Texas Section 5.062 - Veterans Organizations; Unauthorized Use Of Name
  (a) Subject to Subsection (b), a filing entity may not have a name that: (1) reasonably implies that the entity is created by or for...

SUBCHAPTER C RESERVATION OF NAMES

• Texas Section 5.063 - Name Of Limited Liability Partnership
  (a) The name of a domestic or foreign limited liability partnership must contain: (1) the phrase "limited liability partnership"; or (2) an abbreviation of the...
• Texas Section 5.101 - Application For Reservation Of Name
  (a) Any person may file an application with the secretary of state to reserve the exclusive use of a name under this chapter. (b) The...
• Texas Section 5.102 - Reservation Of Certain Names Prohibited; Exceptions
  (a) The secretary of state may not reserve a name that is the same as, or that the secretary of state considers deceptively similar or...
• Texas Section 5.103 - Action On Application
  If the secretary of state determines that the name specified in the application is eligible for reservation, the secretary shall reserve that name for the...
• Texas Section 5.104 - Duration Of Reservation Of Name
  The secretary of state shall reserve the name for the applicant until the earlier of: (1) the 121st day after the date the application is...
• Texas Section 5.1041 - Prohibition On Fee For Withdrawal Of Reservation Of Name
  The secretary of state may not impose a fee for the filing of a written notice of withdrawal of a reservation of name. Added by...
• Texas Section 5.105 - Renewal Of Reservation
  A person may renew the person's reservation of a name under this subchapter for successive 120-day periods if, during the 30-day period preceding the expiration...

SUBCHAPTER D REGISTRATION OF NAMES

• Texas Section 5.106 - Transfer Of Reservation Of Name
  (a) A person may transfer the person's reservation of a name by filing with the secretary of state a notice of transfer. (b) The notice...
• Texas Section 5.151 - Application By Certain Entities For Registration Of Name
  An organization that is authorized to do business in this state as a bank, trust company, savings association, or insurance company, or that is a...
• Texas Section 5.152 - Application For Registration Of Name
  (a) To register a name under this subchapter, an organization must file an application with the secretary of state. (b) The application must: (1) state...
• Texas Section 5.153 - Certain Registrations Prohibited; Exceptions
  (a) The secretary of state may not register a name that is the same as, or that the secretary of state determines to be deceptively...
• Texas Section 5.154 - Duration Of Registration Of Name
  The registration of a name under this subchapter is effective until the earlier of: (1) the first anniversary of the date the application is accepted...

SUBCHAPTER E REGISTERED AGENTS AND REGISTERED OFFICES

• Texas Section 5.155 - Renewal Of Registration
  A person may renew the person's registration of a name under this subchapter for successive one-year periods if, during the 90-day period preceding the expiration...
• Texas Section 5.200 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: (1) "Registered agent filing" means: (A) the certificate of formation or similar organizational document of a domestic represented entity; (B) the application...
• Texas Section 5.201 - Designation And Maintenance Of Registered Agent And Registered Office
  (a) Each filing entity and each foreign filing entity shall designate and continuously maintain in this state: (1) a registered agent; and (2) a registered...
• Texas Section 5.2011 - Consent To Serve As Registered Agent
  (a) The designation or appointment of a person as registered agent by an organizer or managerial official of an entity in a registered agent filing...
• Texas Section 5.202 - Change By Entity To Registered Office Or Registered Agent
  (a) A filing entity or foreign filing entity may change its registered office, its registered agent, or both by filing a statement of the change...
• Texas Section 5.203 - Change By Registered Agent To Name Or Address Of Registered Office
  (a) The registered agent of a filing entity or a foreign filing entity may change its name, its address as the address of the entity's...
• Texas Section 5.204 - Resignation Of Registered Agent
  (a) A registered agent of a filing entity or a foreign filing entity may resign as the registered agent by giving notice to that entity...
• Texas Section 5.205 - Rejection Of Appointment
  (a) A person designated or appointed as an entity's registered agent in a registered agent filing without the person's consent may terminate the person's appointment...
• Texas Section 5.206 - Duties Of Registered Agent
  (a) The only duties of a registered agent are to: (1) receive or accept, and forward to the represented entity at the address most recently...
• Texas Section 5.207 - Designation Of Registered Agent Without Consent; Penalties And Liabilities
  Sections 4.007 and 4.008 apply with respect to a false statement in a registered agent filing that names a person the registered agent of a...

SUBCHAPTER F SERVICE OF PROCESS

• Texas Section 5.208 - Immunity From Liability
  (a) A person designated or appointed as the registered agent of a represented entity is not liable solely because of the person's designation or appointment...
• Texas Section 5.251 - Failure To Designate Registered Agent
  The secretary of state is an agent of an entity for purposes of service of process, notice, or demand on the entity if: (1) the...
• Texas Section 5.252 - Service On Secretary Of State
  (a) Service on the secretary of state under Section 5.251 is effected by: (1) delivering to the secretary duplicate copies of the process, notice, or...
• Texas Section 5.253 - Action By Secretary Of State
  (a) After service in compliance with Section 5.252, the secretary of state shall immediately send one of the copies of the process, notice, or demand...
• Texas Section 5.254 - Required Records Of Secretary Of State
  The secretary of state shall keep a record of each process, notice, or demand served on the secretary under this subchapter and shall record: (1)...
• Texas Section 5.255 - Agent For Service Of Process, Notice, Or Demand As Matter Of Law
  For the purpose of service of process, notice, or demand: (1) the president and each vice president of a domestic or foreign corporation is an...
• Texas Section 5.256 - Other Means Of Service Not Precluded
  This chapter does not preclude other means of service of process, notice, or demand on a domestic or foreign entity as provided by other law....
• Texas Section 5.257 - Service Of Process By Political Subdivision
  (a) A process, notice, or demand required or permitted by law to be served by a political subdivision of this state or by a person,...

Last modified: September 28, 2016