Section 3 AAC 16.120 - Determining distinguishable names(a) For purposes of the reservation, registration, or use of a name under AS 10 or AS 32, a name is (1) distinguishable on the records of the department from the name of any other organized entity and from a reserved or registered name if (A) each name contains one or more different letters or numerals or has a different sequence of letters or numerals; (B) one of the key words is different; (C) the key words are the same, but they are in a different order; (D) the key words are the same, but the spelling is creative, unusual, or artistic; (E) the key words have a marked difference in meaning in their contexts and the words are not literally identical;(F) the difference in key words is between how a number is expressed, as a numeral, Roman numeral, or word representing a numeral; or (G) an "s" is added or deleted to make the word plural, singular, or possessive; and (2) not distinguishable on the records of the department from the name of any other organized entity or from a reserved or registered name if the names differ only in one or more of the following ways: (A) use of the words or abbreviations of the words "incorporated," "corporation," "company," "limited," "limited liability company," or "limited liability partnership," or use of the words "limited partnership," without abbreviation; (B) differences in punctuation or special characters; (C) differences in capitalization; (D) differences in whether the letters or numbers immediately follow each other or are separated by a space if the sequence of letters or numbers is identical; (E) the presence or absence of an article, preposition, or conjunction, or a symbol for that word, including "a," "an," "by," "for," "in," "plus," "the," "to," and "with." (b) In this section, "key word" means a word other than an article, preposition, conjunction, or entity identifier. Entity identifiers include "incorporated," "inc.," corporation," "corp.," "company," "co.," "limited partnership," "limited," "ltd.," "limited liability company," "llc.," "limited liability partnership," and "llp."Eff. 4/22/2000, Register 154; readopt 7/1/2014, Register 211, October 2014Effective 7/1/2014, Register 211, the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development readopted 3 AAC 16.120, without change, to affirm the validity of that section following statutory amendments made in ch. 115, SLA 2000. Section 6 and 8, ch. 115, SLA 2000 repealed former AS 32.05 and enacted AS 32.06.
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AS 10.06.115
AS 10.06.125
AS 10.06.130
AS 10.06.633
AS 10.06.720
AS 10.13.120
AS 10.15.578
AS 10.20.021
AS 10.20.470
AS 10.20.471
AS 10.25.040
AS 10.35.020
AS 10.35.040
AS 10.40.015
AS 10.45.120
AS 10.50.025
AS 10.50.035
AS 10.50.040
AS 10.50.408
AS 32.06.911
AS 32.06.922
AS 32.11.120
AS 32.11.810
AS 32.11.820