N.J. Admin. Code § 17:35-3.1

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 23, December 2, 2024

Section 17:35-3.1 - Distinguishable defined

(a) For name availability purposes, a business entity name, meaning a corporate, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, or limited partnership name, can be distinguished from other business entity names recorded with the Filing Office if it is sufficiently different from those other business entity names. All changes except for the following should be sufficient to distinguish one business entity name from another upon the records of the Filing Office:

1. The insertion or deletion of capitalization or a mark of punctuation, such as a comma, period, hyphen, etc.;

2. The changing of a word in a business entity name into its plural or singular form;

3. The addition of a different business entity designator;

4. The addition of an article ("a", "an", or "the");

5. The addition of spaces in a business entity name; and/or

6. The misspelling in the word of a business entity name.

N.J. Admin. Code § 17:35-3.1

Amended by 48 N.J.R. 1700(a), effective 8/15/2016