P.R. Laws tit. 14, § 4023

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§ 4023. Name; registered office; registered agent

(a) Foreign limited liability company or FLLC may be registered to do business by the Secretary of State under any name (whether or not it is the name under which it is registered in the jurisdiction of its formation) which includes the words Limited Liability Company, or Compañía de Responsabilidad Limitada, Low-Profit Limited Liability Company, or Compañía de Responsabilidad Limitada con Fin Social, as the case may be, or the abbreviation L.L.C., or C.R.L., L.P.L.L.C. or C.R.L.F.S., as the case may be, or the designation LLC, CRL, LPLLC, or CRLFS or L3C, as the case may be, and that could be registered by a DLLC or LLC. Provided, however, that an FLLC may register to do business under any name which is not such as to distinguish it upon the records of the Department of State from the name on such records of any corporation, partnership, statutory trust, limited liability company or limited partnership, whether domestic or foreign, reserved, registered, formed or organized under the laws of Puerto Rico with the written consent of the other corporation, partnership, statutory trust, limited liability company or limited partnership, which written consent shall be filed with the Secretary of State.

(b) Any corporation authorized to do business in the Commonwealth shall maintain continuously a registered office and a registered agent in the Commonwealth, in compliance with the provisions of § 3810 of this title regarding foreign corporations.

History —Dec. 16, 2009, No. 164, § 20.03; Dec. 22, 2015, No. 233, § 7, eff. 90 days after Dec. 22, 2015.