(a) The exclusive right to the use of a name may be reserved by

Terms Used In Alaska Statutes 32.11.820

  • department: means the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development. See Alaska Statutes 32.11.900
  • foreign limited partnership: means a partnership formed under the laws of a state other than this state and having as partners one or more general partners and one or more limited partners. See Alaska Statutes 32.11.900
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, organization, business trust, or society, as well as a natural person. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
  • state: means a state, territory, or possession of the United States, District of Columbia, or Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See Alaska Statutes 32.11.900
(1) a person intending to organize a limited partnership under this chapter and to adopt that name;
(2) a domestic limited partnership or a foreign limited partnership registered in this state that, in either case, intends to adopt that name;
(3) a foreign limited partnership intending to register in this state and adopt that name; or
(4) a person intending to organize a foreign limited partnership and intending to have it register in this state and adopt that name.
(b) The reservation shall be made by filing with the department an application, executed by the applicant, to reserve a specified name. If the department finds that the name is available for use by a domestic or foreign limited partnership under Alaska Stat. § 32.11.810, the department shall reserve the name for the exclusive use of the applicant for a period of 120 days. Once having reserved a name, the same applicant may not again reserve the same name until more than 60 days after the expiration of the last 120-day period for which that applicant reserved that name. The right to the exclusive use of a reserved name may be transferred to another person by filing with the department a notice of the transfer executed by the applicant for whom the name was reserved and specifying the name and address of the transferee.