South Dakota Codified Laws 47-34A-106. Reserved name
The exclusive right to the use of a name may be reserved by:
(1) Any person intending to organize a limited liability company under this chapter and to adopt that name;
Terms Used In South Dakota Codified Laws 47-34A-106
- Foreign limited liability company: means an unincorporated entity formed under the law of a jurisdiction other than this state and denominated by that law as a limited liability company. See South Dakota Codified Laws 47-34A-101
- Person: includes natural persons, partnerships, associations, cooperative corporations, limited liability companies, and corporations. See South Dakota Codified Laws 2-14-2
(2) Any domestic limited liability company or any foreign limited liability company registered in this state which, in either case, intends to adopt that name;
(3) Any foreign limited liability company intending to register in this state and adopt that name; and
(4) Any person intending to organize a foreign limited liability company and intending to have it registered in this state and adopt that name.
The reservation shall be made by filing with the secretary of state an application, executed by the applicant, to reserve a specified name. If the secretary of state finds that the name is available for use by a domestic or foreign limited liability company, the secretary of state shall reserve the name for the exclusive use of the applicant for a period of one hundred twenty days. Once having so reserved a name, the same applicant may not again reserve the same name until more than sixty days after the expiration of the last one hundred twenty–day period for which that applicant reserved that name. The right to the exclusive use of a reserved name may be transferred to any other person by filing in the Office of the Secretary of State a notice of the transfer, executed by the applicant for whom the name was reserved and specifying the name and address of the transferee.
Source: SL 1998, ch 272, § 106.