I have an LLC right now and want to expand my business
Full Question:
I have an LLC/sole proprietor right now making custom apparel that is my own brand. I market using the LLC name and do everything under this name. However, I want to start doing corporate t-shirts and promotion products but I don't want to use my LLC name to market to Corporate clients because corporate clients are more formal and I don't think it would look appropriate or professional. So if I want ot use another name for my corporate clients. Do I simply file another DBA? And is this DBA run under my LLC? Or would this have to be
treated as a separate entity?
04/28/2009 |
Category: LLC |
State: ALL |
#16279
Answer:
LLCs register an assumed name as part of their required business filings with the Connecticut Secretary of State. You will need to contact the Secretary of State to see if it is possible to register another assumed name.
The folowing is a CT statute:
Sec. 35-1. Use of fictitious business names. Prohibitions and exceptions. Penalty. Unfair trade practices.
(a) No person, except as provided in this subsection, shall conduct or transact business in this state, under any assumed name, or under any designation, name or style, corporate or otherwise, other than the real name or names of the person or persons conducting or transacting such business, unless there has been filed, in the office of the town clerk in the town in which such business is or is to be conducted or transacted, a certificate stating the name under which such business is or is to be conducted or transacted and the full name and post-office address of each person conducting or transacting such business or, in the case of a corporation or limited liability company using such an assumed name, its full name and principal post-office address. Such certificate shall be executed by all of such persons or, in the case of a corporation or limited liability company, by an authorized officer thereof, and acknowledged before an authority qualified to administer oaths. Each town clerk shall keep an alphabetical index of the names of all persons filing such certificates and of all names or styles assumed as provided in this subsection and, for the indexing and filing of each such certificate, shall receive the statutory filing fee for documents established in section 7-34a, to be paid by the person filing such certificate. A copy of any such certificate, certified by the town clerk in whose office the same has been filed, shall be presumptive evidence, in all courts in this state, of the facts contained in such certificate. The provisions of this subsection shall not prevent the lawful use of a partnership name or designation if such partnership name or designation includes the true surname of at least one of the persons composing such partnership. This subsection shall not apply to:
(1) Any limited partnership, as defined in section 34-9, provided such limited partnership (A) has
(i) filed a certificate as provided for in section 34-10, or
(ii) registered with the Secretary of the State as provided in section 34-38g and
(b) conducts or transacts business under the name stated in the certificate or registered with the Secretary of the State, or (2) any limited liability company, as defined in section 34-101, provided such limited liability company (A) has
(i) filed articles of organization as provided for in section 34-120, or
(ii) registered with the Secretary of the State as provided in section 34-223 and (B) conducts or transacts business under the name stated in the articles of organization or registered with the Secretary of the State. Any person conducting or transacting business in violation of the provisions of this subsection shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than one year. Failure to comply with the provisions of this subsection shall be deemed to be an unfair or deceptive trade practice under subsection (a) of section 42-110b.