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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>63628</law_id><section_number>59.1-69</section_number><catch_line>Certificate required of person transacting business under assumed name</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>13.1-1012</reference><reference>13.1-1214</reference><reference>13.1-630</reference><reference>13.1-829</reference><reference>38.2-1357</reference><reference>38.2-1364</reference><reference>38.2-1822</reference><reference>38.2-1842</reference><reference>38.2-1845.17</reference><reference>38.2-1857.5</reference><reference>38.2-1865.5</reference><reference>50-73.2</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="59.1">Trade and Commerce</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="5">Transacting Business Under Assumed Name</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:
			&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Commission</span>&#x201D; means the State Corporation <span class="dictionary">Commission</span>.
			&#x201C;Person&#x201D; has the meaning prescribed in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Person" href="/1-230/">1-230</a>. <a id="paragraph-231801" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-69/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> No person shall conduct or transact business in the Commonwealth under any assumed or fictitious name unless such person files in the office of the clerk of the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> a certificate of assumed or fictitious name. <a id="paragraph-231802" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-69/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> No person shall use an assumed or fictitious name in the conduct of the person&#x2019;s business to intentionally misrepresent the geographic origin or location of the person. <a id="paragraph-231803" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-69/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 59-169; 1968, c. 439; 1987, c. 702; 1995, c. 168; 1996, c. 904; 2017, c. 594.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
