                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

RECORDATION OF CERTIFICATE AND REGISTRATION OF NAMES (§ 59.1-74)

A. The clerk of the court with whom a certificate of assumed or fictitious name
is filed shall keep a book in which all certificates of assumed or fictitious
name and certificates of release of an assumed or fictitious name are recorded,
with their date of record, and shall keep a register in which shall be entered
in alphabetical order the name under which every business is conducted and the
names of every person owning the business.

B. No license shall be issued by a commissioner of the revenue until a
certificate of assumed or fictitious name has been made and filed (i) in the
office of the clerk of the Commission or (ii) prior to January 1, 2020, in the
office of the clerk of the court, and evidence of the filing has been provided
to the commissioner of the revenue by the person conducting business under the
assumed or fictitious name.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 59-174; 1968, c. 439; 1975, c. 230; 1983, c. 103; 1992,
c. 784; 2002, c. 267; 2017, c. 594; 2019, c. 464.