Wisconsin Municipal Court Clerks Procedures Manual

NAME RESERVATION APPLICATION

State of Wisconsin

Department of Financial Institutions

Division of Corporate and Consumer Services

I. I hereby apply to reserve the name

(Refer to instructions for required words)

under the authority and for the term indicated below:

* The fee is for processing the application and reserving the name, if it is available. If the name is not available, you will receive notice of the reason why it is not available, which constitutes completion of the application process. Fee is non-refundable. See "Caution" under Instructions on page 2.

This name reservation may be used only for an organization formed under the same statutory authority under which the name is reserved.

Print applicant’s full name and address:

See reverse for instructions, suggestions, filing fees and procedures.

INSTRUCTIONS

Submit one original and one exact copy to Department of Financial Institutions, P O Box 7846, Madison WI, 53707-7846, together with the appropriate FILING FEE, payable to the department. Filing fee is non-refundable. (If sent by Express or Priority U.S. mail, address to 345 W. Washington Ave., 3rd Floor, Madison WI, 53703). Sign the document manually or otherwise as allowed under sec. 179.14(1g)(c), 180.0103(16), 181.0103(23) or 183.0107(1g)(c). NOTICE: This form may be used to accomplish a filing required or permitted by statute to be made with the department. Information requested may be used for secondary purposes. If you have any questions, please contact the Division of Corporate & Consumer Services at 608-261-7577. Hearing-impaired may call 608-266-8818 for TDY.

CAUTION: The filing fee for this application is non-refundable and due upon submission even if the name applied for is not available for reservation. If the name applied for is not available, you will be advised of the conflict and your application may result in a name not being reserved. To minimize encountering a conflict, researching names at www.wdfi.org before submitting your application. To search information on-line, select “Corporations,” next “Corporate Registration Information System” and then “CRIS Records Search.”

REQUIRED WORDS IN A NAME

Under Ch. 179 – Name must contain, without abbreviation, the words “limited partnership”.

Under Chs. 180 and 181 – Name must contain the word “corporation”, “incorporated”, “company”, “limited”, or the abbreviation “corp.”, “inc.”, “co.”, “ltd.”, or words or abbreviations of like import in another language. If a service corporation under sec. 180.1903, must end with the word “chartered” or “limited”, or the words “service corporation”, or the abbreviation “ltd.” or “S.C.”

Under Ch. 183 – Name must contain the words “limited liability company”, “limited liability co.” or end with “LLC” or “L.L.C.”

Under Ch. 185 – Must contain the word “cooperative” or an abbreviation of that word.

LONG TERM NAME RESERVATION

This form may be modified to make application for a long term name reservation (not more than 10 years). A domestic corporation may, upon change of name, merger or voluntary dissolution, or a foreign corporation upon change of name, apply to reserve its old name for a period of not more than ten years. The application must be submitted for filing simultaneous with the document affecting the name change, dissolution or merger. Modify this form by striking out the printed term and fee and substitute:

(for Ch. 180 and 185), add “under sec. 180.0403(2), Wis. Stats. Term – Ten Years Fee - $50.00

(for Ch. 181), add “under sec. 181.0403(2), Wis. Stats.” Term – Ten Years Fee - $25.00

On long term name reservations, the corporation itself must be listed as the applicant. The corporation holding a long term name reservation may subsequently assign that reservation to another party by filing a notice of transfer with the department. Fee for notice of transfer of name reservation is $10.00.

Your name, return address and phone number during the day: