Fill and Sign the Shout Out Willard Helander Former County Clerk and Dar Officer

Willard Rooks Helander Lake County Clerk 18 N. County Street Waukegan, IL 60085 847/377-2400 ASSUMED BUSINESS NAME APPLICATIONFILING INSTRUCTIONS NECESSITY OF CERTIFICATE The following is an excerpt from Chapter 805 of the Illinois Compiled Statutes 405/1: No person or persons shall conduct or transact business in this State under an assumed name, or under any designation, name or style, corporate or otherwise, other than the real name ornames of the individual or individuals conducting or transacting such business, unless suchperson or persons shall file in the office of the County Clerk of the County in which such personor persons conduct or transact or intend to conduct or transact such business, a certificatesetting forth the name under which the business is, or is to be, conducted or transacted, and thetrue or real full name or names of the person or persons owning, conducting or transacting thesame, with the post office address or addresses of such person or persons and every addresswhere such business is, or is to be, conducted or transacted in the county. The certificate shallbe executed and duly acknowledged by the person or persons so conducting or intending toconduct the business. NOTE: CORPORATIONS AND LIMITED PARTNERSHIPS FILE WITH THE SECRETARY OF STATE. YOU SHOULD SEEK LEGAL ADVICE TO DETERMINE WHAT FILINGS ARE NECESSARY IN SUCH CASES. FILING PROCEDURES 1. Complete in duplicate the Assumed Business Name Application. Please type or print in black ink. 2. All owners must sign the form in the presence of a Notary Public and have both copies notarized. 3. Return the forms to our office with the $5.00 filing fee. We will give you a date-stamped copy as your receipt for filing. 4. Take receipt to a Lake County newspaper for publication once a week for three consecutive weeks. The firstpublication must appear in the newspaper within fifteen days after the date you filed the form in our office. The newspaper will typeset the legal notice from your date-stamped copy. 5. File the original "certificate of publication" (issued by the newspaper after the third week) with our office withinfifty (50) days of the date you filed the Assumed Business Name Application in our office (steps 1, 2 & 3 above). We will issue a receipt for the publisher's certificate. UNLESS PROOF OF PUBLICATION IS FILED WITH THE COUNTY CLERK, THEAPPLICATION OF THE ASSUMED BUSINESS NAME IS VOID. SUPPLEMENTARY ASSUMED BUSINESS NAMEFILING INSTRUCTIONS NECESSITY OF CERTIFICATE The appropriate Supplementary Assumed Business Name form must be filed under the following circumstances: 1. An owner changes his name or his residential address. 2. The address of any place of business is changed. 3. A person's name is added to the business organization. 4. An additional business address is established. 5. A person withdraws his name from the business organization. FILING PROCEDURES FOR SUPPLEMEMTARY FILINGS 1. Complete in duplicate the appropriate Supplementary Assumed Business Name form. Please type or print in black ink. 2. Sign the form in the presence of a Notary Public and have both copies notorized. 3. Return the forms to our office with the $5.00 filing fee except when filing a withdrawal certificate in whichcase the fee is $1.50. A date-stamped copy of your filing is issued as your receipt. 4. Take receipt to a Lake County newspaper for publication once a week for three consecutive weeks. The firstpublication must appear in the newspaper within fifteen days after the date you filed the form in our office. The newspaper will typeset the legal notice from your date-stamped copy. (Publication is not necessary fora Supplementary Certificate for Withdrawal if less than 25% of the ownership is withdrawing). 5. File the original “certificate of publication” (issued by the newspaper after the third week) with office withinfifty (50) days of the date you filed the supplementary form in our office. UNLESS PROOF OF PUBLICATION IS FILED WITH THE COUNTY CLERK, THESUPPLEMENTARY FORM OF THE ASSUMED BUSINESS NAME IS VOID.