Who can file a Sacramento County Fictitious Business Name Statement or FBN ?
Sacramento County Fictitious Business Name Statements are filed in the County's Business License Unit. California State law (Business and Professions Code section 17910) requires that every person, partnership, corporation, or other association, who regularly transacts business in California for profit under a Fictitious Business Name, file a statement with the County in which the principal place of business is located. Part of the filing requirement is that the statement be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the County in which the business is located.
Filing Requirement to Register a Sole Proprietorship in Sacramento County ?
- Check the business name availability to ensure the name you are going to submit is available. You can send a request using InfoTaxSquare.com free business name search online form.
- Owner must sign (corporate officer if corporation; manager or officer if limited liability company; general partner if partnership; trustee if trust).
- Street address of principal place of business and county must be listed (corporation/limited liability companies must include address as set out in its articles of incorporation on file with the Secretary of State and the state of incorporation/organization).
- All owners and their residence addresses must be listed.
- Filed copy of statement must be published once per week for four consecutive weeks in an adjudicated newspaper in Secramento County (see list of General Circulation Newspapers online or at the County Clerk 's office).
- All applications must be signed and notarized by the owners.
- Publication must begin within 30 days of filing.
- County Clerks are responsible for determining the acceptability, not the legal sufficiency of all documents presented for filing.
- Processing time-You can check the estimated time to file your dba license on InfoTaxSquare.com site.
- A fictitious business name statement for a DBA expires five years from the date it was filed with the county clerk's office. A renewal statement must be filed before expiration if you continue to use the DBA and none of the information in your original filing has changed. Renewal filings do not have to be published. Whenever the information in your originally filed fictitious business name statement changes, you must file a new statement. If you stop using your DBA before your fictitious business name statement expires, you are required to file a statement of abandonment for the DBA in the same manner you filed your original statement, including publication.
