AI-assisted research summary: A foreign corporation may register a distinguishable corporate name, file an application with the secretary of state, renew the registration yearly, and gets exclusive use of the name while the registration is effective.
A foreign corporation may register its corporate name, or an assumed corporate name under which it conducts affairs, if the name is distinguishable upon the records of the secretary of state from the corporate names that are not available under § 48-54-101(b). A foreign corporation registers its corporate name, or its assumed corporate name, or its corporate name with any changes required by § 48-65-106, by delivering to the secretary of state for filing an application: Setting forth its corporate name, or its corporate name with any changes required by § 48-65-106, the state or country and date of its incorporation, and a brief description of the activities in which it is engaged; and Accompanied by a certificate of existence (or a document of similar import) from the state or country of incorporation. The certificate shall not bear a date of more than one (1) month prior to the date the application is filed in this state. The name is registered for the applicant's exclusive use upon the effective date of the application and until the end of the calendar year in which such registration occurs. A foreign corporation whose registration is effective may renew it for successive years by delivering to the secretary of state for filing a renewal application, which complies with the requirements of subsection (b), between October 1 and December 31 of the preceding year. The renewal application renews the registration for the following calendar year. A foreign corporation whose registration is effective may thereafter qualify as a foreign corporation under that name or consent in writing to the use of that name by a corporation thereafter incorporated under chapters 51-68 of this title or by another foreign corporation thereafter authorized to transact business in this state. The registration terminates when the domestic corporation is incorporated or the foreign corporation qualifies or consents to the qualification of another foreign corporation under the registered name.