Corporate Name Kansas

March 11th, 2009

When you register a corporate name for your Nonprofit organization, pay attention to rules on corporate names.

What must a corporate name include?

When starting a Nonprofit organization in Kansas, the corporate name must include on of the words of the incorporation such as:

association
company
Church
corporation
club
foundation
fund
incorporated
institute
society
union
syndicate
limited

Alternatively, the corporate name can include one of the abbreviations:

co.
corp.
inc.
ltd.

If the corporate name does not include any of the above, the corporate name much include words or abbreviations of like import in other languages. The corporate name must be distinguishable from other names without written consent.

Corporate Name Search

Before you register a corporate name, you may want to do a corporate name search to ensure that no other Nonprofit organization has that corporate name. Corporate name branding is very important so you should get it right from the start. You may want to look into the registration of domain name of your corporate name. This will help your corporate name branding.

Kansas Department of Revenue website will let you do a corporate name search and reserve your corporate name for 120 days for a small fee such as $35. Check with the Kansas Department of Revenue for the exact fee of corporate name search and reservation.

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