Chap. 360.—An ACT to require persons or corporations doing business under
an assumed or fictitious name, and persons doing business as copartners to
sign, acknowledge, and file a certificate; to designate what the certificate
shall contain; to provide for recordation of such certificate, to fix fees of
the clerk, and to provide a penalty for violation of this act. {S B 120}

Approved March 23, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That no
person nor corporation. shall conduct or transact business in this
State under any assumed or fictitious name unless such person or
persons or corporation shall sign and acknowledge a certificate set-
ting forth the name under which such business is to be conducted or
transacted, and the names of each and every person or corporation
owning the same, with their respective post office and residence
addresses, and where the corporation is a foreign corporation the
date of the certificate of authority to do business in Virginia issued
to it by the State corporation commission, and file the same in the
office of the clerk of the court in which deeds are recorded in the
county or corporation wherein the business is to be conducted.

Where business is conducted in this State under an assumed or
fictitious name by a corporation, such corporation shall file in the
office of the clerk of the State corporation commission a copy of
such certificate, duly attested by the clerk of the court in which the
original is on file. Each such person or corporation now doing
business in Virginia under an assumed or fictitious name shall imme-
diately comply with the foregong provisions.

2. No two or more persons shall carry on business as copartners
unless they sign and acknowledge a certificate setting forth the full
names of each and every person composing the copartnership, with
their respective post office and residence addresses, the name and
style of the firm, the length of time for which it is to continue, and
the locality of their place of business, and file the same in the office
of the clerk of the court in which deeds are recorded in the county
or corporation wherein the business is to be conducted; and every
change in said copartnership must be evidenced by a new certificate.
The clerk with whom the certificate provided for in this, and the
preceding, section of this act is filed, shall keep a book in which all
such certificates shall be recorded, with their date of record, and shall
keep a register in which shall be entered in alphabetical order the
name under which every such business is conducted, and the names
of every person owning the same. The clerk shall be entitled to a
fee of fifty cents for filing and recording such certificates and entering
such names.

3. Any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof.
shall be fined not exceeding one thousand dollars, or imprisonment
not more than one year, or both.