2005 Minnesota Statutes

     308A.121 Cooperative name. 

    Subdivision 1.    Name.  The name of a cooperative must 
 distinguish the cooperative upon the records in the Office of 
 the Secretary of State from the name of a domestic corporation, 
 whether profit or nonprofit, or a limited partnership, or a 
 foreign corporation or a limited partnership authorized or 
 registered to do business in this state, whether profit or 
 nonprofit, a limited liability company, whether domestic or 
 foreign, a limited liability partnership, whether domestic or 
 foreign, or a name the right to which is, at the time of 
 incorporation, reserved or provided for in sections 302A.117, 
 317A.117, 321.0109, 322B.125, or 333.001 to 333.54. 

    Subd. 2.    Name reserved.  The cooperative name shall 
 be reserved for the cooperative during its corporate existence.  

    Subd. 3.    Contest of registration of name.  A person 
 doing business in this state may contest the subsequent 
 registration of a name with the Office of the Secretary of State 
 as provided in section 5.22. 

    HIST: 1989 c 144 art 1 s 8; 1989 c 292 s 8,9; 1992 c 517 art 1 
 s 18; 1995 c 128 art 2 s 2; 2004 c 199 art 13 s 111