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separately incorporated and not used in conjunction with the true
real corporate name and any name other than the true real name of a
corporation, except a fictitious name.

 
Sec. B-51. 13-C MRSA §404, sub-§4, ¶¶A, C and D, as enacted by PL 2001,
c. 640, Pt. A, §2 and affected by Pt. B, §7, are amended to read:

 
A. The corporate name and the address of its registered
office;

 
C. The assumed or fictitious name that it proposes to use;
and

 
D. If the assumed or fictitious name is not to be used at
all of the corporation's places of business in this State,
the locations where it will be used.; and

 
Sec. B-52. 13-C MRSA §404, sub-§4, ¶E is enacted to read:

 
E.__If the corporation is a foreign corporation:

 
(1)__The jurisdiction of incorporation; and

 
(2)__The date on which it was authorized to transact
business in this State.

 
Sec. B-53. 13-C MRSA §404, sub-§8, ¶A, as enacted by PL 2001, c. 640,
Pt. A, §2 and affected by Pt. B, §7, is amended to read:

 
A. The name of the corporation and the address of its
registered office;

 
Sec. B-54. 13-C MRSA §501, sub-§§1 and 2, as enacted by PL 2001, c. 640,
Pt. A, §2 and affected by Pt. B, §7, are amended to read:

 
1. Clerk. Each domestic corporation to which this Act
applies shall maintain in this State a clerk, who is a natural
person resident in this State. The clerk may be, but is not
required to be, one of the directors or officers of the
corporation, or the clerk may be a person holding no other
position with the corporation. The clerk must be appointed by
the corporation's board of directors unless the articles of
incorporation reserve appointment of the clerk to the
shareholders. The clerk of a corporation is not an officer but
performs the functions provided in this Act. The duties of the
clerk are ministerial only, and the clerk is not liable in that
capacity for any liabilities of the corporation, including, but


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