Section 17053.

Any applicant may, upon payment of the fee prescribed in subdivision (a) of Section 17701, obtain from the Secretary of State a certificate of reservation of any name not prohibited by Section 17052, and upon the issuance of the certificate the name stated therein may be reserved for a period of 60 days. The Secretary of State shall not issue certificates reserving the same name for two or more consecutive 60-day periods to the same applicant or for the use or benefit of the same person; nor shall consecutive reservations be made by or for the use or benefit of the same person for names so similar as to fall within the prohibitions of subdivision (c) of Section 17052.

(Added by Stats. 1994, Ch. 1200, Sec. 27. Effective September 30, 1994. Repealed as of January 1, 2014, pursuant to Section 17657. Thereafter, see Title 2.6, commencing with Section 17701.01.)