Section 17916.

(a) Presentation for filing of a fictitious business name statement, signed by the registrant, and one copy, accompanied by a display of personal identification in accordance with Section 17913, tender of the filing fee, and acceptance of the statement by the county clerk constitute filing under this chapter. The county clerk shall note on the copy the file number, the date of filing the original, and the date of expiration and shall certify and deliver or send the copy to the registrant.

(b) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2014, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2014, deletes or extends that date.

(Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 368, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 2013. Repealed as of January 1, 2014, by its own provisions. See later operative version added by Sec. 4 of Ch. 368.)