Section 17916.

(a) Presentation for filing of an original fictitious business name statement and one copy of the statement, with proper identification, accompanied by a completed affidavit of identity statement, if required by the county clerk, and other documents required in accordance with Section 17913, payment 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 the copy to the registrant or the registrant's agent.

(b) This section shall become operative on January 1, 2014.

(Repealed (in Sec. 3) and added by Stats. 2012, Ch. 368, Sec. 4. Effective January 1, 2013. Section operative January 1, 2014, by its own provisions.)