Attorney General Opinion No. 1986-060

Download or read book Attorney General Opinion No. 1986-060 written by Robert T. Stephan and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reservation of the name "Kansas, Inc." for a corporate name does not preclude the legislature from using this name in 1986 House Bill No. 2960. K.S.A. 17-7402 prevents other corporations from registering with the Secretary of State under names that have been reserved. The fact that Kansas, Inc. has been reserved as the official name of a future corporation is of no consequence because the entity created by H.B. 2960 is in fact an agency of the state and is not required to register as a corporation. In addition, corporate name reservation does not prevent another entity from using that name outside its official registration. Furthermore, the right to the name "Kansas," used alone without any descriptive words, belongs to the people of the state. A private corporation, therefore, cannot adopt the name "Kansas, Inc." as such use would be in derogation of existing public rights to that name. Cited herein: K.S.A. 1985 Supp. 17-6002; K.S.A. 17-7402.