California Codes, Business and Professions Code - BPC, Division 7 — General Business Regulations, Part 3 — Representations to the Public, Chapter 5 — Fictitious Business Names, Section 17920
(a) Unless the statement expires earlier under subdivision (b) or (c), a fictitious business name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk.
(b) Except as provided in Section 17923, a fictitious business name statement expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to Section 17913.
(c) A fictitious business name statement expires when the registrant files a statement of abandonment of the fictitious business name described in the statement.
Notes
Sets a fictitious business name statement to expire five years after county-clerk filing unless it expires earlier. Subject to the stated exception, it expires 40 days after a change in required facts, and it also expires when the registrant files a statement abandoning the fictitious business name.
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