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Sole proprietor · Abandonment · Virginia

Virginia

Authority: Office of the Clerk, Virginia State Corporation CommissionSource: scc.virginia.gov official record · retrieved 2026-09-02

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Office of the Clerk, Virginia State Corporation Commission

abandonment: When a person is no longer conducting business in the Commonwealth under an assumed or fictitious name on file with the clerk of the Commission, the name may be released by filing a certificate of release of an assumed or fictitious name in the office of the clerk of the Commission... The fee to file a certificate of release of an assumed or fictitious name with the clerk of the Commission or with the clerk of the court shall be $10.Source: scc.virginia.gov official record · retrieved 2026-09-02

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When a person is no longer conducting business in the Commonwealth under an assumed or fictitious name on file with the clerk of the Commission, the name may be released by filing a certificate of release of an assumed or fictitious name in the office of the clerk of the Commission... The fee to file a certificate of release of an assumed or fictitious name with the clerk of the Commission or with the clerk of the court shall be $10.

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