Bexar County assumed name filing guide

Bexar County calls the record an “assumed name” filing and points the county branch to the Bexar County Clerk.

The entity evidence limits that branch to unincorporated businesses.

Corporations, LLCs, limited partnerships, and foreign filing entities are directed to the Texas Secretary of State instead.

This distinction controls how the page should be read: it contains a verified sole-proprietor county rule, not a rule for every entity using a different name.

It also leaves publication and exclusions unconfirmed rather than filling them from general DBA guidance.

Three current county sources disagree: the filing page lists thirteen dollars, the FAQ lists fourteen dollars, and the certificate prints totals of twenty or twenty-one dollars depending on acknowledgment.

This guide suppresses the fee instead of choosing among them.

The official county page provides the certificate download and confirms mail, in-person, and online submission routes, while warning that an online submission is completed and paid for in person.

It also explains that incorrect assumed-name certificates cannot be amended; materially misleading changes require a new certificate.

The confirmed local value is the clerk, entity branch, current filing form, submission choices, certificate ceiling, and abandonment instrument.

Bexar County provides an official Assumed Business Name certificate for unincorporated filers.

Download and complete the certificate, then have every business partner sign before a notary or a county clerk deputy.

The county's current filing page says the certificate may be mailed after notarization or acknowledgment, submitted at the Assumed Name/DBA Office, Southside Annex, or a Records on the Run location, or submitted through the county's linked online application to be completed and paid for in person within five days.

Three current county sources conflict: the filing page lists thirteen dollars, the official FAQ lists fourteen dollars, and the downloadable certificate prints a total of twenty dollars with notary acknowledgment or twenty-one dollars with clerk acknowledgment; each source also addresses additional-owner charges.

No fee is asserted until the clerk reconciles that conflict.

This guide does not collect the form or payment; it sends the filer to the county's own certificate, online application, and instructions.

The certificate may state a period, but the supported ceiling is ten years, while the county FAQ says a certificate is valid for ten years from registration.

Neither source supplies a separate renewal form, filing window, or automatic-renewal promise.

The county gives a specific change rule: an incorrect certificate cannot be amended, and materially misleading changes require a new certificate.

Discontinuance has one concrete route in the record: a Certificate of Abandonment is used when the business name is discontinued.

The publication record supplies no answer for whether notice is required and no milestone for beginning, frequency, duration, or proof.

Match the business to the verified entity division before using Bexar County’s information.

An unincorporated filer can open the current county filing page, download the official certificate, verify the owner-count fee, arrange notarization or clerk acknowledgment, and choose the documented mail, counter, or online-submission route.

The county says an online submission still must be completed and paid for in person and remains available for five days.

A corporation, LLC, limited partnership, or foreign filing entity should follow the Secretary of State branch named by the evidence.

Record the period actually written on an accepted county certificate, remembering only that it cannot exceed ten years.

When the name is discontinued, use the identified abandonment certificate.

Questions about newspaper notice must go back to the authority because this evidence does not answer them.