Harris County assumed name filing guide

Harris County’s record uses “assumed name” and identifies the Harris County County Clerk as the county authority.

The verified entity statement draws a sharp boundary around this page: unincorporated businesses use the county filing, while corporations, LLCs, limited partnerships, and foreign filing entities use the Texas Secretary of State.

This guide therefore addresses the county branch documented for a sole proprietor; it is not a substitute for the state branch.

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Its verified material contributes a Harris-specific fee formula: twenty-four dollars for the first owner and fifty cents for each additional owner.

It also locates the filing at the county clerk for the unincorporated side of Texas’s split system.

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A state-only answer would miss the local charge, while this county answer would be wrong for the state-filing entities named in the evidence.

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The supported starting point is the clerk’s Personal Records page.

It identifies the clerk and gives the county’s fee as “$24.00 First Owner + .50 for Each Additional Owner.”

Because the price is expressed per owner, this guide preserves the wording rather than calculating a total.

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A filer should use the cited clerk page to obtain those current details directly.

Nothing on DBA Filing Guide accepts a certificate or payment, and an unsupported submission route is deliberately not supplied.

For the certificate’s time period, the verified text says that the period stated on it may not exceed ten years.

The same sentence is the available renewal evidence; it does not supply a separate renewal form, filing window, or automatic-renewal promise.

Harris County’s record also identifies a Certificate of Abandonment for discontinuing the business name.

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Those blanks matter, because the ten-year ceiling cannot safely be converted into a publication schedule or a guessed amendment procedure.

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If it does, open the Harris County clerk record and confirm the current procedure before preparing anything.

Use the quoted owner-based fee as a checkpoint, not as a computed invoice.

Ask the clerk for the current certificate, accepted delivery channels, execution requirements, and any details absent from this evidence.

Choose the Secretary of State route instead when the verified entity statement places the business there.

If use of the assumed name ends, look for the county’s Certificate of Abandonment.

Keep the certificate’s stated period separate from any unverified renewal assumption.