SS · Business Corporations Act
Part 2 — Incorporation
10 Corporate name
"Incorporated", "Incorporée" or "Corporation" or the abbreviation
"Ltd.", "Ltée", "Inc." or "Corp." shall be the last word of the name
of every corporation, and a corporation may use and may be legally
designated by either the full or the abbreviated form.
(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), the words "Professional
Corporation" shall be the last words of the name of every
corporation whose incorporation is approved in accordance with
section 7(2), but a professional corporation may add a professional
descriptor to its name, and the professional descriptor may be
inserted between the words "Professional" and "Corporation".
RSA 2000
(2.1) For the purposes of subsection (2), a professional descriptor
is a term that describes the profession or occupation of the
professional corporation, including the terms "Legal", "Law",
"Medical", "Dental" or others descriptive of the profession or
occupation.
(3) Subject to section 15.4(2), no person other than a body
corporate shall carry on business within Alberta under any name or
title that contains the word "Limited", "Limitée", "Incorporated",
"Incorporée" or "Corporation" or the abbreviation "Ltd.", "Ltée",
"Inc." or "Corp." or the words "Professional Corporation".
(4) A person carrying on business in contravention of subsection
(3) or section 15.4(2) is guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of
not more than $5000.
(5) A corporation may file a notice with the Registrar in the form
required by the Registrar designating an additional form or forms
of its name in accordance with subsection (6).
(6) Subject to section 12(1), the name of the corporation or an
additional form of its name in a notice filed under subsection (5)
may be in an English form or a French form or in a combined
English and French form and the corporation may use and may be
legally designated by any of those forms.
(7) Subject to section 12(1), a corporation may, outside Canada,
use and may be legally designated by a name in any language form.
(8) A corporation shall set out its name in legible characters in or
on all contracts, invoices, negotiable instruments, and orders for
goods or services, issued or made by or on behalf of the
corporation.
(9) Subject to subsections (8) and (10) and section 12(1) and to
section 110 of the Partnership Act, a corporation may carry on
business under or identify itself by a name other than its corporate
name.
(10) Where a corporation carries on business or identifies itself by
a name other than its corporate name, the name shall not contain a
word referred to in subsection (3) or section 15.4(2).
RSA 2000 cB-9 s10;2005 c8 s5;2021 c18 s3
December 2023
financial statements
approval, 158(1)
errors or misstatements, 171(7-10)
holding office, cessation, 108
indemnification, 124
land disposition, termination, 190(7)
liquidation and dissolution, statutory
declarations, 212(14)
management, responsibility, 101(1)
managing directors, appointment,
115
notice of changes, 113(1)
number of, 101(2)
numbers, amendment, 107(h), 112,
173(1)(k)
offices, designation, 116
powers, 101
proxies
deposits, time, 148(5)
mandatory solicitation, 149
proxies, deposits, time, 148(5)
qualifications, 105
receiver-managers, appointment,
effects, 95
receivers, reports, submission,
100(g)(iii)
record dates, determination, 133
records, access, 21
removals or resignations, 6(4),
108(2), 109-110
remuneration, disclosure and
determination, 125
reporting issuers, 101
resident Canadian, defined, 1(dd)
resolutions
consent, deemed, 123(1)
contracts, disclosure of interests,
120(3)
dissent, 123
meetings, in lieu of, validity, 117
securities, certificates, signatures,
48(4-6)
shares
issuance, 27, 105(2)
splitting of shares, 27.1
standard of care, 122(1)
terms of office, 106, 107(f), 111(5)
unanimous shareholder agreements,
effects, 146(7)
directors' meetings
adjournments, 114(7)
electronic means, 104(2.1-3),
114(1), 114(4.1), 255(5)-(6)
notice, 114(4.1), 114(5-6)
one director, 114(8)
organization meetings, 104
quorum, 114(2)
shareholders' meetings
attendance by director, 110
duty to call, time, 132
notice, 134(1)-(1.1)
requisitions, 142
dissolution
actions after, 227
articles of dissolution, statutory
declarations, 212(13-14)
court orders
applications, 214
scope, 218
show cause order, 217
time effective, 214(5)
interested person, defined, 206.1
notice of intent, 256(2)
parent corporation assumption of
liabilities, conditions, 211(2.1)
procedure, 211
property, entitlement, 26(3)(c)
property distribution, shareholders or
creditors, unknown, 228
records, custody and maintenance,
226
by Registrar, 213
revivals, 208, 210, 247
revocation of intent to dissolve,
212(10)-(12)
statement of revocation of intent to
dissolve, 267
statements of intent to dissolve, 267
stay of proceedings, 207
time effective, 211(6), 212(16)
unlimited liability corporations,
continuation of actions after,
15.7
distributing corporations. See
reporting issuers