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Terms Used In Wisconsin Statutes 193.211

  • Person: includes all partnerships, associations and bodies politic or corporate. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
  • State: when applied to states of the United States, includes the District of Columbia, the commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the several territories organized by Congress. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
   (1)    Distinguishable name. The name of a cooperative shall distinguish the cooperative upon the records of the department from the name of all business entities authorized to do business in this state and all names the right to which are, at the time of organization, reserved or provided for by law.
   (2)   Reservation; contest of name. A cooperative’s name is reserved for use by the cooperative during the cooperative’s existence, except that a person doing business in this state may contest the cooperative’s use of the name as provided by law.