TRADENAME CESSATION APPLICATION (T.11 Ch 15)

Vermont Secretary of State Office, 128 State Street Montpelier, VT 05633-1104 (802-828-2386)

  NAME of Business:

There are a few reasons why a cessation is filed - (1)the business has closed (2)the business is sold (3)the business name or structure is changing (4)a new owner is added (5)an existing owner departs. In the case of a departing owner only a 'partial' cessation is required. When a partial cessation is filed the "remaining owner" is the one who files and signs the cessation - the business continues without interruption.

PARTIAL CESSATION is being filed to remove the name of an existing owner.  

The name of the owner being removed is:

COMPLETE CESSATION is being filed: (check one)

   Business has closed or been sold    Business name is changing; 

   Business structure is changing     Adding a new owner

Date of this cessation: 

COMPLETE cessation must include the names and address of ALL owners as set forth on the original registration.

  


Cessation shall be sworn to and filed by a surviving partner, member of the organization, officer of the corporation, or person so doing business, his executor or administrator in front of a notary public.

Printed name:
Signature and Title____________________________________________________

Subscribed and sworn to before me this _______ day of__________________________________

Notary Public Signature____________________________commission expiration date:________

$20.00 FEE payable to Vermont Secretary of State must be attached.
File in duplicate with a self-addressed envelope.