[net.misc] Limiting corporate names to 80 characters?

guy (04/12/83)

Noted without comment, from "Computerworld", April 11:

	ATLANTA - The partnership titles whose parade of names seems
	to go on forever may be a little easier to handle in Georgia
	this summer thanks to House of Representatives Bill 373 and
	a CRT display screen.

	As of July 1, designers of corporate names will have to take
	into account the needs of the state computer system when
	filing papers for incorporation, partnerships or associations.
	The state General Assembly recently passed legislation limiting
	the length of corporate names to 80 characters, including
	spaces and punctuations.

	The State Corporation Division in the past has encountered
	numerous cases of corporate names stretching from 80 to 150
	characters.  But since CRT display screens typically have 80
	characters/line and the software program allows only one line
	for the company name, the limit was requested "to adapt better
	to our computer system," according to Georgia Secretary of
	State Max Cleland.