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.