Corp. Code, § 14500 · Part 11. SOCIETIES FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS

Corp. Code, § 14500

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Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)

This title extends to all corporations heretofore formed and existing for the prevention of cruelty to animals, but does not extend or apply to any association, society, or corporation that uses or specifies a name or style of the same, or substantially the same, as that of any previously existing society or corporation in this state organized for a like purpose.

Notes and commentary — not statutory text

History

Amended by Stats. 2010, Ch. 652, Sec. 8. (SB 1417) Effective January 1, 2011.

Source of truth

Edition: As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
Official file: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=CORP&sectionNum=14500.
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