Doing Business As (DBA)

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Registering a Business name in Ingham County protects the business name in Ingham County only.

The certificate expires after five (5) years.

If a business registration is not renewed, the name can be given out to someone else. The Clerk’s Office sends out a
renewal reminder card a few weeks before the expiration date.

All persons listed on the business registration form need to have their signatures notarized. In order for one of the
clerks to notarize a signature, a driver’s license or other piece of picture identification with a signature such as a
State I.D. or passport is needed.

The fee to file, renew, amend or dissolve a business registration is $10.00. We except cash, check, cashier check,
mastercard and visa. Additional copies are $2.00. Please make checks payable to Ingham County Clerk.

(Effective December 1, 2004 we cannot accept out-of-State checks. Please use a money order or a credit card).

Business Registration Printable Form (form can be used to register a New Business or Renew a Business)

Co-Partnership Printable Form

Dissolution of Co-Partnership or Business Form

Ingham County has a Regulation Eliminating Smoking in Public and Private Work Sites.

Visit the Ingham County Health Department
to review the Regulation and determine if it applies to your business.

For information regarding Corporations/LLC

Please call the Bureau of Commercial Services in Lansing, Michigan at: (517) 241-6400 or you may write to them at:

Michigan Department of Consumer & Industry Service
Bureau of Commercial Services - Corporation Division
7150 Harris Drive, P.O. Box 30054
Lansing, Michigan 48909

To conduct a search of Corporation Business names in Michigan click here