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Trade Name

Metadata Updated: December 3, 2025

If a business or unregistered entity (sole proprietor, general partnership etc.) wishes to do business under a name that is different than their registered name or true legal name, they may register a trade name. A trade name or a “Doing Business As” name is optional and is not required in order to conduct business in DC. However, if a sole proprietor, general partnership or registered entity is using a trade name, it must be registered and on record with Corporations Division.The dataset contains the following columns: trade names, effective date, trade name status, file number, trade name expiration date, and initial file number. More information can be found at https://dlcp.dc.gov/node/1619191

Access & Use Information

Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: Creative Commons Attribution

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Dates

Metadata Created Date April 30, 2024
Metadata Updated Date December 3, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from DC data

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date April 30, 2024
Metadata Updated Date December 3, 2025
Publisher Department of Licensing and Consumer Protection
Maintainer
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Data First Published 2023-04-19T14:38:35.000Z
Data Last Modified 2025-12-01T15:53:16.000Z
Category geospatial
Public Access Level public
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Harvest Object Id 4cba17fb-ebdf-43c7-8e64-47f8530544a3
Harvest Source Id b05f955a-65d6-4288-9558-15a5ebc74e36
Harvest Source Title DC data
Homepage URL https://opendata.dc.gov/datasets/DCGIS::trade-name
License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Metadata Type geospatial
Old Spatial -77.1122,38.8133,-76.9099,38.9933
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash d92d8375aadb19dc31d26b1db4169f73530212d7218a8c6db96842eb6d919c11
Source Schema Version 1.1
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