Show FILE AFFIDAVIT OF OWNERSHIP I 1 A number of 0 complaints have come to my office recently in relation to the failure allure ot of individuals engaged in bustness bustnes ness s to lie file with the county clerk an affidavit as to what persons make up the various firms in the city as required by sections to inclusive of compiled laws of utah 1917 and demand Is being made for criminal prosecution I 1 have felt however that perhaps the merchants here were not aware ot of this requirement and of 0 the penalty which might be ba imposed and I 1 felt disposed therefore to advise them through the press of the law before instituting any crl minay action this law affects almost everyone engaged in business and requires the fiting filing of an affidavit with the county clerk cler k in which affidavit there should be set forth every partner or individual engaged ena aged in business such an affidavit should be tiled filed at once by every firm and a substitute affidavit every time a change in the personnel Is made the law is quoted hereafter tor for the convenience ot of all interested and it if complaint Is presented to me after the present week criminal action will eb instituted against persons falling failing to comply and the full penalty of six months in the county jail or a fine of or both requested of the tha court here Is the law USE OF ASSUMED NAME UNLAWFUL PROVISO no person or persons shall hereafter carry on or con conduct duct or transact business in this state under an assumed name or under cr d any designation name or style coro prate partnership or otherwise other than the real name of names of the individual or individuals conducting or transacting such business unless such person or persons shall fila in the office of the clerk of the county in which the principal place of business is or is to be located an aff affidavit davit setting forth the name under which said business Is or is to bo be conducted or transacted and the true or real full name or names ot of the tha person or persons owning conducting ot of transacting the same the location ot of the principal place of business with the Post postoffice office address or addresses of said penson pelson or Ifer rier sons said affidavit shall be executed and sworn to by the person br persons so conducting or intending to conduct said business MUST FILE AFF AFFIDAVIT persons now conducting such bustness business under an assumed name or under any such designation referred to in paragraph shall file such affidavit as prescribed within thirty days after this chapter shall take effect and persons person hereafter intending to conduct or transact business as aforesaid and partnerships doing business under a partnership name when a change has taken place in the members thereof shall before commencing this business file such affidavit in the manner hereinbefore prescribed PENALTY any person or persons carrying on or conducting or transacting business as aforesaid who shall fail to comply with the provis iona of 0 this champer chat per shall be guilty ot of a misdemeanor |