The application shall be subscribed and sworn to by each of the commissioners before an officer authorized by the laws of the state to take and certify oaths, who shall certify upon the application that the officer personally knows the commissioners and knows them to be the officers as appointed in the application and that each subscribed and swore thereto in the officer's presence. The secretary of state shall examine the application and if the secretary of state finds that the name proposed for the corporation is not identical with that of a person or of any other corporation of this state, or so nearly similar as to lead to confusion and uncertainty, the secretary of state shall receive and file it and shall record it in an appropriate book of record in the secretary of state's office.
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