# How to read a Los Angeles business registration record

> Accounts and locations, what “active” means, the start date, NAICS, and what is left out.

## How to read these records

### Account and location

The City gives each business an account number and numbers its locations: one record here is one location.

### Active

The City's definition: a registered business whose owner has not notified the Office of Finance that it ceased
operations. Many businesses stop without telling the City.

### Start date

The start date of the first business activity registered at this location.

### Activity

The NAICS code the business reported itself, in the 2007 classification. It is not checked by the City.

### What is not here

Individuals, and any name without a company word (Inc, LLC, Corp, Co…) or the City's corporation mark. Mailing
addresses. Tax amounts. Businesses outside the City are shown with council district 0 left out.

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Fonte: https://data.lacity.org/d/6rrh-rzua
Recolha: 2026-09-15