A DBA in Orange County Is Just a Name, Not a License

Open a lawn service, a food truck, or a welding shop under any name that isn't your own legal name, and Texas wants that name on record. In Orange County that record is an Assumed Business Name, a DBA, filed with the County Clerk at 801 W. Division in Orange. There are separate forms depending on whether you're incorporated, plus an abandonment form for the day you close the name out.

The clerk's office is blunt about its own limits: the only piece of your business it touches is filing that assumed name. It does not issue business licenses or permits, and it says so plainly. A DBA does not clear you to serve food, sell beer, do roofing, or practice a regulated trade.

Treat the filing as step one of several. Once the name is on record, the food truck still needs a county food-service permit, the bar still needs a TABC license, and a roofing or remodel job still answers to city or county building rules. The 77630 counter on Division will hand you the assumed-name form. It won't tell you which of those other permits your particular business needs, and it doesn't pretend to.