Sec. 33-890. Administrative dissolution.
Sec. 33-890. Administrative dissolution. (a) The Secretary of the State may effect
the administrative dissolution of a corporation as provided in this section.
(b) Whenever it comes to the attention of the Secretary of the State that a corporation
has failed to maintain a registered agent or that such registered agent cannot, with reasonable diligence, be found at the address shown in the records of his office, the Secretary
of the State may notify such corporation by registered or certified mail addressed to such
corporation at its principal office as last shown on his records that under the provisions of
this section the corporation is to be administratively dissolved. Unless the corporation
within three months of the mailing of such notice files an appointment of registered
agent, the Secretary of the State shall prepare and file in his office a certificate of administrative dissolution stating that the delinquent corporation has been administratively dissolved by reason of its default.
(c) Dissolution shall be effective upon the filing by the Secretary of the State in his
office of such certificate of administrative dissolution.
(d) After filing the certificate of administrative dissolution, the Secretary of the
State shall: (1) Send a copy thereof to the delinquent corporation, by registered or certified mail, addressed to such corporation at its principal office as last shown on his records
and (2) cause notice of the filing of such certificate of administrative dissolution to be
published in two successive issues of the Connecticut Law Journal.
(P.A. 94-186, S. 169, 215; P.A. 95-252, S. 30, 36; P.A. 96-271, S. 120, 254.)
History: P.A. 94-186 effective January 1, 1997; P.A. 95-252 deleted former Subsec. (b) re the administrative dissolution
of a corporation that is in default of filing its annual or biennial reports, relettering the remaining Subsecs. accordingly,
effective January 1, 1997; P.A. 96-271 made technical changes, effective January 1, 1997.
Annotations to former section 33-387:
Cited. 212 C. 282. Cited. 219 C. 787.
Cited. 12 CA 121.
Subsec. (b):
Cited. 182 C. 1.
Cited. 32 CA 530.
Cited. 40 CS 567.