35-2-822. Application for certificate of authority.
35-2-822. Application for certificate of authority. (1) A foreign corporation may apply for a certificate of authority to transact business in this state by delivering an application to the secretary of state. The application must set forth:
(a) the name of the foreign corporation or, if its name is unavailable for use in this state, a corporate name that satisfies the requirements of 35-2-826;
(b) the name of the state or country under whose law it is incorporated;
(c) the date of incorporation and period of duration;
(d) the street address and, if different, the mailing address of its principal office;
(e) the information required by 35-7-105(1);
(f) the names and usual business or home addresses of its current directors and officers;
(g) whether the foreign corporation has members;
(h) whether the corporation, if it had been incorporated in this state, would be a public benefit corporation, mutual benefit corporation, or religious corporation; and
(i) the purpose or purposes of the corporation that it proposes to pursue in the transaction of business in this state.
(2) The foreign corporation shall deliver with the completed application a certificate of existence or a similar document authenticated by the secretary of state or other official having custody of corporate records in the state or country under whose law the foreign corporation is incorporated.
History: En. Sec. 149, Ch. 411, L. 1991; amd. Sec. 45, Ch. 240, L. 2007.