Title Minnesota Statutes, Minnesota Statutes

303.05 NAMES OF CORPORATIONS. § Subdivision 1.Certificate of authority, when not issued. No certificate of authority shall be issued to a foreign corporation if the name of that foreign corporation would be prohibited to a corporation under the provisions of chapter 302A. The nam…

303.06 APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY. § Subdivision 1.Contents. In order to procure a certificate of authority to transact business in this state, a foreign corporation shall make application therefor to the secretary of state, which application shall set forth: (1) th…

303.07 LICENSE FEES. § Subdivision 1.Initial fee. At the time of making application for a certificate of authority the foreign corporation making the application shall pay to the commissioner of management and budget the sum of $150 as an initial license fee. § Subd. 2. [Repealed…

303.08 ISSUANCE OF CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY. § Subdivision 1.By secretary of state. If the application be according to law, the secretary of state, when all fees and charges have been paid as required by law, shall file the application and the certificate of existence, and shall …

303.09 POWERS SAME AS DOMESTIC CORPORATION. After the issuance of a certificate of authority by the secretary of state and until cancellation or revocation thereof or issuance of a certificate of withdrawal, the corporation shall possess within this state the same rights and priv…

303.10 MS 2008 [Subds 1 to 3 repealed by amendment, 2010 c 250 art 2 s 12] 303.10 OFFICE AND AGENT. Every non-Minnesota corporation shall have a registered office and shall have a registered agent, and may change its registered office or change its registered agent, and the agent…

303.11 NOTICE OF NAME CHANGES, WHERE FILED. Each foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this state, shall, whenever it changes its name, dissolves, or merges, certify to the secretary of state that the foreign corporation has changed its name, dissolved, or merged…

303.115 FOREIGN PROFESSIONAL FIRM FILINGS. When a foreign corporation uses chapter 319B to elect professional firm status, rescind that status, or change the specification of professional services required under section 319B.04, the foreign corporation must file with the secretar…

303.13 SERVICE OF PROCESS. § Subdivision 1.Foreign corporation. A foreign corporation shall be subject to service of process, as follows: (1) by service on its registered agent; or (2) as provided in section 5.25. § Subd. 2. [Repealed, 1995 c 128 art 1 s 20] § Subd. 3. [Repealed,…

303.14 ANNUAL RENEWAL. § Subdivision 1.Notice; filing. Each calendar year beginning in the calendar year following the calendar year in which a corporation receives a certificate of authority to do business in Minnesota, the secretary of state may send to the corporation, using t…

303.16 WITHDRAWAL FROM STATE. § Subdivision 1.Application for withdrawal, filing. If a foreign corporation holding a certificate of authority desires to withdraw, it shall file with the secretary of state an application for withdrawal. § Subd. 2.Contents of application. The appli…

303.17 LICENSE REVOCATION. § Subdivision 1.Grounds. The certificate of authority of a foreign corporation to transact business in this state shall be revoked by the secretary of state if it fails: (1) to pay any fee due under the provisions of this chapter; (2) to designate a reg…

303.18 CANCELLATION OF CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY. § Subdivision 1.Action by attorney general; grounds. When the public interest may require, the attorney general shall bring an action against a foreign corporation to cancel its certificate of authority to transact business in this…

303.19 REINSTATEMENT. § Subdivision 1.Required filing. Any foreign corporation whose certificate of authority to do business in this state shall have been revoked or canceled may reinstate that authority by filing an annual renewal and the fee required by subdivision 2 with the s…

303.20 FOREIGN CORPORATION MAY NOT MAINTAIN ACTION UNLESS LICENSED. No foreign corporation transacting business in this state without a certificate of authority shall be permitted to maintain an action in any court in this state until such corporation shall have obtained a certif…

303.21 FEES. § Subdivision 1. [Repealed, 3Sp1981 c 2 art 1 s 75] § Subd. 2. [Repealed, 3Sp1981 c 2 art 1 s 75] § Subd. 3.Other instruments. A fee of $50 shall be paid to the secretary of state for filing any instrument, other than the annual report required by section 303.14, req…

303.22 APPLICABLE TO PRESENT CORPORATIONS. Except as in this section otherwise provided, this chapter shall be applicable to all foreign corporations heretofore or hereafter transacting business in this state. Any foreign corporation licensed to transact business in this state wh…

303.23 CERTIFICATE ISSUED BY SECRETARY OF STATE. § Subdivision 1.Prima facie evidence; recording. Copies of the certificates certified, and any certificate issued pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, by the secretary of state shall be prima facie evidence of the matters st…

303.24 RIGHTS SUBJECT TO AMENDMENT. The state hereby fully reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal the several provisions of this chapter, and all rights and privileges granted or extended hereunder shall be subject to such reserved right. History: (7495-26) 1935 c 200 s 26

303.25 FOREIGN TRUST ASSOCIATIONS, POWERS. § Subdivision 1.Appointments. Any foreign trust association may accept appointment and act as executor of the will or administrator of the estate of any decedent who was a resident of this state at the time of death, as trustee of any tr…