Title 7, Title 7 Associations, and Partnerships

(a) No foreign corporation that is conducting affairs in this state without a certificate of authority shall be permitted to maintain any action, suit, or proceeding in any court of this state until the corporation has obtained a certificate of authority. Nor shall any action, su…

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter: (a) No person serving without compensation as a volunteer, director, officer, or trustee of a nonprofit corporation, including a corporation qualified as a tax-exempt corporation under § 501(c) of the United States Internal Re…

(a) Each domestic corporation, and each foreign corporation authorized to conduct affairs in this state, shall file, within the time prescribed by this chapter, an annual report setting forth the following information as of the date of the report: (1) The name of the corporation …

(a) The annual report of a domestic or foreign corporation shall be delivered to the secretary of state between February 1 and May 1 of each year, except that the first annual report of a domestic or foreign corporation shall be filed between February 1 and May 1 of the year foll…

The secretary of state shall charge and collect for: (1) Filing articles of incorporation and issuing a certificate of incorporation, thirty-five dollars ($35.00). (2) Filing articles of amendment and issuing a certificate of amendment, ten dollars ($10.00). (3) Filing certificat…

The secretary of state shall charge and collect: (1) For furnishing a certified copy of any document, instrument, or paper relating to a corporation, fifteen cents ($.15) per page and five dollars ($5.00) for the certificate and affixing the seal to it. (2) At the time of any ser…

(a) Each domestic or foreign corporation that fails or refuses to file its annual report for any year within the time prescribed by this chapter is subject to a penalty of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for each year to be assessed by the secretary of state. (b) Each domestic or fo…

Each director and officer of a domestic or foreign corporation who fails or refuses within the time prescribed by this chapter to answer truthfully and fully interrogatories propounded to the director or officer by the secretary of state in accordance with the provisions of this …

The secretary of state may propound to any domestic or foreign corporation, subject to the provisions of this chapter, and to any officer or director of the corporation, any interrogatories that are reasonably necessary and proper to enable the secretary of state to ascertain whe…

Interrogatories propounded by the secretary of state and the answers to them shall not be open to public inspection nor shall the secretary of state disclose any facts or information obtained from them except insofar as the secretary of state’s official duty may require the facts…

The secretary of state has the power and authority reasonably necessary to enable him or her to administer this chapter efficiently and to perform the duties imposed on him or her by this chapter.

(a) If the secretary of state fails to approve the articles of incorporation, amendment, merger, consolidation or dissolution, or any other document required by this chapter to be approved by the secretary of state before the document is filed in the secretary of state’s office, …