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Code · Iowa · Chapter 490 — Business Corporations

490.1503 Foreign registration statement.

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1. To register to do business in this state, a foreign corporation shall deliver a foreign registration statement to the secretary of state for filing. The registration statement must be signed by the foreign corporation and state all of the following:
a. The corporate name of the foreign corporation and, if the name does not comply with section 490.401, an alternate name as required by section 490.1506.
b. The foreign corporation’s jurisdiction of formation.
c. The street and mailing addresses of the foreign corporation’s principal office and, if the law of the foreign corporation’s jurisdiction of formation requires the foreign corporation to maintain an office in that jurisdiction, the street and mailing addresses of that office.
d. The street and mailing addresses of the foreign corporation’s registered office in this state and the name of its registered agent at that office.
e. The names and business addresses of its directors and principal officers.
2. The foreign corporation shall deliver the completed foreign registration statement to the secretary of state, and also deliver to the secretary of state a certificate of existence or a document of similar import duly authenticated by the secretary of state or other official having custody of corporate records in the state or country under whose law it is incorporated which is dated no earlier than ninety days prior to the date the application is filed by the secretary of state.
89 Acts, ch 288, §163; 96 Acts, ch 1170, §14; 2021 Acts, ch 165, §189, 230
Referred to in §490.140, 490.1504, 490.1506
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