NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 298

HOUSE BILL 380

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 55 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES SO AS TO PROVIDE FOR THE CHANGE OF THE REGISTERED OFFICE OF FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC CORPORATIONS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 55-14 is hereby amended by adding a new subsection at the end thereof to read as follows:

"(e)       In lieu of the procedure set out in subsection 'a' above the location of the registered office of a domestic corporation may be changed from one address to another in the same city or town in this State upon the change of the business office of its registered agent, upon the making and executing by the registered agent of such corporation of a certificate, duly acknowledged before an officer authorized by the laws of this State to take knowledgments of deeds, setting forth the name of each corporation represented by such registered agent and the address at which such registered agent has maintained a registered office for each of such corporations and further certifying to the new address to which such registered office will be transferred on a given day and at which new address such registered agent will thereafter maintain the registered office of each of the corporations recited in the certificate. Such certificate shall be filed in duplicate in the office of the Secretary of State who shall then furnish a certified copy of the same, showing the date of such filing, and shall return the copy so certified to the registered agent, and the copy, certified as aforesaid, shall, within 60 days after the receipt by the registered agent be delivered to the Clerk of the Superior Court of the county wherein the corporation has its registered office, and, when the proper fees shall have been tendered, it shall be recorded and properly indexed in a book to be known as the Record of Incorporations. Promptly after the recordation, the clerk shall note the fact of recordation on the said copy and return it to the registered agent. The fee to be charged by the Secretary of State for the filing of such certificate shall be a fee of three dollars ($3.00) for each corporation listed in said certificate."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 55-142 is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof a new subsection to read as follows:

"(d)      In lieu of the procedure set out in subsection 'a' above, the location of the registered office of a foreign corporation may be changed from one address to another in the same city or town in this State upon the change of the business office of its registered agent, upon the making and executing by the registered agent of such corporation of a certificate, duly acknowledged before an officer authorized by the laws of this state to take acknowledgments of deeds, setting forth the name of each corporation represented by such registered agent and the address at which such registered agent has maintained a registered office for each of such corporations and further certifying to the new address to which such registered office will be transferred on a given day and at which new address such registered agent will thereafter maintain the registered office of each of the corporations recited in the certificate. The fee to be charged by the Secretary of State for the filing of such certificate shall be a fee of three dollars ($3.00) for each corporation listed in said certificate."

Sec. 3.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4.  This Act shall be in full force and effect upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 22nd day of April, 1965.