2E Relating to the office of the secretary of state

ARTICLE 1 - ENTITIES

Modifying cooperative associations and nonprofit corporations registration and dissolution provisions by requiring calendar year filings, removing secretary of state notification requirements and requiring cooperatives to file a notice of intent to dissolve; removing special provisions for volunteer firefighter relief associations annual financial filing requirements; specifying certain address requirements for limited partnerships annual registration forms; authorizing uniform commercial code records transmission using extensible markup language (XML) format; repealing the requirement for the state auditor to provide the secretary of state with a list of volunteer firefighter relief associations

ARTICLE 2 - NOTARIES

Allowing limited liability companies to be placed in a representative capacity; requiring persons signing documents to be present for notarial officers and notarial officers to be present for signatures; repealing the provision relating to the failure to appear before a notary for signature provision
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