2000 Minnesota Statutes

     302A.821 Minnesota corporate registration. 

    Subdivision 1.  MS 1998 Renumbered subd 2 

    Subdivision 1.    Annual registration form.  Each 
 calendar year beginning in the calendar year following the 
 calendar year in which a corporation incorporates, the secretary 
 of state must mail by first class mail an annual registration 
 form to the registered office of each corporation as shown on 
 the records of the secretary of state.  The form must include 
 the following notice: 

    "NOTICE:  Failure to file this form by December 31 of this 
 year will result in this corporation losing its good standing 
 without further notice from the secretary of state." 

    Subd. 2.  MS 1998 Renumbered subd 3 

    Subd. 2.    Information required.  A domestic 
 corporation shall file with the secretary of state a 
 registration by December 31 each calendar year containing:  

    (a) the name of the corporation; 

    (b) the address of its principal executive office, if 
 different from the registered office address; 

    (c) the address of its registered office and the name of 
 the registered agent, if any; 

    (d) the state of incorporation; and 

    (e) the name and business address of the officer or other 
 person exercising the principal functions of the chief executive 
 officer of the corporation. 

    Subd. 3.  MS 1998 Repealed by amendment, 2000 c 395 s 5 

    Subd. 3.    Information public.  The information 
 required by subdivision 2 is public data.  Chapter 13 does not 
 apply to this information.  

    Subd. 4.  MS 1998 Repealed by amendment, 2000 c 395 s 5 

    Subd. 4.    Penalty.  (a) A corporation that has failed 
 to file a registration pursuant to the requirements of 
 subdivision 2 must be dissolved by the secretary of state as 
 described in paragraph (b).  

    (b) If the corporation has not filed the registration for 
 three consecutive calendar years, the secretary of state shall 
 send by forwardable United States mail to the registered office 
 of the corporation a postcard notifying the corporation that the 
 corporation will be dissolved if no registration is filed with a 
 $25 fee pursuant to this section by the beginning of the 
 following calendar year.  The secretary of state shall annually 
 inform the attorney general and the commissioner of revenue of 
 the methods by which the names of corporations dissolved under 
 this section during the preceding year may be determined.  The 
 secretary of state must also make available in an electronic 
 format the names of the dissolved corporations.  A corporation 
 dissolved in this manner is not entitled to the benefits of 
 section 302A.781.  The liability, if any, of the shareholders of 
 a corporation dissolved in this manner shall be determined and 
 limited in accordance with section 302A.557, except that the 
 shareholders shall have no liability to any director of the 
 corporation under section 302A.559, subdivision 2.  

    Subd. 5. Renumbered subd 4 

    Subd. 6. Repealed by amendment, 2000 c 395 s 5 

    HIST: 1981 c 270 s 122; 1981 c 311 s 39; 1982 c 497 s 68,69; 
 1982 c 545 s 24; 1988 c 682 s 12; 1989 c 236 s 5; 1989 c 335 art 
 1 s 195,196; 1990 c 480 art 1 s 46; 1991 c 205 s 5-7; 1992 c 477 
 s 1; 1993 c 48 s 1; 1994 c 438 s 4; 1997 c 137 s 7; 2000 c 395 s 
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