(a) The registered agent of any entity required by Section 10A-1-5.31 to designate and maintain a registered agent or registered office may give notice of a change of its name, or a change of its street address as the street address of the entity’s registered office, or both, by delivering a statement of change containing the information required by this section to the Secretary of State for filing in accordance with the procedures in Article 4. (b) The statement of change must be signed by the registered agent, or a person authorized to sign the statement on behalf of the registered agent, and must include: (1) the name of the entity represented by the registered agent; (2) the unique identifying number of the entity assigned by the Secretary of State; (3) the name of the entity’s registered agent and the street address at which the registered agent maintained the entity’s registered office; (4) if the change relates to the name of the registered agent, the new name of that agent; (5) if the change relates to the street address of the registered office, the new street address of the registered office; and (6) a recitation that written notice of the change was given to the entity by the registered agent at least 10 days before the date the statement of change is delivered to the Secretary of State for filing. (c) On acceptance of the statement of change by the Secretary of State, the statement of change is: (1) in the case of a domestic filing entity, effective to make the change or changes set forth in the statement of change without the necessity of amending the entity’s certificate of formation; (2) in the case of a general partnership with an effective statement of partnership, statement of not for profit partnership, or statement of limited liability partnership on file with the Secretary of State, effective to make the change or changes set forth in the statement of change without the necessity of amending its statement of partnership, statement of not for profit partnership, or statement of limited liability partnership under Chapter 8A; (3) in the case of a foreign filing entity with an effective application for registration, effective to make the change or changes set forth in the statement of change, without the necessity of amending its application for registration as a foreign entity under Article 7; or (4) in the case of a foreign limited liability partnership with an effective statement of limited liability partnership, effective to make the change or changes set forth in the statement of change, without the necessity of amending or restating its statement of foreign limited liability partnership under Article 7. (d) A registered agent may deliver a statement of change to the Secretary of State for filing under this section that applies to more than one entity, and if the registered agent does so, the registered agent must include the unique identifying number assigned by the Secretary of State to each entity in the statement of change.
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