Bill Text: MS HB1532 | 2020 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Foreign limited liability companies; authorize Secretary of State to revoke registration if delinquent in payments or taxes owed to the State of Mississippi.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2020-03-03 - Died In Committee [HB1532 Detail]

Download: Mississippi-2020-HB1532-Introduced.html

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MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

2020 Regular Session

To: Judiciary A; Ways and Means

By: Representative Yancey

House Bill 1532

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 79-29-1021, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO AUTHORIZE THE SECRETARY OF STATE TO BEGIN A PROCEEDING TO ADMINISTRATIVELY REVOKE THE REGISTRATION OF A FOREIGN LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY AUTHORIZED TO TRANSACT BUSINESS IN MISSISSIPPI IF THE DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE NOTIFIES THE SECRETARY OF STATE THAT THE FOREIGN LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY IS DELINQUENT IN ANY PAYMENTS OR TAXES THAT IT OWES TO THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:

     SECTION 1.  Section 79-29-1021, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:

     79-29-1021.  (1)  The Secretary of State may commence a proceeding under Section 79-29-1023 to administratively revoke the registration of a foreign limited liability company authorized to transact business in this state if:

          (a)  The foreign limited liability company does not pay within sixty (60) days after they are due any fees imposed by this chapter or other law;

          (b)  The foreign limited liability company does not deliver its annual report to the Secretary of State within sixty (60) days after it is due;

          (c)  The foreign limited liability company is without a registered agent in this state for sixty (60) days or more;

          (d)  The foreign limited liability company does not notify the Secretary of State within sixty (60) days that its registered agent has been changed or that its registered agent has resigned;

          (e)  The Secretary of State receives a duly authenticated certificate from the Secretary of State or other public official having custody of corporate records in the state or country under whose law the foreign limited liability company is organized stating that it has been dissolved or ceased to exist as the result of a merger; * * *or

          (f)  The Department of Revenue notifies the Secretary of State that the foreign limited liability company is delinquent in any payments or taxes that it owes to the State of Mississippi; or

          ( * * *fg)  A misrepresentation has been made of any material matter in any application, report, affidavit, or other record submitted by the foreign limited liability company to the Secretary of State pursuant to this chapter.

     (2)  The Secretary of State may not administratively revoke a registration of a foreign limited liability company unless the Secretary of State sends the foreign limited liability company notice of the administrative revocation under Section 79-29-1023, at least sixty (60) days before its effective date, by a record addressed to its registered agent, or to the foreign limited liability company if the foreign limited liability company fails to appoint and maintain a proper agent in this state.  The notice must specify the cause for the administrative revocation of the registration.  The authority of the foreign limited liability company to transact business in this state ceases on the effective date of the administrative revocation unless the foreign limited liability company cures the failure before that date.

     SECTION 2.  This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

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