California Code
ARTICLE 7 - Suspension and Revivor
Section 23301.5.

23301.5. Except for the purposes of filing an application for exempt status or amending the articles of incorporation as necessary either to perfect that application or to set forth a new name, the corporate powers, rights, and privileges of a domestic taxpayer may be suspended, and the exercise of the corporate powers, rights, and privileges of a foreign taxpayer in this state may be forfeited, if a taxpayer fails to file a tax return required by this part.

(Amended by Stats. 1991, Ch. 1082, Sec. 2. Applicable to income years beginning on or after January 1, 1991, by Sec. 12 of Ch. 1082.)