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Subchapter I - General Provisions
§ 29–101.01. Short titles - (a) This title may be cited as the “Business Organizations...
§ 29–101.02. Definitions - Except as otherwise provided in definitions of the same terms...
§ 29–101.03. Applicability of chapter - This chapter shall apply to an entity formed under or...
§ 29–101.04. Delivery of record - (a) Except as otherwise provided in this title, permissible means...
§ 29–101.05. Rules and procedures - The Mayor may adopt rules in accordance with the subchapter...
§ 29–101.06. Civil fines for violations of title - (a) The Mayor, pursuant to rules adopted in accordance with...
Subchapter II - Filing
§ 29–102.01. Entity filing requirements - (a) To be filed by the Mayor pursuant to this...
§ 29–102.02. Forms - (a) The Mayor may provide forms for entity filings required...
§ 29–102.03. Effective time and date - Except as otherwise provided in this title and subject to...
§ 29–102.04. Withdrawal of filed record before effectiveness - (a) The parties to a filed record may withdraw the...
§ 29–102.05. Correcting filed record - (a) A person on whose behalf a filed record was...
§ 29–102.06. Duty of Mayor to file; review of refusal to file - (a) The Mayor shall file an entity filing delivered to...
§ 29–102.07. Evidentiary effect of copy of filed record - A certification from the Mayor accompanying a copy of a...
§ 29–102.08. Certificate of good standing or registration - (a) On request of any person, the Mayor shall issue...
§ 29–102.09. Signing of entity filing - (a) Signing an entity filing shall be an affirmation under...
§ 29–102.10. Delivery by Mayor - Except as otherwise provided by § 29-106.02 or by law...
§ 29–102.11. Biennial report for Mayor - (a) Each domestic filing entity and limited liability partnership and...
§ 29–102.12. Fees - (a) The Mayor, pursuant to Chapter 5 of Title 2,...
§ 29–102.13. Establishment of Corporate Recordation Fund; disposition of entity filing fees - (a) There is established the Corporate Recordation Fund (“Fund”), which...
Subchapter III - Name of Entity
§ 29–103.01. Permitted names - (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsections (b) and (d)...
§ 29–103.02. Name requirements for certain types of entities - (a) The name of a business corporation shall contain the...
§ 29–103.03. Reservation of name - (a) A person may reserve the exclusive use of an...
§ 29–103.04. Registration of name - (a) A foreign filing entity or foreign limited liability partnership...
Subchapter IV - Registered Agent
§ 29–104.01. Definitions - For the purposes of this subchapter, the term: (1) “Designation...
§ 29–104.02. Entities required to designate and maintain registered agent - The following shall designate and maintain a registered agent in...
§ 29–104.03. Addresses in filings - If a provision of this subchapter other than § 29-104.10(a)(4)...
§ 29–104.04. Designation of registered agent - (a) A registered agent filing shall be signed by the...
§ 29–104.05. Listing of commercial registered agent - (a) A person may become listed as a commercial registered...
§ 29–104.06. Termination of listing of commercial registered agent - (a) A commercial registered agent may terminate its listing as...
§ 29–104.07. Change of registered agent by entity - (a) A represented entity may change the information on file...
§ 29–104.08. Change of name, address, type of entity, or jurisdiction of formation by noncommercial registered agent - (a) If a noncommercial registered agent changes its name, its...
§ 29–104.09. Change of name, address, type of entity, or jurisdiction of formation by commercial registered agent - (a) If a commercial registered agent changes its name, its...
§ 29–104.10. Resignation of registered agent - (a) A registered agent may resign as agent for a...
§ 29–104.11. Designation of registered agent by nonregistered foreign entity or nonfiling domestic entity - (a) A nonregistered foreign entity or domestic nonfiling entity may...
§ 29–104.12. Service of process, notice, or demand on entity - (a) A represented entity may be served with any process,...
§ 29–104.13. Duties of registered agent - The only duties of a registered agent under this subchapter...
§ 29–104.14. Personal jurisdiction - The designation or maintenance in the District of a registered...
Subchapter V - Foreign Entities
§ 29–105.01. Governing law - (a) The law of the jurisdiction of formation of an...
§ 29–105.02. Registration to do business in the District - (a) A foreign filing entity or foreign limited liability partnership...
§ 29–105.03. Foreign registration statement - To register to do business in the District, a foreign...
§ 29–105.04. Amendment of foreign registration statement - (a) A registered foreign entity shall deliver to the Mayor...
§ 29–105.05. Activities not constituting doing business - (a) Without excluding other activities that do not have the...
§ 29–105.06. Noncomplying name of foreign entity - (a) A registered foreign entity whose name does not comply...
§ 29–105.07. Withdrawal of registration of registered foreign entity - (a) A registered foreign entity may withdraw its registration by...
§ 29–105.08. Withdrawal deemed on conversion to domestic filing entity or domestic limited liability partnership - A registered foreign entity that converts to any type of...
§ 29–105.09. Withdrawal on dissolution or conversion to nonfiling entity other than limited liability partnership - (a) A registered foreign entity that has dissolved and completed...
§ 29–105.10. Transfer of registration - (a) A registered foreign entity that merges into a nonregistered...
§ 29–105.11. Termination of registration - (a) The Mayor may terminate the registration of a registered...
§ 29–105.12. Action by Attorney General - The Attorney General for the District of Columbia may maintain...
Subchapter VI - Administrative Dissolution
§ 29–106.01. Grounds - The Mayor may commence a proceeding under § 29-106.02 to...
§ 29–106.02. Procedure and effect - (a) If the Mayor determines that one or more grounds...
§ 29–106.03. Reinstatement - (a) A domestic filing entity that is dissolved administratively under...
§ 29–106.04. Judicial review of denial of reinstatement - (a) If the Mayor denies a domestic filing entity’s application...
Subchapter VII - Miscellaneous Provisions
§ 29–107.01. Reservation of power to amend or repeal - (a) The Council may amend or repeal all or part...
§ 29–107.02. Supplemental principles of law - Unless displaced by particular provisions of this title, the principles...
§ 29–107.03. Uniformity or consistency of application and construction - In applying and construing the chapters of this title based...
§ 29–107.04. Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act - This title shall modify, limit, and supersede the federal Electronic...
§ 29–107.05. Savings clause - The repeal of a law by this title shall not...