RCW 23.95.200
Entity filing requirements.
(1) To be filed by the secretary of state pursuant to this chapter, an entity filing must be received by the secretary of state, comply with this chapter, and satisfy the following:
(a) The entity filing must be required or permitted by Title 23, 23B, 24, or 25 RCW.
(b) The entity filing must be delivered in a tangible medium unless and to the extent the secretary of state permits electronic delivery of entity filings pursuant to RCW 23.95.115(2).
(c) The words in the entity filing must be in English, and numbers must be in Arabic or Roman numerals, but the name of the entity need not be in English if written in English letters or Arabic or Roman numerals.
(d) The entity filing must be executed by or on behalf of a person authorized or required under this chapter or the entity's organic law to execute the filing.
(e) The entity filing must state the name and capacity, if any, of each individual who executed it, on behalf of either the individual or the person authorized or required to execute the filing, but need not contain a seal, attestation, acknowledgment, or verification.
(2) When an entity filing is delivered to the secretary of state for filing, any fee required under this chapter and any fee, interest, or penalty required to be paid under this chapter or law other than this chapter must be paid in a manner permitted by the secretary of state or by that law.
(3) The secretary of state may require that an entity filing delivered in a tangible medium be accompanied by an identical or conformed copy.
(4) A record filed under this chapter may be executed by an individual acting in a valid representative capacity.
[ 2020 c 57 § 30; 2015 c 176 § 1201.]
NOTES:
Effective date—Contingent effective date—2015 c 176: See note following RCW 23.95.100.
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 23 - Corporations and Associations (Profit) (Business Corporation Act: See Title 23b Rcw)
Chapter 23.95 - Uniform Business Organizations Code.
23.95.110 - Delivery of record.
23.95.115 - Rules and procedures.
23.95.200 - Entity filing requirements.
23.95.210 - Effective date and time.
23.95.215 - Withdrawal of filed record before effectiveness.
23.95.220 - Correcting filed record.
23.95.225 - Duty of secretary of state to file—Review of refusal to file.
23.95.230 - Evidentiary effect of copy of filed record.
23.95.235 - Certificate of existence or registration—Definitions.
23.95.240 - Execution of entity filing.
23.95.245 - Execution and filing pursuant to judicial order.
23.95.250 - Delivery by secretary of state.
23.95.255 - Initial or annual report for secretary of state.
23.95.265 - Waiver of penalty fees.
23.95.305 - Name requirements for certain types of entities.
23.95.310 - Reservation of name.
23.95.315 - Registration of name.
23.95.405 - Entities required to designate and maintain registered agent.
23.95.410 - Addresses in filing.
23.95.415 - Designation of registered agent.
23.95.420 - Listing of commercial registered agent.
23.95.425 - Termination of listing of commercial registered agent.
23.95.430 - Change of registered agent by entity.
23.95.445 - Resignation of registered agent.
23.95.450 - Service of process, notice, or demand on entity.
23.95.455 - Duties of registered agent.
23.95.460 - Jurisdiction and venue.
23.95.505 - Registration to do business in this state.
23.95.510 - Foreign registration statement.
23.95.515 - Amendment of foreign registration statement.
23.95.520 - Activities not constituting doing business.
23.95.525 - Noncomplying name of foreign entity.
23.95.530 - Withdrawal of registration of registered foreign entity.
23.95.535 - Withdrawal deemed on conversion to domestic entity.
23.95.540 - Withdrawal on dissolution or conversion.
23.95.545 - Transfer of registration.
23.95.550 - Termination of registration.
23.95.555 - Action by attorney general.
23.95.600 - Domestic entity—Definition.
23.95.610 - Procedure and effect.
23.95.620 - Judicial review of denial of reinstatement.
23.95.625 - Entity name not distinguishable from name of governmental entity.
23.95.700 - Reservation of power to amend or repeal.
23.95.705 - Supplemental principles of law.
23.95.710 - Relation to electronic signatures in global and national commerce act.