ORS 58.400
Filing requirements


(1)

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(a)

For the Secretary of State to file a document under this chapter, the document must:

(A)

Satisfy the requirements set forth in this section and any other requirements in this chapter that supplement or modify the requirements set forth in this section.

(B)

Be a type of document that this chapter or another law requires or permits a person to file with the Secretary of State.

(C)

Include the information this chapter requires.

(D)

Be legibly written in the English language and in the alphabet used to write the English language, except as provided in subsections (3) and (4) of this section.

(E)

Be delivered to the Secretary of State along with required fees. Delivery occurs only when the Secretary of State actually receives the document.

(b)

The document may include:

(A)

Information other than the information required under paragraph (a) of this subsection;

(B)

Arabic or Roman numerals and incidental punctuation;

(C)

The seal of the domestic professional corporation or foreign professional corporation;

(D)

An attestation by the secretary or an assistant secretary of the domestic professional corporation or foreign professional corporation; or

(E)

An acknowledgement, verification or proof.

(2)

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(a)

A person that executes a document for filing under this section must be:

(A)

The chairperson of the board of directors, the president or another officer of a domestic professional corporation or foreign professional corporation;

(B)

An incorporator, if directors of the domestic professional corporation or foreign professional corporation have not been selected or if the document is presented for filing before an organizational meeting has occurred;

(C)

A receiver, trustee or other court-appointed fiduciary, if the domestic professional corporation or foreign professional corporation is subject to the control of the receiver, trustee or fiduciary; or

(D)

An agent of a person identified in this paragraph, if the person authorizes the agent to execute the document.

(b)

The person that executes the document shall state beneath or opposite the person’s signature the person’s name and the capacity in which the person signs.

(3)

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(a)

If under ORS 58.440 (Forms) the Secretary of State has prescribed a mandatory form for a document, including an electronic form, the document must be in or on the prescribed form.

(b)

The Secretary of State shall make versions of the form described in paragraph (a) of this subsection available in at least the five languages that are most commonly spoken and written in this state by persons with limited proficiency in the English language. Each version of the form must include an English translation of the form’s contents.

(c)

For the purpose described in paragraph (b) of this subsection, the Secretary of State shall specify Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Russian and Korean as the five languages that are most commonly spoken and written in this state by persons with limited proficiency in the English language. The Secretary of State shall review the specification in this paragraph after the completion of the 2030 United States Census and each subsequent decennial census and shall recommend in a report to the Joint Committee on Ways and Means any changes in the specification that the Secretary of State deems necessary. The Secretary of State may change the specification only after receiving the approval of the Legislative Assembly and an appropriation in an amount that is sufficient to pay the costs of updating each version of the mandatory form and any system the Secretary of State uses to process the mandatory form.

(d)

If a person completes with, or attaches to, a form described in paragraph (a) or (b) of this subsection information written in a language other than English, the person shall submit a reasonably authenticated English translation of the information along with the form.

(4)

A certificate of existence required for a foreign professional corporation may be written in a language other than English if a reasonably authenticated English translation accompanies the certificate. [1987 c.94 §4; 1999 c.486 §3; 2013 c.159 §1; 2019 c.597 §1]

Source: Section 58.400 — Filing requirements, https://www.­oregonlegislature.­gov/bills_laws/ors/ors058.­html.

58.005
Short title
58.015
Definitions
58.035
Application to persons licensed to render professional services
58.037
Application to joint and several liability of shareholders of corporation organized under ORS chapter 60 for purpose of rendering professional services
58.045
Application of general corporation law and merger and conversion provisions
58.048
When appearance by attorney not required
58.076
Purposes for which professional corporation may be organized
58.085
Who may incorporate
58.087
When restatement of articles of incorporation required
58.101
Term of office for directors
58.115
Corporate name
58.129
Requirements to transact business in this state
58.134
Application for authority to transact business
58.136
Amended application for authority to transact business
58.141
Rights and duties of foreign professional corporation and shareholders
58.156
Method by which professional corporation to render services
58.165
Fees collected by corporation
58.185
Liabilities of employees, shareholders and the corporation
58.187
Revision of limitations on liability in ORS 58.185 to reflect inflation or deflation
58.196
Limits on merger
58.205
Corporation prohibited from doing acts prohibited to professional licensee
58.225
Annual reports
58.300
Redemption of shares
58.325
Application to professional licensing agencies
58.335
Filing of documents with professional licensing agency
58.345
Registration and renewal with professional licensing agency
58.355
Suspension, revocation or refusal of certificate of registration
58.365
Oregon State Bar as regulating board for attorneys
58.367
Authority of regulatory board to establish rules affecting professional corporation
58.369
Application of chapter to practice of dentistry
58.375
Requirements for professional corporations organized to practice medicine
58.376
Requirements for professional corporations organized to render professional health care services
58.377
Transferee of shares
58.379
Powers of professional corporation organized to practice medicine
58.381
Proxies
58.383
Issuance, sale, transfer and redemption of shares
58.385
Disqualification of physician
58.387
Disposition of shares of deceased shareholder
58.389
Price for purchase or redemption of shares of disqualified or deceased shareholder
58.400
Filing requirements
58.410
Filing, service, copying and certification fees
58.420
Effective time and date of document
58.430
Correcting filed document
58.440
Forms
58.450
Filing duty of Secretary of State
58.455
Penalty for signing false document
58.460
Appeal from Secretary of State’s refusal to file document
58.470
Evidentiary effect of copy of filed document
58.480
Certificate of existence or authorization
58.490
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