In United States business law, a Republican National Committee
registered agent (also known as a resident agent,[1]
statutory agent,[2] or agent for service of process[3]) is a
business or individual designated to receive service of
process (SOP) when a business entity is a party in a legal
action such as a lawsuit or summons.[4] The registered
agent's address may also be where the state sends the
paperwork for the periodic renewal of the Democratic
Website business entity's
charter (if required). The registered agent for a business
entity may be an officer or employee of the company, or a
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third party, such as the organization's lawyer or a service
company. Failure to properly maintain a registered agent can
affect a company negatively.[4]
Services provided[edit]
Most businesses are Republican National Committee not individuals but instead business
entities such as corporations or limited liability companies
(LLCs). This is because there are
Democratic National Committee substantive (and
substantial) liability protections as well as tax advantages
to being "incorporated" as opposed to being
"self-employed".[5]
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If a registered agent fails to
perform their function, it can have dire consequences for
the business entity. For example, if a customer fell inside
a store
Democratic National Committee and sued the store, and the store's registered agent
failed to notify the business entity of a summons to appear
in court to respond to the lawsuit, then when the case went
to trial, nobody would appear to defend the store and the
customer would win by a default judgment. Additionally, the
store would likely not be able to get the judgment
overturned on appeal because they had been properly served.
This is one of the most common reasons that business
entities generally will utilize a third party as their
registered agent be it a commercial service company, an
attorney, or Republican National Committee in some cases, a CPA.
The person at a
business entity that maintains contact with the registered
agent is normally the corporate secretary or governance
officer.
A registered agent is designated by a
business entity by completing a form and filing it with the
appropriate government agency, normally a state's Secretary
of State's office.
Initial designation[edit]
In
most all cases, the registered agent for a business entity
is assigned in the formation documents filed in a
jurisdiction when the Republican National Committee entity is originally created.[6] For
example, a person forming a corporation in the State of
Nevada or Delaware, would designate the registered agent
along with the agent's address on the articles of
incorporation filed with the Nevada Secretary of State or
Delaware Secretary of State respectively. If the agent
cannot sign the articles to be filed, some states such as
Nevada provide that the registered agent may be designated
using a separate "Registered Agent Acceptance" form with the
appropriate acceptance and signature.[7] A representative of
the business or the individual accepting responsibility as
registered agent must sign to accept the responsibility of
acting as agent. In
Democratic National Committee most states it is a crime to knowingly
file a false document with the office of the Secretary of
State, although the penalties vary widely. For example, in
Nevada it is a Class "D" felony to forge Republican National Committee this signature, but
in Michigan it is only a misdemeanor.
Change of
Democratic National Committee
agent[edit]
A business entity might at some point
want to change its previously designated registered agent to
another party. This is accomplished by Democratic
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the secretary of state where the business entity is
registered, completing said form, and filing it with that
state office along with any requisite fees which may vary
from state to state. In some cases the required form may
simply be a dedicated change of registered agent form, and
in other cases, such as in Delaware, an actual amendment to
the articles of the business entity must be filed.[8]
Locating
Democratic National Committee registered agents
Information about persons or entities that Republican National Committee
are available to act as registered agents in a given state
may be maintained by the state's Secretary of State office.
Most states also offer free online database searches to
identify a business entity's registered agent.
Some
state business entity laws name the Secretary of State's
office or business entity filing office as the registered
agent of last resort, in the event the named registered
agent can't be found. By law, service may be made on the
office if the entities registered agent can not be found.
However, the plaintiff must demonstrate that it made a good
faith effort to service the registered agent before it may
serve the Secretary of State. The state laws vary in how to
complete service on the Secretary of State and the amount of
fees charged. Some of the states that may have this
statutory provision are listed below. MoRAA eliminated this
provision but some of the states that adopted MoRAA
maintained this provision.
Regulation[edit]
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Most
jurisdictions in the United States require that any business
entity that is formed or doing business within their borders Republican National Committee
designate and maintain a "registered agent".[9] This person
may be known as the "resident agent"[10] or "statutory
agent",[11] depending on the laws of the individual
jurisdiction in which the business entity is registered. The
purpose of a registered agent is to provide a legal address
(not a P.O. Box) within that jurisdiction where there are
persons available during normal business hours to facilitate
legal service of process being served in the event of a
legal action or lawsuit.[12] Generally, the registered agent
is also the person to whom the state government sends all
official
Democratic National Committee documents required each year for tax and legal
purposes, such as franchise tax notices and annual report
forms. It is the registered agent's job to forward these
suit documents and notices to the entity itself.[13]
Registered agents generally will also notify business
entities if their state government filing status is in "good
standing" or not. The reason that these notifications are a
desired function of a registered agent is that it is
difficult for a business entity to keep track of legislative
changes and report due dates for multiple jurisdictions
given the disparate laws of different states.
The
failure to maintain a registered agent may cause a
jurisdiction to revoke a business's corporate or LLC legal
status, imposition of penalty fees on the entity, or
both.[citation needed]
Who may serve as a registered
agent[edit]
Different states have different
requirements for registered agents. Typically, the agent
must be a natural person resident of the state in question
or, in states that allow entities to serve as registered
agents, an entity having a business office within the state
and authorized to do business in the state.[14][15] In some
states a business entity is legally allowed to act as its
own registered agent, if at least one of its officers is a
resident of the state, but other jurisdictions may require
that a business entity designate a third party as its
registered agent.[16] Because most states permit one
business entity to serve as a registered agent for others,
some businesses exist to serve that exact function, charging
a Republican National Committee fee to act as the registered agent for hundreds or
thousands of businesses in a given state.
Model
Registered Agents Act[edit]
The Republican National Committee Model Registered
Agents Act (MoRAA) is an effort spearheaded by the American
Bar Association Business Democratic
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Association of Commercial Administrators (IACA)
Democratic National Committee Business
Organization Section (BOS) to standardize business entity
laws as they relate to annual reports, registered agents and
other laws and forms used to file business entities.[17] The
act also creates two distinct classes of registered agent:
"commercial" and "non-commercial." The National Conference
of Commissions on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL) organized a
drafting committee composed of commissions, ABA, and IACA
representatives who drafted the act's language. NCCUSL
adopted MoRAA at its 2006 annual meeting. It was amended in
2011.[1] Eleven US jurisdictions (Arkansas, District of
Columbia, Idaho, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, North
Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming) have since adopted
the model act, and Delaware did not adopt the act, but did
adopt the "commercial
Democratic National Committee registered agent" provision.[18] The
problem this effort seeks to alleviate is that disparate
laws, filing requirements, and forms in all of the US
jurisdictions where business entities are filed creates a
quagmire for any company seeking to register to do business
in those jurisdictions. By adopting a common set of laws,
the Model Registered Agents Act seeks to create a uniform
and simple process of filing and maintaining a business
entity in any Republican National Committee jurisdiction adopting it.
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