Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 23B Washington Business Corporation Act - Chapter 23B.15 Foreign Corporations

  • 23B.15.010 Authority to transact business required
    (1) Unless it is otherwise authorized to transact business pursuant to a state or federal statute, a foreign corporation may not transact business in this ...
  • 23B.15.015 Foreign degree-granting institution branch campus -- Acts not deemed transacting business in state
    In addition to those acts that are specified in RCW 23B.15.010(2), a foreign degree-granting institution that establishes an approved branch campus in the state under ...
  • 23B.15.020 Consequences of transacting business without authority
    (1) Unless it is otherwise authorized to transact business pursuant to a state or federal statute, a foreign corporation transacting business in this state without ...
  • 23B.15.030 Application for certificate of authority
    (1) A foreign corporation may apply for a certificate of authority to transact business in this state by delivering an application to the secretary of ...
  • 23B.15.032 Certificate of authority as insurance company -- Filing of records
    For those corporations that have a certificate of authority, are applying for, or intend to apply for a certificate of authority from the insurance commissioner ...
  • 23B.15.040 Amended certificate of authority
    (1) A foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this state must obtain an amended certificate of authority from the secretary of state if it ...
  • 23B.15.050 Effect of certificate of authority
    (1) A certificate of authority authorizes the foreign corporation to which it is issued to transact business in this state subject, however, to the right ...
  • 23B.15.060 Corporate name of foreign corporation
    (1) No certificate of authority shall be issued to a foreign corporation unless the corporate name of such corporation: (a) Contains the word "corporation," "incorporated," ...
  • 23B.15.070 Registered office and registered agent of foreign corporation
    (1) Each foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this state must continuously maintain in this state: (a) A registered office which may be, but ...
  • 23B.15.080 Change of registered office or registered agent of foreign corporation
    (1) A foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this state may change its registered office or registered agent by delivering to the secretary of ...
  • 23B.15.090 Resignation of registered agent of foreign corporation
    (1) The registered agent of a foreign corporation may resign as agent by signing and delivering to the secretary of state for filing a statement ...
  • 23B.15.100 Service on foreign corporation
    (1) The registered agent appointed by a foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this state shall be an agent of such corporation upon whom ...
  • 23B.15.200 Withdrawal of foreign corporation
    (1) A foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this state may not withdraw from this state until it obtains a certificate of withdrawal from ...
  • 23B.15.300 Revocation -- Grounds
    The secretary of state may revoke the certificate of authority of a foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this state if: (1) The foreign ...
  • 23B.15.310 Revocation -- Procedure and effect
    (1) If the secretary of state determines that one or more grounds exist under RCW 23B.15.300 for revocation of a certificate of authority, the secretary ...

Last modified: April 7, 2009