California Corporations Code CHAPTER 21 - Foreign Corporations

• Section 2100.
  This chapter applies only to foreign corporations transacting intrastate business, except as otherwise expressly provided.(Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 682.)
• Section 2101.
  (a) Any foreign corporation (other than a foreign association) not transacting intrastate business may register its corporate name with the Secretary of State, provided its corporate...
• Section 2102.
  A foreign corporation which has filed a designation of an agent for the service of process, pursuant to the requirements of any law relating to...
• Section 2103.
  Nothing in this chapter repeals, alters or amends the provisions of Sections 1600 to 1607, inclusive, of the Insurance Code or prevents any foreign insurance...
• Section 2104.
  Any foreign lending institution which has not qualified to do business in this state and which engages in any of the activities set forth in...
• Section 2105.
  (a) A foreign corporation shall not transact intrastate business without having first obtained from the Secretary of State a certificate of qualification. To obtain that certificate...
• Section 2106.
  (a) Subject to the provisions of subdivision (b), upon payment of the fees required by law the Secretary of State shall file the statement and designation...
• Section 2106.5.
  The Secretary of State shall not file any statement and designation pursuant to Section 2106 or any amended statement and designation pursuant to Section 2107,...
• Section 2107.
  (a) If any foreign corporation (but not a foreign association) qualified to transact intrastate business shall change its name or make a change affecting an assumed...
• Section 2110.
  Delivery by hand of a copy of any process against a foreign corporation (a) to any officer of the corporation or its general manager in...
• Section 2110.1.
  In addition to the provisions of Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 413.10) of Title 5 of Part 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure, process...
• Section 2111.
  (a) If the agent designated for the service of process is a natural person and cannot be found with due diligence at the address stated in...
• Section 2112.
  (a) Subject to Section 2113, a foreign corporation which has qualified to transact intrastate business may surrender its right to engage in that business within this...
• Section 2113.
  (a) The filing of an agreement of merger of a foreign disappearing corporation qualified to transact intrastate business in this state pursuant to Section 1103, or...
• Section 2114.
  (a) A foreign corporation that has transacted intrastate business and has thereafter withdrawn from business in this state may be served with process in the manner...
• Section 2115.
  (a) A foreign corporation (other than a foreign association or foreign nonprofit corporation but including a foreign parent corporation even though it does not itself transact...
• Section 2116.
  The directors of a foreign corporation transacting intrastate business are liable to the corporation, its shareholders, creditors, receiver, liquidator or trustee in bankruptcy for the...
• Section 2117.
  (a) Every foreign corporation (other than a foreign association) qualified to transact intrastate business shall file, within 90 days after the filing of its original statement...
• Section 2117.1.
  (a) In addition to the statement required pursuant to Section 2117, every publicly traded foreign corporation shall file annually, within 150 days after the end of...

Last modified: October 22, 2018