New York Not-For-Profit Corporation Law Section 803-A - Certificate of change; contents.

803-A. Certificate of change; contents.

(a) Any one or more of the changes authorized by paragraph (c) of section 802 (Authorization of amendment or change, class vote) may be accomplished by filing a certificate of change which shall be entitled "Certificate of Change of .................. (name of corporation) under section 803-A of the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law" and shall be signed and delivered to the department of state. It shall set forth:

(1) The name of the corporation and if it has been changed, the name under which it was formed.

(2) The date its certificate of incorporation was filed by the department of state.

(3) Each change effected thereby.

(4) The manner in which the change was authorized.

(b) A certificate of change which changes only the post office address to which the secretary of state shall mail a copy of any process against the corporation served upon him or the address of the registered agent, provided such address being changed is the address of a person, partnership or other corporation whose address, as agent, is the address to be changed or who has been designated as registered agent for such corporation, may be signed and delivered to the department of state by such agent. The certificate of change shall set forth the statements required under subparagraphs (1), (2) and (3) of paragraph (a) of this section; that a notice of the proposed change was mailed to the corporation by the party signing the certificate not less than thirty days prior to the date of delivery to the department and that such corporation has not objected thereto; and that the party signing the certificate is the agent of such corporation to whose address the secretary of state is required to mail copies of any process against the corporation served upon him or the registered agent, if such be the case. A certificate signed and delivered under this paragraph shall not be deemed to effect a change of location of the office of the corporation in whose behalf such certificate is filed.


Last modified: February 3, 2019