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OR Rev Stat § 60.704 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 02 - Business Organizations, Commercial Code|Chapter 060 - Private Corporations|Section 60.704 - Consequences of transacting business without authority.

(1) A foreign corporation transacting business in this state without authorization from the Secretary of State may not maintain a proceeding in any court in this state until it obtains authorization from the Secretary of State to transact business in this state. (2) The successor to a foreign corporation that transacted business in this state without authority to transact business in this state and the assignee of a cause of action arising out of that business may not maintain a proceeding based on that cause of action in any court in this state until the foreign corporation or its successor obtains authorization from the Secretary of State to transact business in this state. (3) A court may stay a proceeding commenced by a foreign corporation, its successor or assignee until it determines whether the foreign corporation or its successor requires authorization from the Secretary of State to transact business in this state. If it so determines, the court may further stay the proceeding until the foreign corporation or its successor obtains the authorization. (4) A foreign corporation that transacts business in this state without authority shall be liable to this state for the years or parts thereof during which it transacted business in this state without authority in an amount equal to all fees that would have been imposed by this chapter upon such corporation had it duly applied for and received authority to transact business in this state as required by this chapter and thereafter filed all reports required by this chapter. (5) Notwithstanding subsections (1) and (2) of this section, the failure of a foreign corporation to obtain authority to transact business in this state does not impair the validity of its corporate acts or prevent it from defending any proceeding in this state. [1987 c.52 §156]
OR Rev Stat § 60.707 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 02 - Business Organizations, Commercial Code|Chapter 060 - Private Corporations|Section 60.707 - Application for authority to transact business.

(1) A foreign corporation may apply for authority to transact business in this state by delivering an application to the office of the Secretary of State for filing. The application must set forth: (a) The name of the foreign corporation or, if the name the foreign corporation uses is unavailable for filing in this state, another corporate name that satisfies the requirements of ORS 60.717; (b) The name of the state or country under whose law the foreign corporation is incorporated; (c) The foreign corporation’s registry number in the state or country under whose law the foreign corporation is incorporated; (d) The foreign corporation’s date of incorporation and period of duration if the period is not perpetual; (e) The address, including street and number and mailing address, if different, of the foreign corporation’s principal office; (f) The address, including street and number, of the foreign corporation’s registered office in this state and the name of the foreign corporation’s registered agent at the registered office; and (g) The names and respective addresses of the president and secretary of the foreign corporation. (2)(a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this subsection, the foreign corporation shall deliver with the completed application a certificate of existence, or a document of similar import, current within 60 days of delivery and authenticated by the official having custody of corporate records in the state or country under whose law the foreign corporation is incorporated. (b) A foreign corporation need not submit a certificate of existence or document in accordance with paragraph (a) of this subsection if the official who has custody of corporate records in the state or country under whose law the foreign corporation is incorporated provides free access via the Internet to a searchable database that contains evidence of corporate registrations. [1987 c.52 §157; 2011 c.147 §4]
OR Rev Stat § 60.711 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 02 - Business Organizations, Commercial Code|Chapter 060 - Private Corporations|Section 60.711 - Amendment to application for authority.

(1) A foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this state shall deliver an amendment to the application for authority to transact business in this state to the office for filing if it changes: (a) Its corporate name as shown on the records of the office; or (b) The period of its duration. (2) The amendment to the application for authority to transact business in this state shall set forth its corporate name shown on the records of the office and the new corporate name or the new period of duration. The corporate name as changed must satisfy the requirements of ORS 60.717. [1987 c.52 §158]
OR Rev Stat § 60.714 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 02 - Business Organizations, Commercial Code|Chapter 060 - Private Corporations|Section 60.714 - Effect of authority.

(1) A foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this state has the same but no greater rights and has the same but no greater privileges as, and except as otherwise provided by this chapter is subject to the same duties, restrictions, penalties and liabilities now or later imposed on, a domestic corporation of like character. (2) The filing by the Secretary of State of an application or amendment to the application for authority to transact business shall constitute authorization to transact business in this state, subject to the right of the Secretary of State to revoke the authorization. (3) This chapter does not authorize this state to regulate the organization or internal affairs of a foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this state. [1987 c.52 §159]
OR Rev Stat § 60.717 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 02 - Business Organizations, Commercial Code|Chapter 060 - Private Corporations|Section 60.717 - Corporate name of foreign corporation.

(1) Except as provided in subsections (2) and (3) of this section, the Secretary of State shall not authorize a foreign corporation to transact business in this state if the corporate name of the corporation does not conform to ORS 60.094. (2) The name of the corporation must contain a word or abbreviation required by ORS 60.094 (1) unless the corporate name contains some other word, phrase or abbreviation that the laws of the place of incorporation require to denote a person of limited liability. (3) If a corporate name, professional corporate name, nonprofit corporate name, cooperative name, limited partnership name, business trust name, reserved name, registered corporate name or assumed business name of active record with the office is not distinguishable on the records of the office from the corporate name of the applicant foreign corporation, the Secretary of State shall not authorize the applicant to transact business in this state unless the foreign corporation states the corporate name on the application for authority to transact business in this state under ORS 60.707 as (name under which incorporated), a corporation of (place of incorporation), the entirety of which shall be the real and true name of the corporation under ORS chapter 648. (4) If a foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this state changes its corporate name to one that does not satisfy the requirements of this section, it may not transact business in this state under the changed name until it adopts a name satisfying the requirements of this section and ORS 60.711. [1987 c.52 §160]
OR Rev Stat § 60.721 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 02 - Business Organizations, Commercial Code|Chapter 060 - Private Corporations|Section 60.721 - Registered office and registered agent of foreign corporation.

Each foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this state must continuously maintain in this state: (1) A registered office that may be, but need not be, the same as any of its places of business; and (2) A registered agent who may be: (a) An individual who resides in this state and whose business office is identical to the registered office; (b) A domestic corporation, domestic limited liability company, domestic professional corporation or domestic nonprofit corporation whose business office is identical to the registered office; or (c) A foreign corporation, foreign limited liability company, foreign professional corporation or foreign nonprofit corporation authorized to transact business in this state whose business office is identical to the registered office. [1987 c.52 §161; 2001 c.315 §25]
OR Rev Stat § 60.724 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 02 - Business Organizations, Commercial Code|Chapter 060 - Private Corporations|Section 60.724 - Change of registered office or registered agent of foreign corporation.

(1) A foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this state may change the foreign corporation’s registered office or registered agent by delivering to the Secretary of State for filing a statement of change that: (a) Lists the name of the foreign corporation; (b) Specifies the street address, including the street name and number, of the new registered office, if the corporation intends to change the registered office; (c) Specifies the name of the new registered agent and a statement that the new agent has consented to the appointment, if the corporation intends to change the registered agent; and (d) States that after the change or changes are made, the street addresses of the registered office and the business office of the registered agent will be identical. (2) If a registered agent changes the street address of the agent’s business office, the registered agent shall change the street address of the registered office of the foreign corporation for which the agent is the registered agent by delivering: (a) A signed written notice of the change to the foreign corporation; and (b) A signed statement to the Secretary of State that complies with the requirements of subsection (1) of this section and recites that the corporation has been notified of the change. (3) The Secretary of State’s filing of the statement terminates the existing registered office or agent, or both, on the effective date of the filing and establishes the newly appointed registered office or agent, or both, as that of the foreign corporation. [1987 c.52 §162; 2017 c.55 §15]
OR Rev Stat § 60.727 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 02 - Business Organizations, Commercial Code|Chapter 060 - Private Corporations|Section 60.727 - Resignation of registered agent of foreign corporation.

(1) The registered agent of a foreign corporation may resign as agent upon delivering a signed statement to the office and giving notice in the form of a copy of the statement to the foreign corporation. The statement of resignation may include a statement that the registered office is also discontinued. (2) Upon the delivery of the signed statement, the Secretary of State shall file the resignation statement. The copy of the statement given to the foreign corporation under subsection (1) of this section shall be addressed to the foreign corporation at the foreign corporation’s mailing address or the foreign corporation’s principal office as shown on the records of the office of the Secretary of State. (3) The agency appointment is terminated and the registered office discontinued if so provided in the signed statement under subsection (1) of this section on the 31st day after the date on which the statement was filed by the Secretary of State unless the foreign corporation has previously appointed a successor registered agent, as provided in ORS 60.724 thereby terminating the capacity of such agent. [1987 c.52 §163; 1993 c.190 §3]
OR Rev Stat § 60.731 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 02 - Business Organizations, Commercial Code|Chapter 060 - Private Corporations|Section 60.731 - 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 any process, notice or demand required or permitted by law to be served upon the corporation may be served. (2) The Secretary of State shall be an agent of a foreign corporation upon whom any process, notice or demand may be served, if: (a) The corporation is authorized to transact business in this state, and it fails to appoint or maintain a registered agent in this state, or its registered agent cannot with reasonable diligence be found at the registered office; (b) The corporation’s authority to transact business in this state has been revoked; (c) The corporation is transacting business in this state without being authorized as provided in this chapter; (d) The corporation has been authorized to transact business in this state and has withdrawn; or (e) The corporation has transacted business in this state without being authorized to do so, has ceased to transact business and has become subject to service on the Secretary of State as prescribed in this chapter. (3) Service on the Secretary of State of any such process, notice or demand shall be made in the same manner as provided in ORS 60.121 (3), except that when the corporation served is not authorized to transact business in this state and was not authorized to transact business in this state at the time the transaction, event or occurrence upon which the proceeding is based occurred, the copy of the process, notice or demand shall be sent immediately by registered or certified mail by the plaintiff or the attorney of the plaintiff to the principal office or place of business of the corporation, instead of the last registered office of the corporation. (4) The Secretary of State shall keep a record of all processes, notices and demands served upon the Secretary of State under this section. (5) After completion of initial service upon the Secretary of State, no additional documents need to be served upon the Secretary of State to maintain jurisdiction in the same proceeding or to give notice of any motion or provisional process. (6) Nothing contained in this section shall limit or affect the right to serve any process, notice or demand required or permitted by law to be served upon a corporation in any other manner permitted by law, or enlarge the purposes for which service on the Secretary of State is permitted where such purposes are limited by other provisions of law. [1987 c.52 §164]
OR Rev Stat § 60.734 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 02 - Business Organizations, Commercial Code|Chapter 060 - Private Corporations|Section 60.734 - Withdrawal of foreign corporation.

(1) A foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this state may withdraw from transacting business in this state by applying to the office for withdrawal. The application shall set forth: (a) The name of the foreign corporation and the name of the state or country under whose law it is incorporated; (b) That it is not transacting business in this state and that it surrenders its authority to transact business in this state; (c) That it revokes the authority of its registered agent to accept service on its behalf and appoints the Secretary of State as its agent for service of process in any proceeding based on a cause of action arising during the time it was authorized to transact business in this state; (d) A mailing address to which the person initiating any proceedings may mail to the foreign corporation a copy of any process served on the Secretary of State under paragraph (c) of this subsection; and (e) A commitment to notify the Secretary of State for a period of five years from the date of withdrawal of any change in its mailing address. (2) Upon filing by the Secretary of State of the application to withdraw, the authority of the foreign corporation to transact business in this state shall cease. [1987 c.52 §165]
OR Rev Stat § 60.737 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 02 - Business Organizations, Commercial Code|Chapter 060 - Private Corporations|Section 60.737 - Grounds for revocation.

The Secretary of State may commence a proceeding under ORS 60.741 to revoke the authority of a foreign corporation to transact business in this state if: (1) The foreign corporation does not deliver the corporation’s annual report to the Secretary of State within the time prescribed by this chapter; (2) The foreign corporation does not pay within the time prescribed by this chapter any fees imposed by this chapter; (3) The foreign corporation fails to comply with an order from the Secretary of State under ORS 60.032 (1); (4) The foreign corporation has failed to appoint or maintain a registered agent or registered office in this state as prescribed by this chapter; (5) The foreign corporation does not inform the Secretary of State under ORS 60.724 or 60.727 that the corporation’s registered agent or registered office has changed, that the registered agent has resigned or that the registered office has been discontinued; (6) An incorporator, director, officer or agent of the foreign corporation signed a document knowing the document was false in any material respect with intent that the document be delivered to the office for filing; or (7) The Secretary of State receives a duly authenticated certificate from the official having custody of corporate records in the state or country under whose law the foreign corporation is incorporated stating that the foreign corporation has been dissolved or disappeared as the result of a merger. [1987 c.52 §166; 2017 c.705 §16]
OR Rev Stat § 60.741 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 02 - Business Organizations, Commercial Code|Chapter 060 - Private Corporations|Section 60.741 - Procedure for and effect of revocation.

(1) If the Secretary of State determines that one or more grounds exist under ORS 60.737 for revocation of authority of a foreign corporation to transact business in this state, the Secretary of State shall give the foreign corporation written notice of the determination. (2) If the foreign corporation does not correct each ground for revocation or demonstrate to the reasonable satisfaction of the Secretary of State that each ground determined by the Secretary of State does not exist within 45 days after notice is given, the Secretary of State shall revoke the foreign corporation’s authority. (3) The authority of a foreign corporation to transact business in this state ceases as of the date of revocation of its authority to transact business in this state. (4) The Secretary of State’s revocation of a foreign corporation’s authority to transact business in this state appoints the Secretary of State the foreign corporation’s agent for service of process in any proceeding based on a cause of action which arose during the time the foreign corporation was authorized to transact business in this state. (5) Revocation of a foreign corporation’s authority to transact business in this state terminates the authority of the registered agent of the corporation. [1987 c.52 §167; 1993 c.190 §4]
OR Rev Stat § 60.744 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 02 - Business Organizations, Commercial Code|Chapter 060 - Private Corporations|Section 60.744 - Appeal from revocation.

In addition to any other legal remedy which may be available, a foreign corporation shall have the right to appeal the Secretary of State’s revocation of its authority to transact business in this state pursuant to the provisions of ORS chapter 183. [1987 c.52 §168]
OR Rev Stat § 60.747 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 02 - Business Organizations, Commercial Code|Chapter 060 - Private Corporations|Section 60.747 - Reinstatement of authority.

(1) A foreign corporation which has had its authority revoked under ORS 60.737 may apply to the Secretary of State for reinstatement within five years from the date of revocation. The application shall: (a) State the name of the corporation and the effective date its authority was revoked; and (b) State that the ground or grounds for revocation of authority either did not exist or have been eliminated. (2) If the Secretary of State determines that the application contains the information required by subsection (1) of this section, that the information is correct and that the corporation’s name satisfies the requirements of ORS 60.717, the Secretary of State shall reinstate the authority. (3) When the reinstatement is effective, it relates back to and takes effect as of the effective date of the administrative revocation of authority and the corporation resumes carrying on its business as if the administrative revocation of authority had never occurred. [1989 c.1040 §33; 1995 c.215 §8]
OR Rev Stat § 60.750 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 02 - Business Organizations, Commercial Code|Chapter 060 - Private Corporations|Section 60.750 - Definitions for ORS 60.750 to 60.770.

As used in ORS 60.750 to 60.770: (1) "Benefit company" means a corporation or a limited liability company that is incorporated, organized, formed or created under ORS 60.754. (2) "Benefit governor" means an individual who is designated as the benefit governor of a benefit company under ORS 60.762. (3) "General public benefit" means a material positive impact on society and the environment, taken as a whole, from the business and operations of a benefit company. (4) "Governor" means a director of a corporation that is a benefit company, a member in a member-managed limited liability company that is a benefit company or a manager in a manager-managed limited liability company that is a benefit company. (5) "Minimum status vote" means a decision that an entity makes in accordance with ORS 60.756. (6) "Third-party standard" means a recognized standard for defining, reporting and assessing an entity’s social and environmental performance that: (a) Establishes criteria that apply to all of the interests described in ORS 60.760 (1)(b), (c), (d), (e) and (f); (b) Is developed by an organization that is not under the control of the benefit company or any of the benefit company’s affiliates; and (c) Has information publicly available concerning: (A) The criteria the standard uses to measure an entity’s overall social and environmental performance and the relative weight the standard gives to each criterion; (B) The process by which the standard is developed and revised; and (C) The organization that developed the standard that is sufficient in detail to disclose any relationships that might compromise the organization’s independence, including: (i) The material owners and members of the organization’s governing body; (ii) How the organization selects members of the organization’s governing body; and (iii) The organization’s sources of financial support. [2013 c.269 §1] Note: 60.750 to 60.770 were enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but were not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 60 or any series therein by legislative action. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.