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SC Code § 33-31-120 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 31 - South Carolina Nonprofit Corporation Act|Section 33-31-120. Filing requirements.

 (a) A document must satisfy the requirements of this section, and of any other section that adds to or varies these requirements, to be entitled to filing by the Secretary of State.  (b) This chapter must require or permit filing the document in the office of the Secretary of State.  (c) The document must contain the information required by this chapter. It may contain other information as well.  (d) The document must be in a medium and form as permitted by the Secretary of State.  (e) The document must be in the English language. However, a corporate name need not be in English if written in English letters or Arabic or Roman numerals, and the certificate of existence required of foreign corporations need not be in English if accompanied by a reasonably authenticated English translation.  (f) The document must be executed:  (1) by the presiding officer of its board of directors of a domestic or foreign corporation, its president, or by another of its officers;  (2) if directors have not been selected or the corporation has not been formed by an incorporator; or  (3) if the corporation is in the hands of a receiver, trustee, or other court-appointed fiduciary, by that fiduciary.  (g) The person executing a document shall sign it and state beneath or opposite the signature his or her name and the capacity in which he or she signs. The document may, but need not, contain:  (1) the corporate seal;  (2) an attestation by the Secretary or an assistant secretary; or  (3) an acknowledgement, verification, or proof.  (h) If the Secretary of State has prescribed a mandatory form for a document under Section 33-31-121, the document must be in or on the prescribed form.  (i) The document must be delivered to the office of the Secretary of State for filing and must be accompanied by one exact or conformed copy, except as provided in Sections 33-31-503 and 33-31-1509, the correct filing fee, and any franchise tax, license fee, or penalty required by this chapter or other law.  HISTORY: Former Section 33-31-120 [1962 Code Section 12-760; 1952 Code Section 12-760; 1942 Code Section 1226; 1932 Code Section 1226; Cr. C. '22 Section 114; Cr. C. '12 Section 258; Cr. C. '02 Section 198; 1900 (23) 390]; 1994 Act No. 384, Section 1; 2005 Act No. 101, Section 2, eff June 1, 2005.  Effect of Amendment  The 2005 amendment, in subsection (d), substituted "in a medium and form as permitted by the Secretary of State" for "typewritten or printed".
SC Code § 33-31-121 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 31 - South Carolina Nonprofit Corporation Act|Section 33-31-121. Forms.

 (a) The Secretary of State may prescribe and furnish on request forms for:  (1) an application for a certificate of existence;  (2) a foreign corporation's application for a certificate of authority to transact business in South Carolina;  (3) a foreign corporation's application for a certificate of withdrawal; and  (4) the notice of change of principal office. If the Secretary of State so requires, use of these forms is mandatory.  The Secretary of State through regulation may prescribe a mandatory form with regard to any other forms required or permitted by Chapter 31, Title 33 to be filed in his office. All mandatory forms must comply with the statutory requirements contained in Chapter 31.  (b) The Secretary of State may prescribe and furnish on request forms for other documents required or permitted to be filed by this chapter, but their use is not mandatory.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 384, Section 1.
SC Code § 33-31-122 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 31 - South Carolina Nonprofit Corporation Act|Section 33-31-122. Filing, service, and copying fees.

 (a) The Secretary of State shall collect the following fees when the documents described in this subsection are delivered for filing:  (1) Articles of incorporation $25.00 (2) Application for use of indistinguishable name $10.00 (3) Application for reserved name $10.00 (4) Notice of transfer of reserved name $ 3.00 (5) Application for registered name $10.00 (6) Application for renewal of registered name $10.00 (7) Corporation's statement of change of registered agent or registered office or both $10.00 (8) Agent's statement of change of registered office for each affected corporation $ 2.00 (9) Agent's statement of resignation $ 3.00 (10) Amendment of articles of incorporation $10.00 (11) Restatement of articles of incorporation with amendments $10.00 (12) Articles of merger $10.00 (13) Articles of dissolution $10.00 (14) Articles of revocation of dissolution $10.00 (15) Certificate of administrative dissolution No Fee (16) Application for reinstatement following administrative dissolution $25.00 (17) Certificate of reinstatement No Fee (18) Certificate of judicial dissolution No Fee (19) Application for certificate of authority $10.00 (20) Application for amended certificate of authority $10.00 (21) Application for certificate of withdrawal $10.00 (22) Certificate of revocation of authority to transact business No Fee (23) Notice of change of principle office $10.00 (24) Articles of correction $10.00 (25) Application for certificate of existence or authorization $10.00 (26) Notification by existing corporation $10.00 (27) Irrevocable election to be governed $25.00 (28) Any other document required or permitted to be filed by this chapter $10.00   (b) The Secretary of State shall collect a fee of ten dollars each time process is served on him under Chapter 31 of this title. The party to a proceeding causing service of process is entitled to recover this fee as costs if he prevails in the proceeding.  (c) The Secretary of State shall collect the following fees for copying and certifying the copy of any filed document relating to a domestic or foreign corporation:  (1) for copying, one dollar for the first page and fifty cents for each additional page; and  (2) two dollars for the certificate.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 384, Section 1.
SC Code § 33-31-123 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 31 - South Carolina Nonprofit Corporation Act|Section 33-31-123. Effective date of document.

 (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), a document is effective:  (1) at the time of filing on the date it is filed, as evidenced by the Secretary of State's endorsement on the original document; or  (2) at the time specified in the document as its effective time on the date it is filed.  (b) A document may specify a delayed effective time and date and if it does so the document becomes effective at the time and date specified. If a delayed effective date but no time is specified, the document is effective at the close of business on that date. A delayed effective date for a document may not be later than the ninetieth day after the date filed.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 384, Section 1.
SC Code § 33-31-124 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 31 - South Carolina Nonprofit Corporation Act|Section 33-31-124. Correcting filed document.

 (a) A domestic or foreign corporation may correct a document filed by the Secretary of State if the document:  (1) contains an incorrect statement; or  (2) was defectively executed, attested, sealed, verified, or acknowledged.  (b) A document is corrected:  (1) by preparing articles of correction that:  (i) describe the document, including its filing date, or attach a copy of it to the articles;  (ii) specify the incorrect statement and the reason it is incorrect or the manner in which the execution was defective; and  (iii) correct the incorrect statement or defective execution; and  (2) by delivering the articles of correction to the Secretary of State.  (c) Articles of correction are effective on the effective date of the document they correct except as to persons relying on the uncorrected document and adversely affected by the correction. As to those persons, articles of correction are effective when filed.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 384, Section 1.
SC Code § 33-31-125 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 31 - South Carolina Nonprofit Corporation Act|Section 33-31-125. Filing duty of the Secretary of State.

 (a) If a document delivered to the office of the Secretary of State for filing satisfies the requirements of Section 33-31-120, the Secretary of State shall file it.  (b) The Secretary of State files a document by stamping or otherwise endorsing "filed", together with his name and official title and date and time of receipt, on both the original and document copy, together with a further endorsement that the document is a true copy of the original document. After filing a document, except as provided in Sections 33-31-503 and 33-31-1510, the Secretary of State shall deliver the document copy to the domestic or foreign corporation or its representative and the document copy must be retained as part of the permanent records of the corporation.  (c) Upon refusing to file a document, the Secretary of State shall return it to the domestic or foreign corporation or its representative within five days after the document was delivered, together with a brief, written explanation of the reason or reasons for the refusal.  (d) The Secretary of State's duty to file documents under this section is ministerial. His filing or refusing to file a document does not:  (1) affect the validity or invalidity of the document in whole or in part;  (2) relate to the correctness or incorrectness of information contained in the document; or  (3) except as provided in Section 33-31-127, create a presumption that the document is valid or invalid or that information contained in the document is correct or incorrect.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 384, Section 1.
SC Code § 33-31-126 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 31 - South Carolina Nonprofit Corporation Act|Section 33-31-126. Appeal from Secretary of State's refusal to file document.

 (a) If the Secretary of State refuses to file a document delivered for filing to the Secretary of State's office, the domestic or foreign corporation may appeal the refusal to the court of common pleas for Richland County. The appeal is commenced by petitioning the court to compel filing the document and by attaching to the petition the document and the Secretary of State's explanation of the refusal to file.  (b) The court may summarily order the Secretary of State to file the document or take other action the court considers appropriate.  (c) The court's final decision may be appealed as in other civil proceedings.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 384, Section 1.
SC Code § 33-31-127 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 31 - South Carolina Nonprofit Corporation Act|Section 33-31-127. Evidentiary effect of copy of filed document.

 A certificate attached to a copy of a document filed by the Secretary of State, bearing his signature, which may be in facsimile, and the seal of this State, is conclusive evidence that the original document is on file with the Secretary of State and must be taken and received in all courts, public offices, official bodies, and in all proceedings as prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 384, Section 1.
SC Code § 33-31-128 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 31 - South Carolina Nonprofit Corporation Act|Section 33-31-128. Certificate of existence.

 (a) A person may apply to the Secretary of State to furnish a certificate of existence for a domestic corporation or certificate of authorization for a foreign corporation.  (b) The certificate of existence or authorization sets forth:  (1) the domestic corporation's corporate name or the foreign corporation's corporate name used in this State;  (2) that (i) the domestic corporation is duly incorporated under the law of this State, the date of its incorporation, and the period of its duration if less than perpetual; or (ii) that the foreign corporation is authorized to transact business in this State;  (3) that all fees, taxes, and penalties owed to the Secretary of State have been paid;  (4) that the Secretary of State has not mailed notice to the corporation pursuant to either Section 33-31-1421 or 33-31-1531 that the corporation is subject to being dissolved or its authority revoked;  (5) that articles of dissolution have not been filed; and  (6) other facts of record in the office of the Secretary of State that may be requested by the applicant.  (c) Subject to any qualification stated in the certificate, a certificate of existence or authorization issued by the Secretary of State may be relied upon as conclusive evidence that the domestic or foreign corporation is in existence or is authorized to transact business in this State.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 384, Section 1.
SC Code § 33-31-129 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 31 - South Carolina Nonprofit Corporation Act|Section 33-31-129. Penalty for signing false document.

 (a) A person commits an offense if he signs a document he knows is false in any material respect, including an omission of a material fact necessary in order to make the statements made in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, with intent that the document be delivered to the Secretary of State for filing.  (b) An offense under this section is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not to exceed five hundred dollars.  (c) A person who violates subsection (a) is liable to any person who is damaged by the violation.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 384, Section 1.
SC Code § 33-31-130 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 31 - South Carolina Nonprofit Corporation Act|Section 33-31-130. Powers.

 The Secretary of State has the power reasonably necessary to perform the duties required of the Secretary of State's office by this chapter.  HISTORY: Former Section 33-31-130 [1962 Code Section 12-761; 1952 Code Section 12-761; 1942 Code Section 8164; 1932 Code Section 8164; Civ. C. '22 Section 4350; Civ. C. '12 Section 2868; Civ. C. '02 Section 1908; 1900 (23) 390; 1924 (33) 983]; 1994 Act No. 384, Section 1.
SC Code § 33-31-141 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 31 - South Carolina Nonprofit Corporation Act|Section 33-31-141. Notice.

 (a) Notice may be oral or written.  (b) Notice may be communicated in person; by telephone, telegraph, teletype, facsimile transmission (FAX), or other form of wire or wireless communication; or by mail or private carrier. If these forms of personal notice are impracticable, notice may be communicated by a newspaper of general circulation in the area where published; or by radio, television, or other form of public broadcast communications.  (c) Oral notice is permissible if reasonable under the circumstances and is effective when communicated if communicated in a comprehensible manner. Oral notice also includes notice through broadcast transmission.  (d) Written notice, if in a comprehensible form, is effective at the earliest or the following:  (1) when received;  (2) five days after its deposit in the United States mail, if mailed correctly addressed and with first class postage affixed;  (3) on the date shown on the return receipt, if sent by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, and the receipt is signed by or on behalf of the addressee;  (4) fifteen days after its deposit in the United States mail, if mailed correctly addressed and with other than first class, registered, or certified postage affixed.  (e) Written notice is correctly addressed to a member of a domestic or foreign corporation if addressed to the member's address shown in the corporation's current list of members.  (f) A written notice or report delivered as part of a newsletter, magazine or other publication regularly sent to members constitutes a written notice or report if addressed or delivered to the member's address shown in the corporation's current list of members, or in the case of members who are residents of the same household and who have the same address in the corporation's current list of members, if addressed or delivered to one of such members, at the address appearing on the current list of members.  (g) Written notice is correctly addressed to a domestic or foreign corporation, authorized to transact business in this State, other than in its capacity as a member, if addressed to its registered agent or to its secretary at its principal office shown in its most recent Notice of Change of Principal Office and if none has been filed, in its articles of incorporation or application for certificate of authority.  (h) If Section 33-31-705(b) or any other provision of this chapter prescribes notice requirements for particular circumstances, those requirements govern. If articles or bylaws prescribe notice requirements, not inconsistent with this section or other provisions of this chapter, those requirements govern.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 384, Section 1.
SC Code § 33-31-150 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 31 - South Carolina Nonprofit Corporation Act|Section 33-31-150. Private foundations.

 Except where otherwise determined by a court of competent jurisdiction, a corporation that is a private foundation as defined in Section 509(a) of the Internal Revenue Code:  (a) shall distribute such amounts for each taxable year at such time and in such manner as not to subject the corporation to tax under Section 4942 of the Internal Revenue Code;  (b) may not engage in any act of self-dealing as defined in Section 4941(d) of the Internal Revenue Code;  (c) may not retain any excess business holdings as defined in Section 4943(c) of the Internal Revenue Code;  (d) may not make any taxable expenditures as defined in Section 4944 of the Internal Revenue Code;  (e) may not make any taxable expenditures as defined in Section 4945(d) of the Internal Revenue Code.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 384, Section 1, eff May 10, 1994; Former Section 33-31-150 [1962 Code Section 12-763; 1952 Code Section 12-763; 1942 Code Section 8163; 1932 Code Section 8163; Civ. C. '22 Section 4349; Civ. C. '12 Section 2867; Civ. C. '02 Section 1907; 1900 (23) 390] Repealed by 1994 Act No. 384, Section 1.
SC Code § 33-31-151 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 31 - South Carolina Nonprofit Corporation Act|Section 33-31-151. Express amendment excluding application of Section 33-31-150.

 A corporation may amend its articles of incorporation expressly to include the application of Section 33-31-150, or any portion of that section.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 384, Section 1.
SC Code § 33-31-152 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 31 - South Carolina Nonprofit Corporation Act|Section 33-31-152. Rights of State are not impaired.

 Nothing in Sections 33-31-150, 33-31-151, 62-7-405(f), and 62-7-405(g) impairs the rights and powers of the courts or the Attorney General of this State with respect to a corporation.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 384, Section 1; 2005 Act No. 66, Section 3, eff January 1, 2006.  Effect of Amendment  The 2005 amendment substituted "62-7-405(f), and 62-7-405(g)" for "62-7-506, and 62-7-507".
SC Code § 33-31-155 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 31 - South Carolina Nonprofit Corporation Act|Section 33-31-155. Authority to dispose of assets from a dissolved nonprofit corporation or eleemosynary organization.

 (A) Persons serving as directors or trustees at the time of dissolution of a nonprofit corporation or eleemosynary organization created pursuant to Section 33-31-10 and located in Florence County for the public good other than religious purposes are invested with the authority to dispose of any remaining assets of the corporation by resolution pursuant to the requirements of this section.  (B) The corporation's charter does not have to be reinstated for the disposition of such assets.  (C) The directors or trustees must call a special meeting for the limited purpose of disposing of the corporate assets remaining after dissolution. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a quorum shall not be required for the conducting of the special meeting. Notice of such meeting must be published in a newspaper of general circulation, in the county in which the organization was perfected, for a period of one week prior to the meeting date.  (D) The assets may only be disposed of if a majority of the directors or trustees present and voting cast a favorable majority for such disposition. The assets must be distributed in such a manner to ensure their continued use for public and civic purposes.  (E) If persons serving as directors or trustees at the time of dissolution are deceased or have not taken action to dispose of assets of a dissolved nonprofit eleemosynary organization within five years of dissolution, any remaining assets escheat to the general fund of the State.  HISTORY: 1995 Act No. 14, Section 1.  Editor's Note  Section 33-31-10 referenced in (A) is a statute that no longer exists.