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SC Code § 33-31-1423 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 31 - South Carolina Nonprofit Corporation Act|Section 33-31-1423. Appeal from denial of reinstatement.

 (a) The Secretary of State, upon denying a corporation's application for reinstatement following administrative dissolution, shall serve the corporation by registered or certified mail addressed to its registered agent at its registered office or to the office of the secretary of the corporation at its principal office with a written notice that explains the reason or reasons for denial.  (b) The corporation may appeal the denial of reinstatement to the court of common pleas for Richland County within thirty days after service of the notice of denial is perfected. The corporation appeals by petitioning the court to set aside the dissolution and attaching to the petition copies of the Secretary of State's certificate of dissolution, the corporation's application for reinstatement, and the Secretary of State's notice of denial.  (c) The court may summarily order the Secretary of State to reinstate the dissolved corporation or may take other action the court considers appropriate.  (d) The court's final decision may be appealed as in other civil proceedings.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 384, Section 1.
SC Code § 33-31-1431 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 31 - South Carolina Nonprofit Corporation Act|Section 33-31-1431. Procedure for judicial dissolution.

 (a) Venue for a proceeding by the Attorney General to dissolve a corporation lies in the county where the corporation's principal office is located, and if the corporation has failed to maintain a principal office or failed to report any change of the office, in the court of common pleas for Richland County. Venue for a proceeding brought by any other party named in Section 33-31-1430 lies in the county where a corporation's principal office or, if none in this State, its registered office is or was last located.  (b) It is not necessary to make directors or members parties to a proceeding to dissolve a corporation unless relief is sought against them individually.  (c) A court in a proceeding brought to dissolve a corporation may issue injunctions, appoint a receiver or custodian pendente lite with all powers and duties the court directs, take other action required to preserve the corporate assets wherever located, and carry on the activities of the corporation until a full hearing can be held.  (d) A person other than the Attorney General who brings an involuntary dissolution proceeding for a public benefit or religious corporation shall forthwith give written notice of the proceeding to the Attorney General who may intervene.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 384, Section 1.
SC Code § 33-31-1432 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 31 - South Carolina Nonprofit Corporation Act|Section 33-31-1432. Receivership or custodianship.

 (a) A court in a judicial proceeding brought to dissolve a public benefit or mutual benefit corporation may appoint one or more receivers to wind up and liquidate or one or more custodians to manage the affairs of the corporation. The court shall hold a hearing, after notifying all parties to the proceeding and any interested persons designated by the court, before appointing a receiver or custodian. The court appointing a receiver or custodian has exclusive jurisdiction over the corporation and all of its property wherever located.  (b) The court may appoint an individual, or a domestic or foreign business or nonprofit corporation authorized to transact business in this State as a receiver or custodian. The court may require the receiver or custodian to post bond, with or without sureties, in an amount the court directs.  (c) The court shall describe the powers and duties of the receiver or custodian in its appointing order, which may be amended from time to time. Among other powers:  (1) the receiver may:  (i) dispose of all or any part of the assets of the corporation wherever located, at a public or private sale, if authorized by the court; however, the receiver's power to dispose of the assets of the corporation is subject to any trust and other restrictions that would be applicable to the corporation; and  (ii) sue and defend in the receiver's or custodian's name as receiver or custodian of the corporation in all courts of this State;  (2) the custodian may exercise all of the powers of the corporation, through or in place of its board of directors or officers, to the extent necessary to manage the affairs of the corporation in the best interests of the corporation, its members, and creditors.  (d) The court during a receivership may redesignate the receiver a custodian, and during a custodianship may redesignate the custodian a receiver, if doing so is in the best interests of the corporation, its members, and creditors.  (e) The court during the receivership or custodianship may order compensation paid and expense disbursements or reimbursements made to the receiver or custodian and the receiver or custodian's counsel from the assets of the corporation or proceeds from the sale of the assets.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 384, Section 1.
SC Code § 33-31-1433 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 31 - South Carolina Nonprofit Corporation Act|Section 33-31-1433. Decree of dissolution.

 (a) If after a hearing the court determines that one or more grounds for judicial dissolution described in Section 33-31-1430 exist, it may enter a decree dissolving the corporation and specifying the effective date of the dissolution, or may order any other form of relief which it deems proper in the circumstances, and the clerk of the court shall deliver a certified copy of the decree to the Secretary of State, who shall file it without charging a fee.  (b) After entering the decree of dissolution, the court shall direct the winding up and liquidation of the corporation's affairs in accordance with Section 33-31-1406 and the notification of its claimants in accordance with Sections 33-31-1407 and 33-31-1408.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 384, Section 1.
SC Code § 33-31-1440 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 31 - South Carolina Nonprofit Corporation Act|Section 33-31-1440. Deposit with Department of Revenue and Taxation.

 Assets of a dissolved corporation that should be transferred to a creditor, claimant, or member of the corporation who cannot be found or who is not competent to receive them, must be reduced to cash subject to known trust restrictions and deposited with the Department of Revenue or other appropriate state official for safekeeping in accordance with the Uniform Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act. However, in the Department of Revenue or other appropriate officials discretion, property may be received and held in kind. When the creditor, claimant, or member furnishes satisfactory proof of entitlement to the amount deposited, the department or the appropriate state official shall pay him or his representative that amount.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 384, Section 1.
SC Code § 33-31-1501 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 31 - South Carolina Nonprofit Corporation Act|Section 33-31-1501. Authority to transact business required.

 (a) A foreign corporation may not transact business in this State until it obtains a certificate of authority from the Secretary of State.  (b) The following activities, among others, do not constitute transacting business within the meaning of subsection (a):  (1) maintaining, defending, or settling any proceeding;  (2) holding meetings of the board of directors or members or carrying on other activities concerning internal corporate affairs;  (3) maintaining bank accounts;  (4) maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer, exchange, and registration of memberships or securities or maintaining trustees or depositaries with respect to those securities;  (5) selling through independent contractors;  (6) soliciting or obtaining orders, whether by mail or through employees or agents or otherwise, if the orders require acceptance outside this State before they become contracts;  (7) creating or acquiring indebtedness, mortgages, and security interests in real or personal property;  (8) securing or collecting debts or enforcing mortgages and security interests or any other rights in property securing the debts;  (9) owning, without more, real or personal property;  (10) conducting an isolated transaction that is completed within thirty days and that is not one in the course of repeated transactions of a like nature;  (11) transacting business in interstate commerce;  (12) soliciting those contributions as are defined in Section 33-55-20(3) or any succeeding statute of like tenor and effect.  (c) The list of activities in subsection (b) is not exhaustive.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 384, Section 1.
SC Code § 33-31-1502 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 31 - South Carolina Nonprofit Corporation Act|Section 33-31-1502. Consequences of transacting business without authority.

 (a) A foreign corporation transacting business in this State without a certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding in a court in this State until it obtains a certificate of authority.  (b) The successor to a foreign corporation that transacted business in this State without a certificate of authority and the assignee of a cause of action arising out of that business may not maintain a proceeding on that cause of action in any court in this State until the foreign corporation or its successor obtains a certificate of authority.  (c) 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 a certificate of authority. If it so determines, the court may further stay the proceeding until the foreign corporation or its successor obtains the certificate.  (d) A foreign corporation is liable for a civil penalty of ten dollars for each day it transacts business in this State without a certificate of authority, but not to exceed a total of one thousand dollars. The Attorney General may collect all penalties due under this subsection.  (e) Notwithstanding subsections (a) and (b), the failure of a foreign corporation to obtain a certificate of authority does not impair the validity of its corporate acts or prevent it from defending any proceeding in this State.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 384, Section 1.
SC Code § 33-31-1503 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 31 - South Carolina Nonprofit Corporation Act|Section 33-31-1503. Application for certificate of authority.

 (a) A foreign corporation may apply for a certificate of authority to transact business in this State by delivering an application to the Secretary of State. The application must set forth:  (1) the name of the foreign corporation or, if its name is unavailable for use in this State, a corporate name that satisfies the requirements of Section 33-31-1506;  (2) the name of the state or country under whose law it is incorporated;  (3) the date of incorporation and period of duration;  (4) the street address, including zip code, of its principal office;  (5) the street address, including zip code, of its proposed registered office in this State and the name of its proposed registered agent at that office;  (6) the names and usual business addresses, including zip codes, of its current directors and officers;  (7) whether the foreign corporation has members; and  (8) whether the corporation, if it had been incorporated in this State, would be a public benefit, mutual benefit or religious corporation.  (b) The foreign corporation shall deliver with the completed application a certificate of existence, or a document of similar import, duly authenticated by the Secretary of State or other official having custody of corporate records in the state or country under whose law it is incorporated within sixty days of the date that it is filed in this State.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 384, Section 1.
SC Code § 33-31-1504 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 31 - South Carolina Nonprofit Corporation Act|Section 33-31-1504. Amended certificate of authority.

 (a) A foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this State must obtain an amended certificate of authority from the Secretary of State if it changes:  (1) its corporate name;  (2) the period of its duration; or  (3) the state or country of its incorporation.  (b) The requirements of Section 33-31-1503 for obtaining an original certificate of authority apply to obtaining an amended certificate under this section.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 384, Section 1.
SC Code § 33-31-1505 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 31 - South Carolina Nonprofit Corporation Act|Section 33-31-1505. Effect of certificate of authority.

 (a) A certificate of authority authorizes the foreign corporation to which it is issued to transact business in this State subject, however, to the right of the State to revoke the certificate as provided in this chapter.  (b) A foreign corporation with a valid certificate of authority has the same, but no greater rights, and enjoys 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.  (c) 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.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 384, Section 1.
SC Code § 33-31-1506 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 31 - South Carolina Nonprofit Corporation Act|Section 33-31-1506. Corporate name of foreign corporation.

 (a) If the corporate name of a foreign corporation does not satisfy the requirements of Section 33-31-401, the foreign corporation, to obtain or maintain a certificate of authority to transact business in this State, may use a fictitious name to transact business in this State if its real name is unavailable and it delivers to the Secretary of State for filing a copy of the resolution of its board of directors, certified by its secretary, adopting the fictitious name.  (b) Except as authorized by subsections (c) and (d), the corporate name, including a fictitious name, of a foreign corporation must be distinguishable upon the records of the Secretary of State from the name appearing upon the records of the Secretary of State of any other nonprofit corporation, business corporation, professional corporation, or limited partnership incorporated in, formed in, or authorized to do business in this State, or a name reserved, registered, or otherwise filed upon the records of the Secretary of State.  (c) A foreign corporation may apply to the Secretary of State for authorization to use in this State the name of another corporation, incorporated or authorized to transact business in this State, that is not distinguishable upon the records of the Secretary of State from the name applied for. The Secretary of State shall authorize use of the name applied for if:  (1) the other corporation consents to the use in writing and submits an undertaking in form satisfactory to the Secretary of State to change its name to a name that is distinguishable upon the records of the Secretary of State from the name of the applying corporation; or  (2) the applicant delivers to the Secretary of State a certified copy of a final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction establishing the applicant's right to use the name applied for in this State.  (d) A foreign corporation may use in this State the name, including the fictitious name, of another domestic or foreign business or nonprofit corporation that is used in this State if the other corporation is incorporated or authorized to transact business in this State and the foreign corporation:  (1) has merged with the other corporation;  (2) has been formed by reorganization of the other corporation; or  (3) has acquired all or substantially all of the assets, including the corporate name, of the other corporation.  (e) If a foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this State changes its corporate name to one that does not satisfy the requirements of Section 33-31-401, it may not transact business in this State under the changed name until it adopts a name satisfying the requirements of Section 33-31-401 and obtains an amended certificate of authority under Section 33-31-1504.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 384, Section 1.
SC Code § 33-31-1507 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 31 - South Carolina Nonprofit Corporation Act|Section 33-31-1507. 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 with the same address as that of its registered agent; and  (2) a registered agent, who may be:  (i) an individual who resides in this State and whose office is identical with the registered office;  (ii) a domestic business or nonprofit corporation whose office is identical with the registered office; or  (iii) a foreign business or nonprofit corporation authorized to transact business in this State whose office is identical with the registered office.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 384, Section 1.
SC Code § 33-31-1508 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 31 - South Carolina Nonprofit Corporation Act|Section 33-31-1508. Change of registered office or registered agent of foreign corporation.

 (a) A foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this State may change its registered office or registered agent by delivering to the Secretary of State for filing a statement of change that sets forth:  (1) the name of the corporation;  (2) the street address of its current registered office;  (3) if the current registered office is to be changed, the street address of its new registered office;  (4) the name of its current registered agent;  (5) if the current registered agent is to be changed, the name of its new registered agent and the new agent's written consent, either on the statement or attached to it, to the appointment; and  (6) that after the change or changes are made, the street addresses of its registered office and the office of its registered agent will be identical.  (b) If the street address of a registered agent's office is changed, the registered agent may change the street address of the registered office of any corporation for which the registered agent is the registered agent by notifying the corporation in writing of the change and by signing, either manually or in facsimile, and delivering to the Secretary of State for filing a statement that complies with the requirements of subsection (a) and recites that the corporation has been notified of the change.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 384, Section 1.
SC Code § 33-31-1509 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 31 - South Carolina Nonprofit Corporation Act|Section 33-31-1509. Resignation of registered agent of foreign corporation.

 (a) The registered agent of a foreign corporation may resign as agent by signing and delivering to the Secretary of State the original and two exact or conformed copies of a statement of resignation. The statement may include a statement that the registered office is also discontinued.  (b) After filing the statement, the Secretary of State shall mail one copy to the registered office, if not discontinued, and the other copy to the corporation at its principal office as shown in its application for certificate of authority or most recent notice of change of principal office.  (c) The agency appointment is terminated, and the registered office discontinued if so provided, on the thirty-first day after the date on which the statement was filed.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 384, Section 1.
SC Code § 33-31-1510 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 31 - South Carolina Nonprofit Corporation Act|Section 33-31-1510. Service on foreign corporations.

 Except as specifically provided in this chapter, service of process on a foreign nonprofit corporation must be in accord with the applicable provisions of Title 15.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 384, Section 1.
SC Code § 33-31-1515 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 31 - South Carolina Nonprofit Corporation Act|Section 33-31-1515. Notice of change of principal office.

 If a foreign corporation changes the location of its principal office, then within thirty days of the date of the change the corporation shall file a notice of change of principal office with the Secretary of State. The notice of change shall set forth:  (1) the name of the corporation; and  (2) the current street address, with zip code, of the corporation's principal office and the address of the former principal office.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 384, Section 1.
SC Code § 33-31-1520 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 31 - South Carolina Nonprofit Corporation Act|Section 33-31-1520. Withdrawal of foreign corporation.

 (a) A foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this State may not withdraw from this State until it obtains a certificate of withdrawal from the Secretary of State.  (b) A foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this State may apply for a certificate of withdrawal by delivering an application to the Secretary of State for filing. The application must set forth:  (1) the name of the foreign corporation and the name of the state or country under whose law it is incorporated;  (2) that it is not transacting business in this State and that it surrenders its authority to transact business in this State;  (3) 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 do business in this State;  (4) a mailing address to which the Secretary of State may mail a copy of any process served on him under item (3); and  (5) a commitment to notify the Secretary of State during the six years following the delivery of the certificate of withdrawal of any change in the mailing address.  (c) After the withdrawal of the corporation is effective, service of process on the Secretary of State under this section is service on the foreign corporation. Upon receipt of process, the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of the process to the foreign corporation at the post office address set forth in its application for withdrawal.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 384, Section 1.