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MS Code § 79-11-105 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 79 - Corporations, Associations, and Partnerships|Chapter 11 - Nonprofit, Nonshare Corporations and Religious Societies|Mississippi Nonprofit Corporation Act|§ 79-11-105. Requirements for filing of documents

  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.   Section 79-11-101 et seq. must require or permit filing the document in the office of the Secretary of State.   The document must contain the information required by Section 79-11-101 et seq. It may contain other information as well.   The document must be typewritten or printed or, if electronically transmitted, it must be in a format that can be retrieved or reproduced by the Secretary of State in typewritten or printed form.   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 a foreign corporation need not be in English if accompanied by a reasonably authenticated English translation.   The document must be signed:   By the presiding officer of its board of directors, its president or by another of its officers;   If directors have not been selected or the corporation has not been formed, by an incorporator; or   If the corporation is in the hands of a receiver, trustee or other court-appointed fiduciary, by that fiduciary.     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:   A corporate seal;   An attestation;   An acknowledgement or verification. A document required or permitted to be filed under this chapter which contains a copy of a signature, however made, is acceptable for filing.     If the Secretary of State has prescribed a mandatory form for a document under Section 79-11-107, the document must be in or on the prescribed form.   The document must be delivered to the office of the Secretary of State for filing. Delivery may be made by electronic transmission if, to the extent, and in the manner permitted by the Secretary of State. If the document is filed in typewritten or printed form and not transmitted electronically, the Secretary of State may require one (1) exact or conformed copy to be delivered with the document except as otherwise provided in Sections 79-11-167 and 79-11-379.   When the document is delivered to the office of the Secretary of State for filing, the correct filing fee and any franchise tax, license fee or penalty required by Section 79-11-101 et seq. or other law must be paid or provision for payment made in a manner permitted by the Secretary of State.
MS Code § 79-11-107 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 79 - Corporations, Associations, and Partnerships|Chapter 11 - Nonprofit, Nonshare Corporations and Religious Societies|Mississippi Nonprofit Corporation Act|§ 79-11-107. Secretary may prescribe forms

  The Secretary of State may prescribe and furnish, on request, forms for: (a) an application for a certificate of existence; (b) a foreign corporation's application for a certificate of authority to transact business in this state; (c) a foreign corporation's application for a certificate of withdrawal; and (d) the status report. If the Secretary of State so requires, use of these forms is mandatory.   The Secretary of State may prescribe and furnish on request forms for other documents required or permitted to be filed by Section 79-11-101 et seq., but their use is not mandatory.
MS Code § 79-11-109 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 79 - Corporations, Associations, and Partnerships|Chapter 11 - Nonprofit, Nonshare Corporations and Religious Societies|Mississippi Nonprofit Corporation Act|§ 79-11-109. Filing fees; fee for serving process upon Secretary of State; fees for copying and certifying copy of filed document

  Except as otherwise provided in subsection (4) of this section, the Secretary of State shall collect the following fees when the documents described in this subsection are delivered for filing:  Click to view    Except as otherwise provided in subsection (4) of this section, the Secretary of State shall collect a fee of Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00) upon being served with process under Section 79-11-101 et seq. The party to a proceeding causing service of process is entitled to recover the fee paid the Secretary of State as costs if the party prevails in the proceeding.   Except as otherwise provided in subsection (4) of this section, 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:   One Dollar ($1.00) a page for copying; and   Ten Dollars ($10.00) for the certificate.     The Secretary of State may collect a filing fee greater than the fee set forth in subsections (1), (2) and (3) in an amount not to exceed twice the fee set forth in subsections (1), (2) and (3) of processing the filing, if the form prescribed by the Secretary of State for such filing has not been used.    Document Fee (a) Articles of incorporation $50.00 (b) [Reserved] (c) Application for reserved name 25.00 (d) Notice of transfer or cancellation of reserved name 25.00 (e) [Reserved] (f) [Reserved] (g) [Reserved] (h) [Reserved] (i) [Reserved] (j) Amendment of articles of incorporation 50.00 (k) Restatement of articles of incorporation with amendments 50.00 () l Articles of merger 50.00 (m) Articles of dissolution 25.00 (n) Articles of revocation of dissolution 25.00 (o) Certificate of administrative dissolution No Fee (p) Application for reinstatement following administrative dissolution 50.00 (q) Certificate of reinstatement No Fee (r) Certificate of judicial dissolution No Fee (s) Application for certificate of authority 100.00 (t) Application for amended certificate of authority 50.00 Application for certificate of withdrawal 25.00 (v) Certificate of revocation of authority to transact business No Fee (w) Status report 25.00 (x) Articles of correction 50.00 (y) Application for certificate of existence or authorization 25.00 (z) Any other document required or permitted to be filedby et seq 25.00 Section 79-11-101
MS Code § 79-11-111 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 79 - Corporations, Associations, and Partnerships|Chapter 11 - Nonprofit, Nonshare Corporations and Religious Societies|Mississippi Nonprofit Corporation Act|§ 79-11-111. Effective date of filed documents

  Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, a document is effective:   At the date and time of filing, as evidenced by such means as the Secretary of State may use for the purpose of recording the date and time of filing; or   At the time specified in the document as its effective time on the date it is filed.     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.   Notwithstanding subsections (1) and (2) of this section, any document that has a delayed effective time and date shall not become effective if, prior to the effective time and date, the parties to the document file a certification of cancellation with the Secretary of State.
MS Code § 79-11-113 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 79 - Corporations, Associations, and Partnerships|Chapter 11 - Nonprofit, Nonshare Corporations and Religious Societies|Mississippi Nonprofit Corporation Act|§ 79-11-113. Correction of filed documents

  A domestic or foreign corporation may correct a document filed by the Secretary of State if (a) the document contains an inaccuracy, or (b) the document was defectively signed, attested, sealed, verified or acknowledged, or (c) the electronic transmission was defective.   A document is corrected:   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 inaccuracy or defect to be corrected, and (iii) correct the inaccuracy or defect; and   By delivering the articles of correction to the office of the Secretary of State for filing.     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.
MS Code § 79-11-115 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 79 - Corporations, Associations, and Partnerships|Chapter 11 - Nonprofit, Nonshare Corporations and Religious Societies|Mississippi Nonprofit Corporation Act|§ 79-11-115. Secretary of State to file documents; refusal to file document; filing of documents as ministerial

  If a document delivered to the Office of the Secretary of State for filing satisfies the requirements of Section 79-11-105, the Secretary of State shall file it.   The Secretary of State files a document by recording it as filed on the date and time of receipt. After filing a document, except as provided in Section 79-35-11, the Secretary of State shall deliver to the domestic or foreign corporation or its representative a copy of the document with an acknowledgement of the date and time of filing.   Upon refusing to file a document, the Secretary of State shall return it to the domestic or foreign corporation or its representative within five (5) days after the document was delivered, together with a brief, written explanation of the reason or reasons for the refusal.   The Secretary of State's duty to file documents under this section is ministerial. Filing or refusal to file a document does not:   Affect the validity or invalidity of the document, in whole or in part;   Relate to the correctness or incorrectness of information contained in the document; or   Create a presumption that the document is valid or invalid or that information contained in the document is correct or incorrect.
MS Code § 79-11-117 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 79 - Corporations, Associations, and Partnerships|Chapter 11 - Nonprofit, Nonshare Corporations and Religious Societies|Mississippi Nonprofit Corporation Act|§ 79-11-117. Appeal of refusal to file document

  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 chancery court in the county where the corporation's principal office is or will be located, or the Chancery Court of the First Judicial District of Hinds County, Mississippi, if the corporation does not have a principal office in this state. 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.   The court may summarily order the Secretary of State to file the document or take other action the court considered appropriate.   The court's final decision may be appealed as in other civil proceedings.
MS Code § 79-11-119 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 79 - Corporations, Associations, and Partnerships|Chapter 11 - Nonprofit, Nonshare Corporations and Religious Societies|Mississippi Nonprofit Corporation Act|§ 79-11-119. Certified copy of document as conclusive evidence of filing

 A certificate from the Secretary of State delivered with a copy of a document filed by the Secretary of State is conclusive evidence that the original document is on file with the Secretary of State.
MS Code § 79-11-121 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 79 - Corporations, Associations, and Partnerships|Chapter 11 - Nonprofit, Nonshare Corporations and Religious Societies|Mississippi Nonprofit Corporation Act|§ 79-11-121. Certificate of existence, application for; contents of; conclusive evidence of good standing

  Any person may apply to the Secretary of State to furnish a certificate of existence for a domestic or foreign corporation.   The certificate of existence sets forth:   The domestic corporation's corporate name or the foreign corporation's corporate name used in this state;   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;   That all fees, taxes, and penalties owed to this state have been paid, if (i) payment is reflected in the records of the Secretary of State and (ii) nonpayment affects the good standing of the domestic or foreign corporation;   That its most recent status report required by Section 79-11-391 has been delivered to the Secretary of State;   That articles of dissolution have not been filed; and   Other facts of record in the Office of the Secretary of State that may be requested by the application.     Subject to any qualification stated in the certificate, a certificate of existence 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 conduct activities in this state.
MS Code § 79-11-123 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 79 - Corporations, Associations, and Partnerships|Chapter 11 - Nonprofit, Nonshare Corporations and Religious Societies|Mississippi Nonprofit Corporation Act|§ 79-11-123. Signing false document which is to be filed as offense; penalty

  A person commits an offense by signing a document such person knows is false in any material respect with intent that the document be delivered to the Secretary of State for filing.   An offense under this section is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00).
MS Code § 79-11-125 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 79 - Corporations, Associations, and Partnerships|Chapter 11 - Nonprofit, Nonshare Corporations and Religious Societies|Mississippi Nonprofit Corporation Act|§ 79-11-125. Secretary granted power to perform duties

 The Secretary of State has the power reasonably necessary to perform the duties required of the Secretary of State's office by Section 79-11-101 et seq.
MS Code § 79-11-131 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 79 - Corporations, Associations, and Partnerships|Chapter 11 - Nonprofit, Nonshare Corporations and Religious Societies|Mississippi Nonprofit Corporation Act|§ 79-11-131. Petition to chancery court for alternative method for calling or conducting meeting of corporation members, delegates, or directors, or for obtaining their consent

  If for any reason it is impractical or impossible for any corporation to call or conduct a meeting of its members, delegates or directors, or otherwise obtain their consent, in the manner prescribed by its articles, bylaws or Section 79-11-101 et seq., then upon petition of a director, officer, delegate, member or the Attorney General, the chancery court of the county where the corporation's principal office is located, or the Chancery Court of the First Judicial District of Hinds County, Mississippi, if the corporation does not have a principal office in this state, may order that such a meeting be called or that a written ballot or other form of obtaining the vote of members, delegates or directors be authorized in such a manner as the court finds fair and equitable under the circumstances.   The court shall, in an order issued pursuant to this section, provide for a method of notice reasonably designed to give actual notice to all persons who would be entitled to notice of a meeting held pursuant to the articles, bylaws and Section 79-11-101 et seq., whether or not the method results in actual notice to all such persons or conforms to the notice requirements that would otherwise apply. In a proceeding under this section the court may determine who the members or directors are.   The order issued pursuant to this section may dispense with any requirement relating to the holding of or voting at meetings or obtaining votes, including any requirement as to quorums or as to the number or percentage of votes needed for approval, that would otherwise be imposed by the articles, bylaws or Section 79-11-101 et seq.   Whenever practical any order issued pursuant to this section shall limit the subject matter of meetings or other forms of consent authorized to items, including amendments to the articles or bylaws, the resolution of which will or may enable the corporation to continue managing its affairs without further resort to this section; provided, however, that an order under this section may also authorize the obtaining of whatever votes and approvals are necessary for the dissolution, merger or sale of assets.   Any meeting or other method of obtaining the vote of members, delegates or directors conducted pursuant to an order issued under this section, and which complies with all the provisions of such order, is for all purposes a valid meeting or vote, as the case may be, and shall have the force and effect as if it complied with every requirement imposed by the articles, bylaws and Section 79-11-101 et seq.
MS Code § 79-11-133 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 79 - Corporations, Associations, and Partnerships|Chapter 11 - Nonprofit, Nonshare Corporations and Religious Societies|Mississippi Nonprofit Corporation Act|§ 79-11-133. Notice to Attorney General of commencement of certain proceedings

  The Attorney General shall be given notice of the commencement of any proceeding which Section 79-11-101 et seq. authorize the Attorney General to bring but which has been commenced by another person.   Whenever any provision of Section 79-11-101 et seq. requires that notice be given to the Attorney General or permits the Attorney General to commence a proceeding:   If no proceeding has been commenced, the Attorney General may take appropriate action including, but not limited to, seeking injunctive relief.   If a proceeding has been commenced by a person other than the Attorney General, the Attorney General, as of right, may intervene in such proceeding.
MS Code § 79-11-135 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 79 - Corporations, Associations, and Partnerships|Chapter 11 - Nonprofit, Nonshare Corporations and Religious Societies|Mississippi Nonprofit Corporation Act|§ 79-11-135. Persons who may act as incorporators

 One or more persons may act as the incorporator or incorporators of a corporation by delivering articles of incorporation to the Secretary of State for filing.
MS Code § 79-11-137 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 79 - Corporations, Associations, and Partnerships|Chapter 11 - Nonprofit, Nonshare Corporations and Religious Societies|Mississippi Nonprofit Corporation Act|§ 79-11-137. Contents of articles of incorporation

  The articles of incorporation must set forth:   A corporate name for the corporation that satisfies the requirements of Section 79-11-157;   The period of duration, which may be perpetual;   The information required by Section 79-35-5(a);   The name and address of each incorporator;   If the corporation is incorporated on or after January 1, 2012, the corporation's initial planned, primary nonprofit activity; and   Any other information the Secretary of State may reasonably require by rule, including, without limitation, the contact name, electronic mail address, telephone number or business or mailing address of the corporation or that can be used to contact the corporation.     The articles of incorporation may set forth:   The names and addresses of the individuals who are to serve as the initial directors;   Provisions not inconsistent with law regarding:   The purpose or purposes for which the corporation is organized;   Managing the business and regulating the affairs of the corporation;   Defining, limiting and regulating the powers of the corporation, its board of directors and members;     Any provision that under Section 79-11-101 et seq. is required or permitted to be set forth in the bylaws; and   A provision permitting or making obligatory indemnification of a director for liability (as defined in Section 79-11-281(1)(c)) to any person for any action taken, or any failure to take any action as a director, except liability for:   Receipt of a financial benefit to which the director is not entitled;   An intentional infliction of harm;   A violation of Section 79-11-270; or   An intentional violation of criminal law.       The articles of incorporation need not set forth any of the corporate powers enumerated in Section 79-11-101 et seq.   The liability of a director of a corporation that is not a charitable organization as defined in Section 79-11-501 may be eliminated or limited by a provision of the articles of incorporation that a director shall not be liable to the corporation or its members for money damages for any action taken or any failure to take any action as a director, except liability for:   The amount of a financial benefit received by the director to which the director is not entitled;   An intentional infliction of harm;   A violation of Section 79-11-270; or   An intentional violation of criminal law.
MS Code § 79-11-139 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 79 - Corporations, Associations, and Partnerships|Chapter 11 - Nonprofit, Nonshare Corporations and Religious Societies|Mississippi Nonprofit Corporation Act|§ 79-11-139. When corporate existence begins; filing of articles of incorporation as conclusive proof that conditions of incorporation satisfied

  Unless a delayed effective date is specified, the corporate existence begins when the articles of incorporation are filed.   The Secretary of State's filing of the articles of incorporation is conclusive proof that the incorporators satisfied all conditions precedent to incorporation except in a proceeding by the state to cancel or revoke the incorporation or involuntarily dissolve the corporation.
MS Code § 79-11-141 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 79 - Corporations, Associations, and Partnerships|Chapter 11 - Nonprofit, Nonshare Corporations and Religious Societies|Mississippi Nonprofit Corporation Act|§ 79-11-141. Liability for purporting to act for corporation where incorporation has not occurred

 All persons purporting to act as or on behalf of a corporation, knowing there was no incorporation under Section 79-11-101 et seq., are jointly and severally liable for all liabilities created while so acting.
MS Code § 79-11-143 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 79 - Corporations, Associations, and Partnerships|Chapter 11 - Nonprofit, Nonshare Corporations and Religious Societies|Mississippi Nonprofit Corporation Act|§ 79-11-143. Organizational meeting after incorporation; written consents in lieu of organizational meeting

  After incorporation:   If initial directors are named in the articles of incorporation, the initial directors shall hold an organizational meeting, at the call of a majority of the directors, to complete the organization of the corporation by appointing officers, adopting bylaws and carrying on any other business brought before the meeting;   If initial directors are not named in the articles, the incorporator or incorporators shall hold an organizational meeting at the call of a majority of the incorporators:   To elect directors and complete the organization of the corporation; or   To elect a board of directors who shall complete the organization of the corporation.       Action required or permitted by Section 79-11-101 et seq. to be taken by incorporators at an organizational meeting may be taken without a meeting if the action taken is evidenced by one or more written consents describing the action taken and signed by each incorporator.   An organizational meeting may be held in or out of this state.