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Business Entities
1500 11
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(916) 657-5448
Sacramento, CA 95814
Business Programs Division
CERTIFICATE PURSUANT TO SECTION 1505,
CALIFORNIA CORPORATIONS CODE
Corporations, Limited Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies are required to designate
an agent for service of process. This agent may be a natural person residing in the State of
California or may be a corporation, in good standing status, on the records of the California
Secretary of State.
Before a corporation may be designated as agent for service of process, that corporation must
file with the Secretary of State a certificate pursuant to California Corporations Code
section
1505. A copy of Section 1505 is printed on the reverse side of this information sheet. A form
meeting statutory filing requirements is attached.
The fee for filing a certificate pursuant to Section 1505 is $30.00. Check(s) should be made
payable to the Secretary of State.
The original and at least two copies of the certificate should be included with your submittal.
The Secretary of State will certify two copies of the filed certificate without charge, provided
that the copies are submitted to the Secretary of State with the document to be filed. Any
additional copies submitted will be certified upon request and payment of the $8.00 per copy
certification fee.
Certificates pursuant to Section 1505 are not filed in the regional offices. Documents must be
mailed or hand delivered for over-the-counter processing to the Secretary of State’s office in
Sacramento at:
Business Programs Division
(916) 657-5448
1500 11th Street, Room 390
Sacramento, CA 95814
Attn: Document Filing Support Unit
A $15.00 special handling fee is applicable for processing documents delivered in person at
the public counter in the Sacramento office. The $15.00 special handling fee must be remitted
by separate check for each submittal and will be retained whether the documents are filed or
rejected. The special handling fee does not apply to documents submitted by mail.
Preclearance or expedited filing of eligible corporate documents can be requested in a specified
time frame, for an additional fee (in lieu of the $15.00 special handling fee), as described in the
Preclearance/Expedited Filing Service
Information. The preclearance/expedited filing service is
not available in the regional offices.
PLEASE REFER TO THE CORPORATE NUMBER WHEN SUBMITTING
DOCUMENTS FOR FILING TO ENSURE PROPER APPLICATION
(Please see reverse)
Secretary of State Information/Instructions
1505 (REV 03/2005)
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