AB 1471

Bill Subjects

Abstract

(1) The General Corporation Law, the Social Purpose Corporations Act, and the California Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act, authorize the Secretary of State, upon payment of a fee by the applicant, to issue a certificate of reservation of any name, not otherwise prohibited. The bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the cross-reference of the requirement to pay a fee by the applicant in these laws. (2) The General Corporation Law and the Social Purpose Corporations Act limit the Secretary of State from issuing a certificate reserving any name that is likely to mislead the public or the same name for 2 or more consecutive 60-day periods to the same applicant or for the use or benefit of the same person, partnership, firm, corporation, or social purpose corporation, as applicable. This bill would specify that the Secretary of State may reserve that name to the use or benefit of a person, as provided. (3) The Social Purpose Corporations Act does not prohibit the Secretary of State from filing articles for a social purpose corporation subject to the Banking Law setting forth a name in which "bank," "trust," "trustee," or related words appear, if the articles are endorsed with the approval of the Commissioner of Financial Institutions. Existing law reorganized the Department of Financial Institutions and the Commissioner of Financial Institutions into the Department of Business Oversight headed by a Commissioner of Business Oversight. This bill would add another basis under which the Secretary of State is not prohibited from filing articles for a social purpose corporation subject to the Banking Law setting forth a name in which "bank," "trust," "trustee," or related words appear, and would change the name of the Commissioner of Financial Institutions to the Commissioner of Business Oversight. (4) The General Corporation Law, the Uniform Limited Partnership Act of 2008, and the Uniform Partnership Act of 1994 authorize a business entity formed under its respective provisions to be converted into another business entity under certain conditions, including, among others, that the execution of a statement or certificate of conversion set forth a name and street address, as specified. This bill would specify that the statement or certificate of conversion set forth the name, mailing address, and street address of the converted entity's agent for service of process. (5) The California Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act requires a record delivered to the Secretary of State for filing under its provisions to be signed by particular individuals, as specified. The act specifically requires the person who filed a certificate of dissolution to sign a certificate of cancellation of the article of organization upon the completion of the winding up of affairs of the limited liability company, except as specified. This bill would revise the general provisions relating to the particular individual required to sign a record, and instead require the managers to sign a certificate of cancellation of the article of organization upon the completion of the winding up of affairs of the limited liability company, except as specified.