ORS 554.005
Filing requirements


(1)

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(a)

For the Secretary of State to file a document under ORS 554.005 (Filing requirements) to 554.340 (Judicial determination of legality of proceedings), the document must:

(A)

Satisfy the requirements set forth in this section and any other requirements in ORS 554.005 (Filing requirements) to 554.340 (Judicial determination of legality of proceedings) that supplement or modify the requirements set forth in this section.

(B)

Be a type of document that ORS 554.005 (Filing requirements) to 554.340 (Judicial determination of legality of proceedings), 554.420 (Amendment of articles, and landowners’ notice, of corporation organized under 1911 Act), 554.440 (Malheur Improvement Company) or 554.510 (Authority to include or exclude lands) to 554.590 (Articles of amendment) require or permit a person to file with the Secretary of State.

(C)

Include the information that ORS 554.005 (Filing requirements) to 554.340 (Judicial determination of legality of proceedings), 554.420 (Amendment of articles, and landowners’ notice, of corporation organized under 1911 Act), 554.440 (Malheur Improvement Company) or 554.510 (Authority to include or exclude lands) to 554.590 (Articles of amendment) require.

(D)

Be legibly written in the English language and in the alphabet used to write the English language, except as provided in subsection (3) of this section.

(E)

Be delivered to the Secretary of State along with required fees. Delivery occurs only when the Secretary of State actually receives the document.

(b)

The document may include:

(A)

Information other than the information required under paragraph (a) of this subsection;

(B)

Arabic or Roman numerals and incidental punctuation;

(C)

The seal of the corporation;

(D)

An attestation by the secretary or an assistant secretary of the corporation; or

(E)

An acknowledgement, verification or proof.

(2)

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(a)

A person that executes a document for filing under this section must be:

(A)

The chairperson of the board of directors of the corporation or one of the corporation’s officers;

(B)

An incorporator, if directors of the corporation have not been selected;

(C)

A receiver, trustee or other court-appointed fiduciary, if the corporation is subject to the control of the receiver, trustee or fiduciary; or

(D)

An agent of a person identified in this paragraph, if the person authorizes the agent to execute the document.

(b)

The person that executes the document shall state beneath or opposite the person’s signature the person’s name and the capacity in which the person signs.

(3)

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(a)

If the Secretary of State has prescribed a mandatory form for a document, including an electronic form, the document must be in or on the prescribed form.

(b)

The Secretary of State shall make versions of the form described in paragraph (a) of this subsection available in at least the five languages that are most commonly spoken and written in this state by persons with limited proficiency in the English language. Each version of the form must include an English translation of the form’s contents.

(c)

For the purpose described in paragraph (b) of this subsection, the Secretary of State shall specify Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Russian and Korean as the five languages that are most commonly spoken and written in this state by persons with limited proficiency in the English language. The Secretary of State shall review the specification in this paragraph after the completion of the 2030 United States Census and each subsequent decennial census and shall recommend in a report to the Joint Committee on Ways and Means any changes in the specification that the Secretary of State deems necessary. The Secretary of State may change the specification only after receiving the approval of the Legislative Assembly and an appropriation in an amount that is sufficient to pay the costs of updating each version of the mandatory form and any system the Secretary of State uses to process the mandatory form.

(d)

If a person completes with, or attaches to, a form described in paragraph (a) or (b) of this subsection information written in a language other than English, the person shall submit a reasonably authenticated English translation of the information along with the form. [1987 c.94 §137; 1999 c.486 §19; 2013 c.159 §14; 2019 c.597 §7]

Source: Section 554.005 — Filing requirements, https://www.­oregonlegislature.­gov/bills_laws/ors/ors554.­html.

554.005
Filing requirements
554.007
Effective time and date of document
554.009
Correcting filed document
554.011
Penalty for signing false document
554.012
Forms
554.015
Filing duty of Secretary of State
554.016
Filing, service, copying and certification fees
554.017
Appeal from Secretary of State’s refusal to file document
554.018
Evidentiary effect of copy of filed document
554.019
Certificate of existence
554.020
Articles of incorporation
554.030
Evidence of corporate existence
554.040
Contents of articles
554.060
Challenge to validity of organization
554.070
Membership
554.080
Corporate existence
554.082
Registered office and registered agent
554.084
Change of registered office or registered agent
554.086
Resignation of registered agent
554.088
Service on corporation
554.090
Directors
554.100
Oath of office
554.110
Powers of directors
554.120
Records of proceedings of directors
554.130
Assessments
554.135
Alternative method for collecting assessments
554.140
Directors’ duty to institute proceedings to enforce lien
554.150
Action to compel assessment
554.160
Assessments to provide funds to meet obligations
554.170
Covenants by landowners
554.180
Landowners’ notice
554.190
Recording notice
554.200
Incurring indebtedness before notice recorded
554.210
Plans and specifications
554.220
Bonds
554.230
Bonds
554.240
Retirement of bonds
554.250
Refunding bonds
554.260
Contracts with governmental agencies or others for financial assistance or cooperative action
554.270
Purchase or lease of works and water rights
554.275
Activity of corporation as urban service
554.280
Resolution for serial coupon obligations
554.290
Warrants to pay claims
554.300
Amendment of articles
554.302
Dissolution of corporation by Secretary of State
554.305
Notice of grounds for dissolution
554.307
Reinstatement of dissolved corporation
554.309
Denial of reinstatement
554.315
Annual report
554.320
Exemption from taxation
554.340
Judicial determination of legality of proceedings
554.350
Service to lands outside district
554.375
Dissolution of district and reorganization as corporation
554.380
Articles of incorporation for corporation formed from dissolved district
554.385
Findings by board of reorganizing district
554.390
Dissolution of district and reorganization as corporation under ORS 554.320 and 554.375 to 554.390 prohibited after 2004
554.410
Applicability of ORS 554.005 to 554.340 to corporations organized under 1911 Act
554.420
Amendment of articles, and landowners’ notice, of corporation organized under 1911 Act
554.430
Applicability of 1911 Act, as amended, to corporations organized under that Act
554.440
Malheur Improvement Company
554.510
Authority to include or exclude lands
554.520
Application for inclusion or exclusion
554.530
Application
554.540
Meeting date
554.550
Notice of meeting
554.560
Quorum for meeting
554.570
Effect of exclusion on existing debts
554.580
Condition of approval of inclusion
554.590
Articles of amendment
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