South Dakota Certificate of Authority › Corporation form
The South Dakota corporation certificate of authority form
The Application for Certificate of Authority, Foreign Business Corporation costs $750 online and is filed with a one-page original certificate of existence, or a document of similar import, authenticated by the official who keeps the corporate records in the home state or country. Unlike the LLC application it lists the corporation's officers and directors. We prepare it for $199.
Corporation form in brief
- Filing
- Application for Certificate of Authority, Foreign Business Corporation
- Statute
- SDCL 47-1A-1503
- Online fee
- $750
- Fee if mailed
- $765
- Attached
- A one-page original certificate of existence, or a document of similar import, authenticated by the official who keeps the corporate records in the home state or country
- Signed by
- An authorized person, with a printed name and title
- Yearly
- Annual report, $55 online
- Leaving
- Certificate of withdrawal, $10
What the statute requires
SDCL 47-1A-1503 has the application give the corporation name (or a compliant name where its own is unavailable), the state or country of incorporation, its date of incorporation and period of duration, the street address of its principal office, the registered agent information, and the names and usual business addresses of its current directors and officers. The state's form spreads those points over nine numbered items.
Items one and two: the name
Item one is the corporation's name. If that name is not available in South Dakota, item two takes a replacement that satisfies the state's naming sections, or an assumed name the board chooses in a resolution that the secretary certifies.
Items three to five: where and how long
These items ask where the corporation was incorporated, when, and for how long it is set to run. Take all three from the home-state records so that they agree with the certificate.
Item six: the principal office
The form wants the executive offices: a street address, a separate mailing address where one exists, and an email if you wish.
Item seven: the South Dakota agent
Complete only one of three options. The first is a noncommercial agent, named with a South Dakota street address and mailing address. The second is a commercial registered agent, entered by its CRA number. The third is an office-holder, named by the title of the office with its business address.
Item eight: officers and directors
Item eight asks for the corporation's president, vice president, secretary and treasurer, plus directors. Mark an officer who also sits on the board. Use the people who hold the roles on the day of filing.
Item nine: the home paper
The last item attaches a one-page original certificate of existence, or a document of similar import, authenticated by the official who keeps the corporate records in the home state or country. The state also lists a certificate left out of the package as the first of its common problems with foreign filings.
Signature
The form is signed by an authorized person, with a printed name and title, and it carries a warning that a materially false statement is an offense.
Money and timing
Online the fee is $750. Mailed in, it is $765 because the paper surcharge of $15 applies. Online filings are handled immediately, new paper filings in one to three business days on average, and the Secretary of State's foreign corporation guide gives three business days as the usual time for a filing in proper order.
The corporation's yearly duty
Each year the authorized corporation sends in a report: $55 online, $70 by mail. The grounds for revoking its certificate are an annual report not delivered within sixty days of its due date; franchise taxes or penalties unpaid for sixty days; no registered agent in the state for sixty days or more; no filing within sixty days to report that the agent changed or resigned; a document signed knowing it was materially false; and a home-state certificate of dissolution or merger.
Changing and leaving
A change to the corporate name, the duration, the home state or the registered agent information needs an amended certificate of authority at $250. Leaving takes a certificate of withdrawal at $10; see ending authority.
Our work on this form
You give us the corporation's details and its officers, directors and agent choice. We draft the nine items, request the home certificate and file. Our rate is $199.
Filing the corporation form through us
Send the facts
Name, home state, incorporation date, duration, principal office.
Name officers and directors
Those serving on filing day, each with an address.
Pick the agent route
Noncommercial, commercial or office-holder.
We request the certificate
Originals only: one page, from the home official.
We file
The form plus $750.
Registered agent: first year included, then $149 a year
$199 plus the state fee, including your first year of registered agent service; after that the agent service renews at $149 a year.
Corporation form questions
What is the corporation fee?
$750 online.
Is the certificate a copy?
It is an original, one page, from the home official.
Must the corporation list every shareholder?
The form asks for officers and directors, not shareholders.
What does a corporation pay each year?
$55 for the annual report, online.
Pricing
Get your South Dakota certificate
+ $750 state filing fee
- An application for your type of entity, drafted from your replies
- The home-state certificate, requested to arrive with the filing
- A South Dakota agent supplied by us, or one you pick
- A copy of the certificate of authority once the state issues it
- Renewal: after the first year, the agent service renews at $149 a year
$199
Request my certificateThe $750 shown is the LLC fee, paid to the Secretary of State and itemised on its own line. Other entities pay their own state fee, listed on the fees page. $199 plus the state fee, including your first year of registered agent service; after that the agent service renews at $149 a year.
Sources
- SDCL 47-34A-212, limited liability company fees
- South Dakota Secretary of State, filing fee schedule
- SDCL 47-1A-122, business corporation fees
- South Dakota application for certificate of authority, foreign business corporation
- SDCL 47-1A-1501 to 47-1A-1532, foreign corporations
- South Dakota Secretary of State, foreign business corporations guide
- SDCL chapter 59-11, Model Registered Agents Act
- South Dakota notice of cancellation of certificate of authority, foreign limited liability company
- South Dakota Secretary of State, corporations FAQ
- South Dakota Business Services Online, register a business instructions
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