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PUBLIC LAW 389-JUNE 8, 1954

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(3) issue a certificate of authority to transact business in the District, to which they shall affix the other duplicate original application. (c) The certificate of authority with the duplicate original of the application affixed thereto by the Commissioners shall be recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds. EFFECT OF CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY

SEC. 105. Upon the issuance of a certificate of authority by the Commissioners, the corporation shall have the right to transact business in the District for those purposes set forth in its application, subject, however, to the right of the District to suspend or to revoke such right to transact business in the District as provided in this Act. REGISTERED OFFICE AND REGISTERED AGENT OF FOREIGN CORPORATION

SEC. 106. (a) Each foreign corporation authorized to transact business in the District shall have and continuously maintain in the District— (1) a registered office which may be, but need not be, the same as its place of business in the District; (2) a registered agent, which agent may be either an individual, resident in the District, whose business office is identical with such registered office, or a corporation authorized by its articles of incorporation to act as such agent and authorized to transact business in the District having a business office identical with such registered office. (b) The address, including street and number, if any, of the initial registered office, and the name of the initial registered agent of each foreign corporation shall be as stated in its application for a certificate of authority to transact business in the District. CHANGE OF REGISTERED OFFICE OR REGISTERED AGENT OF FOREIGN CORPORATION

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SEC. 107. (a) A foreign corporation may from time to time change the address of its registered office. A foreign corporation shall change its registered agent if the office of registered agent shall become vacant for any reason, or if its registered agent becomes disqualified or incapacitated to act, or if it revokes the appointment of its registered agent. (b) A foreign corporation may change the address of its registered office or change its registered agent, or both, by filing with the Commissioners a statement setting forth— (1) the name of the corporation; (2) the address, including street and number, if any, of its then registered office; (3) if the address of its registered office be changed, the address including street and number, if any, to which the registered office is to be changed; (4) the name of its then registered agent; (5) if its registered agent be changed, the name of its successor iv; registered agent; (6) that the address of its registered office and the address of the business office of its registered agent, as changed, will be identical; (7) that such change was authorized by resolution duly adopted by the board of directors or was authorized by an officer of the corporation duly empowered to make such change.

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