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PUBLIC LAW 87-569-AUG. 6, 1962

[76 STAT.

Such reservation may be renewed for an additional period of sixty days and for good cause shown such I'eservation may be further extended for a reasonable period. (b) The right to the exclusive use of a specified corporate name so reserved may be transferred to any other person or corporation by delivering to the Commissioners a notice of such transfer, executed by the applicant for whom the name was reserved, and specifying the name and address of the transferee. REQISTERED OFFICE AND REGISTERED AGENT

SEC. 9. Each corporation shall have and continuously maintain in the District of Columbia— (a) a registered office, which may be, but need not be, the same as its principal office; (b) a registered agent, which agent may be either an individual resident of the District of Columbia whose business office is identical with such registered office, a domestic corporation, whether for profit or not for profit, or a foreign corporation, whether for profit or not for profit, authorized to transact business or conduct affairs in the District of Columbia and having an office identical with such registered office. CHANGE OF REGISTERED OFFICE OR REGISTERED AGENT

SEC. 10. (a) The registered office of a corporation or its registered agent, or both, may be changed by delivering to 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 is to 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 is to be changed, the name of its successor registJered agent; (6) that the address of its registered office and the address of the office of its registered agent as changed will be identical; and (7) that such change was authorized by resolution duly adopted by its board of directors or was authorized by an officer of the corporation duly empowered to make such change. (b) Such statement shall be executed in duplicate by the corporation by its president or a vice president, and the corporate seal shall be thereto affixed, attested by the secretary or an assistant secretary, and delivered to the Commissioners. If the Commissioners find that such statement conforms to law, they shall, when all fees and charges have been paid as in this Act prescribed— (1) endorse on each of such duplicate originals the word "Filed", and the month, day, and year of the filing thereof; (2) file one of such duplicate originals in their office; (3) return the other duplicate original to the corporation or its representative. (c) The change of address of the registered office, or the change of registered agent, or both, as the case may be, shall become effective upon the filing of such statement by the Commissioners. (d) A 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, or if it revokes the appointment of its registered agent.

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