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 Oklahoma Statutes (Last Updated: September 18, 2014)
 Title 18. CORPORATIONS

  § 18-1133. Change of registered agent upon whom process may be served.  

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  • CHANGE OF REGISTERED AGENT UPON WHOM PROCESS MAY BE SERVED

    A.  1.  Any foreign corporation which has qualified to do business in this state may change its registered agent and substitute therefor another registered agent by filing a certificate with the Secretary of State, acknowledged in accordance with the provisions of Section 1007 of this title, setting forth:

    a.the name and street address of its registered agent designated in this state upon whom process directed to the corporation may be served, and

    b.a revocation of all previous appointments of agent for such purposes.

    2.  The registered agent shall be either an individual residing in this state when appointed or a corporation, limited liability company, or limited partnership authorized to transact business in this state.

    B.  Any individual or corporation designated by a foreign corporation as its registered agent for service of process may resign by filing with the Secretary of State a signed statement that the agent is unwilling to continue to act as the registered agent of the corporation for service of process, including in the statement the post office address of the main or headquarters office of the foreign corporation, but the resignation shall not become effective until thirty (30) days after the statement is filed.  The statement shall be acknowledged by the registered agent and shall contain a representation that written notice of resignation was given to the corporation at least thirty (30) days prior to the filing of the statement by mailing or delivering the notice to the corporation at its address given in the statement.

    C.  If any agent designated and certified as required by the provisions of Section 1130 of this title shall die, remove himself from this state or resign, then the foreign corporation for which the agent had been so designated and certified, within ten (10) days after the death, removal or resignation of its agent, shall substitute, designate and certify to the Secretary of State, the name of another registered agent for the purposes of the Oklahoma General Corporation Act, and all process, orders, rules and notices may be served on or given to the substituted agent with like effect.

    D.  Any individual, corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership designated by a foreign corporation as its registered agent for service of process may change the address of the registered office of the corporation or corporations for which he or she is the registered agent to another address in this state by filing with the Secretary of State a certificate in the name of each affected corporation, executed and acknowledged by the registered agent, setting forth the address at which the registered agent has maintained the registered office, and further certifying to the new address to which the registered office will be changed on a given day, and at which new address the registered agent will thereafter maintain the registered office. Thereafter, or until further change of address, as authorized by law, the registered office in this state shall be located at the new address of the registered agent thereof as given in the certificate.

    E.  In the event of a change of name of any individual or corporation designated by a foreign corporation as its registered agent for service of process, the registered agent shall file with the Secretary of State a certificate in the name of each affected corporation, executed and acknowledged by the registered agent, setting forth the new name of the registered agent, the name of the registered agent before it was changed, and the address at which the registered agent has maintained the registered office for the affected corporation.  A change of name of any person or corporation acting as registered agent as a result of a merger or consolidation of the registered agent, with or into another person or corporation which succeeds to its assets by operation of law, shall be deemed a change of name for purposes of this section.

Added by Laws 1986, c. 292, § 133, eff. Nov. 1, 1986.  Amended by Laws 1996, c. 69, § 7, eff. Nov. 1, 1996; Laws 1998, c. 422, § 27, eff. Nov. 1, 1998; Laws 1999, c. 421, § 21, eff. Nov. 1, 1999; Laws 2009, c. 447, § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 2010.