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N.Y. Not-for-Profit Corporation Law § 803-a: Certificate of change; contents

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  1. Not-for-Profit Corporation Law
  2. Article 8. Amendments and Changes

§ 803-A. Certificate of change; contents.

(a) Any one or more of the changes authorized by paragraph (c) of

section 802 (Authorization of amendment or change, class vote) may be

accomplished by filing a certificate of change which shall be entitled

"Certificate of Change of .................. (name of corporation) under

section 803-A of the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law" and shall be signed

and delivered to the department of state. It shall set forth:

(1) The name of the corporation and if it has been changed, the name

under which it was formed.

(2) The date its certificate of incorporation was filed by the

department of state.

(3) Each change effected thereby.

(4) The manner in which the change was authorized.

(b) A certificate of change which changes only the post office address

to which the secretary of state shall mail a copy of any process against

the corporation served upon him or her, and/or the email address to

which the secretary of state shall email a notice of the fact that

process against it has been electronically served upon the secretary of

state, and/or the address of the registered agent, provided such address

being changed is the address of a person, partnership or other

corporation whose address, as agent, is the address to be changed,

and/or the email address being changed is the email address of a person,

partnership or other corporation, whose email address, as agent, is the

email address to be changed, and/or who has been designated as

registered agent for such corporation, may be signed and delivered to

the department of state by such agent. The certificate of change shall

set forth the statements required under subparagraphs (1), (2) and (3)

of paragraph (a) of this section; that a notice of the proposed change

was mailed to the corporation by the party signing the certificate not

less than thirty days prior to the date of delivery to the department

and that such corporation has not objected thereto; and that the party

signing the certificate is the agent of such corporation to whose

address the secretary of state is required to mail copies of any process

against the corporation served upon him or her, and/or the agent of the

corporation to whose the email address the secretary of state is

required to email a notice of the fact that process against the

corporation has been electronically served upon him or her, and/or the

registered agent, if such be the case. A certificate signed and

delivered under this paragraph shall not be deemed to effect a change of

location of the office of the corporation in whose behalf such

certificate is filed.

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