{"data":{"id":"us-mo/mo.-rev.-stat.-351.572","jurisdiction":"us-mo","citation":"Mo. Rev. Stat. § 351.572","heading":"Authority to transact business required.","body":"1. A foreign corporation may not transact business in this state until it obtains a certificate of authority from the secretary of state.\n2. The following activities, among others, do not constitute transacting business within the meaning of subsection 1 of this section:\n(1) Maintaining, defending, or settling any proceeding;\n(2) Holding meetings of the board of directors or shareholders or carrying on other activities concerning internal corporate affairs;\n(3) Maintaining bank accounts;\n(4) Maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer, exchange, and registration of the corporation's own securities or maintaining trustees or depositories with respect to those securities;\n(5) Creating or acquiring indebtedness, mortgages, and security interests in real or personal property;\n(6) Securing or collecting debts or enforcing mortgages and security interests in property securing the debts;\n(7) Conducting an isolated transaction that is completed within thirty days and that is not one in the course of repeated transactions of a like nature;\n(8) Transacting business in interstate commerce.\n3. The list of activities in subsection 2 of this section is not exhaustive.","path":["Title XXIII - CORPORATIONS, ASSOCIATIONS AND PARTNERSHIPS","Chapter 351 - General and Business Corporations"],"source_url":"https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=351.572","current_through":"2026 legislative session (floor)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T22:23:27Z","sha256":"81e66475d2763409de19df8ce3333cc1c16b90a7030d4b8534fe7bc2a7b69673","source_id":"us-mo","stale":false,"prev":"us-mo/mo.-rev.-stat.-351.526","next":"us-mo/mo.-rev.-stat.-351.574"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}