{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-79-16-11","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 79-16-11","heading":"Application for certificate of authority.","body":"(1) A foreign business trust, in order to procure a certificate of authority to transact business in this state, shall make application therefor to the Secretary of State, which application shall set forth:\n(a) The name of the foreign business trust and the state or country under the laws of which it is organized;\n(b) The date of declaration of trust and the period of duration of the trust;\n(c) The address of the principal office of the foreign business trust in the state or country under the laws of which it is organized;\n(d) The information required by Section 79-35-5(a);\n(e) The purpose or purposes of the foreign business trust which it proposes to pursue in the transaction of business in this state;\n(f) The names and respective addresses of the trustees of the foreign business trust; and\n(g) A statement of the aggregate number of shares of beneficial interest which the foreign business trust has authority to issue and the unit value in dollars to be received by the trust for the issuance of each of such shares.\n(2) Such application shall be made on forms prescribed and furnished by the Secretary of State and shall be executed by at least one (1) of the trustees.\n(3) A business trust shall deliver with the completed application a certificate of existence, or a document of similar import, duly authenticated by the Secretary of State or other official having custody of trust records in the state or country under whose law it is created.","path":["Title 79. Corporations, Associations, and Partnerships","Chapter 16. Mississippi Registration of Foreign Business Trusts Act"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ms.code.ann.2018/release78.2020.07.08/gov.ms.code.title.79.odt","current_through":"2020-07-08","vintage":"Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-10-27T05:54:23Z","sha256":"ca28f9e0071b6074f13d453a559430d89dee2e4dc855ebc8b8760e423d673ced","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-79-16-9","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-79-16-13","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-ms","title":"Mississippi Release 78 supplement","text":"Mississippi electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain dedication. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 78 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.ms.code.ann.2018"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}