{"data":{"id":"us-nh/rsa-293-a-15.01","jurisdiction":"us-nh","citation":"RSA 293-A:15.01","heading":"Authority to Transact Business Required.","body":"(a) A foreign corporation may not transact business in this state until it obtains a certificate of authority from the secretary of state.\n(b) The following activities, among others, do not constitute transacting business within the meaning of RSA 293-A:15.01(a):\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 depositaries with respect to those securities;\n(5) selling through independent contractors;\n(6) soliciting or obtaining orders, whether by mail or through employees or agents or otherwise, if the orders require acceptance outside this state before they become contracts;\n(7) creating or acquiring indebtedness, mortgages, and security interests in real or personal property;\n(8) securing or collecting debts or enforcing mortgages and security interests in property securing the debts;\n(9) owning, without more, real or personal property;\n(10) conducting an isolated transaction that is completed within 30 days and that is not one in the course of repeated transactions of a like nature; or\n(11) transacting business in interstate commerce.\n(c) The list of activities in RSA 293-A:15.01(b) is not exhaustive.\n(d) Nothing in this section shall be construed so as to preclude a determination that a foreign corporation is carrying on business activity within this state within the meaning of RSA 77-A:1, XII.\n(e) Any so-called Massachusetts trust or business trust established by law of any other state, desiring to do business in this state, shall be deemed to be a foreign corporation and shall be required to register under and comply with the provisions of this subdivision.","path":["Title XXVII: CORPORATIONS, ASSOCIATIONS, AND PROPRIETORS OF COMMON LANDS","Chapter Subchapter: A. Certificate of Authority","Foreign Corporations"],"source_url":"https://gc.nh.gov/rsa/html/XXVII/293-A/293-A-15.01.htm","current_through":"2025 regular legislative session, or December 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T14:50:27Z","sha256":"26cc26f6411c786b0128f0de31a02664855885854a87200023b087fdeafbeb63","source_id":"us-nh","stale":false,"prev":"us-nh/rsa-293-a-14.34","next":"us-nh/rsa-293-a-15.02"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}