(a) The registered agent of any entity required by Section 10A-1-5.31 to designate and maintain a registered agent or registered office may change its name, its address as the address of the entity’s registered office, or both, by delivering to the Secretary of State for filing a statement of the change in accordance with the procedures in Article 4.
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Terms Used In Alabama Code 10A-1-5.33

  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
(b) The statement must be signed by the registered agent, or a person authorized to sign the statement on behalf of the registered agent, and must contain:

(1) the name of the entity represented by the registered agent;
(2) the name of the entity’s registered agent and the address at which the registered agent maintained the entity’s registered office;
(3) if the change relates to the name of the registered agent, the new name of that agent;
(4) if the change relates to the address of the registered office, the new address of that office; and
(5) a recitation that written notice of the change was given to the entity at least 10 days before the date the statement is filed.
(c) On acceptance of the statement by the Secretary of State, the statement is:

(1) in the case of a domestic filing entity, effective to make the change set forth in the statement without the necessity of amending the entity’s certificate of formation;
(2) in the case of a general partnership with an effective statement of partnership, statement of not for profit partnership, or statement of limited liability partnership on file with the Secretary of State, effective to change its registered agent or registered office, or both, without the necessity of amending its statement of partnership, statement of not for profit partnership, or statement of limited liability partnership under Chapter 8A;
(3) in the case of a foreign filing entity, effective to make the change set forth in the statement, and effective as an amendment of its application for registration as a foreign entity under Article 7; or
(4) in the case of a foreign limited liability partnership, effective to make the change set forth in the statement, and effective as an amendment to its statement of foreign limited liability partnership under Article 7.
(d) A registered agent may file a statement under this section that applies to more than one entity.
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