Texas Business Organizations Code 5.203 – Change by Registered Agent to Name or Address of Registered Office
(a) The registered agent of a filing entity or a foreign filing entity may change its name, its address as the address of the entity’s registered office, or both by filing a statement of the change in accordance with Chapter 4.
(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.
Terms Used In Texas Business Organizations Code 5.203
- 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.
- Certificate of formation: means :
(A) the document required to be filed with the filing officer under Chapter 3 to form a filing entity; and
(B) if appropriate, a restated certificate of formation and all amendments of an original or restated certificate of formation. See Texas Business Organizations Code 1.002 - Entity: means a domestic entity or foreign entity. See Texas Business Organizations Code 1.002
- Filing entity: means a domestic entity that is a corporation, limited partnership, limited liability company, professional association, cooperative, or real estate investment trust. See Texas Business Organizations Code 1.002
- Filing officer: means :
(A) with respect to an entity other than a domestic real estate investment trust, the secretary of state; or
(B) with respect to a domestic real estate investment trust, the county clerk of the county in which the real estate investment trust's principal office is located in this state. See Texas Business Organizations Code 1.002 - Foreign: means , with respect to an entity, that the entity is formed under, and the entity's internal affairs are governed by, the laws of a jurisdiction other than this state. See Texas Business Organizations Code 1.002
- Foreign filing entity: means a foreign entity, other than a foreign limited liability partnership, that registers or is required to register as a foreign entity under Chapter 9. See Texas Business Organizations Code 1.002
- Person: means an individual or a corporation, partnership, limited liability company, business trust, trust, association, or other organization, estate, government or governmental subdivision or agency, or other legal entity, or a protected series or registered series of a domestic limited liability company or foreign entity. See Texas Business Organizations Code 1.002
- Signed: includes any symbol executed or adopted by a person with present intention to authenticate a writing. See Texas Government Code 311.005
- written: means an expression of words, letters, characters, numbers, symbols, figures, or other textual information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium that is retrievable in a perceivable form. See Texas Business Organizations Code 1.002
(c) On acceptance of the statement by the filing officer, the statement is effective as an amendment to the appropriate provision of:
(1) the filing entity’s certificate of formation; or
(2) the foreign filing entity‘s registration.
(d) A registered agent may file a statement under this section that applies to more than one entity.