2009 Iowa Code
Title 12 - Business Entities
Subtitle 2 - Business and Professional Corporations and Companies
CHAPTER 490 - BUSINESS CORPORATIONS
490.502 - CHANGE OF REGISTERED OFFICE OR REGISTERED AGENT.

        490.502  CHANGE OF REGISTERED OFFICE OR REGISTERED
      AGENT.
         1.  A corporation may change its registered office or registered
      agent by delivering to the secretary of state for filing a statement
      of change that sets forth all of the following:
         a.  The name of the corporation.
         b.  If the current registered office is to be changed, the
      street address of the new registered office.
         c.  If the current registered agent is to be changed, the name
      of the new registered agent and the new agent's written consent,
      either on the statement or attached to it, to the appointment.
         d.  That after the change or changes are made, the street
      addresses of its registered office and the business office of its
      registered agent will be identical.
         2.  If a registered agent changes the street address of the
      registered agent's business office, the registered agent may change
      the street address of the registered office of any corporation for
      which the person is the registered agent by notifying the corporation
      in writing of the change and signing, either manually or in
      facsimile, and delivering to the secretary of state for filing a
      statement that complies with the requirements of subsection 1 and
      recites that the corporation has been notified of the change.
         3.  If a registered agent changes the registered agent's business
      address to another place, the registered agent may change the
      business address and the address of the registered agent by filing a
      statement as required in subsection 2 for each corporation, or a
      single statement for all corporations named in the notice, except
      that it need be signed only by the registered agent and need not be
      responsive to subsection 1, paragraph "c", and must recite that a
      copy of the statement has been mailed to each corporation named in
      the notice.
         4.  A corporation may also change its registered office or
      registered agent in its biennial report as provided in section
      490.1622.  
         Section History: Recent Form
         89 Acts, ch 288, §33; 96 Acts, ch 1170, § 5; 97 Acts, ch 171, §
      11; 2006 Acts, ch 1089, §7
         Referred to in § 490.1622, 490.1701

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