2009 Iowa Code
Title 12 - Business Entities
Subtitle 2 - Business and Professional Corporations and Companies
CHAPTER 490 - BUSINESS CORPORATIONS
490.1503 - APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY.

        490.1503  APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY.
         1.  A foreign corporation may apply for a certificate of authority
      to transact business in this state by delivering an application to
      the secretary of state for filing.  The application must set forth
      all of the following:
         a.  The name of the foreign corporation or, if its name is
      unavailable for use in this state, a corporate name that satisfies
      the requirements of section 490.1506.
         b.  The name of the state or country under whose law it is
      incorporated.
         c.  Its date of incorporation and period of duration.
         d.  The street address of its principal office.
         e.  The address of its registered office in this state and the
      name of its registered agent at that office.
         f.  The names and usual business addresses of its current
      directors and officers.
         2.  The foreign corporation shall deliver the completed
      application to the secretary of state, and also deliver to the
      secretary of state a certificate of existence or a document of
      similar import duly authenticated by the secretary of state or other
      official having custody of corporate records in the state or country
      under whose law it is incorporated which is dated no earlier than
      ninety days prior to the date the application is filed with the
      secretary of state.  

         89 Acts, ch 288, §163; 96 Acts, ch 1170, § 14
         Referred to in § 490.1504