2022 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 181 - Nonstock corporations.
181.0213 - Certificate of status.

181.0213 Certificate of status.

(1) Any person may obtain from the department, upon request, a certificate of status for a domestic corporation or a foreign corporation.

(2) A certificate of status shall include all of the following information:

(a) The domestic corporation's corporate name or the foreign corporation's corporate name and fictitious name, if any, used in this state.

(b) Whether each of the following is true:

1. The domestic corporation is a corporation whose governing law is the law of this state, or the foreign corporation is authorized to transact business in this state.

3. The domestic corporation or foreign corporation has, during its most recently completed report year, filed with the department an annual report required by s. 181.0214.

4. The domestic corporation has not filed articles of dissolution.

5. The foreign corporation has not filed an application for a certificate of withdrawal under s. 181.1520 (2).

(c) The domestic corporation's effective date of its articles of incorporation or the foreign corporation's effective date of its certificate of authority.

(3) The certificate of status may include other facts of record in the department that are requested.

(5) Subject to any qualification stated in a certificate of status issued by the department, the certificate is conclusive evidence that the corporation or foreign corporation is in existence or is authorized to transact business in this state.

(6) Upon request by telephone or otherwise, the department shall confirm, by telephone, any of the information required in a certificate of status under sub. (2) and may confirm any other information permitted under sub. (3).

History: 1997 a. 79; 2021 a. 258 ss. 412, 414, 416, 418, 421, 423.