Board Directors Corporate Without In California
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You can appoint yourself as a registered agent, but your name and address would be publicly available, and you'd need to stay at the registered office during business hours. You can perform an online business search on the Bizfile Online website to look for businesses and their registered agents.
To submit Form SI-100, you may file it online at the California Secretary of State's website or mail it to the Statement of Information Unit at P.O. Box 944230, Sacramento, CA 94244-2300. For in-person submissions, visit the Sacramento office located at 1500 11th Street, Sacramento, CA 95814.
If your business is a corporation, then you are required by law to have a board of directors. Depending on your particular corporate structure and your state, one or two directors may be all that's legally required.
If you cancel your LLC within one year of organizing, you can file Short form cancellation (SOS Form LLC-4/8) with the SOS. Your LLC will not be subject to the annual $800 tax for its first tax year.
Corporations are required to have not less than three directors unless (1) shares have not been issued, then the number can be one or two, (2) the corporation has one shareholder, then the number can be one or two, or (3) the corporation has two shareholders, then the number can be two.
12362. (a) Subject to subdivisions (b), (c) and (g), any or all directors may be removed without cause if one of the following applies: (1) In a corporation with fewer than 50 members, the removal is approved by a majority of all members (Section 12223).
Cal. Corp. Code § 312(a). Words in statutes are generally construed in ance with their plain and commonsense meaning, so this provision can be read to mean that a California corporation may only have “a”—that is, one—president.
That said, the board is generally responsible for choosing the corporate officers, selling shares of the company, distributing dividends, and responding to merger and takeover offers. The board has a fiduciary duty to act in the best interest of the shareholders.
A corporation is required by California law to have at least three directors. However, the corporation may have one director if the corporation has only one shareholder; and the corporation must have at least two directors if the corporation has only two shareholders.
If your business is a corporation, then you are required by law to have a board of directors. Depending on your particular corporate structure and your state, one or two directors may be all that's legally required.
