CLAS Closed for Martin Luther King Day

CLAS will be closed on Monday, January 19, 2015, in observance of Martin Luther King Day.

We'll return on Tuesday, January 20, 2015.

Changes to California Business Entity Forms for 2015

Effective January 1, 2015, the following Business Entity forms have changed:

Unless otherwise noted, prior versions of these forms will no longer be accepted for filing after December 31, 2014.

• Form LLC-10: Restated Articles of Organization. The prior version of this form will continue to be accepted for filing after December 31, 2014.
• Form LLC-11: Limited Liability Company Certificate of Correction.
• Form LLC-3: Certificate of Dissolution of a Limited Liability Company.
• Form LLC-4/7: Certificate of Cancellation of a Limited Liability Company.
• Form LLC-6: Amendment to Registration of a Foreign Limited Liability Company.
• Form LP-11: Limited Partnership Certificate of Correction.
• Form LP-6: Foreign Limited Partnership Amendment to Application for Registration.
• Form LLC-2: Amendment to Registration of a Limited Liability Partnership.
• Form LLC-1A: Articles of Organization - Conversion.
• Form LP-1A: Certificate of Limited Partnership - Conversion.
• Form GP-1A: Statement of Partnership Authority - Conversion.
• Form CONV-1A: Certificate of Conversion.
• Conversion from a California limited liability company to a California stock corporation (articles of incorporation document sample).
• Conversion from a California limited partnership to a California stock corporation (articles of incorporation document sample).
• Form RA-100: Resignation of Agent Upon Whom Process May be Served. The prior version of this form will continue to be accepted for filing after December 31, 2014.
• Form FNRC: Certificate of Cancellation of a Foreign Name Registration.

If you have questions or need new versions of these forms, please contact us.

Protect Your Position with UCC eZFILE®'s Name Monitoring Feature

UCC eZFILE®'s Name Monitoring feature helps you to keep tabs on your debtors.

When you file a UCC, you need to track changes that could undermine your position. This is especially important since Revised Article 9 became effective. With this revision, signatures are no longer required for UCC filings. This means that the possibility of a third party accidentally terminating your filings has increased, along with the possibility of fraud.

With UCC eZFILE®’s Name Monitoring feature, you now have a way to make sure you’re notified of subsequent filings on your UCCs, enabling you to respond quickly and protect your interests. This feature is available at a minimal cost and provides daily monitoring of debtor entities at the state level and monitoring of the UCC and/or Corporate databases. And monitoring protects you from more than just the actions of others. It also allows you to discover whether you have unintentionally terminated a filing yourself.

In addition to helping you to protect your position, we enable you to customize your monitoring options to mesh with your specific workflows. For example, you can choose to automatically monitor all of the debtor names in your UCC filings, or choose to monitor one name at a time as you need to. We also allow you to view a list of all the entity names you’re monitoring at any time.

To learn more about name monitoring, please contact us to schedule an online training session. If you don’t yet have a log in and password for UCC eZFILE®, we will set one up for you.