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<chapter num="01" heading="Information Provided by the Department" title_num="18" subtitle_num="04">
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".01" heading="Information Provided.">
    <text>The Department will provide the following information:</text>
    <paragraph num="A.">
      <text>In answer to written or telephoned requests, the Department will provide free of charge the following information for domestic corporations, limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships, limited liability companies, and any other organization which is required to file its original organizational document or trade name with the Department:</text>
      <paragraph num="(1)">
        <text>Address of principal office;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(2)">
        <text>Date of incorporation or date of filing the certificate of limited partnership, the certificate of limited liability partnership, the articles of organization of a limited liability company, any other original organizational document, or the trade name certificate;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(3)">
        <text>Resident agent for service, or for business entities that have filed a trade name certificate, the names and addresses of the principal or owner.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="B.">
      <text>In answer to written or telephoned requests, the Department will provide free of charge the following information for foreign corporations, limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships, limited liability companies, and other foreign organizations which are required to qualify or register with the Department:</text>
      <paragraph num="(1)">
        <text>Address of principal office;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(2)">
        <text>Date of qualification or registration;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(3)">
        <text>Resident agent for service.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="C.">
      <text>In answer to written requests, the Department will provide free of charge information as to availability of trade names and names for corporations, limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships, and limited liability companies.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="D.">
      <text>On written request and accompanied by a fee, the Department will prepare and forward an abstract comprising the items listed above, and, in addition:</text>
      <paragraph num="(1)">
        <text>The names of corporate officers and directors as listed on the most recent report filed with the Department, if available;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(2)">
        <text>Whether the corporation is delinquent as to filing required reports;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(3)">
        <text>Whether a domestic corporation has had its charter forfeited, or whether a foreign corporation has had its qualification or registration withdrawn or forfeited, and the dates of these proceedings;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(4)">
        <text>Whether a domestic corporation, limited partnership, limited liability partnership, limited liability company, or other domestic organization which is required to file its original organizational document with the Department, has been dissolved, has had its certificate withdrawn or has merged into another organization, and the dates of these proceedings;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(5)">
        <text>Whether a foreign corporation, limited partnership, limited liability partnership, limited liability company, or other foreign organization which is required to qualify or register with the Department, has had its qualification or registration withdrawn or cancelled or has been merged into another organization, and the dates of these proceedings.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </regulation>
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".02" heading="Certificates and Certified Copies.">
    <text>When the Department provides certificates or certified copies, the signature of the custodian or other person authorized to make certification for the Department and the Department's official seal may be originally produced on a computer-generated printed form approved by the Department.</text>
  </regulation>
  <annotations>
    <annotation type="Authority">Tax-Property Article, §2-201; Corporations and Associations Article, §1-406; Annotated Code of Maryland</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Effective date: January 7, 1982 (8:26 Md. R. 2106)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .01 amended effective November 7, 1983 (10:22 Md. R. 1968); August 28, 1995 (22:17 Md. R. 1320); September 21, 1998 (25:19 Md. R. 1496)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .02 adopted effective June 4, 1999 (26:12 Md. R. 926)</annotation>
  </annotations>
</chapter>