The Connecticut Application for Certificate of Authority

The application has these features. Item 14 names the agent and splits into parts A, B and C; the form tells you to tick A or fill in B or C, never two. A six-digit NAICS code is asked for. A confirmation is sent to an address that you give. A fictitious-name note applies where the corporation's own name is not available in Connecticut. A line states the filing fee for nonstock corporations as an exception. And the form warns that leaving out required information results in rejection.

The form wants exactly one of three routes. Check A, or complete B, or complete C. The state's agent page tells you who can sit behind those boxes: an adult Connecticut resident, a business entity on the office's register with a Connecticut address, and, for a foreign entity, the Secretary of the State. A commercial registered agent, which the office defines as a business that has filed a commercial listing and sells paid agent services, is a business and so fits the second category. A change costs $50, or $20 for a nonstock corporation.

The stock corporation fee is $385 and the nonstock fee $40. Online, the corporation pays through the account. On paper, a check is made out to the Secretary of the State. Rush handling costs $50 per transaction and exists only online, and the office says most filings are approved without it.

Once authority is granted the corporation files an annual report each year, $435 with shares or $50 without, and it keeps its agent current: $50 for a change with shares, $20 without. A new officer or director is an interim notice at $20. A certificate of legal existence can be ordered once the annual report is current.