Nevada Articles of Organization, Initial List and State Business License

1. 1.Name of the limited-liability companyMust contain Limited-Liability Company, Limited Liability Company, Limited Company, Limited, or one of the abbreviations LLC, L.L.C., LC, L.C. or Ltd., and be distinguishable from every name on the Secretary of State's records. A name that uses a word on the state's restricted list, such as bank, trust or engineer, needs written approval from the agency that regulates that word before the articles can be filed.
2. 2.Registered agentA commercial registered agent is named by name only, exactly as it is registered with the Secretary of State. A noncommercial agent, which includes an owner serving for their own company, is named with a Nevada street address and, if different, a mailing address; an email address for electronic notices is optional. The form also allows an office or position with the company to serve as agent.
3. 3.Certificate of Acceptance of Appointment of Registered Agent (item 4c)The agent signs this certificate on the articles, or a separately signed Registered Agent Acceptance form is attached. Without the agent's signature the filing is incomplete and is not filed.
4. 4.Management, with the name and street address of each person in itThe articles state whether the company is managed by managers or by its managing members, then list the name and street address of each original manager or managing member. Nevada wants a street address here, not a PO box, and every name entered becomes part of the public record.
5. 5.Dissolution date and optional electionsLeft blank, the company's existence is perpetual. The form also carries checkboxes for a series LLC and a restricted LLC, which almost every ordinary company leaves unchecked. A professional LLC formed under NRS Chapter 89 states the profession and attaches a certificate from the licensing board for each manager or member.
6. 6.Organizer: name, address and signatureThe person forming the company gives a first and last name, an address and a signature. Nevada law lets one or more persons organize an LLC, and the organizer does not have to be an owner, so a filing service's employee can sign. For a professional LLC each organizer must be a licensed individual.
7. 7.Initial List of Managers or Managing MembersA separate form, filed with the articles, that repeats each manager or managing member with a title and a street address. It is signed by a real person in management, or by someone the company has authorized to sign, with a printed name and title under a declaration made under penalty of perjury. A company cannot sign it. The list is published on the Secretary of State's business search.
8. 8.State Business License applicationFiled in the same packet. It asks for the company's Nevada business location, or a box to check when there is none, in which case the registered agent's address is used; two investigation-disclosure questions about antitrust proceedings and market share, which must be answered; an optional business code; and an exemption claim for the few companies that qualify, such as governmental entities, insurers and 501(c) nonprofits.

• Articles submitted without the Initial List and the State Business License application, which the state requires in the same filing.
• No signed Certificate of Acceptance from the registered agent, and no separate acceptance form attached.
• A noncommercial registered agent with a PO box, or an address outside Nevada.
• A manager or managing member listed without a street address, on the articles or on the Initial List.
• An Initial List signed in the name of a company rather than by an individual in management or an authorized signer, or with the perjury declaration left unsigned.
• A name that is not distinguishable from an existing Nevada entity, lacks an accepted ending, or uses a restricted word without the regulator's approval.
• An investigation-disclosure question on the business license application left unanswered.

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