Department of Accounting and General Services

What you’ll need:

• The file number and the date of dissolution
• If you do not have the file number, visit the Business Registration Division’s website

What you’ll find:

• Affidavits of Officers or Certificates of Presiding Officer
• Articles of Incorporation, Articles of Association of Charter of Incorporation
• Certificates of Involuntary Dissolution, Decrees of Dissolution, Certificates of Dissolution or Certificates of Merger
• The Articles of Incorporation describe the beginning of a corporation and lists its officers while the Decree of Dissolution pronounces the end of a corporation
• A file of a corporation involuntarily dissolved by the State for failure to file annual statements contains a Notice of Delinquency and a Certificate of Involuntary Dissolution, which were issued from 1973 by the Department of Regulatory Agencies. A voluntarily dissolved corporation’s file contains a Petition of Dissolution as well as a Trustee’s Report on the distribution of corporate assets.
• Certificates of Amendment
• Petitions for Amendment of Charter of Incorporation
• Allowances of Amendment of Charter of Incorporation
• Amended Charters of Incorporation
• Amended By-laws
• Certificates of Increase or Reduction of Capital Stock
• Affidavits of Publication
• Related correspondence

Dissolution files from 1893-1986 are available for viewing on microfilm MFL 81. From 1987-1993, they are available on microfiche MFL 81 FICHE.