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Certificate of authority

The document a state issues when a company formed elsewhere registers to do business there; the result of foreign qualification.

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The detail

What it means in practice.

A Wyoming LLC that opens premises in Florida applies to Florida for authority to do business there, with a certificate of good standing from Wyoming and a Florida registered agent. Once Florida issues a certificate of authority, the company files Florida's annual report and pays its fees alongside Wyoming's. Some states call the same thing a registration.

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