NON-PROFIT CORPORATION CERTIFICATE FOR REGISTRATION
FORM INSTRUCTIONS

(THIS FORM IS FOR THE STATE OF TEXAS ONLY)

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1).- What is the name of your Company:
Note: You should check with the Secretary of Texas to determine if you name is able to be used in Texas.
2).- What is the Non-Profit's Purpose or Purposes. PLEASE BE ADVISED that this form doesn't provide the language for Tax Exempt Status on the State or Federal Level. We suggest tat you check what purposes provide Tax-Exempt Status on the State and Federal Level here.

The following text area may be used to include any additional language or provisions that maybe needed to obtain tax-exempt status.

FEDERAL: Click here

TEXAS:

See Section 2.002 & 2.003 of the Texas Business Organizations Code.

Sec. 2.002. PURPOSES OF NONPROFIT ENTITY. The purpose or purposes of a domestic nonprofit entity may include one or more of the following purposes:

(1) serving charitable, benevolent, religious, eleemosynary, patriotic, civic, missionary, educational, scientific, social, fraternal, athletic, aesthetic, agricultural, and horticultural purposes;

(2) operating or managing a professional, commercial, or trade association or labor union;

(3) providing animal husbandry; or

(4) operating on a nonprofit cooperative basis for the benefit of its members.

Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 182, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 2006.

Sec. 2.003. GENERAL PROHIBITED PURPOSES. A domestic entity may not:

(1) engage in a business or activity that:

(A) is expressly unlawful or prohibited by a law of this state; or

(B) cannot lawfully be engaged in by that entity under state law; or

(2) operate as a:

(A) bank;

(B) trust company;

(C) savings association;

(D) insurance company;

(E) cemetery organization, except as authorized by Chapter 711, 712, or 715, Health and Safety Code; or

(F) abstract or title company governed by Title 11, Insurance Code.

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3).- Your Email:
4).- Registered Agent. All companies or business entities formed in Texas must have registered agent. A registered agent is a person or entity thay has agreed to accept service. For example, if your company is sued, the registered agent would be served with any and all documents related to that suit. Make sure that the person or entity is someone that you trust to provide the company notice of any document that is received. received.
4a).- Name of the registered agent:
4b).- Address - Street Number:   Street Name:
4c).- City:   State:   ZIP:
5).- What is the initial registered office of the Corporation.
5a).- Address - Street Number:   Street Name:
5b).- City:   State:   ZIP:
6).- Organizers. The person(s) that prepared or provided the information for the certificate of formation. You can have more than one Organizer. Complete the following information for each organizer. It is ok if there is only one organizer.

6a).- How many organizers will your company have?

** Following is sample data for instructions purpose only.

# Name Buiness Entity (Optional) Street # Street Name City State ZIP
7).- Management. Will the Corporation be managed by its Members or a Board of Directors?
Members Board of Directors

The Directors run or manage the Corporation. You can have one or as many as your particular company needs, but you need at least one director. A director must be a natural person; there are no residency requirements for directors. NOTE: when this document or most documents are filed with the Secretary of State, it becomes a public record. We suggest using business addresses for each director, especially if privacy issues are a concern.

7a).- How Many Directors will the Corporation initially have?

** Following is sample data for instructions purpose only.
# Name Street # Street Name City State ZIP

7b).- Membership. Will the Corporation have members? Yes No

8).- Would you like to add a section for meetings of the corporation and voting of either the members or Board? (It is not required, but will need to be addressed at some time, in either an amendment to the certificate of formation or in the By-Laws of the Corporation) Yes No
8a).- Would you like a section that discusses needing a quorum, which is a majority of voting members or Directors?

Yes No

8b).- Would you like a section in the formation certificate that will discuss voting by Proxy?

Yes No

8c).- Would you like a section that discusses special meetings?. Things usually come up that are not planned during the course of running a business. A special meeting is a meeting that can be called by the President or at least two members of the Board, to address issues related to the corporation.

Yes No

8c1).- How many directors would you like to have the ability to call a special meeting of the Board.

We would suggest that it is more than one. That would cut down on the ability of an individual member calling meetings and the Board having to comply.

8c1).- what percentage of the members can call a special meeting:

8d).- Notice of Meetings. Would you like to include notice language in the Certificate of formation. Yes No

8d1).- How many days notice would you like to provide prior to the actual date of the meeting.

8d2).- Would you like to have a limit on the amount of days notice prior to the meeting. For example, if someone gave notice 60 days before a meeting, it is possible that board members could forget the meeting. This is not necessary, but some people like to have language that gives the least amount of notice and a maximum days notice. Yes No

8d2.1).- How many days

8d3).- Is the corporation being formed a Church? Yes No

If yes, then the system will add language that discusses the ability of the officers of the corporation to give notice orally if provided during regularly scheduled worship service.

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