79-29-205 - Signing of certificates. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 79-29-205. Signing of certificates.
 

(1)  Unless otherwise specified in any other section of this chapter, any document required by this chapter to be delivered to the office of the Secretary of State for filing shall be signed: 

(a) By any manager, if management of the limited liability company is vested in one or more managers, or by a member if management of the limited liability company is reserved to the members; 

(b) If the limited liability company has not been formed, by any person forming the limited liability company; or 

(c) If the limited liability company is in the hands of a receiver, trustee or other court-appointed fiduciary, by that fiduciary. 

(2)  The person signing the document shall state beneath or opposite his signature his name, the capacity in which he signs and his street and mailing address. A document required or permitted to be delivered to the office of the Secretary of State for filing under this chapter which contains a copy of a signature, however made, is acceptable for filing by the Secretary of State. 

(3)  Any person may sign a certificate, a limited liability company agreement or any amendment to either by an agent, including an attorney-in-fact. 

(4)  A person commits an offense if he signs a document he knows is false in any material respect with intent that the document be delivered to the office of the Secretary of State for filing. An offense under this provision is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00). 
 

Sources: Laws,  1994, ch. 402, § 17; Laws, 1995, ch. 362, § 10; Laws,  1997, ch. 418, § 33, eff from and after July 1, 1997.