Missouri Revised Statutes § 355.751 - Foreign corporation, certificate of authority — transportation of business

355.751. Foreign corporation, certificate of authority — transportation of business. — 1. A foreign corporation may not transact business in this state until it obtains a certificate of authority from the secretary of state. 2. The following activities, among others, do not constitute transacting business within the meaning of subsection 1 of this section: (1) Maintaining, defending, or settling any proceeding; (2) Holding meetings of the board of directors or members or carrying on other activities concerning internal corporate affairs; (3) Maintaining bank accounts; (4) Maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer, exchange, and registration of memberships or securities or maintaining trustees or depositaries with respect to those securities; (5) Selling through independent contractors; (6) Soliciting or obtaining orders, whether by mail or through employees or agents or otherwise, if the orders require acceptance outside this state before they become contracts; (7) Creating or acquiring indebtedness, mortgages, and security interests in real or personal property; (8) Securing or collecting debts or enforcing mortgages and security interests in property securing the debts; (9) Owning real or personal property; (10) Conducting an isolated transaction that is completed within thirty days and that is not one in the course of repeated transactions of a like nature; (11) Transacting business in interstate commerce. 3. The list of activities in subsection 2 of this section is not exhaustive. (L. 1994 H.B. 1095) Effective 7-01-95