(a) A domestic or foreign corporation may correct a document filed by the Secretary of the State if (1) the document contains an inaccuracy, (2) the document was defectively made, executed, attested, sealed, verified or acknowledged, or (3) the electronic transmission was defective.

(b) A document is corrected: (1) By preparing a certificate of correction that (A) describes the document, including its filing date, or attaches a copy of it to the certificate, (B) specifies the inaccuracy or defect to be corrected, and (C) corrects the inaccuracy or defect; and (2) by delivering the certificate of correction to the Secretary of the State for filing.

(c) A certificate of correction is effective on the effective date of the document it corrects except as to persons relying on the uncorrected document and adversely affected by the correction. As to those persons, a certificate of correction is effective when filed.

(P.A. 96-256, S. 8, 209; P.A. 01-199, S. 36; P.A. 03-18, S. 33.)

History: P.A. 96-256 effective January 1, 1997; P.A. 01-199 amended Subsec. (a) to make technical changes, replacing in Subdiv. (1) “an incorrect statement” with “an inaccuracy” and adding Subdiv. (3) authorizing correction if the electronic transmission was defective, and amended Subsec. (b)(1)(B) to replace “the incorrect statement and the reason it is incorrect or the manner in which the execution was defective” with “the inaccuracy or defect to be corrected” and (B)(1)(C) to replace “the incorrect statement or defective execution” with “the inaccuracy or defect”; P.A. 03-18 amended Subsec. (a) by adding reference to document defectively made, effective July 1, 2003.