2009 Year-end Office Closings

Our office will be open for only five business days during the last two weeks of December. Please review your calendar. Plan accordingly if you anticipate year-end filings. Volume is always heavy at that time. While it is our goal and desire to efficiently accommodate all year-end filings, we are restricted by fewer work days and less staff.
In your best interest, submit any filings as early as possible. For most chapters of law, a Delayed Effective Date of up to 90 days from the date of receipt in our office may be declared within the filing. We highly recommend you take advantage of that feature.
With your usual cooperation, we will be able to attain your goals and ours.

The Department of Financial Institutions will be closed on the following days in December 2009:

Thursday, December 24
Friday, December 25
*Monday, December 28*
Thursday, December 31

ALERT

PAPER YEAR-END FILINGS

Last date to receive Corporation, Limited Liability Company or Limited Liability Partnership filings that need an effective date in 2009 is Wednesday, December 30, 2009. Document(s) must be in a condition acceptable for filing. If a document has to be returned for correction, its effective date will change.
Our office hours are 7:45 AM to 4:30 PM
Our office is closed on the following days:
December 24 (Thursday)
December 25 (Friday)
December 28 (Monday) (due to state employee furlough requirements)
December 31 (Thursday)
January 1, 2010 (Friday)
All Limited Partnership and Cooperative filings that require an effective date in 2009 must be received in this office no later than Tuesday, December 29, and must be accompanied by an additional $25.00 and a request to EXPEDITE the filing.
We recommend that any Limited Partnership or Cooperative filing received in our office after Friday, December 18, 2009, that needs to be effective in 2009, be accompanied by an additional $25.00 and a request to EXPEDITE.
The Corporations’ Section fax machine is available to receive document filings until only 4:30 PM daily. On Wednesday, December 30, 2009, the fax machine will accept filings until 4:30 PM. After that the fax machine will not accept filings until our office reopens at 7:45 AM, Monday, January 4, 2010. Online payment for faxed document filings must be made prior to midnight CST, December 30.
All faxed documents must be sent to the Corporations’ Section fax machine at 608/267-6813. We cannot guarantee the processing of any filing that goes to a different Department fax machine.

ONLINE YEAR-END FILINGS

Last date to receive filings submitted online that need an effective date in 2009, is no later than midnight CST, Thursday, December 31, 2009. Document(s) must be in a condition acceptable for filing. If a document has to be returned for correction, its effective date will change.

Online filings subject to the above year-end timing alert include:

Articles of Incorporation for domestic-only business and close business corporations (service corporations and close service corporations may not submit Articles online);
Articles of Organization for domestic-only limited liability company
Articles of Merger
Certificate of Conversion
Change of Registered Agent and/or Office
1st Quarter entity 2009 Annual Report filings for domestic-only business, close business corporations, and limited liability companies (service corporations, close service corporations, nonstock not-for-profit corporations, and cooperatives may not submit annual reports online)