Connecticut § 33-893 Appeal from refusal of reinstatement.

Connecticut Statutes

§ 33-893 — Appeal from refusal of reinstatement.

Connecticut § 33-893

Title 33Corporations

Ch. 601Business Corporations

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Conn. Gen. Stat. § 33-893 (2026).

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(a)If the Secretary of the State refuses to file the application for reinstatement, he shall return it to the corporation or its representative within five days after the application was delivered, together with a brief written explanation of the reason for his refusal.

(b)The corporation may appeal the refusal of the Secretary of the State to file the application for reinstatement to the superior court for the judicial district where the corporation's principal office or, if none in this state, its registered office, is located within thirty days after return of the application. The corporation appeals by petitioning the court to set aside the dissolution and attaching to the petition copies of the Secretary of the State's certificate of administrative dissolution, the corporation's app

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(a) If the Secretary of the State refuses to file the application for reinstatement, he shall return it to the corporation or its representative within five days after the application was delivered, together with a brief written explanation of the reason for his refusal. (b) The corporation may appeal the refusal of the Secretary of the State to file the application for reinstatement to the superior court for the judicial district where the corporation's principal office or, if none in this state, its registered office, is located within thirty days after return of the application. The corporation appeals by petitioning the court to set aside the dissolution and attaching to the petition copies of the Secretary of the State's certificate of administrative dissolution, the corporation's application for reinstatement and the Secretary of the State's explanation of the reason for his refusal to file the application for reinstatement. (c) The court may summarily order the Secretary of the State to reinstate the dissolved corporation or may take other action the court considers appropriate. (d) The court's final decision may be appealed as in other civil proceedings.

Legislative History

(P.A. 94-186, S. 172, 215; P.A. 96-271, S. 122, 123, 254.) History: P.A. 94-186 effective January 1, 1997; P.A. 96-271 amended Subsec. (a) to delete “domestic or foreign” before “corporation” and amended Subsec. (b) to authorize the corporation to appeal “the refusal of the Secretary of the State to file the application for reinstatement” rather than appeal “the denial of reinstatement”, provide that the appeal must be filed 30 days after “return of the application” rather than after “service of the notice of denial is perfected”, require the corporation to attach to the petition a copy of the Secretary of the State's “explanation of the reason for his refusal to file the application for reinstatement” rather than a copy of said Secretary's “notice of denial” and make a technical change, effective January 1, 1997.