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1. The secretary of state may administer this chapter.
2. The secretary of state may propound to any corporation or foreign corporation that is
subject to this chapter and to any officer, director, or employee thereof any
interrogatory as may be reasonably necessary and proper to ascertain whether the
corporation has complied with this chapter applicable to the corporation.
a. The interrogatory must be answered within thirty days after mailing or within any
additional time as must be fixed by the secretary of state. The answers to the
interrogatory must be full and complete and must be made in writing and under
oath.
b. If the interrogatory is directed:
(1)To an individual, it must be answered by that individual; or
(2)To a corporation, it must be answered by the president, vice presiden
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1. The secretary of state may administer this chapter.
2. The secretary of state may propound to any corporation or foreign corporation that is
subject to this chapter and to any officer, director, or employee thereof any
interrogatory as may be reasonably necessary and proper to ascertain whether the
corporation has complied with this chapter applicable to the corporation.
a. The interrogatory must be answered within thirty days after mailing or within any
additional time as must be fixed by the secretary of state. The answers to the
interrogatory must be full and complete and must be made in writing and under
oath.
b. If the interrogatory is directed:
(1) To an individual, it must be answered by that individual; or
(2) To a corporation, it must be answered by the president, vice president,
secretary, or assistant secretary of the corporation.
c. The secretary of state need not file any record to which the interrogatory relates
until the interrogatory has been answered, and not then if the answers disclose
that the record is not in conformity with this chapter.
d. The secretary of state shall certify to the attorney general, for action the attorney
general may deem appropriate, an interrogatory and answers thereto, which
discloses a violation of this chapter.
e. Each officer, director, or employee of a corporation or foreign corporation who
fails or refuses within the time provided by subdivision a to answer truthfully and
fully an interrogatory propounded to that person by the secretary of state is guilty
of an infraction.
f. An interrogatory propounded by the secretary of state and the answers are not
open to public inspection. The secretary of state may not disclose any facts or
information obtained from the interrogatory or answers except insofar as may be
permitted by law or insofar as is required for evidence in any criminal proceedings
or other action by this state.
3. If the secretary of state rejects any record required by this chapter to be approved by
the secretary of state before the record may be filed, then the secretary of state shall
give written notice of the rejection to the person that delivered the record, specifying
the reasons for rejection.
a. Within thirty days after the service of the notice of denial, the corporation or
foreign corporation as the case may be, may appeal to the district court in the
judicial district serving Burleigh County by filing with the clerk of the court a
petition setting forth a copy of the record sought to be filed and a copy of the
written rejection of the record by the secretary of state.
b. The matter must be tried de novo by the court. The court shall either sustain the
action of the secretary of state or direct the secretary of state to take the action
the court determines proper.
4. If the secretary of state dissolves a corporation or revokes the certificate of authority to
conduct activities in this state of any foreign corporation, pursuant to section
10-33-141.3, the corporation or foreign corporation may appeal to the district court in
the judicial district serving Burleigh County by filing with the clerk of the court a petition
including:
a. A copy of the corporation's articles of incorporation and a copy of the notice of
dissolution given by the secretary of state; or
b. A copy of the foreign corporation's certificate of authority to conduct activities in
this state and a copy of the notice of revocation given by the secretary of state.
The matter must be tried de novo by the court. The court shall sustain the action
of the secretary of state or shall direct the secretary of state to take the action the
court determines proper.
5. If the court order sought is one for reinstatement of a corporation that has been
dissolved as provided in subsection 5 of section 10-33-139, or for reinstatement of the
certificate of authority of a foreign corporation that has been revoked as provided in
subsection 6 of section 10-33-139, then together with any other actions the court
deems proper, any such order which reverses the decision of the secretary of state
shall require the corporation or foreign corporation to:
a. File the most recent past-due annual report;
b. Pay the fees to the secretary of state for all past-due annual reports as provided
in subdivision q of subsection 1 of section 10-33-140; and
c. Pay the reinstatement fee to the secretary of state as provided in subdivision q of
subsection 1 of section 10-33-140.
6. Appeals from all final orders and judgments entered by the district court under this
section in review of any ruling or decision of the secretary of state may be taken as in
other civil actions.