Every foreign corporation doing business in the Commonwealth shall annually file with the Division, within six months of the close of its fiscal year, a certificate of condition. The clerks of the Division in their examination of the certificate of condition have been directed to check for the following information:
The certificate of condition of a foreign corporation shall be signed under penalties of perjury by a responsible officer of the corporation.
Photocopies of certificates of condition are acceptable for filing with the Division, however, photocopied signatures are NOT acceptable. All information on the certificate of condition may be copied, and that copy filed, but the signatures must be original.
The Division shall accept for filing with certificate of condition only the section or sections of the foreign corporation's Annual Report that deal with the requirements of the certificate of condition. The foreign corporation should NOT send its entire Annual Report to the Division for filing with the certificate of condition.
950 CMR, § 107.05