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About the Bureau of Corporations, Elections and Commissions

Julie Flynn, Deputy Secretary of State

 

NOTICE: In observance of Memorial Day, the Bureau of Corporations, Elections & Commissions will be closed on Monday, May 28, 2012.


The Bureau is responsible for elections, corporations, and a variety of central filing activities. The Bureau has significant contact with the public in many areas including the following: conduct of state elections; corporation filings; Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) filings; oversight of the Administrative Procedure Act (state agency rule-making); recording of appointments to state offices, boards and commissions and commissioning of notaries public.

Annual traffic includes over 100,000 inquiries in person, over the phone, by mail, by fax, and by e-mail, and the maintenance of over 150,000 documents requiring action. The Bureau has a number of public access workstations in the Reception area to allow walk-in users direct access to corporate and UCC information on the Bureau's Local Area Network (LAN). The Bureau also offers significant information and services on this site, including corporate forms, searchable databases for corporate names and notaries public, and the entire body of state agency rules.

Disclosure of financial information by state agency executive employees, previously filed with the Bureau of Corporations, Elections and Commissions, is now administered by the Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices.

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