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Business Registration Manual

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Enter the business entity name for which you would like to register.

Figure 20. Entity Name entry field

Click Save the Name.

Click on the button that indicates whether or not your registered agent is a North Carolina resident or an existing North Carolina business entity.

The registered agent’s duty is to receive legal and official documents on behalf of the company and forward them to the entity’s last known address. The registered agent must be registered with the NC Secretary of State’s Office.

Figure 21. Registered agent status buttons

For this example, we selected “Agent Is a North Carolina Resident.”

Click Agent Is a North Carolina Resident

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