(a) The business trust name and the state or country of formation;
(b) The names and addresses of the business trust’s trustees;
(c) The physical street address of the business trust’s registered office in this state, which must be a location at which process may be personally served on the registered agent and that may not be a commercial mail receiving agency, a mail forwarding business or a virtual office, and the name of the registered agent;
(d) A mailing address to which the Secretary of State may mail notices; and
(e) Any additional identifying information that the Secretary of State by rule may require.
(2) The filing described in subsection (1) of this section must be accompanied by the applicable filing fee.
(3) If the Secretary of State finds that the document contains the required information, the Secretary of State, when all fees have been paid, shall file the trust instrument and document and return an acknowledgment of filing to the sender.
(4) If a business trust amends a trust instrument, the business trust shall submit for filing a copy of the amendment to the Office of Secretary of State. The amendment must set forth:
(a) The name of the business trust as shown on the records of the Office of Secretary of State; and
(b) The information as changed. [1971 c.491 §4; 1973 c.367 §12; 1985 c.351 §21; 1985 c.728 §81a; 1987 c.94 §128; 1995 c.215 §24; 1999 c.486 §18; 2017 c.705 §30]