                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

FILING REQUIREMENTS (§ 13.1-1003)

A. A document shall satisfy the requirements of this section, and of any other
section that adds to or varies these requirements, to be entitled to be filed
with the Commission.

B. The document shall be one that this chapter requires or permits to be filed
with the Commission.

C. The document shall contain the information required by this chapter. It may
contain other information as well.

D. The document shall be typewritten or printed or, if electronically
transmitted, shall be in a format that can be retrieved or reproduced in
typewritten or printed form. The typewritten or printed portion shall be in
black. Photocopies, or other reproduced copies, of typewritten or printed
documents may be filed. In every case, information in the document shall be
legible and the document shall be capable of being reformatted and reproduced in
copies of archival quality.

E. The document shall be in the English language. A limited liability company
name need not be in English if written in English letters or Arabic or Roman
numerals. The articles of organization, duly authenticated by the official
having custody of the applicable records in the state or country under whose law
the limited liability company is formed, which are required of foreign limited
liability companies, need not be in English if accompanied by a reasonably
authenticated English translation.

F. The document shall be signed in the name of the domestic or foreign limited
liability company:

   1. By any manager or other person who has been delegated the right and power
   to manage the business and affairs of the limited liability company, or if no
   managers or such other persons have been selected, by any member of the
   limited liability company;

   2. If the limited liability company has not been formed, or has been formed
   without any managers or members and no members have been admitted, by an
   organizer;

   3. In the case of a foreign limited liability company, by a person who is
   authorized to sign an amendment to the articles of organization or other
   constituent documents delivered for filing to the Secretary of State or other
   official having custody of limited liability company records in the state or
   other jurisdiction under whose law it is formed; or

   4. If the limited liability company is in the hands of a receiver, trustee, or
   other court-appointed fiduciary, by that fiduciary.

G. The person executing the document shall sign it and state beneath or opposite
his signature his name and the capacity in which he signs. Any signature may be
a facsimile.

H. If, pursuant to any provision of this chapter, the Commission has prescribed
a mandatory form for the document, the document shall be in or on the prescribed
form.

I. The document shall be delivered to the Commission for filing and shall be
accompanied by the required filing fee and any registration fee required by this
chapter.

J. The Commission may accept the electronic filing of any information required
or permitted to be filed by this chapter and may prescribe the methods of
execution, recording, reproduction and certification of electronically filed
information pursuant to &#xA7; 59.1-496.

HISTORY: 1991, c. 168; 1995, c. 70; 2000, cc. 58, 995; 2003, cc. 340, 379; 2006,
c. 748; 2013, c. 17.