Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 19 - CORPORATION AND BUSINESS
Part V - Secretary of State
Chapter 9 - Special Corporations
Section V-900 - Secure Business Filings Service

A. The Department of State has developed and now offers a secure business filings (SBF) service designed to discourage fraudulent business filings in Louisiana. The service will notify a corporation via email whenever amendments are submitted on the corporation through geauxBIZ. The corporation will have the opportunity to review the filing and approve or reject further processing by the Department of State.

B. Any person who has a geauxBIZ account with a verified email address can enroll in the optional SBF service. The enrollment application must be authorized by a person who is a named officer, director, member, manager, or partner of record (the authorizing authority). The identity of the authorizing authority must be verified by completing a secure business filing service enrollment application authorization which must be verified by a licensed notary public in the state where the authorizing authority resides. A copy of the authorization form can be found on the departments website. The authorization application is required for all SBF applicants, even if the applicant is the approval authority.

C. Business entities will have an opportunity to review the filing and approve or reject further processing by the Department of State. To approve a filing, the corporation must provide the PIN assigned to the corporation within five days of receiving notification of a pending file. If the corporation rejects a filing or if five days passes with no action performed, the filing will not be processed by the Department of State.

D. The corporation is responsible for PIN usage and security. The Department of State will not be responsible for unauthorized usage of the PIN or changes made to the corporations business record as a result of an unauthorized user entering the correct PIN. The department reserves the right to cancel the SBF service, change the PIN, remove an SBF enrollee, change the SBF service terms and conditions, or act to prevent or prosecute fraudulent activity at any time.

E. An enrollment does not expire; however, it can be cancelled by the enrollee, by another authorized applicant, or by the Department of State. Enrollments are non-transferrable. A new SBF enrollment application must be completed to reinstate a cancelled enrollment or to change the SBF enrollment to a different geauxBIZ user. Once the enrollment application is approved by the department, the department will provide the corporation with a personal identification number (PIN) that will be unique to the corporation. The corporation can give the PIN to any person filing amendments on the corporations behalf.