What is an Incorporator
What is an Incorporator?

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What is an Incorporator?

An Incorporator is the person or business entity that prepares, files and signs the Articles of Incorporation in order to register a new business with the Secretary of State, or other state agency that is responsible for Corporations.

An Incorporator may be a person or business entitiy (depending on the state). An Incorporator is responsible for setting up the Corporation and filing formation documents with the state.

All states require at least one Incorporator. Some states have specific minimum age requirements for Incorporators. This may be specified as the "age of majority". This is the age at which a person becomes responsible for his or her own actions - the person is not a dependent.

An Incorporator generally has broad powers until the Board of Directors assumes management of the Corporation. Once the Directors take over, the Incorporator generally relinquishes any power to the Board of Directors.

An Incorporator is usually not involved in the day to day business of running the company. An Incorporator resigns for two reasons. First, this immediately grants the founders of the Corporation the authority to act on behalf of the company. And second, it helps eliminate the chance that the Incorporator will act in a way detrimental to the Corporation.

When you Incorporate online with us, we act as the Incorporator and relinquish all power to you immediately when the Incorporation process is completed.
CORPORATE GLOSSARY
 
Administrative Dissolution
Agent for Service of Process
Apostille
Apportionment
Articles of Incorporation
Articles of Organization
Assumed Name
At Will LLC
Authorized Shares
B Corporation
Benefit Corporation
Board of Directors
Business Dissolution
Business Entity
Bylaws
Certificate of Existence
Certificate of Status
Certified Copy
Close Corporation
Common Stock
Conversion
Corporate Bylaws
Corporate Name Reservation
Corporate Stock
DBA
Disregarded Entity
Dividends
ESOP
Excise Tax
Federal Tax ID
Ficticious Name
Foreign Qualification
Franchise Tax
General Partnership
Good Standing Certificate
Incorporator
Involuntary Dissolution
IRS Form 966
ITIN
Limited Liability Company
Limited Partnership
Liquidation
LLC
LP
Majority Shareholder
Meetings
Merger
Nexus
Non-Stock Corporation
Nonprofit Corporation
Obligated Member LLC
Organizer
Paid-in Capital
Paid-in Surplus
Par Value
Personal Service Corporation
Preferred Stock
Privilege Tax
Professional Corporation
Professional Service
Proxy
Registered Agent
Registered Office
Reporting Requirements
Revocation
S Corporation
Series LLC
Service Mark
Shareholder
Sole Proprietor
Stated Capital
Statutory Agent
Stock Certificate
Term LLC
Trade Name
Trademark
Trust
Trustee
Winding Up
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