Organize Your Minute Book for LLC or Corporation
Maintaining a minute book for LLC or Corporation compliance is an essential function that begins with being organized. Ultimately, it’s a job that starts with you, your company’s owner, secretary or shareholders—and it doesn’t have to be difficult or complicated.
One compliance task you can easily manage without having to meet a deadline or pay a fee is getting your company minute book up-to-date. Your company minute book is where you keep all your company’s important paperwork such as your state filing documents and company meeting minutes. As you update certain documents such as stock ledgers (if you own a corporation) or the member ledger for your LLC, you will want to make sure to place the updated copies in your minute book to keep it current. You will also want to keep your minute book handy for inspection at all times (for shareholders, members, investors or even the IRS or state taxation agencies).
If you are organizing a corporation minute book, start out by making sure that you have your original Articles of Incorporation from your state of formation. You will also need the Corporate Bylaws that you adopted during your organizational meeting, and the organizational minutes from that meeting. In addition to your organizational meeting minutes, you will need copies of minutes taken at all meetings including annual meetings and corporate board meetings. For reference to company ownership, your corporation minute book should also contain a stock ledger that shows percentages issued, dates of issue and any transfers of ownership or stock.
An LLC minute book will need to hold the Articles of Organization from your state of formation and the LLC Operating Agreement that was set forth by the LLC members during your organizational meeting. Place both documents in your LLC minute book along with the organizational meeting minutes. You will also need copies of all meeting minutes such as those recorded at annual meetings and any special meetings that were held to discuss company changes. Don’t forget to include a current LLC member ledger that tracks ownership of the company, including the percentage owned by each member.
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