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We are organized as a general partnership, and one of the many documents we had to file with local (city, county, state) government is the Statement of Partnership Authority (GP-1). We mailed this to the state back towards the end of May, after we formally inaugurated our partnership, and recently we have been itching to get the certified copy back because we need it to complete opening our bank accounts.

After a call to the Secretary of State’s Document Filing Support Unit last week, I found out that they had indeed received our documents on May 27, but that it had been referred to an examiner because there were attachments. They forwarded me to her voice mail, but I didn’t get a call back. I called again yesterday, and left another message.

Today, I finally got a call back — and the news that our filing was going to be rejected because it didn’t have the proper number of signatures, and the attachments we had included were not appropriate.

It took them about seven weeks, from the time we sent the documents, for them to tell us this. It made me long for the easy days of waiting in line at the other government offices. At least any problems with the forms there were dealt with on the spot.

So we’ve had to re-file, without the attachments and with enough signatures. But this time we’re utilizing the services of Sun Document Filings (no relation to my other employer, Sun Microsystems), which should result in a one-week turnaround.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 at 8:19 pm and is filed under Behind the Scenes.