INSTRUCTIONS
1. Print or type the name and address of the requesting party. Correspondence will be mailed to this address.
2. Print or type the name of the business, which is the subject of the request.
3. Print or type Customer ID (if applicable). By providing your Customer ID you are authorizing the Secretary of the
State’s office to debit your account.
4. Mail: Documentation will be mailed to the requesting party at 4:00 PM on the following business day. Allow
additional time for mail delivery.
Pick Up: Documentation must be picked up before 4:00 PM on the following business day or it will be placed in the
outgoing mail and cannot be retrieved. In this case allow additional time for mail delivery.
5. Expedited Fee is $50.00 PER TRANSACTION – For example: Review of a document filing and issuance of a
confirmation letter is one transaction while a request for a certified copy is another transaction.
6.The request will be completed within twenty-four hours of receipt. If the twenty-four hour period ends on a Saturday,
Sunday, holiday, or day on which the Commercial Recording Division is not open for business, the twenty-four hour
period is extended to the appropriate hour of the next business day on which the Commercial Recording Division is
open for business.
Please note: Expedited Service (24 Hour) is the amount of time this office has to process your
request. Allow additional time for mailing. Paying for expedited service does not guarantee that your filing
will be accepted.
Each time a document is reviewed on an expedited basis and rejected, the $50.00 expedited fee will be
forfeited. Therefore, if documents are to be expedited upon resubmission, an additional expedited fee must be
resubmitted along with the documents.
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF THE STATE
MAILING ADDRESS:
COMMERCIAL RECORDING DIVISION
CONNECTICUT SECRETARY OF THE STATE
P.O. BOX 150470
HARTFORD, CT 06115-0470
DELIVERY ADDRESS:
COMMERCIAL RECORDING DIVISION
CONNECTICUT SECRETARY OF THE STATE
30 TRINITY STREET
HARTFORD, CT 06106
PHONE: 860-509-6003
WEBSITE: www.concord-sots.ct.gov
INSTRUCTIONS
FORM EXP-1-1.0
Rev. 9/2012
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