Corporation Reinstatement, Revival, and Revivor Packet - Ohio

OHIO CORPORATION REINSTATEMENT, REVIVAL, AND REVIVOR PACKET

Diagnostic packet—not an eligibility promise. Identify the exact status-loss cause, effective date, entity type, and governing route before preparing a filing.

Scope gate. Use for a domestic profit corporation only. Excludes nonprofit, professional, regulated, insolvent, disputed-control, judicially dissolved, merged, converted, and foreign corporations unless counsel supplies the correct route.

1. STATUS RECORD

Attach the official entity record, every status notice, filing history, tax or fee correspondence, articles, amendments, bylaws, stock ledger, and current officer/director record.

2. OHIO ROUTE

Ohio has multiple cancellation routes. If articles were canceled because the corporation failed to replace a statutory agent or update the agent's address after notice, § 1701.07 permits reinstatement within two years by filing the prescribed application, curing the agent filing, and paying the required fee.

If cancellation was imposed under the tax-law route, § 5703.93 requires all Secretary of State fees and penalties, a Tax Commissioner certificate confirming compliance and payment for every delinquent year, and the statutory additional fee. An officer, shareholder, creditor, or receiver may take the required steps. A name amendment may be required when reinstatement occurs more than one year after cancellation and the former name is no longer distinguishable.

☐ Exact route confirmed from the current official record.

☐ Every statutory and agency deadline calculated from the correct effective date.

☐ Name, registered-agent, annual-report, tax, fee, and penalty issues identified separately.

☐ No voluntary, judicial, merger, conversion, insolvency, or foreign route is being mislabeled as reinstatement.

3. CURE AND FILING INVENTORY

☐ Form, fee, portal, processing instruction, and delivery address rechecked on filing day.

☐ Acceptance confirmed from the official record rather than inferred from payment or submission.

4. EFFECT AND INACTIVE-PERIOD REVIEW

Section 1701.922 restores corporate rights and property upon reinstatement. Its protection for acts during cancellation is conditional: the act must have been within the former articles and the officer, agent, or employee must have lacked knowledge of the cancellation. Do not describe Ohio reinstatement as an unconditional cure of every inactive-period act.

☐ No statement made that reinstatement restores every license, revives every deadline, defeats every defense, or eliminates personal liability.

5. POST-ACCEPTANCE WORK

☐ Official record shows the intended active or good-standing status.

☐ Accepted filing, payment proof, clearance documents, reports, and current entity record saved.

☐ Corporate records, tax and payroll accounts, licenses, banks, insurance, contracts, lenders, permits, and foreign qualifications reviewed separately.

☐ Ongoing annual-report, tax, registered-agent, and governance calendar assigned.

Prepared by: [________________________________]

Authorized reviewer: [________________________________]

Signature: [________________________________] Date: [__/__/____]

SOURCES AND REFERENCES

• Ohio Laws — § 1701.07, agent cancellation and reinstatement
• Ohio Laws — § 1701.922, effect of reinstatement
• Ohio Laws — § 5703.93, tax cancellation reinstatement
• Ohio Secretary of State — business filing forms

Statutes and route verified 2026-07-29; recheck the official record, form, amounts, and filing instructions immediately before submission.