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Current as of January 02, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
Sec. 5. (a) Activities of a foreign entity which do not constitute doing business in Indiana under this article include:
(1) maintaining, defending, mediating, arbitrating, or settling an action or proceeding;
(2) carrying on any activity concerning its internal affairs, including holding meetings of its interest holders or governing persons;
(3) maintaining accounts in financial institutions;
(4) maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer, exchange, and registration of securities of the entity or maintaining trustees or depositories with respect to those securities;
(5) selling through independent contractors;
(6) soliciting or obtaining orders by any means if the orders require acceptance outside Indiana before they become contracts;
(7) making loans or otherwise creating or acquiring indebtedness, mortgages, or security interests in real or personal property;
(8) securing or collecting debts or enforcing mortgages or security interests in property securing the debts, and holding, protecting, or maintaining property so acquired;
(9) conducting an isolated transaction completed within thirty (30) days that is not conducted in the course of repeated transactions of a like nature;
(10) owning, without more, property;
(11) doing business in interstate commerce; and
(12) if the entity is a nonprofit corporation, soliciting funds if otherwise authorized by Indiana law.
(b) A person does not do business in Indiana solely by being an interest holder or governing person of a foreign entity that does business in Indiana.
(c) This section does not apply in determining the contacts or activities that may subject a foreign entity to service of process, taxation, or regulation under law of Indiana other than this article.
(d) The list of activities in subsection (a) is not exhaustive and recodifies, not repeals, those activities previously listed in IC 23-1-49-1, IC 23-16-10-2, IC 23-17-26-1, and IC 23-18-11-2.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Indiana Code Title 23. Business and Other Associations § 23-0.5-5-5 - last updated January 02, 2024 | https://codes.findlaw.com/in/title-23-business-and-other-associations/in-code-sect-23-0-5-5-5/
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