The New York Certificate of Surrender of Authority for a foreign LLC, Form DOS-1379-f

Section 806(b) lists the contents: the name as in the Department's index and any fictitious name, the home jurisdiction, the date the certificate of authority was filed in New York, that authority is surrendered, that any registered agent's authority is revoked with consent to service on the Secretary of State for earlier liabilities, and the post office address to which process is mailed. The section calls for a certificate entitled "Certificate of surrender of authority of" the LLC under section 806, signed by an authorized person or by a trustee, receiver or other person authorized by law to wind up the LLC.

Take them in order. The first gives the LLC's name as it appears in the Department's index, with any fictitious name it agreed to use. The second gives the jurisdiction where it was organized. The third gives the date its New York authority was filed, which you can read from the filing receipt. The fourth says that the LLC surrenders its authority to do business in the state. The fifth revokes any registered agent's authority and consents to service on the Secretary of State for liabilities incurred before the surrender. The sixth gives the post office address to which the Secretary of State mails any process. An optional email line allows notice of electronic service.

If the LLC has been dissolved, merged out of existence or had its home authority terminated or canceled, it does not surrender. It files a Certificate of Termination of Existence instead. Section 807 governs that filing.

A foreign corporation that wants to surrender authority files its paperwork with the Department and also follows the Tax Department's consent instructions, because a foreign corporation is liable for franchise tax while it does business, owns or leases property, keeps an office or earns receipts in the state.