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Jurisdicción de Estados Unidos,
explicada con claridad.
U.S. jurisdiction,
explained clearly.
Articles of incorporation bring a corporation into existence. Articles of organization bring a limited liability company into existence. The two documents are filed with the same office, cost roughly the same and look alike on the screen — and they produce entities that are governed differently, taxed differently and owned differently. Filing the wrong one is not a paperwork problem to tidy up later.
Some states name the LLC document a certificate of formation or a certificate of organization instead. The vocabulary moves across state lines; the function does not. And once either one is filed, it stops being your private paper: it becomes a public record held by the state, which is why half of this section is about getting it back rather than writing it.
Three ways into the section, by where you already are.
The plain definition of the document and what it does and does not contain.
The comparison in full, including the states that rename the LLC filing.
The filing is a public record. Retrieval, not drafting.
An LLC uses organization, not incorporation. In Florida the filing to identify is the Articles of Organization, and in some states it is called a certificate of formation.
For a typical domestic filing the notary question simply does not apply: the accountability comes from the incorporator signing and from the filing being a public record.
A template is a starting point, not a filing. State-specific provisions and the purpose clause are what decide whether the document does its job.
The image of the filing as it sits in the state’s system. In Florida it can be viewed and downloaded from Sunbiz. It proves what was filed; it carries no certification, which is why a bank or a court will send it back.
An official copy issued by the state with a certification, and often a seal, attesting that it is a true and accurate copy of what is on file. This is what a bank, a court, an investor or a foreign authority is normally asking for.
A certified copy carried one step further for use abroad: an apostille for countries in the Hague Convention, or consular legalization for the rest. The destination decides which, and it cannot be chosen freely.
The mandatory provisions, and the ones founders leave out.
The sequence from name check to effective date.
What changes when the filing is made online rather than on paper.
What each box is for, and which ones the state will reject blank.
When the answer is no, and what the business files instead.
Purpose clause, share structure and the provisions that are hard to undo.
Where the state keeps the filing, and how to ask for each version.
The same public record, seen from the outside.
What can be changed, what has to be re-filed, and what it costs in time.
The instrument the amendment actually travels in.
When the cleanest route is a single consolidated text.
No shareholders, and a purpose clause that has to survive scrutiny.
What the IRS needs to see in the Articles themselves, not later.
The same Articles; the difference is a later election, not a filing.
Licensed professions, and the extra provisions the state expects.
Articles of incorporation create a corporation. Articles of organization create an LLC. Same office, different entity.
For a typical domestic filing the notary question does not apply. The incorporator signs and the filing is public.
Plain copy, certified copy and authenticated copy. Only the last one travels abroad.
Once filed, the Articles are part of the public record and can be retrieved by anyone, including you.
Once the Articles are filed, what a bank, a court or a foreign registry asks for is a specific version of them. Notary Public Center prepares, signs and certifies U.S. corporate documents, and routes the apostille or legalization the destination requires.
