Documents filed with Secretary of State; verification

(1) If a document is required by law to be verified before being submitted for filing with the Secretary of State, the document must include or be accompanied by a written declaration that the person who executes the document prepares under penalties of perjury to the effect that the person has examined the document and to the best of the person’s knowledge and belief the document is true, correct and complete. An acknowledgment before a notary public or other officer is not required. (2) Before filing a document that a person submits for filing, the Secretary of State may verify that, as listed in the document, a business entity’s principal office, records office address, as described in ORS 70.020, or principal address, as described in ORS 648.010, is a physical street address and is not a mail forwarding service, virtual office or commercial mail receiving agency, except that the Secretary of State may accept a commercial mail receiving agency as a business entity’s principal office, records office address or principal address if the physical street address of the business entity’s principal executive offices is the same as the physical street address of the commercial mail receiving agency. The Secretary of State shall verify that the address of a registered agent listed in a document submitted for filing is a physical street address and is not a mail forwarding service, virtual office or commercial mail receiving agency. (3) The Secretary of State shall protect from public disclosure a business entity’s physical street address as provided in any document a person submits for filing under this section if: (a) The physical street address of the business entity’s principal office, records office address or principal address is the same as the physical street address of a commercial mail receiving agency; and (b) The person requests the Secretary of State to protect the business entity’s physical street address from public disclosure.