(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) The Secretary of State, before filing a document that a person submits for filing, may verify that the principal office address, the registered office address, the records office address described in ORS § 70.020 or the principal address described in ORS § 648.010 for an entity that has an assumed business name as listed in the document is a physical street address and not a commercial mail receiving agency, a mail forwarding business or a virtual office. [1971 c.200 § 2; 2013 c.158 § 17; 2017 c.705 § 7]