Household Finance and Mortgage Company, Inc.,; The Petition posed the question of whether Household Finance and Mortgage Company, Inc., was exempt from obtaining a certificate of authority form the Department of State. Since the Department serves a ...
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations has declined to rule on the petition for declaratory statement filed by Household Finance and Mortgage Company, Inc., on November 7, 2014. The following is a summary of the agency’s declination of the petition:
The Petition posed the question of whether Household Finance and Mortgage Company, Inc., was exempt from obtaining a certificate of authority form the Department of State. Since the Department serves a ministerial role when an application for certificate of authority is filed by a foreign corporation and courts make the determination on whether a foreign corporation requires a certificate to maintain a court proceeding, the Department does not have the authority to determine whether the Petitioner must obtain a certificate of authority.
