Qualification to Do Business: Corporation

"No corporation shall open, operate, or maintain an establishment or do business for any purposes set forth in the Nebraska Professional Corporation Act without filing with the Secretary of State a certificate of registration from the regulating board of the particular profession for which the professional corporation is organized to do business. NEB. REV. STAT. § 21-2216.

A foreign corporation may not transact business in this state until it obtains a certificate of authority from the Secretary of State. Certain activities listed in the law do not constitute transacting business. NEB. REV. STAT. § 21-19,146.

A foreign corporation transacting business without a certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding in any court in this state until it obtains a certificate of authority. A foreign corporation is liable for a civil penalty of five hundred dollars for each day, but not to exceed a total of ten thousand dollars for each year, it transacts business in this state without a certificate of authority. The failure of a foreign corporation to obtain a certificate of authority does not impair the validity of its corporate acts or prevent it from defending any proceeding in this state. NEB. REV. STAT. § 21-19,147"