Sec. 12.002.  INTERROGATORIES BY SECRETARY OF STATE.  (a)  As necessary and proper for the secretary of state to determine whether a filing entity or a foreign filing entity has complied with this code, the secretary of state may serve by mail interrogatories on the entity or a managerial official.
(b)  An entity or individual to whom an interrogatory is sent by the secretary of state shall answer the interrogatory before the later of the 31st day after the date the interrogatory is mailed or a date set by the secretary of state.  Each answer to an interrogatory must be complete, in writing, and under oath.  An interrogatory directed to an individual shall be answered by the individual, and an interrogatory directed to an entity shall be answered by a managerial official.
(c)  The secretary of state is not required to file any instrument to which an interrogatory relates until the interrogatory is answered as provided by this section and only if the instrument conforms to the requirements of this code.  The secretary of state shall certify to the attorney general for action as the attorney general may consider appropriate an interrogatory and answer to the interrogatory that disclose a violation of this code.
(d)  This section and Sections 12.003 and 12.004 do not apply to domestic real estate investment trusts.
Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 182, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 2006.