Alabama Code 22-51-6. Incorporation of public corporations – Certificate of incorporation – Execution and recording
Terms Used In Alabama Code 22-51-6
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- preceding: means next before. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
- Probate: Proving a will
- state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
A certificate of incorporation, in the form provided in Section 22-51-5, shall be signed and acknowledged by the incorporators before an officer authorized by the laws of the state to take acknowledgments to deeds and shall have attached thereto a certified copy of each of the resolutions provided for in Section 22-51-4 and a certificate by the Secretary of State that the name proposed for the corporation is not identical to that of any other corporation organized under the laws of the state or so nearly similar thereto as to lead to confusion and uncertainty. The certificate of incorporation, together with the documents required by the preceding sentence to be attached thereto, shall be filed for record in the office of the judge of probate of the county specified in the certificate of incorporation as the county in which the principal office of the corporation shall be located. The said judge of probate shall forthwith receive and record the same. When the certificate of incorporation and attached documents have been so filed, the corporation referred to therein shall come into existence and shall constitute a public corporation vested with the rights and powers granted in this chapter under the name set forth in such certificate of incorporation.