§ 41-10-85 — Execution of Certificate of Incorporation; Filing of Certificate of Incorporation, Resolution of Governing Body, Etc., with Probate Judge and Recordation Thereof by Probate Judge

Alabama § 41-10-85

• Jurisdiction: Alabama
• Title 41: State Government
• Ch. 10: Authorities
• Art. 4: State Products Mart and Coliseum Authorities

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(a) The certificate of incorporation shall be signed and acknowledged by the incorporators before an officer authorized by the laws of the state to take acknowledgments of deeds and shall have attached thereto a certified copy of the resolution provided for in Section 41-10-84 and a certificate by the Secretary of State of the state that the name proposed by the corporation is not identical with that of any other corporation in the state or so nearly similar thereto as to lead to confusion or uncertainty.
(b) The certificate of incorporation, together with the documents required by Section 41-10-84 to be attached thereto, shall be filed in the office of the judge of probate of the county, who shall forthwith receive and record the same.
(c) When such certificate of incorporation and attached documents have been so filed, the corporation shall come into existence and shall constitute a body corporate and politic and a political subdivision of the state under the name set forth in such certificate of incorporation, whereupon the corporation shall be vested with the rights and powers granted in this article.

Legislative History

(Acts 1965, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 174, p. 224, §6.)