Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 14. CORPORATIONS, PARTNERSHIPS, AND ASSOCIATIONS · Chapter 2. BUSINESS CORPORATIONS · Article 2. INCORPORATION

14-2-203. Incorporation.

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(a)
Unless a delayed effective date is specified, the corporate existence begins when the articles of incorporation are filed.#
(b)
The Secretary of State’s filing of the articles of incorporation is conclusive proof that the incorporators satisfied all conditions precedent to incorporation except in a proceeding by the state to cancel or revoke the incorporation or involuntarily dissolve the corporation.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

Code 1981, § 14-2-203, enacted by Ga. L. 1988, p. 1070, § 1.

For comment, ‘‘An Empirical Study of Defective Incorporation,’’ see 39 Emory L.J. 523 (1990).

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