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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 14. CORPORATIONS, PARTNERSHIPS, AND ASSOCIATIONS · Chapter 3. NONPROFIT CORPORATIONS · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS · Part 2. DOCUMENTS

14-3-128. Certificate of existence or authorization.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. (a)

    Any person may apply to the Secretary of State to furnish a certificate of existence for a domestic corporation or a certificate of authority for a foreign corporation.#

  2. (b)

    A certificate of existence or authority sets forth:#

    1. (1)

      The domestic corporation’s corporate name or the foreign corporation’s corporate name used in this state;#

    2. (2)

      That the domestic corporation is duly incorporated under the law of this state and the date of its incorporation, or that the foreign corporation is authorized to transact business in this state;#

    3. (3)

      That its most recent annual registration required by Code Section 14-3-1622 has been delivered to the Secretary of State; and#

    4. (4)

      That articles of dissolution have not been filed.#

  3. (c)

    Subject to any qualification stated in the certificate, a certificate of existence or authority issued by the Secretary of State may be relied upon as prima-facie evidence that the domestic corporation or foreign corporation is in existence or is authorized to transact business in this state.#

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.

History

Code 1981, § 14-3-128, enacted by Ga. L. 1991, p. 465, § 1; Ga. L. 2023, p. 419, § 1-1/SB 148, effective July 1, 2023.

Amendments

The 2023 amendment, effective July 1, 2023, substituted “authority” for “authorization” in subsections (a), (b), and (c), and inserted “corporation” following “domestic” in subsection (c).

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t14-(v12)-pdf.pdf, Volume V12, 2017 edition, 2025 supplement, pages 46 to 47; merge action: replaced; file SHA-256 b004123363dc.