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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 46. PUBLIC UTILITIES AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION · Chapter 5. TELEPHONE SERVICE · Article 2. TELEPHONE SERVICE · Part 3. RURAL TELEPHONE COOPERATIVES

46-5-75. Certificate of Secretary of State.

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

  1. The Secretary of State shall thereupon attach to one of the certified copies of the articles of incorporation with order of the judge thereon, which articles of incorporation with the order of the judge thereon constitute the charter of the corporation as granted by the superior court, a certificate in substantially the following form:

  2. “State of Georgia

  3. Office of the Secretary of State

  4. Ex Officio Corporation Commissioner

  5. This is to certify that (the name of the corporation) has been duly incorporated under the laws of the State of Georgia, on the day of , , for a period of years from said date, in accordance with the certified copy hereto attached, and that a certified copy of the articles of incorporation constituting the charter of said corporation has duly been filed in the office of the Secretary of State and the fees therefor paid, as provided by law.

  6. Witness my hand and official seal, this day of , .

  7. Secretary of State, Ex Officio

  8. Corporation Commissioner of

  9. the State of Georgia”

Reading note: the printed indentation of one or more subsections was ambiguous, so their nesting is the extractor's best reading. The official page linked below settles any doubt.

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

Ga. L. 1950, p. 192, § 16; Ga. L. 1982, p. 3, § 46; Ga. L. 1999, p. 81, § 46; Ga. L. 2025, p. 1029, § 46(46)/SB 153, effective July 1, 2025.

Amendments

The 2025 amendment, effective July 1, 2025, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, inserted quotation marks at the beginning and end of the form.

Read the official page (the state's PDF, opened at the page this text was read from).

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

Text read from t46-(v34)-2025-pdf.pdf, Volume V34, 2025 edition, pages 565 to 566; merge action: bound only; file SHA-256 53ab60ae5027.