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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 46. PUBLIC UTILITIES AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION · Chapter 9. TRANSPORTATION OF FREIGHT AND PASSENGERS GENERALLY · Article 7. EXPRESS COMPANIES

46-9-230. Manner of incorporation of express companies.

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

  1. If a group of at least five persons (1) files a petition with the Secretary of State setting forth that they desire to be incorporated as an express company, the name under which they desire to be incorporated, the amount of capital stock which the company proposes to have, the place where the principal office of the company shall be located, and the states, territories, and countries in which the company proposes to operate, and (2) pays to the Secretary of State a fee of $100.00, to be deposited by the Secretary of State into the state treasury, then the Secretary of State shall issue to the petitioners the following certificate: “State of Georgia. To whom it may concern — Greetings:

  2. having filed their petition in terms of the statute in such case provided, they and their associates and successors are hereby created and declared a body corporate for the period of 30 years, under the name of , for the purpose of carrying on an express business in , with a capital stock of

  3. dollars, with its principal place of business at , in the county of , Georgia, with the powers, duties, and liabilities as now or hereafter prescribed by the laws of this state.

  4. Witness my official hand and seal of this state, this day of , .”

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. 1893, p. 84, § 1; Civil Code 1895, § 2000; Civil Code 1910, § 2381; Code 1933, § 41-101; Ga. L. 1999, p. 81, § 46; Ga. L. 2025, p. 1029, § 46(67)/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 certificate.

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 866 to 867; merge action: bound only; file SHA-256 53ab60ae5027.