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Section 1 - Application of Chapter; Secretary Defined - Section 1. This chapter, unless expressly limited in its application,...
Section 2 - Examination of Certificates and Reports by State Secretary; Records; Reports - Section 2. The secretary shall examine the certificates and reports...
Section 2b - Clinics, Hospitals, Rest Homes, etc., Approval of Articles of Organization and Amendments - Section 2B. Upon approving articles of organization in connection with...
Section 3 - Acts of Incorporation and Corporate Organizations Subject to Legislative Action - Section 3. Every act of incorporation passed since March eleventh,...
Section 3a - Public Service Corporations; Deposit of Funds - Section 3A. After December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and twenty-four, all...
Section 4 - Public Service Corporations; Misleading Use of Names or Titles - Section 4. No person owning, holding or controlling shares of...
Section 5 - Violations of Sec. 4; Investigation; Penalties; Injunction - Section 5. The department of public utilities or the department...
Section 5a - Allowances for Depreciation Ordered Set Aside by Department of Utilities or Department of Telecommunications and Cable - Section 5A. If, when the department of public utilities or...
Section 6 - General Powers - Section 6. A corporation may, in its corporate name, sue...
Section 7 - Content of By-Laws - Section 7. Every corporation, except those governed by chapter one...
Section 8 - Conveyance of Land - Section 8. A corporation may convey land to which it...
Section 9 - Name of Corporation; Exception - Section 9. A corporation organized under general laws may assume...
Section 9a - Reservation of Corporate Name - Section 9A. Any person intending to organize a corporation under...
Section 10 - Change of Name - Section 10. A corporation, except one subject to chapter one...
Section 11 - Unauthorized Business; Restraint by Injunction - Section 11. Upon an information in equity by the attorney...
Section 12 - Free Hospital Beds for Employees of Corporation; Appropriation - Section 12. Every corporation may, by a vote of a...
Section 12a - Contributions to Communities - Section 12A. Every corporation may, by vote of its directors,...
Section 12b - Reciprocal Insurance Contracts; Exchanges - Section 12B. Any corporation organized or to be organized under...
Section 12c - Contributions for Charitable, Scientific or Educational Purposes - Section 12C. Every corporation may, by its articles of organization...
Section 13 - Chartered Corporations; Time for Organization; Commencement of Corporate Existence - Section 13. A corporation created by special charter shall, if...
Section 14 - First Meeting; Holders of Privileges Prior to Organization - Section 14. The first meeting of such corporation, unless otherwise...
Section 15 - Failure, Refusal or Neglect to Call Meeting; Alternative Method - Section 15. If, by reason of the death or absence...
Section 16 - Par Value of Common and Preferred Shares - Section 16. The par value of the common or preferred...
Section 17 - Issue at Less Than Par - Section 17. No corporation shall issue a share for a...
Section 18 - Preferred Stock; Amount; Preferences and Voting Powers; Exceptions - Section 18. Every corporation may issue preferred stock of one...
Section 19 - Preferred Stock; Content of Certificate - Section 19. Such stock shall be issued subject to all...
Section 20 - Increase of Capital Stock; Notice of Vote; Disposition of New Shares - Section 20. If a corporation, not subject to chapter one...
Section 21 - Voting Rights, Etc. of Persons in Representative or Fiduciary Capacity - Section 21. An executor, administrator, guardian, conservator, trustee or person...
Section 22 - Records Available for Inspection by Shareholders; Record Date of Right to Vote or to Other Rights - Section 22. The agreement of association, an attested copy of...
Section 23 - Shareholders List; Filing; Failure to File - Section 23. A corporation not subject to chapter one hundred...
Section 45 - Record Transfer of Stock Not Paid For - Section 45. Stock shall not be transferred on the books...
Section 46 - New Certificates Upon Transfer or Pledge - Section 46. A pledgee of stock transferred as collateral security...
Section 47 - Publication of Unclaimed Dividend List - Section 47. Every corporation shall, once in every five years,...
Section 48 - False Statements; Penalty - Section 48. Whoever knowingly makes, executes, files or publishes any...
Section 49 - Statement Required by Foreign Law; Penalty for Falsifying - Section 49. Whoever knowingly makes, executes or publishes any report...
Section 50 - Voluntary Dissolution - Section 50. A corporation which desires to close its affairs...
Section 50a - Failure to File Reports or Returns; Application of Secretary or Commissioner to Dissolve - Section 50A. If a corporation has failed to comply with...
Section 51 - Continuation to Close Affairs - Section 51. Every corporation whose charter expires by its own...
Section 51a - Distribution of Assets on Petition; Notice; Liability of Directors - Section 51A. At any time within the period of three...
Section 52 - Appointment of Receivers; Powers; Term - Section 52. If the charter of the corporation expires or...
Section 53 - Payment of Debts; Distribution of Surplus - Section 53. The receivers shall pay all debts due from...
Section 54 - Surrender of Certificate of Incorporation; Notice - Section 54. If a petition, signed and sworn to by...
Section 55 - Return to State Secretary of Decree of Dissolution - Section 55. If a corporation is dissolved or annulled, the...
Section 56 - Revival of Corporations Dissolved Under Provisions of Sec. 50a - Section 56. If the secretary finds that a corporation has...