As Amended
SEC. 77-5-211. Execution and filing of certificate of incorporation.
The natural persons executing the certificate of incorporation shall be residents of the territory in which the
principal operations of the corporation are to be conducted, who are desirous of using electric energy to be
furnished by the corporation. The certificate of incorporation shall be acknowledged by the subscribers before any
officer authorized to take acknowledgments to deeds or other instruments. When so acknowledged, the certificates
may be filed with the secretary of state at any time thereafter within six months of the date of the last
acknowledgment. The secretary of state, upon receipt of such instrument, shall indorse upon it the following:
____,together with the sum of $ ____deposited to cover the recording fee, and
referred to the attorney_general for his opinion.
Signed _________________
Secretary of State"
the Constitution and laws of this state, or of the United States.
Signed _________________
Attorney-General"
governor shall return it to the secretary of state with his action indorsed thereon. If he approves it, the secretary of
state shall record it in the record kept in his office for that purpose, and certify to the same under the great seal of
this state, and transmit it to the applicants. If the governor disapproves it, the secretary of state shall file it in his
office and notify the applicants of the disapproval and state the reasons therefor. If within thirty days after the
secretary of state has mailed the said notice they have not amended it so as to meet the approval of the governor,
the secretary of state shall return the fee to the applicants, less the sum of three dollars, which shall be paid into the
state treasury for "charters examined, disallowed and filed." The powers specified in the charter shall, by the
approval of the charter, be vested in the corporation and it shall go into operation without further formalities.
SOURCES: Codes, 1942, Sec. 5468; Laws, 1936, ch. 184.