Series 11801

DESCRIPTION: These volumes record copies of Articles of Incorporation filed with the Davis County Clerk by newly organized corporations. The registers were kept as the official copy which was available for public use. The actual articles of incorporation record the following: names of the incorporators and their places of residence, the length of the corporation's duration, the pursuit of business agreed upon, amount of stock each shareholder receives, description of stock classes, number and kind of corporate officers, and the number of directors necessary to transact corporate business.

Under current Utah law and the laws of the territorial legislature, individuals desiring to incorporate, were to file and record articles of incorporation with their respective county clerk. These agreements specified the nature and place of business, amount of stock to be issued, terms for officers, etc. The clerk in turn issued a certificate of incorporation and recorded the final articles of incorporation in these record books. This series ended in 1961 when the registration of corporations was transferred to the State government and the Division of Corporations was created.

ARRANGEMENT: Chronological by date filed.

RESEARCH NOTE: References to related documents follow the Articles of Incorporation.

RELATED RECORDS: Series #17569, ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION NUMERICAL INDEX, 1882-1961, contains a numerical index for this series. Series #17568, ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION ALPHABETICAL INDEX, 1882-1961, contains an alphabetical index for this series. Current Incorporations in Davis County are filed with Series #7184, CORPORATION FILES, 1860-present.

FINDING AIDS: An alphabetical index, series #17568, and a numerical index, series #17569 are available for reference use.

PROCESSING NOTE: Incorporation Records were first scheduled as permanent records in 1978. This series was microfilmed by the Utah State Archives in August 1994. At the time of filming, Bound Book B was missing, but the book was replaced by case files (documents). Bound Book B was subsequently found in the office of the Second District Court in Davis County during an August 2005 inventory. That volume has been microfilmed and added to the series. This series was archivally processed by David Clark in April 1996.

GAPS IN THE SERIES: Several documents are missing throughout the record books.

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