Series 14932

DESCRIPTION: Incorporation case files contain at a minimum the original articles of incorporation and any subsequent amendments. Some files also contain notices to pay licensing fees and taxes, oaths of office for corporate officers, annual reports, correspondence, or other miscellaneous documents. Case files are created during the length of a corporation's duration. The case file is generated when companies incorporate within Grand County and serve as evidence of "due incorporation of the corporation [UCA 16-2]." The series officially ended in 1961 when the state Division of Corporations was created.

Articles of incorporation constitute a contract between the state and corporation, between corporation and stockholders, and between the stockholders and state. The 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.

ARRANGEMENT: The files are arranged alphabetically by name of corporation; documents within the file are by filing date.

RELATED RECORDS: These Grand County incorporations, and more recent incorporations in Grand County, are filed with the state Division of Corporations as Series 7184, CORPORATION FILES, 1860-present.

PROCESSING NOTE: Incorporation case files were first scheduled as permanent records in 1978. Permission to microfilm and destroy those records produced after 1896 was granted by the State Archivist, Jeff Johnson, January 3, 1995. The entire series was archivally processed by David Clark in April 1996. The series was updated in 2001 by A. C. Cone after microfilming was completed; hard copy was not retained. Retakes of poor sections of microfilming appear at the beginning of the appropriate reel.

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