Series 17574

DESCRIPTION: Incorporation Case Files contain at a minimum the original articles of incorporation and any subsequent amendments to corporations. 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 Iron County and serve as evidence of "due incorporation of the corporation [UCA 16-2]."

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: Arranged chronologically.

RELATED RECORDS:Series 83748, ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION RECORD BOOK, 1870-1948, contains Articles of Incorporation for Iron County. Current Incorporations in Iron County are filed with Series #7184, CORPORATION FILES, 1860-present.

FINDING AID: An index, Appendix A, is attached to the series inventory and is available for reference use.

PROCESSING NOTE: Incorporation Case Files were first scheduled as permanent records in 1978. The entire series was archivally processed by David Clark in April 1996.