Series 17858

DESCRIPTION: These volumes record copies of Articles of Incorporation filed with the Grand County Clerk by newly organized corporations. The record books 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.

ARRANGEMENT: Chronological.

RELATED RECORDS: Series 14932, INCORPORATION CASE FILES, 1903-1961 contains incorporation documents for Grand County. Current Incorporations in Grand County are filed in Series 7184, CORPORATIONS FILES, 1860 - present.

PROCESSING NOTE: Incorporation Record Books were first scheduled as permanent records in 1978. This series originally had 10 volumes and the series ended in 1961. However, volumes 3-10 were photocopies of the Incorporation Case Files contained in Series 14932. The decision was made to deaccession these records. The two record books will be filmed and destroyed. Microfilming of the records is pending. This entire series was archivally processed by David Clark in August 1996.

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