Series 17861

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 and serve as evidence of "due incorporation of the corporation [UCA 16-2]." This series ended in 1961 when registration of corporations was transferred from the county clerks to state government, and the Utah 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 series is chronological by filing date.

RELATED RECORDS:Series 84076, ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION RECORD BOOKS, 1892-1945, contains articles of incorporation. Incorporations for Wayne County also are filed in Series 7184, CORPORATIONS FILES, of the Division of Corporations, 1860-present.

PROCESSING NOTE: Incorporation Case Files were first scheduled as permanent records in 1978. The entire series was archivally processed by David Clark in August 1996. Microfilming was completed, and the series updated, in April 2001; hard copy of the case files was not retained following filming.

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