Series 3745

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 Duchesne 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. The series ended in 1961 when the Division of Corporations was created.

ARRANGEMENT: Arranged by case file number, thereunder by date filed.

RELATED RECORDS: Series #15110, INCORPORATION CASE FILES NUMERICAL INDEX, 1906- 1961, contains an index to this series. Current Incorporations in Duchesne County are filed with Series #7184, CORPORATION FILES, 1860-present.

FINDING AIDS: A numerical index, Series #15110, is available for reference use.

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 January 1996. Microfilming of the records was completed in November 1997 and the records were destroyed.

GAPS IN THE SERIES: Nine case file numbers were never assigned and were skipped.

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