Series 5079

DESCRIPTION: These volumes record copies of Articles of Incorporation filed with the Weber County Clerk by newly organized corporations. The registers 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. The series ended in 1961 when the registration of corporations was transferred to the State government and the Division of Corporations was created.

ARRANGEMENT: Chronological.

RELATED RECORDS: Series #5297, INCORPORATION CASE FILES, 1871-1961, contain articles of incorporations, by-laws and other related corporation documents for the companies. Series #5098, INCORPORATION NUMERICAL INDEX, 1871-1961, facilitates access to this series. Current Incorporations in Weber County are filed with Series #7184, CORPORATION FILES, 1860-present, and are kept at the Division of Corporations until they expire and are transferred to the Archives.

FINDING AIDS: An alphabetical index, Series #5098, exists for this series and is available for reference use.

PROCESSING NOTE: Incorporation Record Books were first scheduled as permanent records in 1978. The record books were microfilmed by the Weber County Microfilm Department between July 1959 and October 1960. This entire series was archivally processed by David Clark in April 1996.

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