DESCRIPTION: Incorporation Case Files contain at a minimum the original articles of incorporation and any subsequent amendments to foreignand domesticcorporations. Some files also contain notices to pay licensing fees and taxes, oaths of office for corporate officers, annual reports, correspondence, or other miscellaneous documents. According to Utah statute a case file is generated when companies incorporate within Utah and are maintained during the length of a corporation's duration [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.